AI-BOB
AI-BOB is an AI compliance copilot for architects and property developers. It runs as an Autodesk Revit plugin and web app, continuously checking BIM models against building regulations, area standards and project requirements in Sweden and the Netherlands.
What is AI-BOB?
AI-BOB is an AI compliance copilot for building design. Its terms of service put it plainly: AI-BOB provides an AI service that automates compliance checks for building regulations, customer specifications, and data quality within architectural models and project documentation. The stated premise is that 70% of construction errors originate in design, while the requirements meant to prevent them sit scattered across hundreds of PDFs, spreadsheets and emails. AI-BOB collects those requirements and structures them into a single system.
The method has three named steps. Translate turns regulation into an explicit requirement. Test turns each requirement into a deterministic check run against the model. Confirm puts a human in the loop: a named professional approves the result, which produces an accountability audit trail.
Two services are delivered. Data Quality encodes the BIM Execution Plan, ISO 19650 and in-house standards as machine-readable rules covering naming, metadata and parameters, validates the model continuously, and returns deviations to Revit as structured change requests. Area Compliance encodes the national area definitions, BOA, LOA and BTA in Sweden, BVO and GBO in the Netherlands, then calculates, classifies and re-checks areas, generating Revit schedules and Excel exports automatically.
The vendor describes five technical layers: model-agnostic large language models, an agentic harness that plans the task and chains capabilities, the capabilities themselves, data and integrations, and security and governance. The tool reads Revit and Autodesk Forma directly; IFC is on the roadmap.
Delivery is as much a service as a product: the vendor's architects join a live project and tune AI-BOB to the practice's way of working before handing over to the client team. Every result traces back to the exact rule it comes from, and when information is missing from the model the system stops and asks rather than guessing.
Five logos are shown as partners, not as a customer list: Sweco, C.F. Møller, OMA, White and Skanska. OMA is also a design partner, contributing directly to the platform's design, and its Managing Partner David Gianotten appears in a video on the home page. The headline counters on the site, 5-10 days per delivery stage given back to architecture, 1,000+ hours of manual compliance automated to date and 570 apartments processed at every sync, belong to OMA's VDMA Eindhoven project, one client, not the product at large. The leadership is published and headed by Elin Mårtensson (CEO).
What it does
- Translate building regulations and client specifications into requirements that apply to the project
- Turn every requirement into a deterministic test executed against the model
- Validate naming, metadata and room parameters continuously
- Calculate and verify sellable and lettable areas against the national standard
- Generate Revit schedules, Excel exports and permit-ready reports
- Send deviations back into Revit as structured change requests
- Maintain an audit trail signed off by a named professional
When to use AI-BOB / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if AI-BOB is the right fit.
When to use AI-BOB
- Architecture practices working in Autodesk Revit under dense regulatory requirements
- Property developers running several development projects who want compliance automated at portfolio scale
- Teams that have to align delivery with ISO 19650 and a BIM Execution Plan
- Projects where sellable or lettable area drives the business case and areas must be checked to the millimetre, work the vendor says represents 40-80 hours of manual effort per project
- Organisations operating in Sweden and the Netherlands, whose national regulations are already encoded
When not to use AI-BOB
- Teams that do not work in Autodesk Revit or Autodesk Forma, as IFC support is only announced
- Projects outside Sweden and the Netherlands: the United Kingdom is announced as the next market and no other country is covered
- Anyone expecting self-service use or an autonomous trial, as access goes through a request and a paid agreement
- Anyone hoping to hand over regulatory responsibility: the site is clear that the tool is a support and that final responsibility stays with the user
- Small practices wanting an off-the-shelf tool with no onboarding, as deployment assumes the vendor's own team works on a live project with you
How to use AI-BOB
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Use the Request access button, in the navigation or at the foot of any page, and complete the HubSpot form on the contact page
- Agree commercial terms with the vendor: there is no self-service sign-up, and an account plus a paid agreement are required
- Install AI-BOB as a plugin inside Revit, where the team already works, with no new software to learn and no change to existing BIM standards
- Hand over the standards to encode: the BIM Execution Plan, the applicable ISO 19650 references and in-house naming and metadata rules
