How Is

Avoice

Using AI?

Gives architecture firms an AI teammate for specs, compliance, and documentation.

Using document understanding that auto-generates specs from drawings and codes, a contextual AI agent for real-time QA, and a firm-wide knowledge graph with semantic search.

Company Overview

An AI-native workspace for architecture firms that automates documentation, specifications, compliance, and operational workflows. AI agents understand drawings, codes, schedules, materials, and past projects, acting as digital teammates for the operational work that takes time away from design. Currently managing $300M+ in active construction projects across 5 countries.

Product Roadmap & Public Announcements

Three core modules launched: Studio Assistant (AI for drawings, specs, codes), Studio Workflow (automated documentation and compliance), Studio Library (searchable knowledge base across firm projects). Adopted across 5 countries with $300M+ in active projects. Covered by Dezeen. Recently announced a Research Agent for autonomous supplier sourcing (emails suppliers, compiles quotes into Google Sheets without human intervention).

Signals & Private Analysis

Chawit's Amazon Alexa+ background hints at voice-driven interaction layers. Studio Library creates a RAG-based data moat that grows with each customer. Lean 4-person team suggests stealth development of deeper BIM tool integrations (Revit, ArchiCAD). The $300B architecture market is highly fragmented and underserved.

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Machine Learning Use Cases

Document Understanding & Generation
For
Cost Reduction
Operations

<p>AI-powered automated generation of architectural specifications and construction documentation from drawings, codes, and project history.</p>

Layman's Explanation

Instead of architects spending days manually writing specs by cross-referencing hundreds of pages of building codes and past projects, Avoice's AI reads the drawings and writes the specs for them.

Use Case Details

Avoice's Studio Workflow module ingests architectural drawings (plans, sections, details), building codes, and historical project documentation to automatically generate construction specifications, door/window/finish schedules, and compliance checklists. The system uses multimodal document understanding models to parse CAD/BIM outputs and PDFs, extracting entities such as materials, assemblies, room types, and code requirements. It then applies retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over the firm's Studio Library—a continuously updated knowledge graph of past projects, preferred products, and office standards—to produce specifications that match the firm's voice and standards. The output is cross-validated against relevant building codes (IBC, ADA, local amendments) using rule-based and ML-driven compliance checks, flagging conflicts before they reach the contractor. This transforms a process that typically consumes 30–40% of an architect's project time into a review-and-approve workflow, enabling small firms to produce enterprise-quality documentation at a fraction of the cost and time.

Analogy

It's like having a junior architect with photographic memory of every project your firm has ever done, every building code ever written, and the ability to type 10,000 words per minute—except it never calls in sick.

Contextual AI Agent for AEC
For
Decision Quality
Product

<p>AI Studio Assistant that understands architectural context to answer complex project questions, coordinate across disciplines, and perform QA in real time.</p>

Layman's Explanation

Avoice's AI assistant acts like a brilliant project architect who has memorized every drawing, spec, and email on your project and can instantly answer any question or catch any conflict.

Use Case Details

The Studio Assistant is an agentic AI system that maintains a live, structured understanding of an entire architectural project—drawings, specifications, schedules, consultants' documents, meeting notes, and email threads. When an architect asks a natural language question (e.g., "Does the fire rating of the corridor walls on Level 3 comply with the latest code amendment?" or "Which consultant's drawings conflict with our reflected ceiling plan?"), the assistant retrieves relevant context from across all project documents using vector similarity search and structured metadata queries, reasons over the information using chain-of-thought prompting, and delivers a cited, actionable answer. Beyond Q&A, the assistant proactively runs coordination checks—comparing architectural drawings against structural and MEP consultants' models to flag spatial conflicts, specification mismatches, and code violations before they become costly RFIs during construction. The CTO's background at Amazon Alexa suggests the system may also support voice-driven interaction, allowing architects to query their projects hands-free while reviewing drawings on screen or on-site.

Analogy

It's like Jarvis from Iron Man, but instead of helping you build a suit, it helps you make sure the fire-rated wall doesn't have an unrated door in it before the contractor sends you an angry email.

Knowledge Graph & Semantic Search
For
Product Differentiation
Data

<p>Firm-wide institutional knowledge graph (Studio Library) that captures, connects, and surfaces collective project intelligence using ML-powered semantic search and recommendation.</p>

Layman's Explanation

Avoice turns every past project your firm has ever done into a searchable, intelligent library so architects can instantly find how they solved a similar problem three years ago instead of reinventing the wheel.

Use Case Details

Studio Library is a continuously learning knowledge management system that ingests, parses, and semantically indexes every document a firm produces—drawings, specifications, submittals, RFIs, meeting minutes, product data sheets, and internal standards. Using embedding models, the system converts unstructured architectural content into high-dimensional vector representations stored in a vector database, enabling semantic search that understands architectural intent rather than just keyword matching. For example, an architect searching for "high-performance curtain wall details for cold climates" will surface relevant details from past projects even if those documents never used that exact phrase. Beyond search, the system uses collaborative filtering and content-based recommendation to proactively suggest relevant precedents, preferred products, and reusable details when an architect begins a new project of a similar type. Over time, each firm's Studio Library becomes a unique, proprietary knowledge asset—a compounding data moat that makes the platform more valuable with every project completed. This addresses one of the most painful problems in architecture: institutional knowledge walking out the door when experienced staff leave.

Analogy

It's like if your firm's most senior partner—the one who remembers every project detail from 1997—was cloned, made immortal, and given a search bar.

Key Technical Team Members

  • Chawit Asavasaetakul, Co-Founder & CTO
  • Chawin Asavasaetakul, Co-Founder & CEO
  • Zhengrui Yang, Finance/Ops

Chawin spent two years working with architects daily at Dyno (200+ person coatings company), building the architecture sales team and reversing a decade of decline. Chawit built production AI systems at Amazon (Alexa+) and conducted research at UCSF and Berkeley. Studio Library creates a compounding data moat from firm-specific knowledge. The $300B architecture market is fragmented, dominated by small firms, and underserved by technology.

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Funding History

  • 2025: Chawin and Chawit Asavasaetakul found Avoice
  • 2026: Y Combinator W26 batch (~$500K)
  • 2026: Launched Studio Assistant, Studio Workflow, Studio Library
  • 2026: $300M+ in active projects across 5 countries
  • 2026: Likely seeking Seed/Series A in H2 2026

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Competitors

  • Vertical AI for AEC: Higharc, TestFit, Swapp, Autodesk Forma
  • Horizontal AI: Harvey (legal, analogous vertical), Glean, Notion AI
  • Specification Tools: BSD SpecLink, MasterSpec by CSI, Newforma
  • Practice Management: Monograph, BQE Core, Deltek Ajera
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