Kestrel Labs

contact-sales (annual firm-wide licensing, no per-seat fees; charter rates available) Engineer & Analyze

AI code-compliance platform natively embedded inside Autodesk Revit (and SketchUp, coming soon), launched June 2026 at AIA'26. Single-click full-project compliance check in ~30 seconds: every flagged result is tied to a specific Revit model element and cited to the exact ICC code section via a formal data agreement with the International Code Council. Modules: Compliance Analysis (in-model element-level flagging), Compliance Chat (AI code assistant in Revit and web), and Kestrel Portal (web dashboard for non-BIM stakeholders). Also available on Autodesk Design & Make Marketplace and Trimble Connect Marketplace. Denver CO startup, $2.15M pre-seed (New Stack Ventures, FirstMile Ventures).

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2.4 /5 composite score

Highest-precision BIM-native compliance checker available as of 2026 -- Revit-native with exact ICC section citations per flagged element and a formal ICC data agreement, but launched June 2026 (very early), no public API/CLI (RF2), and annual firm-wide pricing is entirely quote-only (RF1); evaluate once pricing stabilizes and a charter customer base is established.

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Rubric Scorecard

How we grade →

Criterion	Score	Evidence
Value for the price	5/5	contact-sales (annual firm-wide licensing, no per-seat fees; charter rates available)
Agent Friendliness	1/5	API: none
Ease of adoption	1/5	--
Portability & lock-in	2/5	1 file formats Source →
Interoperability	3/5	3 integrations

Pricing

Modelcontact-sales (annual firm-wide licensing, no per-seat fees; charter rates available)

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Evidence

File formats

Format	Direction	Support
RVT	native	full -- Compliance analysis runs natively inside Revit models.

Integrations

Revit (native) Autodesk Design & Make Marketplace (native) Trimble Connect (native)

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Formats

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