- Start on one live project, with the vendor's engineers setting it up alongside the team so nothing pauses
- Run the first checks, which most teams reach within days according to the site
- Review results in the web app in parallel, independently of the model
- Work through the deviations, which come back into Revit as structured change requests
- Have a named professional in your own organisation review and sign off every result
- Extend the setup from that first project across the rest of the portfolio
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Sits inside Revit, the tool the team already uses, with no new process to adopt
- Every result is traceable back to the exact rule it comes from
- Deterministic checks that repeat identically on every run, validated side by side with experts on real projects before going live; when information is missing the system stops and asks instead of guessing
- Complete audit trail, with a named human approval attached to every result
- ISO 27001:2022 certification audited annually, data hosted in Europe, and an exhaustive published sub-processor list of 17 suppliers with head office and processing region for each
- National area standards encoded rather than interpreted (BOA, LOA, BTA, BVO, GBO), and what is learned on one project is reused on the next in the same portfolio
- A design partnership with OMA, which contributes directly to the platform's design, alongside named public references: five partner logos (Sweco, C.F. Møller, OMA, White, Skanska) and two signed testimonials, from Peter Leuchovius, CDO of White Arkitekter, and Bozar Ben-Zeev, Project Architect on VDMA Eindhoven
Cons
- No price is published on any navigable page of the site: access assumes a commercial agreement whose terms are set in a separate service contract
- Regulatory coverage is limited to Sweden and the Netherlands, the United Kingdom is announced but not available, and the site is English-only with no interface language list published
- Dependence on Revit and Autodesk Forma, IFC being announced as coming rather than shipped
- No autonomous trial and no free plan: everything goes through Request access and a contact form
- No API documentation is published, even though the privacy policy refers to services reached with an API key
- Deployment assumes the vendor's team is present on a live project, which requires availability on both sides; the site notes that it takes on a few teams at a time
- The no-training wording is qualified, never used to train models for other customers, and the terms reserve the use of anonymised and aggregated data
Pricing & Plans
No rate is published. The site has no pricing page at all: no route in the application, no sitemap entry, no navigation link and no mention in llms.txt. Neither a free plan nor a free trial is announced on any navigable page. Section 4 of the terms of service states that access to the services requires a paid agreement, and that fees, subscription terms and payment methods are set in a separate service contract. The only commercial path shown is the Request access button, which leads to the HubSpot form on the contact page, so a quotation has to be obtained directly from the vendor. Project-based billing is mentioned as a modality for portfolio-wide engagements, and Stripe Payments Europe appears in the published sub-processor list under Payment and Subscription Management, which indicates billing by subscription. Prospective buyers should expect to negotiate rather than to compare a published rate card.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how AI-BOB handles your data.
GDPR overview
GDPR implementation is concrete and documented. The privacy policy carries an effective date of 2025-09-25 and names the controller: AI-BOB AB, Renstiernas gata 12c, 116 28 Stockholm, Sweden, info@aibob.io. Rights are enumerated: access, rectification, erasure (right to be forgotten), objection, portability and withdrawal of consent. They are exercised by deleting the account directly in the web app or by writing to support@aibob.io. The supervisory authority named is the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY). Breaches are notified to the customer and to the authorities without undue delay under an internal Incident Response Plan. Security measures cited are encryption in transit and at rest, need-to-know access control, regular security assessments and staff training. A DPA is incorporated into the terms by reference. No Article 27 representative is named, the vendor being inside the Union, and no DPO is published.
Who owns the data?
Section 7 of the terms of service is unambiguous: “You retain full ownership of all data, content, and models you upload to the service (‘Your Data’).” AI-BOB AB acts as data processor for the personal data those files contain, on the customer's documented instructions and under the DPA. The customer grants only a limited, non-exclusive licence, confined to operating, maintaining and improving the service for that same customer. One reservation matters: the vendor may use anonymised and aggregated data to improve its systems, though never in a way that identifies the customer or reconstitutes their data. Legality, integrity and accuracy of the uploaded data remain the customer's sole responsibility.
