The Problem Every Architecture Studio in Italy Knows
Your studio has ten years of project archives. AutoCAD drawings, planning permits, material data sheets, client briefs, tender specifications — scattered across shared folders and outdated filing systems. A collaborator needs the fire safety specification from 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 lost hours. It is the accumulated drag on every project, every week — duplicated effort, missed references, and the constant anxiety that your most sensitive client documents are one wrong click away from leaving your building forever.
Why Cloud AI Creates Real Risk for Architecture Firms
Cloud AI tools like Microsoft Copilot or ChatGPT Enterprise process your documents on servers outside Italy — often outside the EU entirely. For an architecture studio handling confidential client briefs, unreleased planning applications, and proprietary design drawings, this creates genuine GDPR exposure and may violate client confidentiality agreements.
Italy's national AI Law (L.132/2025) — the first of its kind in the EU — adds a further layer of obligation. The August 2026 compliance deadline is already prompting studios to audit their cloud AI usage. 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 breach
- No cited sources: no audit trail for professional liability
- Text-only AI: blind to drawings, charts, and scanned permits
- Per-seat pricing: costs escalate as your team grows
Noot 8: The Edge AI Appliance Built for Visual Documents
Noot 8 is a plug-and-play AI appliance. Plug it into your studio's office network. Within five minutes, every member of your team can search your entire project archive — drawings, PDFs, Word documents, scanned permits, tender specifications — in natural language, and get cited, page-level answers in under 30 seconds.
No cloud accounts. No IT setup. No per-seat licensing. One flat monthly fee: €149, hardware included.
Eye Cortex: Visual Intelligence That Reads Every Page as an Image
Most AI tools read text. Eye Cortex reads pages.
Powered by ColPali — a 4-billion-parameter computer vision model — Eye Cortex processes every document page as an image. It understands floor plan annotations, structural section drawings, scanned planning permits, material specification tables, and complex mixed-layout PDFs that defeat every text-only tool on the market.
Ask: "What were the fire resistance requirements in the Rossi project permit from 2021?" — and Noot 8 surfaces the exact page and clause, with a direct citation. No copy-pasting. No manual folder diving. The answer arrives in under 30 seconds.
Project archives, planning documents, tender specifications, material data sheets. Mixed visual and text documents are exactly the Noot 8 sweet spot.
Your Documents Stay in Your Building. Always.
This is not a privacy policy. It is a structural guarantee.
100% of document indexing, embedding, and storage happens on the Noot 8 device — physically inside your studio. Your project files never leave your LAN. Not to answer a query. Not to improve the model. Not for any reason.
For complex multi-step queries, only the retrieved text excerpts — not your original files — are processed by Google Gemini via Vertex AI, under Google's enterprise Data Processing Agreement: EU-only processing, zero data retention, zero model training on your content. The source documents stay on your device, always.
- 100% local indexing — no files leave the building
- GDPR-compliant by architecture, not by policy
- Aligned with Italian AI Law L.132/2025
- Unlimited concurrent users on your studio LAN
- Up to 1,000,000 pages searchable per unit
What Changes the Day You Plug In Noot 8
A collaborator opens a browser on any device connected to your studio network. They navigate to noot.local. They type a question in plain Italian or English. In under 30 seconds, they have a cited answer with the exact document name and page number.
No new software to install. No training session required. No IT consultant needed. From unboxing to first answer: under five minutes.
Book a Live Demo — See It Work on Architecture Documents
We will show you Noot 8 searching a real architecture project archive — drawings, permits, specifications — live, in under 30 seconds per query. No slide deck. No promises. Just the product working on the documents your studio uses every day.
Turn your project knowledge into a private, instantly searchable AI knowledge base — without a single file ever leaving your building.