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AI for architecture offices: what Piloti takes on

Between design and submission lies a long string of small legal questions. Piloti is built for exactly that stretch: the question, the citation, and what then has to go into the file.

In short

Piloti is an AI tool for architecture offices in Austria that answers planning questions from state building codes, OIB guidelines, the office archive and project documents, with citations checked against the source text, and turns them into work in the project: file notes, submission checks, open points.

Try it with a real questionChecked: September 2026

What Piloti takes on

  • Answers with citations, the way a permit names them, for example “Bauordnung für Wien, § …” or “Pkt. 3.5.2 · S. 7”, checked against the source text before they appear. The source opens at the marked passage.
  • Its own ways of working for building class, fire safety, submission check, existing buildings, plot rules, thermal protection, accessibility and habitable rooms, each with its own sequence.
  • Piloti looks at floor plans, sections and photos as images when the drawing matters, and says which drawing on the sheet it read.
  • The office archive: past projects, file notes, your own checklists, visible to no other office.
  • Drafts of file notes, minutes, checklists and area schedules, revised in the conversation, with versions and approval in the inbox.

Daily life in an Austrian architecture office

A roof conversion in Vienna, a housing block in Lower Austria, a competition in Styria: many offices plan in several states at once, and each has its own building code and its own status on the OIB guidelines. The questions are often small, but they never stop: which building class? Is the escape route enough? Is that still a habitable room?

The answers are scattered. In the RIS, in the guidelines, in a file note from 2019, in the head of the colleague who has been through it three times. Asking interrupts someone; not asking risks a request for rectification.

A week with Piloti

An invented example, not a customer report. This is what work can look like in an office with projects in two states.

  1. 01

    Monday

    Roof conversion in an existing Vienna building. Piloti first classifies the project, then the building class, and asks for the one value that is missing: whether the roof space was converted before.

  2. 02

    Tuesday

    Two options for the staircase of a housing block in Lower Austria. Piloti sets them side by side in tabs, with the citation for each requirement and a result per row.

  3. 03

    Wednesday

    After the meeting at the building authority, the project lead types her notes into the conversation. Piloti drafts the file note, the team corrects it in the conversation, the office lead approves it.

  4. 04

    Thursday

    “Do the submission check by Friday.” The task runs under the name and with the permissions of the planner who set it.

  5. 05

    Friday

    Two documents are missing. They sit as open points in the project; “Klären” turns one of them, a question for the municipality, into its own task.

Your data

No models are trained on your office’s data, your drawings remain your property, and your office archive is visible to no other office. The details are in the privacy policy.

Pilot phase

Piloti is in its pilot phase with selected offices. If you want to see what it takes on in your office, send us a question from a live project via “Try it with a real question”.

Good to know

Design, drawing and responsibility stay with you; Piloti supplies the citations so your office can check every answer. The submission check establishes that the package is complete, and Piloti does not calculate a heating demand: it says which requirement applies and how a value compares. If a deciding fact is missing, such as the development plan, Piloti asks for it.

Questions

Which legal sources does Piloti use for architecture offices?

The nine state building codes and related state law from the RIS, the OIB guidelines, a register of standards and federal law such as the ASchG, the workplace regulation or the monument protection act. Add your office archive, the project documents and web research with every source linked.

How fast does Piloti answer?

A typical answer takes about 30 s. In-depth research takes longer: it starts with a plan you edit and ends with a report in the project.

Are our drawings used for training?

No. No models are trained on data from your office, drawings remain the office’s property, and no other office sees your archive. The details are in the privacy policy.

What does Piloti cost for an architecture office?

Piloti currently works with selected pilot offices. Pilot offices agree terms directly with us founders; the first step is a real question from a live project.

Can Piloti follow our office standards?

Yes, through your own ways of working in the skill editor and through standing instructions. The instructions govern the form and focus of answers, never a normative value.

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