AI for Newforma

Newforma is a project information management platform popular among design firms for organizing emails, meeting minutes, submittals, and project correspondence. AI integration with Newforma makes this project information searchable and actionable.

Email search is where Newforma AI integration delivers immediate value. Design firms receive hundreds of project-related emails per week, and finding a specific conversation or decision from months ago is often impossible through manual searching. AI understands the context of email threads — connecting an email discussion about a material substitution to the relevant submittal, specification section, and drawing details — and can retrieve complete decision histories in response to natural language queries.

For firms using Newforma's submittal management, AI pre-processes incoming submittals by extracting product data and comparing it against specification requirements before the responsible designer even opens the file. The designer receives a summary of compliance status with flagged items, dramatically reducing the time spent on routine submittal comparisons.