RIBA Stages 0–3  ·  Every Discipline

One platform.
Every discipline.
Every stage.

BE:AI gives every professional practice working in the built environment a single AI-powered workspace — from initial research to stage-specific documents, across every discipline, from Stage 0 through to Stage 3.

BE:AI — Active Project
Planning Consultant · RIBA Stage 2
14 Hartley Lane, Conservation Area
Application — South Oxfordshire DC
Site Research
Planning history, designations & constraints assembled
Policy Framework
NPPF, South Oxfordshire Local Plan, relevant paragraphs identified
Planning Statement
First draft generating…
Heritage Statement
Queued
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The Problem

The friction is structural.
It affects every discipline.

Every practice in the built environment faces the same four failure points — regardless of discipline, project type, or size.

01
Research rebuilt from scratch, every time

Site data, planning history, heritage records, policy frameworks — sourced from multiple disconnected systems with no standardisation, for every new instruction.

02
Documents constructed, not composed

Heritage statements, planning statements, structural reports, cost plans — the same structure every time, rewritten almost entirely from scratch per instruction.

03
No shared platform for cross-discipline consistency

At Stages 2 and 3, multiple consultants produce outputs that should reference each other — but rarely do. There is no shared workspace.

04
Administration runs alongside everything else

Fee proposals, appointments, invoices — every practice manages these manually in parallel with technical work, every time, for every project.

How It Works

From address to first draft.
In minutes, not days.

BE:AI maps onto the RIBA Plan of Work — the industry's universal project framework. Input a project, and the platform assembles everything your discipline needs at that stage.

01
📍
Open a project

Enter the site address, select your discipline and RIBA stage, and specify the instruction type. BE:AI understands what each discipline needs at each stage of the Plan of Work.

  • Site address and local planning authority
  • Discipline, stage, and instruction type
  • Project type and any heritage designations
02
🔍
Research assembled automatically

Planning history, local plan policies, NPPF paragraphs, heritage designations, environmental constraints, recent appeal decisions — structured into a project brief, ready to work from.

  • Planning portals & Historic England
  • OS mapping, NLS data, cost indices
  • Current local plan & NPPF cross-referenced
03
📋
First draft, ready for review

A structured professional document produced to the standard appropriate for the RIBA stage — not a blank template, but a populated first draft built from the project's actual constraints and policy context.

  • Policy-referenced and up to date
  • Structured to the requirements of the stage
  • Ready for professional judgement, not construction
Core Capabilities

Five things BE:AI does
that practices currently do slowly.

Each capability targets a specific, recurring failure point in how built environment practices operate today.

Multi-source research aggregation

All relevant site, policy, asset and context data drawn from planning portals, Historic England, OS, local plans, NLS maps and cost indices — assembled into a single structured project brief at the point of instruction.

Stage-appropriate document generation

A first-draft professional document calibrated to the RIBA stage, the project type and the specific regulatory context. Not a generic template — a document that reflects the actual project constraints.

Policy currency & compliance checking

Document content cross-referenced against current national and local policy. Where guidance has changed since the last instruction of this type, BE:AI flags it and ensures all policy references are accurate.

Cross-discipline consistency

Where multiple consultants work on the same project within the platform, BE:AI ensures outputs reference each other correctly — no contradictions between a heritage statement and a planning statement.

Administrative automation

Fee proposals, memoranda of appointment and invoices generated from project data, calibrated to the discipline, stage and instruction type. Administration no longer runs manually alongside technical work.

What Changes

What success looks like
for a BE:AI practice.

Hours → Minutes

Research that took half a day now takes minutes — site history, planning records, policy framework, heritage designations — assembled automatically when a project is opened.

"I'd only need to add my professional assessment sections. Everything else is here and correct."
Consistent quality

Documents are consistent across the practice. The same project in the hands of two different fee earners produces outputs to the same standard, every time.

"Senior professionals spend their time on what only they can do — not on research and drafting the platform can handle."
Scale without headcount

Take on more work without a proportional increase in headcount or hours. The platform absorbs the mechanical work so your team can focus on the work only they can do.

"First-draft documents are ready for review — not for construction."
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