Architects, engineers, contractors, and facility owners sit on an enormous amount of information that is still trapped on paper. Despite widespread adoption of BIM, cloud collaboration, and digital project management tools, the AEC industry remains one of the most paper-heavy sectors in the economy—especially when it comes to legacy projects, renovations, and existing buildings.
One of the most critical—and vulnerable—categories of this paper data is as-built drawings. In many cases, paper as-built sets are the only known copy in existence, making them irreplaceable records of what was actually constructed rather than what was originally designed.
As owners look to deploy AI-driven facility management, predictive maintenance, energy optimization, and renovation planning, this paper-only data creates a serious roadblock. AI cannot learn from, reason over, or extract insight from drawings that live in flat files, plan rooms, or jobsite trailers.