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Landform Labs

Build your firm for a world of abundant intelligence.

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Landform Labs is an applied AI firm for the built environment. We work with architecture, engineering and construction practices to turn what they already hold, their projects, their standards and the judgement of their people, into a capability the firm owns and runs.

Map

We see what your firm already holds and what of it is usable.

Install

We build the first capability on it, inside your environment.

Operate

We keep it useful in live use and improve it from its record.

Map

01

See what your firm already holds, and how to get it AI-ready.

We go through your systems, your project records and the way your people work today, and set down what is usable, what needs work and what is missing. The first capability is built from that record.

Inside your firm today
Systems
Data
Issued drawing sets
Project archives
Work
Fee proposals
Consent applications
Expertise
Design reviews
Technical sign-off
Operating Map

The map turns what your firm already holds, knowledge, data, systems, tools, into assets ready to build on.

What comes out

Buildable assets, and the first capability worth installing.

Install

02

We build an AI capability your firm owns.

It runs on your projects, your standards and the judgement your seniors apply every day, so the work it produces comes back looking like your firm's, not like a generic assistant's.

From the Operating MapWork your firm would sign

One system, running your firm's work

AI Capability
Running

Working on

Runs on

ProjectsYour archive and issued setsStandardsYour details, specs, templatesJudgementHow your seniors review workRecordsYour fees, rates and decisions

Connected

Operate

03

Keep it useful, controlled and improving.

We maintain the capability in live use, measure its results and update it as your data, people and model services change. Its operating record informs the next capability to map.

From InstallLiving capability
Operating record
Live

Use

The capability supports live work

Measure

Results and review decisions create evidence

Maintain

Data, connections and models stay current

Improve

Evidence informs the next release

Evidence from live useThe next capability to map

Your firm retains control of the capability.

It runs inside your environment, on your security controls, your review process and your people's judgement. Claude, ChatGPT and other model services are replaceable parts of it.

Get started with a free assessment

Your data

You decide where it lives. Your documents, project records and operating history stay inside the boundary you set, and are not used to train a model for anyone else.

Your security

You set the bar. We build to the standard your clients, insurers and IT policy already require of you, inside the environment you choose.

Your processes

Work moves through the review and sign-off your firm already runs. Nothing reaches a client until one of your people has approved it.

Your people

You choose who runs it. We document the build, train the people who will operate it, and hand over what they need to change it without us.

Built to the standard you requireISO 27001SOC 2NZISMPrivacy Act 2020Your own IT policy

Get started by understanding what you have.

Thirty minutes to work out what your firm already holds and where it could be put to use. Tell us a little below and we will come back to you with a time.

  • A read on what your firm already holds that is worth building on
  • Two or three use cases that would pay for themselves first
  • What would need to be true before anything is installed

We reply by email, usually within a working day.

We publish what we learn.

Research notes, case studies and field notes on applying AI in the built environment. Each one carries the evidence and the working prototype behind it.

Method study, Aotea

Testing what AI can do with a land listing

A Trade Me listing, open LiDAR and human review, taken through to an early design study.

Field notes, Vol. 01

The Aotea hut study as a book

Siting, two options, the model against the render, and the honest ledger of what it cost.

Case study

Vistafy

An AI rendering and motion platform for practices, with the architect in control of every output.

Profile

Matt Strawbridge

Builds and tests applied AI tools for architecture, engineering and construction.

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