Reuse rights
On the public website, nothing personal is collected unless it is volunteered: the contact form captures an email address, a phone number and the content of the message. Within the services, AI-BOB AB processes full name, email, phone number, role or job title, company information, and any personal data contained in user content. The stated purposes are delivering and improving the service, answering enquiries, and marketing, the latter only on explicit consent that can be withdrawn at any time. The legal bases cited are consent, contractual necessity and legitimate interest. Personal data is not sold. It is shared with sub-processors, whose full list is published, and transfers outside the EEA are framed by standard contractual clauses. The privacy policy also states, at section 12: “We do not use cookies or similar tracking technologies on our public website.” On the product side, model data is handled in a controlled environment and, in the vendor's wording, never used to train models for other customers.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The site's own formulation is: “Your data stays in Europe, secured to ISO 27001, with role-based access.” Hosting is with Google Cloud EMEA Limited, whose head office is in Ireland and whose processing region is declared as the European Union in the published sub-processor list. No specific hosting country is ever named, only the region, so Europe should not be read as a single jurisdiction. ISO 27001:2022 certification is shown in the footer and audited annually. The picture is not uniform, though. AI-BOB AB publishes all 17 sub-processors with, for each, a head office and a processing region, and six of them process outside the European Union: Encore AB (Sweden, processing in the United States), Notion, Zapier and Anthropic PBC (United States), Beetroot AB (Sweden, processing in Ukraine) and Embrace-it Technologies ApS (Denmark, processing in Pakistan). The privacy policy is explicit: “To provide our services, we may need to transfer your personal data to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Some of our contractors and sub-processors are located outside the EU.” Such transfers are framed by standard contractual clauses. The two statements have to be read together.
Where AI-BOB works
Country-level availability.
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Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting AI-BOB.
- No public pricing at all, so you cannot budget or benchmark without a sales conversation, and the contractual liability cap is set at 20% of the annual contract value
- Regulatory coverage stops at Sweden and the Netherlands; the United Kingdom is announced rather than delivered, and IFC support is on the roadmap, so check the timeline before counting on either
- Final regulatory responsibility stays with the customer: the site declares the tool a support that does not replace professional judgement
- The no-training guarantee is qualified, never used to train models for other customers, the terms reserve the use of anonymised and aggregated data, and no documented option lets you exclude your data from training
- Six sub-processors process data outside the European Union while the site promises that your data stays in Europe: ask for the exact perimeter before signing
- The published sub-processor list includes a large language model provider, so verify what is actually sent to it
- Deterministic green lights are easy to trust blindly: the named human sign-off only protects you if the person signing still understands the rule being checked and the scope the checks do not cover
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low technical effort for the client team, high dependence on the vendor. There is no self-service sign-up: you request access, then agree commercial terms. AI-BOB installs as a plugin inside Revit, with no change to the practice's BIM standards. Setup is carried out by the vendor's engineers on a live project, without pausing it, and handed over to the client team once the tool is tuned to its way of working. The site says most teams run their first checks within days. The implicit prerequisite is having a BIM Execution Plan or internal standards worth encoding.
Deployment
Integrations
Behind AI-BOB
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Frequently asked questions
Can the checks be trusted?
Who is accountable if a check is wrong?
Where does our model data go?
Will it work with our setup?
Which countries are covered?
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Is the vendor ISO 27001 certified?
How much does it cost?
Is there an API?
What personal data is collected?
Should you pick AI-BOB?
AI-BOB is a deliberately narrow tool and makes no secret of it: building design only, inside Revit, in two countries. What it offers is not a general-purpose assistant but a verifiable chain running from requirement to evidence. Regulation and client specifications are translated into explicit requirements, each requirement becomes a deterministic test executed against the model, and a named professional approves the outcome, which is what creates the audit trail. Traceability back to the exact rule, and a system that stops and asks when data is missing, are the two design decisions that set it apart from a generic model checker.
The signals of seriousness are real: ISO 27001:2022 audited annually, a published list of 17 sub-processors with head office and processing region for each, European hosting, and a design partnership with OMA that goes beyond a commercial reference. Five partner logos, Sweco, C.F. Møller, OMA, White and Skanska, and two named testimonials back that up, though partners are not the same thing as a customer list, and the headline counters shown on the site belong to OMA's VDMA Eindhoven project rather than to the product at large.
The reservations concern transparency and reach. Nothing about cost is public, so budgeting means going through a sales conversation. Regulatory coverage stops at Sweden and the Netherlands, with the United Kingdom announced. Two services are shipped, Data Quality and Area Compliance, while IFC support and the UK market remain announcements. The privacy stance also needs reading closely: the promise that data stays in Europe coexists with six sub-processors declaring processing outside the EU, and the no-training commitment is scoped to other customers.
For a Revit practice or a developer in Sweden or the Netherlands carrying dense compliance work, it is a credible fit. Anywhere else, it is one to watch.
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