AI for Architects.
Project Docs, Client Communication, Research.
A local AI assistant for architecture practices. Specifications, planning narratives, client communication, and design concept writing - with project data and client briefs processed entirely on your machine.
The reality
Architectural practice is design-intensive but increasingly document-heavy. Planning statements, specifications, fee proposals, client narratives, and regulatory submissions all demand careful writing that takes time away from the actual design work. Many practices bill by the hour - every hour spent on documentation is time not spent designing.
Architects also work with confidential client information: site details, budgets, programme constraints, and proprietary design concepts. Processing that information through cloud AI services without client awareness raises questions about professional confidentiality obligations.
How Skales helps architects
From specification writing to planning narratives - more design time, less paperwork.
Project specifications and reports
Draft room data sheets, material specifications, and architect's instructions from your technical notes. Skales structures the content into the formal document formats that contractors and project managers expect.
Material and regulation research
Paste building regulation extracts, technical data sheets, or planning policy documents. Ask Skales to summarise the requirements relevant to your project, flag compliance considerations, and structure a reference brief.
Client communication
Draft design concept narratives, change notification letters, and project progress updates. Translate technical decisions into clear, engaging language that clients understand and appreciate.
Programme and fee proposals
Write fee proposals, RIBA stage descriptions, and project programme narratives. Describe the project scope and Skales drafts the stage-by-stage breakdown with deliverables, resources, and timeline.
Planning application support
Draft design and access statements, heritage impact assessments, and pre-application submission narratives. Describe the design intent and context; Skales writes the planning language that officers and committees respond to.
Competition and award submissions
Write compelling competition entries and award submissions. Articulate the concept, the constraints, and the outcomes in the evocative language that juries notice. Same project, better told.
Example: Planning application week
You ask: "Write the design and access statement for a residential extension in a conservation area. Two-storey rear addition, traditional materials, sympathetic to the existing Georgian terrace."
Skales: A structured 800-word D&A statement covering design rationale, context analysis, material choices, and heritage response.
You ask: "Draft a client email explaining why we're recommending CLT structure over steel for this project. Benefits in programme, cost, and embodied carbon. Keep it accessible."
Skales: A clear, non-technical client email that explains the structural choice in terms of benefit rather than specification.
You ask: "Write the competition narrative for our community library project. 300 words. Emphasise local materiality, transparency, and the relationship between inside and outside."
Skales: A evocative, competition-ready narrative that communicates the design concept compellingly to a non-specialist jury.
“Our planning approval rate went up. Better-written statements. Less back-and-forth with officers.”
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