Archi Automate ✓

Archi Automate is an MCP (Model Context Protocol)-based AI automation layer from Archi that connects Claude, GPT, Gemini, or any other MCP-compatible AI client to a genuinely broad set of AEC tools -- Revit, Archicad, Vectorworks, Rhino, AutoCAD, Tekla Structures, Blender, SketchUp and QGIS on the desktop side, plus Autodesk Forma and Construction Cloud/BIM 360 as cloud services, and openBIM/IFC as an open-standard layer. Rather than being a plugin locked to one specific application, it's positioned as a cross-tool automation hub, letting an AI assistant drive each connected tool through its own native API.

The cross-tool workflow capability is the most distinctive feature: because Archi Automate can connect to nine or more different desktop and cloud tools simultaneously, it enables genuinely cross-application automation chains -- the vendor's own example is a QGIS-to-Revit-to-Blender workflow, where geographic data analysis, BIM authoring and visualization rendering happen across three different specialized tools, orchestrated by one AI assistant rather than requiring manual handoffs between each application.

Safety governance is built in as a default posture rather than an opt-in afterthought: the system defaults to read-only mode, requires a preview step before committing changes where the underlying tool supports it, and maintains complete audit trails for every operation -- a meaningfully more cautious default than an AI agent that can freely modify a live model without any review step, which matters given the tool's ambition of connecting AI directly to production design files across many applications at once.

On the openBIM side, Archi Automate includes IDS-specification validation and BCF issue generation -- meaning it can check a model against Information Delivery Specification rules and generate standardized BIM Collaboration Format issues directly, integrating into existing openBIM QA/QC workflows rather than only offering proprietary, tool-specific automation.

Pricing runs $17.40/month, $114.81/year (annual, working out to roughly $9.57/month), or $309.65 for a 3-year plan (roughly $8.60/month), with both floating and desktop licenses available and a 14-day free trial requiring no credit card. Archi, the vendor, also offers a broader suite of adjacent AEC tools (Docuflow, Reports, Graphic Studio, and content libraries for people, vehicles, vegetation and graphics), suggesting Archi Automate is one piece of a wider product ecosystem rather than the company's sole offering.

Editor’s takeBIM•STACK editor's take: Archi Automate's genuine multi-application reach -- nine or more desktop and cloud AEC tools connected through one MCP layer -- is a meaningfully more ambitious scope than most single-platform AI-BIM plugins in this catalog, and the read-only-by-default safety posture with full audit trails is a credible, thoughtful design choice for a tool whose entire premise is letting an AI assistant act across a firm's production design files. The honest caveat is that breadth across nine tools inherently means shallower depth in any one of them versus a tool purpose-built for a single platform, so firms should evaluate Archi Automate specifically for genuinely cross-tool workflows rather than as a replacement for a deeper, single-platform automation tool.

Archi Automate's core interaction model is plain-language querying of connected models -- no scripts required -- which is designed specifically to minimize the learning curve for end users, since the complexity of driving each tool's native API is handled behind the MCP layer rather than exposed directly to the user.

The more substantial learning investment is in understanding the safety governance model itself -- knowing when the read-only default applies, how the preview-before-commit step works for a given connected tool, and how to review the audit trail -- since firms need to build genuine confidence in that governance layer before extending Archi Automate's use from experimentation into daily production workflows across multiple connected applications.