Studio
Strategy and tooling for those building better ways to live, work, and play.
A boutique design and technology studio working with architects, engineers, builders, and fabricators to build the tooling they need to build a better built environment.
02 Studio
Tools aren’t precious. They’re useful. They get used, scuffed, they age, they break. Then we make new ones.
That’s the practice. Alongside architecture, engineering, and product teams, the work keeps asking what tool it needs — and we build it. Sometimes what’s needed is something large and complex. Just as often, it’s a throwaway, made-for-purpose jig. Both fill the same purpose — the improvement of our craft.
03 How we work
01
Strategy & Research
AI strategy and adoption for architecture firms, market research, product strategy, roadmapping. We help teams figure out what’s worth building before they build it.
02
Workflow Design
Product design, UX/UI, service design. The shape of how the work gets done — for the user, and for the team behind them.
03
Software Development
Web platforms, internal tools, agentic systems. The product, after the strategy is settled.
04 ●Thesis
The built environment runs on data nobody indexed.
AI is the first tool capable of metabolizing that mess at scale. The opportunity is not to flatten the industry into one deterministic schema. It is to work with the mess: the formats, exceptions, vocabularies, and local practices that reveal how the industry actually operates.
i.
Mess as signal
The built environment is full of partial, inconsistent, highly specific data. Its value is in the variation, not in pretending every practice resolves to the same model.
ii.
Agents over interfaces
The screen is not the work. We build agents that hold the workflow end to end and surface only what the human needs to see.
iii.
Contextual structure
We build the minimum structure needed for a specific task, team, or project to move. It can adapt because the work, constraints, and vocabulary change.
05 Products
Arch Studio
A cross-harness agentic studio for architecture practice, built on four layers. The open-source plugin brings 61 shared AEC skills and eight agents to Codex and Claude Code; the hosted MCP brings the same release straight into Claude or ChatGPT.
- Agent harness
- Codex
- Claude Code
- Hosted MCP
- MIT
- Open source
Norma
A materials library and agent for architects and designers. Norma turns vendor emails, PDFs, quotes, links, and schedules into a governed, cited library — work with it by email and chat, or connect your own agents through MCP.
- Materials library
- Materials agent
- MCP
- FF&E
Mapa
A free public map of Maldonado's 87,278 lots: 67,488 urban and 19,790 rural. Pick a lot to see what the normativa lets you build, what restricts it and the article behind each rule. Every lot also has a plain page and a JSON file for agents. An ALPA product.
- 87K lots
- GIS
- Maldonado
- Zoning
- Free
06 Articles
Claude Code Cheat Sheet for Architects and Designers
A practical Claude Code cheat sheet for architects: installation, essential commands, project setup, skills, and architecture workflow examples.
One Wall, Five Ways to Build It
We tested five ways for agents to build a brick wall in Rhino. Larger operations reduced exchanges; direct Python was cheapest with Sonnet in these runs.
Arch Studio 1.5 Improved Cold-Start Project Records
In 27 cold-start runs per arm, Arch Studio produced valid project records 55.6% of the time against vanilla Claude's 14.8%.
Arch Studio 1.5: The Four Layers a Firm Builds On
Arch Studio 1.5 brings 61 skills and Norma to Codex and Claude Code, or to Claude and ChatGPT through hosted MCP. One release, two channels.
Architecture Studio Now Runs on Codex
Architecture Studio v1.4.2 brings 46 open-source AEC skills to Codex, with native packaging, portable workspaces and shared project memory.