The system your steel shopactually runs on.
Your estimate spreadsheet, your drawing register, your inbox, your IFC and NC1 files — AETHER brings them into one verified Job record, then puts agents to work on it: answer with the source attached, flag a superseded revision, draft the reply. They propose; you stamp. Two agents are in development; more are coming.
Connect. Unify. Act.
Three moves from a stack that won’t talk to itself to one Job record your whole shop can see — with agents working the parts that waste your time.
Connect
AETHER plugs into what your shop already produces — your estimate, your drawing register, the IFC and NC1 files your detailing software exports, your inbox. No rip-and-replace, no new tool to learn.
Unify
AETHER reads what each connected system produces into one verified Job record on one timeline. Open a job and see it together — estimate vs cost, latest IFC, open RFIs, status, the email thread — with every item still pointing back at the document it came from.
Act
Agents do the work on the parts that waste your time. First up: PROCURE turns a material list into supplier RFQs and a side-by-side price comparison. You approve the award.
Steel fabricators run on a stack that refuses to talk to itself.
Every builder brings a different portal.
Procore on one job, Aconex on the next, Trimble Connect on the one after that. Your drafters lose hours every week translating between portals they didn’t choose.
Tekla and Strumis don’t share a project model.
Detailing happens in one tool, the shop floor lives in another. Mill certs, drawings, RFIs, and revisions get reconciled by hand — every week, on every project.
The job outgrows what one person can hold.
As the load grows, the status report becomes a guess. Variations get missed. Risk surfaces from email threads no one had time to read — and the only complete copy of the job lives in one person’s memory.
Two agents in development. Five on the way.
Each agent owns one slice of the work end-to-end. Two are in development with our anchor fabricator today; the rest are on the roadmap, building on the same shared Job record.
Detailing & RFIs. Where it earns its keep.
FORGE watches the drawing register and the job inbox. The moment an RFI lands or a new revision is issued, it reads that revision against the one before it, drafts the reply, cites the drawing and sheet the answer came from, and parks it in your drafter’s approval queue.
This is the first agent we built and one of the two in development with our anchor fabricator. A drafter still approves every action — FORGE just removes the chasing.
Procurement. Which price?
Stop chasing suppliers across inboxes. PROCURE turns a material list into supplier RFQs, collects the quotes, and lays them side by side — best price and lead time highlighted. You approve the award; it prepares the purchase order and links the supplier’s documentation to the Job record.
Pre-sales & quoting.
Reads inbound RFQ emails, pulls drawings and tender specs, drafts a structured quote reply for the estimator to approve.
Dispatch & delivery.
Books trucks against despatch, tracks ETA, reconciles site receipt, and pings the PM the moment a load deviates.
Approvals & handover.
Routes drawings for signature, keeps an immutable audit trail, assembles the final handover pack the day the last member is bolted.
Chain of custody.
Per-member traceability from heat number to erected position. Scan a beam on site, get the cert, the fitter, the inspector, every revision.
PM synthesis.
Reads what every other agent did across the day, composes the brief, drafts the status report for the builder, and surfaces cross-project risk before it bites.
Why it’s different.
Three capabilities generic construction platforms were never designed around.
AS/NZS-native
Built around AS/NZS 5131, AS/NZS 1554, AS/NZS ISO 3834 and AS 4100 — not generic construction software bent to fit. The compliance chain is the spine, not a plugin.
Every action attributable
A time-stamped audit trail and heat-number traceability behind every drafted action — source, proposed action, approver, outcome. Citable evidence at handover: who, what, which revision, which cert.
Fabricator-side
Built for the people making the steel, not the head contractor. Your data, your job record, your approvals — never the builder's portal calling the shots.
Every project gets an AI that knows the project deeply.
Each new project spawns its own assistant. It reads every artifact tied to that job — drawings, emails, RFIs, mill certs, model saves, portal updates — and remembers every decision the team made along the way.
Ask it anything. It answers from the connected project records and shows the evidence it used, so your team can check the result against the source. Lessons from this job compound into the next one.
GL-3/B today.RFI #044open 6 days with the consulting engineer. Blocks the Level 3 release. I drafted a chase — in your queue.- Heat
H-12345mill cert arrived Tuesday. PASSPORT linked 12 t of 350UB to Bay 2. - Variation
VO-09is unpriced. I can have a draft impact note ready before your 2pm call.
Later, agents we haven’t thought of.
One day, a way for a shop to compose its own agent out of the same triggers, record queries and approval steps the shipped agents use.
Not built. What is built is the record underneath — the verified Job graph, the provenance chain, and the approval step every agent has to pass through. That is the part worth getting right first, and it is the part a builder would be worthless without.
Works with what you already run.
What AETHER reads from each source, specifically — not a logo wall. Every row here is something you can do from the app today, on your own, without us.
Adapters for these are written and none of them can be switched on from the app yet — so they are not in the table above. Until they are, the file drop and the imports do the same job with no account to link.
I’m Umut — a structural engineer who’s spent years on the tools in Brisbane steel shops, watching drafters lose half a day to email triage, register-chasing, and copying data between systems that won’t talk to each other.
The work isn’t drafting — it’s being the glue. I built AETHER to take that off the people making the steel. If that’s your shop too, talk to us.
Built alongside one of Queensland’s established 50+ year fabricators.
AETHER isn’t designed in a vacuum. It’s built on a real yard’s real jobs — the RFIs, the revisions, the mill certs, the portals — with the drafters and PMs who live the problem every day. Two agents are in development there now.
Stop letting email run your shop.
We’re onboarding a small group of design partners now — Australian structural steel fabricators who want the agent layer built around their real jobs. Tell us about your shop and we’ll be in touch.
Rather see it against your own job? Book a 30-minute walk-through — bring a live job and its drawings, and ask it whatever you would ask your PM.