For AEC Professionals
AI Strategy
Built for the
Built World.
The only AI community designed exclusively for architecture, engineering, and construction professionals who are ready to lead the transformation instead of react to it.
Is This You?
Built for the people who build everything.
Architecture & Design Professionals
Principals, project architects, and design directors who want AI tools that fit real AEC workflows, not generic business advice.
Engineering Firm Leaders
MEP, structural, and civil engineers looking to integrate AI into project delivery, documentation, and business development without disrupting operations.
AEC Marketing & BD Directors
Marketing professionals in AEC firms who need to leverage AI for proposals, content strategy, and thought leadership, fast.
Construction & PM Teams
Project managers and construction leaders deploying AI to streamline schedules, communications, RFIs, and field-to-office workflows.
Firm Owners & Principals
Decision-makers who need a strategic AI roadmap, not just a tool list, to future-proof their practice and lead their teams through change.
AEC Consultants & Advisors
Independent consultants and subject matter experts who serve AEC clients and need to stay ahead of where AI is taking the industry.
The Problem
Generic AI training
doesn't cut it in AEC.
You've sat through the webinars. You've downloaded the prompt guides. You've watched the LinkedIn videos. And still, on Monday morning, you're back to doing things the way you always have, because nothing you've found was built for how AEC actually works.
- 01 Most AI training is built for tech companies and marketers. AEC has different timelines, client structures, deliverables, and regulatory environments, and you need a community that understands that.
- 02 AI tools are evolving weekly. Without a trusted community filtering signal from noise, you're either overwhelmed or behind. There's no in-between.
- 03 Your firm isn't going to build an AI strategy for you. The professionals who thrive in this shift are the ones who took ownership of their own AI education and brought the results back to their teams.
- 04 Collecting tips is not a strategy. Reading newsletters is not implementation. You need structured frameworks, live support, and peers who are solving the same problems you are.
Membership Includes
Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.
Frameworks
Proprietary AI Methodology for AEC
Access to the PIE Framework (Plan, Implement, Evaluate), the AI First Steps methodology, and the AI Integration KPI Scorecard, built specifically for AEC firms and the professionals who lead them.
Community
Private Community of AEC Peers
A curated space where architects, engineers, construction professionals, and AEC firm leaders exchange what's actually working in the field, not in theory.
Live Sessions
Weekly Live AI Strategy Sessions
Real-time workshops where we tackle actual AEC work challenges together. Bring your proposals, your bottlenecks, your tool questions, and leave with working solutions.
Resources
AEC-Specific Prompt Library & Templates
A growing library of plug-and-play AI prompts, workflows, and templates built for RFP responses, project documentation, client communications, and firm operations.
Intelligence
Curated AI Updates for the Built World
Weekly AI news filtered through an AEC lens. No noise, no hype. Just the tools, launches, and developments that actually matter to your practice or firm.
Career
AI Career Elevation Support
Exclusive job board, warm introductions, and the AIRE (AI Role Evolution) framework to help you identify and grow into the AI-forward role your career is moving toward.
Our Methodology
The PIE Framework for AI Integration
AI implementation in AEC firms fails when it lacks structure. The PIE Framework is a proven methodology developed specifically for architecture, engineering, and construction organizations to move from AI curiosity to AI capability, without disrupting operations or overwhelming teams.
Plan — Strategic AI Readiness
Assess your firm's current AI readiness, identify the highest-impact use cases specific to your project types and workflows, and build a phased implementation roadmap your leadership can actually approve.
Implement — Structured Deployment
Deploy AI tools and workflows with change management built in. Train your teams with AEC-specific prompts and processes that reduce resistance and accelerate adoption across project delivery, BD, and operations.
Evaluate — Measure What Matters
Track AI ROI using the AI Integration KPI Scorecard, built for AEC metrics like hours saved per deliverable, proposal win rate lift, and team confidence scores. Iterate and scale what works.
Your Guide
I've spent 30 years inside AEC firms. I know the culture, the pace, the resistance to change, and what it actually takes to move an industry that builds the world.
Kristin Kautz is a fractional Chief AI Officer, AEC industry strategist, and co-founder of JAM Idea Agency and Evidence Based AI. She began her career in AEC marketing at HOK and has led marketing, strategy, and business development across architecture, engineering, and arts organizations, including the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. An AI presentation sparked a deep obsession with AI strategy that led her to build the AEC industry's most practical AI education and consulting practice. She now advises firms, speaks at industry events and symposiums, and leads the AI IQ Community as the definitive space for AEC professionals mastering AI.
Fractional Chief AI Officer for AEC Firms
Creator of the AI First Steps Framework
Founder, Digital Alchemy & Minds and Machines
Co-founder, JAM Idea Agency & Evidence Based AI
30+ Years in AEC Marketing & Strategy
Pricing
Straightforward
membership.
No upsells, no certification traps, no confusing tiers. One community, built for AEC professionals serious about AI.
$25/mo
Cancel anytime · No long-term commitment
- Full private community access
- Weekly live AI strategy sessions
- AEC-specific prompt library & templates
- Curated AI updates filtered for AEC
- AIRE career evolution framework
- Virtual and IRL events with industry experts
- Proprietary PIE Framework & AI First Steps methodology
Common Questions
Answered honestly.
I'm not very technical. Is this community for me?
Absolutely. The AI IQ Community is built for AEC professionals, not AI engineers. You don't need to know how to code. You need to know how to use AI tools in the context of your actual work, and that's exactly what we focus on. Every session, framework, and resource is designed for people who build things, not people who build software.
How is this different from a generic AI newsletter or course?
Everything here is filtered through AEC. The prompts are built for RFPs and project documentation. The frameworks are designed for firm structures and AEC workflows. The community speaks your language, understands your clients, and knows your project cycles. No generic advice, no tech-industry assumptions about your workday.
I already follow a lot of AI content. Why do I need a community?
Following content is passive. The AI IQ Community is active. Live sessions where you bring your real work problems. Peers who are solving the same AEC-specific challenges you are. Proprietary frameworks you can implement tomorrow. The difference between knowing about AI and actually using it strategically is the structured support to make the leap.
My firm hasn't given me budget or direction on AI. Now what?
You're not alone. Most AEC professionals learning AI right now are doing it on their own initiative, ahead of their firms. That's actually a career advantage, not a problem. The AI IQ Community gives you the knowledge, frameworks, and language to become the person who brings AI strategy to your firm, not the person who has to catch up to it.
The Decision
The AEC industry is being
rewritten by AI.
Be the one holding the pen.
Join the AI IQ Community and get the frameworks, peer support, and industry-specific tools to lead AI adoption in your firm, your practice, and your career.
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