🎙️ "The technologies are arriving faster than institutions, firms, or software vendors can adapt." That's from Martyn Day, 37 years into covering AEC tech, said without a hint of hype. Everyone is feeling it. It's not one thing changing. MEP automation. Open SDKs dismantling software moats. Palantir deciding AEC is worth owning. The death of the named user license. They're all arriving at the same time, from different directions. Martyn calls it the asteroid. The technologies are already visible on the horizon. New episode of the TRXL Podcast. If you're a firm leader or technology director who senses the ground shifting but can't quite name why, this one's for you. 👉 Listen wherever you get your podcasts or follow the link in the comments. #AECtech #Architecture #DesignTechnology #TRXL
This is exactly what’s happening. But underneath all of this, there’s a more fundamental issue forming: Infrastructure still doesn’t have identity. Every system, dataset, and workflow is referencing the same asset differently. AI, automation, open SDKs… none of it fully works without a consistent reference layer underneath. We’re starting to see this show up as a systemic constraint across insurance, construction, and capital markets. Curious if you’ve come across this in your conversations?
We all know that big firms who have digital technology teams or vc backed BIM 2.0 startups are doing cool stuff with AI. But ~98% of architecture companies are less than 20 people and cant even afford a BIM manager, let alone have the scale to support computational designers/software developers. At the same time, there are also people who know how to use AI to build AEC software products but are not conventionally employable delivering drawings/coordinating clients as a service on billable hours. I want to see the discussion move towards how we reorganise the economics of the industry to pair up this mismatch so R&D doesn't become a privilege of those the big firms with the scale to subsidise a few limited places for technologists.
I remember architects worrying when personal computers and CAD came on the scene. It's a tool, we just learn how to effectively use it as a tool, not a crutch.
The thumbnail actually represents the reality quite well imo. Its flying right over the AEC industry, dropping some generic outdated models in its wake.
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