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Make the next
design easier.

Bring one recurring engineering task. Define the reference designs, deliverables and review that will make the next assignment better. We also measure how long the task waits for design today, because that wait is usually what the project feels.

Work is quoted per assignment. Workspace access is included; there are no seats, plans or credits to buy.

Your standards. A clear handoff.

Define one assignment

Choose a repeated task. Bring reference files you can reuse, constraints and examples of accepted work.

Agree the evidence

Specify the models, drawings, quantities and checks you need. Name who will assess the result in your existing CAD workflow.

Measure the whole job

Compare preparation, checking and rework with your current process. Expand only after the result earns its place.

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Scope

The workspace supports projects, saved revisions, scoped review and the records behind a delivery. Choose a topic for what it covers.

Company work planning and scope agreements

Company work planning: a work package alongside each company project, with customer/project references, assignment to an existing editor, a due date, input and deliverable checklists, and reported effort with correction history. Open the optional team-work view to find assigned, overdue or waiting work and the inputs needed next; the queue and work details stay collapsed until requested. The quick demo and design workflow need no work-package setup. Customer acceptance and engineering approval are recorded in their own steps.

Scope and fee agreements: optionally preview and issue versioned scope, deliverables, exclusions, fee terms and review rounds within company work planning. A company administrator who is also a project editor can issue an agreement to one named customer with an existing verified account. Both confirm their authority to act; the customer signs in to accept or decline that exact version. Later work changes preserve the original agreement and response. Payment, tax and engineering approval are handled separately.

  • Keeps the project together. Briefs, saved versions and the original files people sent you live in the company workspace, and comments point at the version they were written about.
  • Reuses your own way of working. A kit says which sizes are allowed, which checks run and which files come out.
  • Review by named people. Invite colleagues to review one version, share only the documents you choose, and keep earlier comments when the design moves on.
  • Your own model account. A practice with its own Anthropic account can have design planning run on its own key, stored encrypted. It is switched on per company on request.
  • Your own channels and tools. Shared versions and workspace changes can post into your Slack or Teams channel, and your projects are reachable through API tokens. Each connection is enabled per company and either side can switch it off.
Audit through to customer delivery

Available in company work packages. An audit brief connects selected company Standards audits, a named reviewer, scope, acceptance criteria and the customer’s CAD application and version. The customer can state their preferred application when responding to the scope agreement and on the delivery page, including a tool outside the suggested list. Choosing a tool records a preference.

The first exchange adapter prepares IFC material-grade, existing text-property and explicitly mapped numeric length or ratio changes and compares a returned IFC’s readable properties. Geometry equivalence, native editability and drawing updates are checked in the customer’s application.

Named Standards engineers can publish versioned customer engineering packs tied to a published component library, check naming and required properties, and record equipment envelopes, declared loads, mounts and service connections. Editors can compare readable model properties with explicit object-level BOM and drawing references; fixture trials compare counts, length totals and units. These records preserve their source basis.

Package electrical-duty checks compare supplied cable correction factors, protective-device ratings and short-circuit let-through. Serial fluid-duty checks calculate head loss and pump-head demand from supplied fluid properties and pipe data. Selectivity, earthing, arc flash, network balancing, cavitation and pipe stress are assessed separately. Evidence can be downloaded and included in the reviewed delivery files.

The same package record adds accepted-scope change entries, links to declared drawing, purchasing or fabrication commitments, recorded costs, invoice and collection references, model/library fixture trials and partner handoff checklists. Partner assignments use existing project permissions. Historical effort and fee ranges support the next quotation, which a person prices and sends.

A company administrator with editor access can issue selected ready files under an accepted customer scope after the selected audits have engineer acceptance. The named customer can review that delivery; only they can accept it or request changes. Scope agreement, engineering review and the customer’s delivery response are separate decisions.

How the design work is done

The model proposes a change the kit allows. Our code builds the geometry and prepares the files. Your team looks at the result and decides whether to keep it.

Each run uses the kit version attached to that design, so improving a kit never rewrites work someone already did. The inputs, the decisions and the files that came out can be read together afterwards.

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Work that is not the software

Writing a building system down as a kit, onboarding and training are days of somebody’s time, and they are quoted as such. Your administrators fill in a form with us, inside your workspace, one section at a time:

  • Who makes the system and what it is called.
  • The sizes you stand behind, each one with the document and page it came from.
  • The parts, in the names your own drawings use.
  • Your sheet sizes, scales, title block, layers and views.
  • Your material-list columns, grouping, part-number format and rounding.
  • Your connection rules and the tolerances your factory works to.
  • The checks the kit runs and the country notes it runs with.
  • One past project to replay, with a customer change made on it and how long that change took you.
  • The responsible designer on your side, and the rights you grant us for the files.

Every save is a new version and older versions stay readable. The form works out what is still missing, exports as a document you can sign, and an agreed version becomes a draft kit that stays switched off until we switch it on deliberately and on the record.

Kit codification

per building system · Price proposed on request

Your building system written down as a versioned kit you read and sign: the parameters with their bounds and steps, the members or modules with material, grade and stock lengths, your drawing and bill-of-materials conventions, your connection and tolerance rules, the checks the kit must pass, and one past project of yours replayed through it. Every number names the document and page it came from, and the form states what is still missing.

It does not certify the system, size a member or approve anything for manufacture.

Pilot onboarding workshop

one day, with your team · Price proposed on request

One working day with the people who will use it: your first project set up on real work, the review loop run end to end with a real reviewer, and the limits of what is built today shown.

It is not a commitment that your workflow is supported. What the day finds is written down, including what does not fit.

Training day

per day, per group · Price proposed on request

A scheduled session with a named facilitator on a date you agree, for one group, on your own projects. Notes and the worked examples stay with your workspace afterwards.

