The AEC Execution Gap Report
The AEC Execution Gap Report maps the gap between AEC’s design-stage AI ambition and execution-stage reality using anonymised metrics on time-to-permit, model audit volume, code-compliance review hours, and standards-enforcement rework rates across early partners. It is a gated Labs PDF drawn from VitruAI’s benchmark dataset; request the report through the download form.
- See where real AI productivity gains land in AEC today across Revit-based compliance, QA/QC, and document workflows, based on benchmark data rather than vendor decks.
- Quantify hours-back-per-project across code checking, standards enforcement, and document-AI ingestion, anonymised across early partners and calibrated per deployment.
- Build a defensible, internal-deck-ready view of where to invest agent time first, including where the Code Compliance Agent and the Studio QA/QC Agent shift the curve.
What’s in the report
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Benchmark methodology
The report opens with a transparent benchmark methodology section explaining how VitruAI collects, anonymises, and aggregates execution-stage metrics across early partners. It distinguishes design-stage experiments from execution-stage work such as code checking, standards enforcement, and document ingestion in Revit-based production. Method notes cross-reference the State of AI in Revit 2026 resource so BIM directors can align definitions across both documents.
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Time-to-permit metrics
A dedicated chapter shows anonymised time-to-permit-review distributions for villa-code, high-rise, and commercial projects, by jurisdiction and by review authority pattern. It compares manual baselines against agent-assisted runs using tools such as the Code Compliance Agent, including the 6-day → 12-minute Dubai villa pattern from our launch customer (a Dubai villa-compliance practice). Charts highlight where permit bottlenecks remain even after automation, so teams can target the next workflow candidate.
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Model-audit volume and rework
The model-audit section tracks standards-enforcement runs and warning-cleanup rework rates across early partners, split by Revit version (2020–2026) and by template maturity bands. It includes data from deployments using the Studio QA/QC Agent to batch-audit workshared models for naming, view standards, and documentation consistency. Readers see how many audits per project actually run in practice, how many warnings persist to IFC export, and where firms still spend ≥45–60 min/sprint on manual cleanup.
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Code-compliance review hours
This chapter quantifies manual vs agent-assisted code-compliance review hours by jurisdiction and project typology, including villas, mid-rise residential, and mixed-use commercial. It draws on the same underlying rule libraries described in the Dubai Villa Code Compliance Benchmark, but reports only anonymised aggregates across firms. Plots show typical hours saved per permit set, the spread between early adopters and late adopters, and where human review still dominates due to ambiguous local interpretations.
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Document-AI ingestion volume
The document-AI section covers PDF takeoff and plan-archive search throughput, including drawing-set sizes, extraction accuracy bands, and correction rates. It tracks how many sheets per hour move through ingestion when models, RFIs, and addenda all sit in mixed-format archives. Comparisons against figures from the State of AI in Revit 2026 report help technology leaders see how document-centric workflows and model-centric workflows differ in realised productivity gains.
Questions about the AEC Execution Gap Report
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Is this report free?
The AEC Execution Gap Report is a gated Labs PDF that you request through the download form rather than a public link. Once you submit the form, a member of the VitruAI team sends the report within 1 business day, along with any relevant appendices. If your firm is already a Labs or Beta partner, your delivery can include a short readout tailored to your current Code Compliance Agent or Studio QA/QC Agent deployment.
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Are the numbers in the report verifiable?
The report includes a detailed methodology section describing how data is sourced from early partners, anonymised at project and firm level, and aggregated into benchmark distributions. While partner firms remain anonymised, metric definitions, sample sizes, and filtering rules are documented so your internal teams can audit the logic. Where the report references the Dubai villa pattern, it points to the public Dubai Villa Code Compliance Benchmark resource for additional context.
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How often is the report refreshed?
VitruAI refreshes the AEC Execution Gap Report on a quarterly cycle so the numbers track current practice rather than one-off pilots. Each refresh folds in new projects from Labs and Beta partners, extending distributions for time-to-permit, model audits, and document ingestion. The publication date and data cut window are clearly stated, and major shifts are cross-referenced against the State of AI in Revit 2026 benchmark where relevant.
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Will my firm’s data appear in the report?
Your firm’s data only appears in the report with explicit written consent and only in anonymised aggregate form. Individual projects, teams, and firms are never named; metrics roll up into typology, jurisdiction, and tool-version bands. If you opt into a named case study, that is handled through a separate process and may appear in dedicated resources such as the Dubai Villa Code Compliance Benchmark rather than in this aggregate report.
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Is there a case-study version of this benchmark?
Yes, there is a dedicated case-study resource focused on one deployment: the Dubai Villa Code Compliance Benchmark. That resource walks through the 6-day → 12-minute permit-review shift for our launch customer (a Dubai villa-compliance practice) in far more detail than this aggregate report. Many readers use the case study alongside the AEC Execution Gap Report to contrast a single deployment’s trajectory with anonymised multi-firm distributions.
Need this on a real project?
This Labs resource ships as a gated PDF, not a consulting engagement. Use the download form on this page to request the AEC Execution Gap Report; we’ll send the current edition within 1 business day, along with options for a short benchmark readout for your firm.
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