The agent layerfor structural steel.
AETHER connects the tools you already run — Tekla, STRUMIS, Procore, your schedule, your inbox — into one Job record, then puts agents to work on the parts that waste your time. Two agents are live today; 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 the systems you already run — your estimate, your Tekla model, your drawings, your inbox. No rip-and-replace, no new tool to learn.
Unify
Every system writes onto one Job record with one timeline. Open a job and get everything — estimate vs cost, latest IFC, open RFIs, status, the email thread — on one screen.
Act
Agents do the work on the parts that waste your time. First up: the Procurement Operator 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 tier-1 builder mandates 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.
PMs can only hold five projects in their head.
Past five, things start slipping. The status report becomes a guess. Variations get missed. Risk surfaces from email threads no one had time to read.
Two agents live. Five on the way.
Each agent owns one slice of the work end-to-end. Two are in production 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 Tekla model and the drawing register. The moment an RFI lands or a revision drops, it pulls the latest model save, compares it to the previous revision, drafts the reply or the markup, and parks it in your drafter’s approval queue.
This is the first agent we built and one of the two in production with our anchor fabricator. A drafter still approves every action — FORGE just removes the chasing.
Procurement. Which price?
Stop chasing suppliers across inboxes. The Procurement Operator 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 raises the PO and files the mill cert.
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 things generic construction software can’t retrofit.
AS/NZS-native
Built around AS/NZS 5131, 1554, 3834 and AS 4100 — not generic construction software bent to fit. The compliance chain is the spine, not a plugin.
Every action attributable
A sealed audit trail and heat-number traceability behind every drafted action. 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 with the actual project state, not a hallucination. Lessons from this job compound into the next one.
GL-3/B today.RFI #044open 6 days at Bornhorst & Ward. 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.
Or build agents we haven’t thought of.
A no-code builder. Connect any system you already pay for, chain triggers and actions, and ship an agent that does the thing your shop does that nobody else’s does.
Every custom agent runs on the same audited model context as the agents we ship. Same memory. Same approvals. Same per-tenant isolation.
Works with what you already run.
What AETHER reads and does on each platform, specifically — not a logo wall. Two agents act on these today; the rest read and 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 production 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.