Asite for Architects

Asite for Architects is the information control layer that sits across your existing stack — SharePoint, Revit, Outlook, Word, Excel, NBS, WeTransfer, Teams — capturing every drawing issue, transmittal, comment, decision and approval into one auditable, searchable, ISO 19650-aligned record.

It doesn't replace your design tools — it governs what they produce

What AforA does — the six core capabilities

Document control & version management

Every drawing, specification, report and deliverable is version-controlled, timestamped and permission-governed. No overwritten files. No "which version did we send?" conversations.

Outlook & M365 integration — not a replacement

aMail connects Outlook directly to Asite for Architects, filing project email threads, decisions and approvals automatically. aDrive brings Windows/Mac desktop sync with native Word, Excel and PowerPoint co-authoring — audit trail intact. Architects keep Outlook; Asite captures it.

BIM viewing — in-browser, no plugin

3D Repo Lite provides browser-based BIM model viewing and issue communication across 50+ file types — no desktop install, massive savings on native software licensing.

Asite AI — search that respects your permissions

eDiscovery searches thousands of documents in context while honouring every existing ACL. It never exposes your data to public LLMs — built with Google and Microsoft. Past design decisions, drawing histories and transmittals surface in seconds.

ISO 19650-aligned governance & audit trail

Immutable audit trails at document, workflow and field level. Every transmittal, approval and comment is timestamped and exportable — built for architects facing PI claims, contractual disputes and public-sector compliance.

Data sovereignty — contractually backed

Your project data stays yours: clean, structured export (IFC 4, PDF, MBOX, JSON audit log) at any time, with no egress charge — contracted, not a verbal assurance. The key differentiator versus Autodesk ACC and Newforma.

Who it's for (ICP)

Architecture practices of 20–200 people running multiple concurrent projects with named clients, PMs and contractors
Practices with ISO 19650 obligations — public sector, healthcare, defence, education frameworks
Practices that have survived one PI claim or near-miss involving missing correspondence
Practices that have had a PM or contractor mandate a platform — and lost their own design record in the process

The free trial value proposition

What architects get on day one — 12 months free:

A fully configured AforA workspace, automatically provisioned
Cognitive CDE eDiscovery across uploaded project files from day one
3D Repo Lite BIM viewing
aMail and aDrive for Outlook and M365 capture
ISO 19650-aligned document control and transmittals
Onboarding via guided tours (Intercom) and self-serve help pages

Why twelve months free is commercially rational

The trial isn't a discount — it's the price of entry into a multi-stakeholder revenue annuity. Every architect who sets up a project in AforA invites contractors, consultants and developers into that record as Stage 1–4 progresses. By Stage 4 → 5 handover, those downstream stakeholders already have 9–18 months of project history inside the AforA record — and Asite offers them a continuation contract on the record they're already working in.

After trial Likely £10–15 per user, per month