We’ve reached an exciting milestone for the AEC industry. Autodesk Construction Cloud is now part of Autodesk Forma – the industry cloud for AEC – bringing together data, workflows, and teams across the entire project lifecycle. Built around three tenants: end-to-end, cloud-first and AI native, Forma is designed to break down traditional AEC lifecycle siloes, connect information seamlessly, and unlock smarter, faster ways of working.
But what does AI-native really mean?
It means AI isn’t layered on top. It’s built directly into the platform where your data lives and your teams already work. Instead of switching tools, moving data, or losing context, you can use AI to analyze project information, automate workflows, and surface insights in real time, right where the work is happening.
That’s a critical difference. New AI-powered tools are being introduced every day in construction, but they require integrations, data to be manually uploaded, or even new third-party tool introduced which slows teams down and breaks context. As these solutions become more complex, the barrier to getting started only increases.
With Forma, AI is built in from the start. It understands your projects, your workflows, and how your data connects, so it can deliver value instantly without setup. The result is a simpler, more accessible way to bring AI into your everyday work.
And that’s exactly what Autodesk Assistant bring to your teams. Today, we’re officially bringing Autodesk Assistant for construction workflows in Forma out of beta, making AI-powered insights and actions available directly within your everyday workflows.
Since its introduction last year, thousands of users have made Autodesk Assistant part of their daily workflows with an increase of queries originating from the My Home page. This means project team members are starting their days with the help of the Assistant – prioritizing work and proactively identifying the areas that are most important to focus on.
The Assistant is not just a simple help chatbot, it is something far more powerful. It is an action-oriented tool for your projects that not only answers questions, but helps take tasks off your team’s plate.
You can think of the Assistant as a project-level agent, working across your connected data and workflows. Behind the scenes, it communicates with all relevant agents to return a response. Like a project manager coordinating across teams, it pulls together insights from data sources like specifications, issues, RFIs, and other agents to give you a complete answer, without the manual effort.
Autodesk Assistant turns connected project data in Forma into foresight, not just hindsight. It analyzes your project in real time to surface risks, track progress, and highlight what matters now. No reports. No data stitching. Just clear, actionable insights in full context.
Without Forma and Autodesk Assistant, project data remains scattered, and getting answers means digging through dashboards, building reports, or chasing updates across teams. By the time you find what you need, it is already outdated.
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Autodesk Assistant can serve as an AI-powered ally for your project teams, giving them instant access to the answers they need using natural language to search across specifications, RFIs, issues, submittals, meetings, change orders, and schedules in seconds. From generating meeting summaries to uncovering patterns across thousands of data points, it helps teams stay aligned and ahead of problems.
Without it, teams waste time digging through endless logs and risk missing critical blockers because disconnected data lacks context.
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Autodesk Assistant helps streamline everyday workflows by drafting emails, generating summaries, building reports, and surfacing project data in more actionable ways. It also includes a prompt library, allowing teams to save and reuse prompts to quickly repeat common tasks and standardize how work gets done without starting from scratch. The result is fewer steps, less manual effort, and faster execution across your workflows.
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“As the Autodesk Assistant expands, it will become a critical link across workflows within the already comprehensive and connected platform. I envision it becoming the go-to tool for facilitating coordination, quality assurance, engineering, and construction administration activities for our teams.” - Lauren L. Collier, Director of AI and Innovation, SSOE Group
Autodesk Assistant makes it simple to ask questions and find answers across large amounts of data. As part of Forma, it understands industry context and how data connections across different disciplines and lifecycle stages, with direct access to the information already stored in your projects.
This is powered by Autodesk’s construction data model and ontology, which automatically classifies data points allowing users to get insights in a way that could never happen before. The Assistant understands how work is structured in construction and how it’s connected.
For example, you can ask, “Show me all information related to carpentry,” and Autodesk Assistant will surface relevant RFIs, issues, submittals, schedules, and more, even if “carpentry” is not explicitly labeled in every record. It recognizes how that work ties across trades, documents, and activities, giving you a complete, contextual view that would be difficult to assemble manually.
The result is a fundamentally different way to interact with your data, where insights are connected, contextual, and immediately actionable.
Autodesk Assistant is just one part of a broader set of AI-powered capabilities in Forma designed to support more efficient workflows for construction teams. Across the platform, AI helps reduce manual effort and accelerate everyday tasks.
For example, teams can speed up RFI creation by simply entering a prompt and generating a context-rich, ready-to-review draft. You stay in control, with the ability to review, refine, and submit with confidence. Soon, teams will also be able to capture a photo, add a short prompt, and use AI to generate a detailed issue for review.
With more than 15 AI-powered capabilities embedded across Forma, teams can move faster, reduce repetitive work, and keep information flowing seamlessly across workflows so more time is spent delivering projects, not managing processes.
Autodesk Assistant is part of a broader shift toward more connected, AI‑supported workflows in Forma. With a built-in shared data foundation and industry context, teams can adopt AI with more confidence and consistency.
Autodesk Assistant is available in Autodesk Forma for construction workflows. Access is based on license type and user permissions.