Not a video and not a self-paced course. If nobody can facilitate on the date you need, we say so.

Prices are proposed until the first invoice for that line, and are agreed with your practice before anything is scheduled. There is no checkout: a request reaches us with your company and the size of your team, and a person answers it.

Nobody is recorded as having set this price, and it has never been invoiced.

Company administrators can ask for any of these from the workspace, and a person answers.

From a customer brief to a building

Nordform’s record

  1. Brief
  2. Proposal
  3. Review
  4. Offer
  5. Change
  6. Handoff

Outside our record

  1. Your production CAD
  2. Site

Nordform’s record starts at the brief and ends at the handoff package. Production detailing, machine files and the site belong to your own system.

What happens at each stage
Brief
The customer describes the building. Every requirement is recorded as applied, nearest, or not served.
Proposal
A typed proposal inside the kit’s own limits. Geometry comes from deterministic code, not from the model that read the brief.
Review
Colleagues and a verified expert comment on one revision. A sign-off has to state what was not assessed.
Offer
A supplier quotes the scope against the same lines. An offer that does not reconcile is marked as unreconciled.
Change
A change becomes a new revision that names the one it came from, so a quoted version stays readable.
Handoff
PDF drawings, DXF, IFC and STEP from one revision, each read back and compared before it is offered.
Your production CAD
Detailing for manufacture: joints, fixings, machine files. Nordform draws no shop drawings and drives no machine.
Site
The building is made and erected.

Past that seam is your production system, your machine files and your site. Shop drawings and member sizing for manufacture are done there, by your team.

Your projects, reachable from your own tools

Your team can work against Nordform from a script, a build pipeline or an AI assistant. A token carries only the permissions you give it, expires on a date you choose and has its own run limit. The same token works for the API and for our MCP server, which is how assistants such as Claude Code connect.

An assistant can read a project’s versions and the inputs behind them, ask for a change the kit allows and start a check. It never draws anything.

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What you can use

Available

  • A GitHub mirror of a company's saved house designs, with a pull request read as a change proposal. Backing up your own projects to a GitHub repository you own is in Settings.
  • Sign-in and private cloud projects
  • Your company branding, administrators and teams
  • Company-owned kit concepts with version history, named editors and limits on who can start a run. They open in the same workspace as your own projects, where an editor changes them and a viewer can look, measure and download but not change them; authorized editors can describe an access platform in Pro, resume saved intake answers and generate its saved version using the company allowance, while viewers inspect the saved result. An authorized administrator can explicitly share a pinned company access-platform revision and its available saved outputs with a recipient company for 30 days, without company-design browsing or run access
  • Saved company references, estimates and private packages. When two people save changes to different parts of a company design, both are kept as successive versions; when both changed the same part differently, the second chooses which to keep
  • Your own context packs, such as a manufacturer’s rules or house conventions, which an administrator publishes to the company’s members. They are marked as the company’s, the planner reads them as text, and a design keeps the version it used
  • Team shares of one version that can view or comment, which expire after 7, 14 or 30 days
  • Review links with an agreed scope, comments, and package access given to named people
  • Kit-house shape generation, frame checks and concept exports
  • Replaying a past project: enter the manufacturer’s material list by hand, by spreadsheet or by photograph, and compare it line by line with the list our code produces for the same brief
  • API tokens and MCP access for your own tools and assistants, including explicit design adoption, revision deliveries, chunked private files and permitted review/team operations
  • Slack and Microsoft Teams delivery into your own workspace, enabled per company
  • Supplier requests and offers, recovery of a broken concept, and package access that expires
  • A company run allowance kept apart from anyone’s personal one, a policy for who may start runs, and one view of every company project
  • A company activity log covering design work as well as administration, a one-file export of company history, a retention period you choose, and deletion of the workspace on the owner’s request after a grace period
  • Signed messages from your workspace to your own servers, with secret rotation and replay of failed deliveries
  • Room studies on a shared wall, saved room and site baselines, supplier response links and portable archives
  • Review of a company baseline by a named person outside your company, including someone with no account yet, who signs in from the invitation
  • A private space for each customer, led by their own logo: the drawings, 3D model and files of one revision, the decisions you ask them to answer, and a discussion where each message carries its organisation, can stay within one organisation and can be pinned to a point on a drawing page or a part of the 3D model. Readers get one mail about the day’s discussion the next morning, and earlier revisions stay readable but closed. You can let an invited company invite its own customer, who sees the drawings, model and files only
  • An order space for a supplier: the order’s stage, people in named roles on both sides who each read only their own views, what waits on whom, change orders the customer’s project manager approves or declines, invitation by link, and an order mail address that files a named contact’s attachments as document revisions
  • Live presence on a shared personal project: members see each other’s pointers, selections and the version they are on
  • Design planning on your company’s own Anthropic key, switched on per company on request

Understand who can contribute

Company administrators enable capability evidence and appoint verifiers. Project owners separately opt personal project sources into processing. Text PDFs, text files, review records and meeting minutes produce candidate contributions; human verification and dated availability support project-fit suggestions. Assigning work and approval authority stay with people.

What comes out is a concept. Complete building design, certified engineering and production drawings come from a professional scope, agreed with the people who sign it.

Automated outputs are concepts. Engineering approval and production detailing are a separate professional scope. Security and data handling.

START WITH ONE PROJECT

What keeps your team repeating work?

Tell us your industry, recurring task, CAD tools and deadline. We’ll discuss the deliverables, reviewer and assignment scope.

Tell us about a project

It goes to our team at info@nordformgroup.com. No account is created. A person answers.

Prefer email? info@nordformgroup.com. Pricing is agreed per assignment; opening the workspace starts no payment.