--- title: "Arkio for architects · Arkio" description: "Explore options with an AI agent, bring clients inside the design and hand a clean model to Revit. Arkio is where designs start." url: https://www.arkio.is/architects/ --- Arkio for architects & designers # More ideas on the table. Fewer surprises on site. Explore options with an AI agent, bring clients inside the design and hand a clean model to Revit when you're ready. Arkio is where your designs start. [Start designing](https://app.arkio.is) [Book a demo](https://www.arkio.is/contact/) - Imports Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, Archicad, Navisworks - Exports to Revit, Rhino, SketchUp _Illustration: Colour-coded massing for a mixed-use building among grey neighbours, with the agent explaining option B_ - Retail - Housing - Community - Offices Trusted by architects, engineers and educators at KPF, Sweco, IMEG, BAM, American Structurepoint, CetraRuddy, SPINN Arkitekter, Davey + Smith Architects, TU Delft. From brief to buy-in ## Everything before the drawings, in one place. Arkio covers the part of the project where ideas are cheap to change and decisions matter most. 1. **Test the brief** (01 · BRIEF): Paste a room program or site limits and get massing options to compare. 2. **Explore more, faster** (02 · OPTIONS): Ask for alternatives, compare areas side by side and combine the best parts. 3. **Win the room** (03 · PRESENT): Walk clients through at full scale, then send renders and films that match the model. 4. **Carry on in Revit** (04 · HANDOFF): Export a clean model to Revit, Rhino or SketchUp. Nothing to redraw. 01 · Design in context ## Your site, your neighbours, your existing models. Bring in the site, the surrounding city or a large Revit or Navisworks model, and design right inside it. FlexCell keeps big scenes fast and everything editable. **Large models stay fast.** Built on FlexCell, our volumetric engine for complex scenes. **Areas you can trust.** Floor areas and heights update as you and the agent design. **Nothing is baked.** Change any decision later, even after the agent has built on it. _Picture: AI render of a new city block around a central square, with its streets and neighbouring buildings (inset: The city block as a 3D model in Arkio)_ 02 · With clients ## Presentations clients remember. Walk clients through the design at full scale, switch on Live render for the finished look, and send them renders and films that match the model exactly. **Walk through together.** Share a link and explore the design side by side, in any browser. **Renders that match the model.** No surprises between the render and what gets built. **Films for the next meeting.** Walkthrough videos with people, made from your model. _Illustration: Live render of a villa with a pool for a client presentation_ ![AI render of a cabin living room with a hanging fireplace, made from the model](https://www.arkio.is/_astro/s3-cabin-inside-render.CdFNnHCZ_Z2rBRKy.webp) ![Watercolor render](https://www.arkio.is/_astro/r_water.DueFZhVF_24PXqb.webp) Customers ## Architects on Arkio. [Read the case studies](https://www.arkio.is/case-studies/) > Arkio allows our team to design and test their ideas in 3D space in a digital mock-up, as if it's already constructed on site. > > — Jason Fung, Founder and Principal, Jason Fung Architect > Arkio makes it easy for us to gather our team inside our designs to discuss and sketch ideas at 1:1 scale. > > — James Dodson, Architect & Partner, SPINN Arkitekter > Arkio helps us get to better results faster. > > — Aaron Nordstrom, Project Architect, American Structurepoint ## Bring your next brief to Arkio. Start with a program, a site or a sketch. See options in 3D. Start designing: [open the Arkio web app](https://app.arkio.is/?prompt=Massing%20for%20a%206-storey%20mixed-use%20block) and describe your idea, for example “Massing for a 6-storey mixed-use block”. The design agent uses AI credits. More ideas to try: Three options for a primary school; A 200 m² house on a sloping site; Stack this room program; Fit-out for a 2,000 m² office. AI credits required · Runs in your browser · No 3D skills needed ![A new mixed-use building in colour among grey neighbours](https://www.arkio.is/_astro/ill_block.Cxb0SpOl.svg) --- Arkio: Arkio turns sketches, words and floor plans into real 3D designs with an AI agent. Share a link, then walk through it before anything is built. Start designing at https://app.arkio.is. All pages for AI agents: https://www.arkio.is/llms.txt