Microsoft for Startups PartnerAI consultancy for architecture practices
Your architecture practice's AI lead, without the full-time hire.
Skirr AI helps architecture practices use AI where it saves real time: drawings admin, planning documents, specs and visualisation. Your team's design judgement stays in charge.
Built-environment AI projects across consultancy, public sector and property.
Trusted across the built environment
Scottish Building Standards Hub
Drummond Roofing Consultancy Ltd
Fife Council
Scottish Futures Trust
RSE Water Technology
Microsoft for Startups“Skirr AI have provided vital support to our Public Sector Digital Estate Working Group. As AI develops at pace, they have provided reliable advice and are a trusted delivery partner.”
“Skirr AI built one structured AI workflow around our template and house style, and trained the team to use it. Reports are more consistent, they take less time, and the surveyor still checks and signs off every one.”
“With Scottish Government Building Standards Division funding, we set out to build an app bringing together fragmented building standards documentation, useful websites and direct contact with local authority teams, including at key construction stages. Skirr AI turned our brief into a clear, focused and user-friendly product, in a friendly, professional and no-fuss way. They kept us engaged throughout, and we look forward to developing the app further with them.”
“Skirr AI carried out an AI audit and AI analytics review that cut through complexity and gave us a clear, practical picture of where data and automation can add real capacity. They combined technical depth with a grounded understanding of our operations and reporting, and delivered insight we can act on while keeping the service personal and commercially focused.”
9,000hours
Our AI audit for Scottish Futures Trust — a government body responsible for public sector infrastructure across Scotland — identified over 9,000 hours of potential annual time savings. That's the equivalent of recovering more than £135,000 in capacity every year, using tools and processes they already had.
Skirr AI designs, builds, and operates production automation on OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), Google Gemini, Grok, OpenClaw, NemoClaw, and Microsoft AI Cloud.
The problem
Every practice knows AI matters. Few have anyone to own it.
Tools move faster than capacity
New AI tools launch every week. Your architects are too busy delivering projects to test them all. Some staff are already using AI quietly, with no policy and no checks.
Admin keeps growing
Planning statements, fee proposals, specs, minutes, stage reports. That is time your team could spend designing.
Hire full-time or fall behind
A full-time AI lead is expensive and hard to justify. Doing nothing means falling behind practices that move first.
Agents create new risk
As AI agents take on real tasks, insurers and clients will want proof that someone is checking their work.
Our approach
AI generates. Your practice decides.
AI can now produce 50 concept options, ten draft statements or a full spec in minutes. Producing the material is no longer the hard part. Judging it is.
Architects are already experts in judgement. We help you write that judgement down, as clear quality checks for drawings, documents and visuals. Every AI output is then measured against your standards before anyone relies on it.
The result: more output, less admin, and work that still looks and reads like yours.
“We don't replace your taste. We make sure AI respects it.”
Services
Five ways to bring AI into your practice. Start with one.
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AI Agent Assurance Audit
Get insurance-ready before an AI agent makes an expensive mistake.
AI agents are starting to act for practices: drafting documents, sending emails, checking compliance. When one gets it wrong, someone pays. We expect insurers to ask for evidence of how AI is controlled before they cover it. We audit every AI tool and agent in your practice and give you the paper trail to prove it is used safely.
- •Register of every AI tool and agent in use, and what each can do
- •Human sign-off points: who checks what before it reaches a client
- •Data and client confidentiality risks
- •A written AI usage policy tailored to your practice
- •An evidence pack for your PI insurer, clients and tender questionnaires
- •A prioritised roadmap of safe quick wins
Fixed fee. Around two weeks.
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Fractional AI Lead
An AI lead in your practice, a few days a month.
We join your team on a regular schedule. We test new tools so your architects don't have to, advise on what's worth adopting, and keep you ahead of the curve.
- •Tool research and hands-on testing
- •Monthly recommendations in plain English
- •A direct line for your team's questions
- •Ongoing review of what's working
Monthly retainer. Cancel any time.
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Build Sprints
Custom tools for the jobs that eat your week.
We build lightweight AI tools around your templates and your way of working. Typical builds include:
- •Design and Access Statement and planning statement drafts
- •Fee proposal and stage checklist generators
- •Specification and product schedule assistants
- •Meeting notes turned into action logs
- •Sketch or massing to concept visual workflows
Fixed price per tool. You own what we build for you.
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House Style Evals
Turn your design judgement into standards AI can be checked against.
We work with your senior team to define what good looks like for your drawings, documents and visuals. Those standards become simple checks every AI output must pass.
- •Quality criteria written with your directors
- •Scoring checklists for each output type
- •Fewer weak drafts reaching review
- •Consistent quality as the team grows
Fixed fee. Pairs well with a Build Sprint.
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Team Training
Practical AI skills for architects, not theory.
Hands-on sessions using your own project examples. Your team leaves knowing which tools to use, how to prompt them well and when not to trust the output.
- •In-person or online sessions
- •Built around real tasks from your practice
- •Notes and prompt guides to keep
Per session or as a short course.
Why Skirr AI
We already work where buildings get made.
Skirr AI isn't a generic tech agency. We've delivered AI work across the built environment, so we understand drawings, surveys, standards and the pressure of deadlines.
Built-environment experience
AI training and report automation for a roofing consultancy, plus an analytics review of Scottish building standards.
Public-sector rigour
AI discovery interviews with public bodies and heritage organisations.
Property sector
AI proposals for estate and property businesses.
We build, not just advise
Working tools and apps, not slide decks.
Who delivers it
Built by an architect, not just a technologist.
Paul Duddy
Founder, Skirr AI
Every workflow, automation and tool is delivered by Paul Duddy, founder of Skirr AI.
Paul is an architecture graduate of the Glasgow School of Art. He has worked in architectural practice and in civil engineering, so he knows how drawings, specs, planning and site work really fit together.
That means no translation gap. Paul speaks your team's language, understands the pressure of a deadline, and builds AI tools that fit how practices actually work.
- •Glasgow School of Art architecture graduate
- •Experience in architectural practice
- •Civil engineering background
- •Hands-on AI builder: workflows, automations and custom tools
Find out where AI could save your practice time.
Book a free 30-minute call
No jargon, no hard sell. Just an honest view of what's worth doing first.
Book your free callFrequently Asked Questions
Do we need technical staff?
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No. We handle the technical side and explain everything in plain English.
Will AI replace our architects?
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No. It removes repetitive admin so your architects spend more time on design. Your team makes every final decision.
Is our client data safe?
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Data protection is part of every engagement. We review what goes into AI tools and set clear rules before anything is used on live projects.
We're a small practice. Is this for us?
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Yes. Smaller practices often gain the most, because every hour saved counts.
Do you work outside Scotland?
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Yes. We work with practices across the UK, in person and remotely.
Who owns the tools you build?
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You do. Anything built specifically for your practice is yours.
Will our insurer ask about AI?
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We expect more insurers and clients to ask how you control AI, especially AI agents that act without a person in the loop. Our audit gives you a clear, documented answer ready to share.