I just returned from BOND Custom, where I met one-on-one with seventeen building-product suppliers. Before the event ended, every one of them had received a finished product one-sheet — researched, designed, and produced by my AI agent, live, during the meetings themselves.
Nobody asked whether the technology works anymore. They asked how fast it could work for them.
That is where this industry now stands. A recent Bluebeam report found that only 28% of AEC firms have AI running in production — and that those firms report real returns: 40% report savings over $500,000, 64% report better cost predictability, and 58% identify project risks earlier. The gap is no longer belief. It is implementation.
I know that gap from the inside. I am doing the same work and providing the same services as when I had 33 employees. But now the quality is better and I deliver it faster and for less money. That sentence is not a slogan — it is my practice, and it is why I built MRAi Design Studio.
Today the Studio formalizes three offerings:
AI Production Systems for AEC firms. START is a Design & Marketing Audit — a fixed-scope review of how your firm presents and pursues work. GROW installs the workflows as implementation sprints on your live projects. SCALE embeds trained agents and a training program so the capability stays in-house. And STAY keeps me on as your Fractional Chief AI Officer, month after month, so you never fall behind again.
Product visualization for manufacturers. Send us your existing designs and images — we make them better. Presentation imagery and product one-sheets in about 24 hours, and a subscription service that keeps your line’s imagery current on a standing basis.
Succession & Knowledge Transfer, powered by QB Verse. This one is personal to a generation of firm owners: your company’s value exists inside your head. Before a joint venture, a capital partner, or a succession, that knowledge has to be captured in systems — recorded expertise, trained agents, a standards library, a transition roadmap. That is the work QB Verse was built for.
I am opening a small number of founding engagements this quarter — firms and owners who want to be in the 28%, with the systems to prove it.
If that is a conversation you want to have, start here: mikerosenarchitects.com/mrai-studio
Mike Rosen, AIA, LEED AP ND
President, Mike Rosen Architects · Founder, MRAi Design Studio