The technology register for AEC practices
Every tool your practice pays for, mapped and accounted for.
Start with a map of your software by project stage and discipline. Then add seats, costs and renewals, and see what’s installed and what actually gets used.
Your data is held in Europe
Why it matters
Your stack keeps growing. Your grip on it doesn’t.
More tools, higher bills, and fewer practices keeping up. In most practices the record lives on an old whiteboard, in a licence spreadsheet, or in one person’s head. None of them can tell you who uses what, at which stage, on which version, or what you could stop paying for.
87
applications run by the average AEC firm
AVAIL tech stack survey
+27%
rise in US AEC firms' IT spend in a single year
Zweig Group IT report, 2025
63% → 44%
drop in design and make organisations that count as digitally mature, since 2024
Autodesk State of Design & Make, 2027
The good news
Digital transformation starts with knowing what you have.
You don’t need a big programme to begin. Put your stack on one page, and the next step becomes obvious, and doable.
91% vs 60%
The leaders connect their tools. 91% of the most advanced organisations integrate information across their systems, against 60% of the rest.
Autodesk State of Design & Make, 2027
How it works
One record of your tech. Four ways to see it.
Everything hangs off the map. Each tool you place becomes an entry in your register, so costs, machines and insights land in context, not in another spreadsheet.
- Live
The map
Every tool by stage and discipline: plugins around their host, data flows between them, notes in your own words. Share it, embed it, walk people through it.
- Next
Licences & spend
Seats, costs and renewal dates for every product, pre-filled from your maps. Free tools included. Import from a spreadsheet, export for the accountant.
- Later
Machines & versions
Run a free, read-only scan on each machine and upload the results. See which versions and add-ins run where, and which machines a project can’t use yet.
- Later
Insights
Unused seats, overlapping tools and upcoming renewals, worked out from your own records, with an AI summary of where to act first.
Start mapping now, and every new view builds on what you’ve already entered.
Available today
Map it. Mark it up. Share it.
Map it
Place each tool on the stages you work to: RIBA, AIA, SACAP, HOAI and more, or your own. Plugins orbit the software they extend.
Mark it up
Show what’s new, what to retire and where you’re still choosing. Note versions and the project a version is locked to.
Share it
Publish a view-only link or embed, invite people to comment, and walk new starters through it step by step. Viewers are always free.
Examples
See how other practices map their stack
Explore a published map the way your team would see it. Soon you'll be able to start your own from any of these.
Architecture practice
RIBA Plan of Work 2020 · BIM-led
Early-stage options feeding Rhino and Revit, a ring of Revit plugins, and rendering tools that change as the project moves on.
Proud of your map?
Publish it as an example for other practices, with your name on it.
When you’ll reach for it
Built for the moments your tech gets questioned
- Live
Someone new starts
Walk them through how the practice works, stage by stage, instead of a week of shoulder-taps.
- Live
A strategy or tech review
Agree what to keep, trial and retire, with the map on the screen and comments from the team.
- Next
A renewal is due
See seats against the people who use them, and what it costs, before you sign for another year.
- Later
A new project, or an audit
Check which machines run the version the project needs, and show a vendor exactly what you have.
Who it’s for
One record, read by everyone who decides about tech
Architecture, engineering, interiors, landscape and construction teams from one person to a few hundred.
Principals and directors
What you pay, what it’s for, and what you could stop paying for.
BIM and design-tech leads
Plugins, versions and workflows written down once, and kept current.
IT and office managers
Licences, renewals and machines in one place, not five.
Consultants and IT partners
Look after several practices from one account.
Pricing
Start free. One price per practice, not per person.
Free
$0 a month
Free while in early access
Get your stack on record and share it.
Unlimited during development
- Unlimited viewers and guests who comment
- Licences & spend, when it arrives
Pro
Founding price$19 a month
List price $29 a month
Limited founding places available
Run your tech as a system, with everyone involved.
Unlimited during development
- Usage imports and renewal reminders, when they arrive
Partner
ComingLet’s talk
For consultants and IT providers who look after several practices.
- Several client practices, one account
- Insights and regional comparisons
- A Digital Reframe diagnostic included
How your data is looked after
Held in Europe
Your practice’s data is stored in the EU, on every plan.
Private until you share
Maps stay inside your practice until you publish or invite someone.
Not even us
Digital Reframe can’t open your maps unless you invite us.
Clarity starts with one map