A live look at Frank, SWAPP’s AI Architect, inside Autodesk Revit

In this aec+tech Talks session, the team at SWAPP and Woolpert's design technology lead show what it takes to bring AI into architectural production, with a live demo of Frank, SWAPP's AI Architect, inside Autodesk Revit. Speakers: 🟣 Eitan Tsarfati, CEO & Co-Founder, SWAPP 🟣 Nicholas Martz, Director of Design Technologies, Woolpert 🟣 Guy Teomi, Vice President of Customer Success, SWAPP Guy runs Frank live inside Revit: adjusting grids to the crop, saving a prompt as a reusable script, dimensioning interior and exterior walls with a preview before anything gets placed, checking the result against a color-coded QC legend, and fixing room tags against Woolpert's own firm guidelines. Nicholas walks through the "forever problem" that started the partnership, reorienting a fully annotated prototype building, and how that went from two to three weeks of cleanup down to a couple of days. The conversation gets into why so many AI initiatives in AEC stall, why Woolpert skipped pilot projects and committees and started with a small team on a live job, and what happens to a firm's data once a plugin like this is connected to an LLM. Audience questions cover Forma, dimensioning on details, confidence scores, security, custom Revit families, and modeling. What you'll learn: Which repetitive Revit tasks are worth automating first: grids, dimension strings, tags, and project reorientation How Woolpert rolled Frank out with one small team on a live project, and why they avoided pilots and committees How Frank checks its own output, with a color-coded dimension legend and firm-guideline compliance checks What happens to your Revit data, and how customer data stays siloed once the plugin is connected Who this is for: Architects, design technology leaders, BIM managers, computational designers, firm principals, and anyone deciding what AI actually gets rolled out in Revit at their practice. Chapters: 0:00 – Every project smarter than the last 0:56 – Meet the speakers 3:14 – Why SWAPP was founded 7:05 – Frank skills and the resource center 8:42 – Woolpert's design technology practice 12:18 – Frank inside Revit 14:11 – Skills, scripts, codes and standards 15:32 – Demo: adjusting grids to the crop 16:58 – Woolpert's forever problems 18:07 – Reorienting a project in two days 20:36 – Forward deployed engineers and customization 21:36 – Saving prompts as scripts 24:18 – ADA and building code checks 25:17 – Getting Woolpert's team on board 27:01 – From blank prompt to buttons 29:35 – Demo: dimensioning with a preview 32:51 – Color-coded dimension QC 35:37 – Will juniors lose the logic? 38:38 – Demo: fixing room tags 39:58 – Context, harness, and tools 41:36 – Q&A: Forma and Revit data 43:40 – Q&A: measuring accuracy and confidence 47:37 – Q&A: security and privacy 51:08 – Why AI initiatives stall 54:33 – Start small, measure ROI 56:49 – Q&A: custom Revit families 58:16 – Q&A: does Frank model? 1:00:01 – Wrap up — Explore AEC tools & case studies: https://aecplustech.com Follow aec+tech on LinkedIn:   / aec-plus-tech   Subscribe for more aec+tech Talks:    / @aecplustech   #aectech #architecture #bim #aiinarchitecture #revit #aiforarchitects #designtechnology #aiautomation #qaqc #computationaldesign #autodeskrevit #aecinnovation #swapp #woolpert