Project intelligence for AEC
BIM models, contracts, schedule, cost, RFI register, specifications, and documents. All connected. One question in plain language. One cited answer.
❯Show me the cost impact of all open RFIs linked to the Level 5 concrete pour, and trace the relevant contract clause.
23 open RFIs linked to Level 5 structural concrete. Total cost exposure: AUD 1.4M. 18 reference Sub-Clause 13.3 (Variations). 5 reference Sub-Clause 8.4 (EOT). Critical path impact: 14 days. Sources: Procore RFI register, Maconomy cost actuals, BCF coordination model, head contract (HC-2024-001, p.47).
The problem
BIM in Revit or Speckle. Coordination in BCF. Cost in Maconomy or SAP. RFIs in Procore. Documents in SharePoint. Schedule in Primavera. Answering a simple project health question means logging into six tools and reconciling them by hand.
Most AEC firms do not have one. The ones that do are buried in backlog. Every new dashboard is three weeks of waiting.
McKinsey, KPMG, and Dodge Construction Network independently put the cost of information bottlenecks at 8 to 15 percent of project value. On a $100M project, that is $8M to $15M.
Sources: McKinsey, Reinventing construction through a productivity revolution (2017); KPMG, Global Construction Survey (2023); Dodge Construction Network, Industry Insights (2022).
What Bildstak does
Each module solves a specific pain. Together they share one data layer.
Building a variation or EOT claim means cross-referencing RFIs, schedule slippage, contract clauses, and cost across five systems by hand.
Assembles the cause, RFI notice trail, schedule slippage evidence, entitlement clauses, and cost quantum into one cited package.
A defensible claim in minutes.
The schedule says 60% complete. The cost says 72% spent. Nobody knows which number is right.
Roll BoQ pay-item rates onto P6 activities. Earned value and cost variance update as actuals flow in.
Live project health. No manual reconciliation.
RFIs sit across Procore, email, and a tracking spreadsheet. Nothing flags what is overdue or who has the ball.
A live register with overdue flags, ball-in-court tracking, and a full audit trail of every status change and instruction.
Nothing slips. Every instruction is logged.
The head contract specifies C30/37 concrete. A supply contract says C25/30. The conflict surfaces on pour day.
Track specifications component by component across all contracts. Flag where contracts disagree before the conflict becomes an RFI.
Catch conflicts weeks before construction.
Submittal deadlines are calculated manually from milestone dates with lead time buffers nobody keeps current.
Back-calculate submit-by dates from your programme and agreed lead times. Regenerate when milestones move.
A defensible, re-plannable submittal schedule.
Project directors review six separate dashboards to find the project that needs attention.
Rank every project by cost variance, overdue RFIs, and claim exposure in one view. Benchmark supplier delivery rates across projects.
See the worst project and supplier at a glance.
Unit rate estimation relies on memory or a spreadsheet from three projects ago.
Benchmark pay-item unit rates from your own completed projects. Confidence ranges from actual data, not gut feel.
Estimate from what you actually paid.
The model exists. The cost data exists. The RFI exists. Finding the connection takes an hour.
Click any element in the 3D viewer. The Inspector surfaces every linked row from every source: BCF clashes, Procore RFIs, COBie entries, cost actuals.
The model becomes a queryable index of the whole project.
The Monday morning status report is assembled by hand from five sources every week.
Ask for a project health cockpit. Bildstak assembles it. Schedule the PDF to land in inboxes before 7am.
The report builds and sends itself.
How it works
The Claims Builder shows this most clearly. A piling delay is discovered on site. The RFI is raised in Procore. The schedule impact appears in Primavera. The contract clause is in the PDF. The cost is in Maconomy. Bildstak traces the chain from cause to quantum in one question, citing every source.
Underneath, every BIM element carries a stable IFC GlobalID. Bildstak indexes your whole project by it. When BCF references an element, when Maconomy ties a cost line to a component, when Procore raises an RFI against a wall, Bildstak joins them. Click a wall in the 3D viewer and the Element Inspector surfaces every linked row across every source.
Read the federation whitepaper→Built for your project type
For VDC managers, BIM coordinators, and project controls teams on building projects. Element Inspector across IFC, BCF, IDS, and COBie. Speckle and Autodesk APS native. Clash tracking, handover quality scoring, and submittal management built in.
See it for building projectsNo BIM model required. Bildstak connects your P6 schedule, Maconomy or SAP cost data, Procore or Aconex project management, and contract documents. Claims Builder, cost-loaded EVM, and RFI register purpose-built for civil and infrastructure delivery.
See it for civil projectsHow it works
Native connectors for IFC, Speckle, Autodesk APS, BCF, IDS, COBie, Procore, Aconex, Maconomy, SAP, Google Sheets, Excel, PostGIS, and your project document library. Thirty-plus source types. No middleware required.
Diagram of Bildstak connectors linking BIM, coordination, cost, ERP, and document sources
Bildstak reads the question, pulls from every connected source at once, and returns the answer as text, a chart, a table, a map, or a highlighted element in the 3D model. Every answer cites its sources.
| Discipline | Element | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Mechanical | DUCT-L3-014 | Open |
| Structural | BEAM-S2-118 | Open |
| Electrical | TRAY-L2-077 | Resolved |
| Plumbing | PIPE-L1-042 | Resolved |
Pin the answer to a dashboard. Build a claim package. Schedule a report to land in inboxes at 7am. Export to PDF, Excel, or CSV. Every action is logged to the audit trail.
Project health
Open clashes
24
−31% wk
RFI cycle
4.2d
−1.1d
Cost variance
+2.1%
on track
Issues resolved · 8 weeks
Deployment and security
Multi-tenant. Hosted in AWS Canada Central or Hetzner Helsinki. Data residency is set per customer.
Single-tenant in your AWS or Azure account. Your data never leaves your infrastructure. SOC 2 evidence available.
Runs entirely on your own machines, with the AI model on-site. For classified, defence, and regulated environments. Same chat experience, fully offline.
By sector
Built on AEC standards
Bildstak is a contributing buildingSMART member.
Security and compliance
Bring your IFC, your BCF export, and your cost data. We will run the demo on your real project.