How Newforma Is Building the AI-Powered Future of Construction Information Management 

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There is no shortage of companies telling you that AI will transform your business. Bold claims, glossy demos, and hastily bolted-on chatbots have become the norm across every corner of the AEC industry. At Newforma, we’ve taken a different path — and an intentional one. 

We aren’t chasing a trend. We are building something durable: an AI strategy grounded in the realities of how architects, engineers, and contractors actually work. One that respects the complexity of your projects, the sensitivity of your data, and — critically — your right to choose how and where AI fits into your own workflows. 

What follows is a transparent look at where we are today, where we are headed, and the principles guiding every decision we make along the way. 

Smart Email Filing 

Email remains the lifeblood of project communication in the AEC industry — and also one of its biggest productivity drains. Newforma’s Smart Email Filing uses AI to analyze incoming and outgoing correspondence and automatically suggest or execute the correct filing destination within your project structure. The more your team uses it, the more accurate and consistent your project archive becomes. 

The result: less time spent on administrative overhead, fewer misfiled records, and a more complete, trustworthy project archive — without changing the way your team works.

Smart Search 

Finding the right information at the right moment is one of the most persistent challenges in project delivery. We are actively developing Smart Search — and with it, Vojo, the assistant that puts that capability in your hands. Smart Search goes beyond keyword matching to understand the intent behind a query, surfacing relevant documents, emails, submittals, and RFIs from across your project data — even when you don’t remember exactly what you’re looking for or where it lives. 

This isn’t a generic search engine applied to construction data. It is an index being built specifically around the information models, workflows, and document structures that define AEC project delivery. 

Smart Search is the intelligence layer underneath — but it doesn’t work alone. To make that power accessible to every member of your project team, without requiring them to think about indexes or query syntax, we are building Vojo. 

Vojo is Newforma’s conversational AI assistant — and the most visible expression of our AI strategy today. Vojo is designed to meet you where you already work. Whether you need to locate a submittal, summarize the history of an RFI thread, understand outstanding action items on a project, or simply ask a question in plain language and get a useful answer, Vojo is there. It draws on Newforma’s deep project information index to provide responses that are grounded in your actual project data — not generic, and not fabricated. But Vojo is more than a question-and-answer tool. It is the entry point into an evolving agentic experience — one that in the future, will be capable of not just answering questions, but taking action on your behalf. 

Behind Vojo and all of our AI capabilities is an agentic framework developed on AWS, one of the world’s most trusted and capable cloud platforms. This architecture isn’t just an infrastructure choice — it reflects our commitment to building AI that is scalable, secure, and ready for the next generation of intelligent workflows. 

An agentic framework means that our AI capabilities are not isolated features. They are interconnected, composable capabilities that can reason across data, coordinate across tasks, and execute multi-step workflows on behalf of users. It means that Vojo today can answer a question — and Vojo tomorrow can complete a process. 

This is the foundation upon which we are building the next wave of Newforma AI. 

AEC project delivery is defined by a set of critical, high-stakes workflows — submittals, RFIs, BIM coordination — that demand precision, speed, and accountability. These are also among the most time-consuming and error-prone processes your teams navigate every day. 

Newforma’s agentic framework is being designed with these workflows at its core. Our roadmap includes specialized agents that will bring intelligent automation to the processes that matter most in project delivery — helping teams move faster, reduce manual effort, and make better-informed decisions without sacrificing oversight or control. 

The professionals on your team remain in charge. Our agents are built to assist, accelerate, and surface the right information at the right time — not to replace the expertise and judgment that great project delivery demands. 

Here is where Newforma’s approach diverges most sharply from others in the market. 

We believe that the most powerful AI strategy for your firm is not necessarily the one that locks you into a single vendor’s ecosystem. The AEC industry is too diverse, projects are too varied, and the pace of AI innovation is too rapid for any single platform to claim a permanent monopoly on the best tools. 

That’s why we are building Newforma’s AI capabilities to be genuinely open. 

Trusted MCP Servers 

Newforma is developing a suite of trusted Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers — secure, standards-based interfaces that allow any AI agent or LLM-powered workflow to connect to Newforma’s project data, document index, and process engines. This means that whether your firm has invested in a proprietary AI stack, a preferred large language model, or bespoke applications built for your specific workflows, Newforma can serve as the intelligent backbone — providing the structured, project-specific context that makes AI genuinely useful in construction. 

Your AI can talk to Newforma. Your Newforma can talk to your AI. The protocol is open; the data stays yours. 

Bring Your Own LLM 

Some firms will want to use a specific large language model — whether for data sovereignty, performance, cost, or capability reasons. Newforma’s platform is designed to accommodate this. You are not required to use our AI to benefit from our platform, and you are not required to use our platform exclusively to benefit from our AI. We are building the connective tissue, not the cage. 

Bespoke Application Development 

For firms with the capability and the ambition to build bespoke applications on top of their project data, Newforma’s APIs and MCP servers provide first-class access to the information index that sits at the heart of our platform. Build the tools your workflows demand — and let Newforma’s indexing, filing intelligence, and project structure do the heavy lifting underneath. 

Every Newforma AI capability is built around a core conviction: AI should augment the judgment of professionals, not replace it. The architect, the engineer, the project manager — these experts remain the decision-makers. Newforma AI surfaces information, accelerates processes, and reduces cognitive overhead. The final call always belongs to the person. 

We are equally committed to the security and integrity of your project data. Your information is not used to train shared models. Your sensitive correspondence, specifications, and project records stay within the governance boundaries you set. AI-powered capabilities are only as trustworthy as the platform delivering them — and trust is something we have been earning from the AEC community for decades. 

Smart Email Filing is deployed and in your hands today. Vojo and Smart Search are both in active development, being built natively on top of our agentic framework on AWS — purpose-built for the complexity of AEC project data and coming soon. Specialized agents targeting the industry’s most demanding workflows are on the roadmap and moving fast. 

The AEC industry does not need more AI promises. It needs AI that works, AI that fits, and AI built by people who understand what it actually takes to deliver a project. That is what Newforma is building. 

We look forward to building it with you. 

For more information about Newforma’s AI capabilities and roadmap, contact your Newforma account team or visit newforma.com.