Test a residential or ADU brief against real geometry before committing to full design fees. ArchitectAI generates a dimensioned schematic, checks the implemented IRC subset, and shows whether the actual footprint fits the setbacks you supplied.
Between brief and first usable sketch, assuming the architect responds. ADU and custom builders pay this tax on every single project.
Just for schematic design. Sunk cost if the lot doesn't pencil. Builders eat this on every dead project.
Of first-pass sketches get scrapped or heavily redrawn. The work is iteration. No one can afford to iterate at human speed.
Meanwhile, every state has legalized ADUs. Inventory is at a 40-year low. The country needs faster homes. The first 5% of every project is what's slowing us down.
Plain language plus structured lot dimensions, setbacks, and a supported state overlay. The parser maps the request to explicit spatial constraints.
Determines room count, adjacency graph, square-foot allocations. Honors locked rooms and must-keep adjacencies if you specify them.
Constraint-based packing onto the lot envelope. Iterates with daylight, egress, and circulation as cost terms.
Runs the implemented IRC 2021 subset and CA, FL, or TX overlay. Failures block an accepted verdict; unknowns stay visible as needs-review findings.
Dimensioned plan with door swings, fixtures, room schedule, title block. Export DXF for your architect, PDF for your contractor.
Granny-flat operators run on volume: 12 to 40 builds a year, on tight margins, with pre-existing site templates. They feel the schematic-design tax most acutely. Once we own that wedge, we expand into custom builders, then small multifamily.
Detached and above-garage ADUs are the verified text-generation wedge. Existing-shell forms fail explicitly instead of falling back.
~55K starts a year by small builders. Bespoke briefs, longer cycle, higher AOV.
Duplexes and fourplexes. Zoning reform is unlocking inventory. Higher complexity.
Anyone can prompt a model to draw a floor plan. The hard part is encoding checks as deterministic geometry constraints, preserving the original brief, and refusing to turn unknowns into approvals.
41 implemented IRC 2021 checks plus explicit CA, FL, and TX overlays. Each result is derived from the plan IR, with failures and unverified inputs kept visible.
49 states have legalized ADUs or upzoned single-family lots since 2021. Inventory unlocked, demand uncapped.
AIA reports a 14% gap in licensed residential architects. Firms reject small briefs. Builders need self-serve tooling.
Multi-step agentic reasoning over CAD geometry was impossible 18 months ago. Now it's a weekend prototype plus a year of code-rule encoding.
Every plan was drafted by the same agentic pipeline you can run on your own brief. Schematic-quality, dimensioned, ready for an architect to take to construction documents.
“I watched my parents try to build an ADU in their backyard. Three architects ghosted them. The fourth charged $9,400 for sketches that ignored the setback. I built ArchitectAI because the first 5% of a project shouldn't be the part that kills it.”
Free. No signup. Bring a lot dimension and a household; leave with a dimensioned schematic and a code report you can hand to your architect.