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
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
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
Parcel-level price and zoning intelligence for Maldonado. Explore 67,000+ urban and rural padrones with TONE zoning overlays, manzana price references, and one-click envelope analysis. Built for Estudio Local.
- 67K parcels
- GIS
- Real estate
- Maldonado
- Zoning
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
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.
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 is one release on two channels: the open-source plugin for Codex and Claude Code, and the hosted MCP inside Claude or ChatGPT. Four layers, 61 skills, Norma, and nothing to run but your assistant.
Architecture Studio Now Runs on Codex
Architecture Studio v1.4.2 brings all 46 open-source AEC skills to Codex, with native plugin packaging, portable workspaces, and the same project memory used in Claude Code.
AEC Magazine on the Judgement Stack
Martyn Day dedicated a feature in AEC Magazine to Skills for Architects, using it as the public reference architecture for what he calls the judgement stack — the layer a practice owns above the model.