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House Design Agent
Planned capabilityInterprets the brief, plot information, and constraints to help explore preliminary layouts.
Inputs: brief, plot, prioritiesOutput: schematic alternativesArchitect review
AI agents for architecture firms
Meet your AI team for architecture.
Specialized AI agents that help architecture firms move from client briefs and plot constraints to house-design concepts and preliminary cost estimates—with architects in control.
A product concept for professional review workflows
Switchyard / Alder HouseWorkspace preview
Plan studyOption A / 03
The AI-agent approach
A team of specialists, not a black box.
Each agent is designed around a real architectural workflow. Work stays project-specific, outputs stay traceable, and architects decide what moves forward.
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Site and Brief Agent
Planned capabilityOrganizes requirements, setbacks, access, orientation, and known site constraints before design begins.
Inputs: site data, client needsOutput: structured project contextArchitect review
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Cost Estimation Agent
Planned capabilityConnects available quantities with editable regional rates and transparent assumptions for preliminary estimates.
Inputs: areas, quantities, ratesOutput: estimate with assumptionsArchitect review
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Design Review Agent
Planned capabilityFlags inconsistencies, missing information, and constraints that require professional attention.
Inputs: alternatives, checksOutput: review checkpointsArchitect review
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Documentation Agent
Planned capabilityHelps organize project information and prepare preliminary design summaries and handoff documents.
Inputs: approved concept, notesOutput: review-ready packageArchitect review
Flagship workflow · plot to design to cost
A clearer path through early residential design.
The first workflow is focused on house architecture: moving from a client brief and site constraints to design alternatives, transparent preliminary estimates, and a review-ready handoff.
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Define the project
Client brief, room requirements, budget, and priorities.
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Add the site
Plot geometry, access, orientation, setbacks, and constraints.
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Generate alternatives
Explore preliminary floor-plan concepts with labels, areas, and circulation.
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Review and refine
Compare options, adjust requirements, and approve or reject suggestions.
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Estimate the project
Connect quantities, editable rates, assumptions, and contingency settings.
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Prepare the handoff
Organize the concept, estimate, assumptions, and outstanding checks.
Preliminary plan · 01
Review set
For architecture firms
AI handles the repetitive work. Architects lead the design.
Switchyard is intended for independent architects, residential studios, and small-to-medium practices that want to explore alternatives earlier and keep project decisions organized.
— Review checkpoints— Editable assumptions— Traceable outputs— Human approval
Preliminary AI-generated concepts are not permit-ready drawings, construction documents, certified calculations, or a substitute for professional judgment.
Design contexts
Architecture is more than a picture.
These existing architectural images are reference contexts for the kinds of residential questions Switchyard aims to support—not customer projects or AI-generated outputs.
Project enquiry
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We are speaking with architecture firms about upcoming residential work and the workflow challenges they want to solve. Switchyard Labs is in development, and every conversation helps us understand where specialized AI agents could support architects.