The Problem

A mid size architecture studio in Milan or Turin can hold tens of thousands of files across a decade of projects. IFC exports, Revit sheets, rendered perspectives, material boards, and client presentation decks pile up across shared drives, local workstations, and whatever cloud folder someone used three years ago.

When a client calls asking for the pergola detail from a 2022 renovation, or a partner needs the render that matches a specific facade material, someone opens folder after folder, squinting at thumbnails and guessing filenames. Project managers lose hours every week to this kind of manual search, time that should go toward design, not archaeology.

The tempting shortcut is to drop renders and plan sheets into a cloud AI tool and ask it to find what you need. But those plans often carry a client's unreleased building design, an exact site layout, or a facade still under NDA before a public announcement. Once a file touches a third party server, your studio loses control of where it goes and who can see it.

Noot8 Solution

Noot8 is a plug and play edge appliance. Unbox it, connect it to your studio's network, and start asking questions about your project archive the same day. No server setup, no IT consultant, no per seat license to negotiate.

Once connected, Noot8 indexes everything already sitting on your drives. It reads project folders the way your team does, except it never forgets where anything is.

Eye Cortex: AI That Actually Sees Your Drawings

Most search tools only read filenames and text layers. Architecture lives in images: rendered perspectives, elevation drawings, material swatches, hand marked redlines. Noot8's Eye Cortex engine runs ColPali, a vision model with 4 billion parameters, to understand documents the way a person looks at them, as pages and pictures, not just text strings.

Ask "show me the renders with the timber facade from the lakeside villa project" and Eye Cortex searches the actual visual content of every render, sheet, and slide in your archive. It reads a floor plan, recognizes a material board, and understands a client deck layout, all without a single file leaving your building.

• BIM model exports and IFC sheets, searchable by room, material, or system layer.
• Rendered perspectives and walkthrough stills from your 3D library, searchable by what they depict.
• Client presentation decks, searchable by project phase, concept, or site.
• Hand annotated plan sets and redlines from site visits.
• Material and finish boards used across multiple client pitches.

Privacy Guarantee

This is not just a privacy policy. Noot8 is a physical guarantee: the appliance sits on your network, and your BIM models, renders, and client decks are embedded, indexed, and stored entirely on that device. Nothing is copied to an external server by default.

When a question needs broader reasoning, only the small retrieved excerpt, never the full file, is sent through Google's enterprise agreement, processed in the EU only, never stored, and never used to train a model. Your unreleased building designs and client relationships stay exactly where they belong: inside your studio.

What Architecture & Design Professionals Use Noot8 For

• Prepping for client meetings fast. Pull every render, deck, and plan tied to a project in seconds, instead of reopening five folders the morning of a pitch.
• Reusing past design work. Find a facade treatment, a stair detail, or a material pairing used on a previous project without remembering which job it came from.
• Keeping BIM archives usable at scale. As a studio's model library grows past thousands of files, Noot8 keeps every IFC export and sheet searchable by content, not just filename.
• Protecting unreleased concepts. Competitive pitches and confidential renovations stay off public clouds while still being searchable by the whole team.
• Onboarding new team members quickly. New hires ask Noot8 about past projects directly instead of interrupting senior architects for file locations.