The Problem Every Architecture Studio in Italy Knows
Your practice has ten years of project archives. AutoCAD drawings, planning permissions, material information sheets, client briefings, tender specifications — scattered across shared folders and outdated storage systems. A collaborator needs the fire safety specification for a 2019 project. They spend two hours searching. Or they upload a confidential PDF to ChatGPT and hope for the best.
Neither option is acceptable.
The real cost is not the two hours lost. It is the accumulated drag on every project, every week — duplicated efforts, missed references, and the constant anxiety that your clients' most sensitive documents are just one wrong click away from leaving your building forever.
Why AI Cloud Creates Real Risks for Architecture Firms
AI Cloud tools like Microsoft Copilot or ChatGPT Enterprise process your documents on servers outside of Italy — often completely outside the EU. For an architecture practice managing confidential client briefings, unpublished planning queries, and proprietary design drawings, this creates a real exposure to GDPR and could violate client confidentiality agreements.
The national AI law in Italy (L.132/2025) — the first of its kind in the EU — adds an additional layer of obligation. The compliance deadline of August 2026 is already pushing practices to check their use of AI cloud. Uploading project documents to a US-based chatbot is not just a privacy risk. For many firms, it is already a compliance failure.
- Documents processed on foreign servers: potential GDPR violation
- No sources cited: no audit trail for professional liability
- AI text only: blind to drawings, graphs and scanned permits
- Pricing per seat: costs increase as your team grows
Noot 8: The AI Edge Appliance Built for Visual Documents
Noot 8 is a plug-and-play AI appliance. Connect it to your studio's office network. In five minutes, every member of your team can search the entire project archive — drawings, PDFs, Word documents, scanned permits, tender specifications — in natural language, and get page-level cited answers in under 30 seconds.
No cloud account. No IT setup. No per-station license. A fixed monthly fee: €149, hardware included.
Eye Cortex: Visual Intelligence That Reads Every Page Like an Image
Most AI tools read text. Eye Cortex reads pages.
Powered by ColPali — a computer vision model with 4 billion parameters — Eye Cortex processes every document page as an image. It understands plan annotations, structural section drawings, scanned planning permits, material specification tables, and complex mixed-layout PDFs that surpass any text-only tool on the market.
Ask: "What were the fire resistance requirements in the Rossi project permit of 2021?" — and Noot 8 shows the exact page and clause, with a direct citation. No copy-pasting. No manual diving into folders. The answer arrives in under 30 seconds.
Project archives, planning documents, tender specifications, material data sheets. Mixed visual and textual documents are exactly Noot 8's strong suit.
Your Documents Remain In Your Building. Always.
This is not a privacy policy. It is a structural guarantee.
100% of the indexing, embedding, and storage of documents occurs on the Noot 8 device — physically within your office. Your project files never leave your LAN. Not to respond to a query. Not to improve the model. Not for any reason.
For complex multi-step queries, only the retrieved text snippets — not your original files — are processed by Google Gemini via Vertex AI, according to Google's Business Data Processing Agreement: processing only in the EU, zero data retention, zero model training on your content. Source documents always remain on your device.
- 100% local indexing — no file leaves the building
- GDPR compliance for architecture, not for policy
- Aligned with the Italian AI Law L.132/2025
- Unlimited simultaneous users on your office LAN
- Up to 1,000,000 searchable pages per unit
What changes on the day you connect Noot 8
A collaborator opens a browser on any device connected to your office network. They navigate to noot.local. They write a question in simple Italian or English. In less than 30 seconds, they have a cited answer with the exact name of the document and the page number.
No new software to install. No training session required. No IT consultant needed. From unboxing to the first answer: less than five minutes.
Book a Live Demo — See How It Works on Architectural Documents
We will show you Noot 8 as it searches through a repository of real architecture projects — drawings, permits, specifications — live, in under 30 seconds per query. No presentation. No promise. Just the product that works on the documents your practice uses every day.
Transform your project knowledge into a private and instantly searchable AI knowledge base — without a single file ever leaving your building.