Skema

tiered subscription with a free community tier Design the Building

AI-powered generative/schematic design platform for architecture firms that converts a firm's own prior Revit design assemblies into reusable 'Design Catalog' components (puzzle pieces), then arranges and morphs them to fit a new building footprint and unit mix, producing a coordinated, construction-document-ready native Revit BIM model (LOD 300-350) synced bidirectionally back into Revit.

3.6 /5 composite score

Solid (3.6/5) generative-design tool that reuses a firm's own prior Revit designs to auto-generate schematic layouts in minutes, with transparent self-serve pricing from a free tier, but its vendor-claimed API/Grasshopper integration lacks public developer docs.

Solid

Rubric Scorecard

How we grade →

Criterion	Score	Evidence
Value for the price	4/5	tiered subscription with a free community tier, from $199, free tier Source →
Agent Friendliness	2/5	API: vendor's funding announcement claims an 'API-powered architecture with bi-directional integrations (Revit, Grasshopper)', but no public developer API documentation, endpoint reference, or auth model was found
Ease of adoption	4/5	web-saas, moderate learning curve Source →
Portability & lock-in	4/5	2 file formats, export: api Source →
Interoperability	4/5	3 integrations

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Evidence

File formats

Format	Direction	Support
RVT	both	full -- Bidirectional sync with Revit; vendor states no data loss.
IFC	export	full

Integrations

Autodesk Revit (native) Rhino / Grasshopper Miro

Adoption

Deploymentweb-saas

Self-serve signupyes

Implementation requiredoptional

Training requiredtutorials

Learning curvemoderate

Data export

Export mechanismapi

Export scopeper-file

Ecosystem

Plugin marketplaceno

Pricing detail

Billing unitper-seat

Free tier scopeusable

TiersCommunity ($0), Professional ($199), Team Starter Pack ($750), Enterprise

Sources

Pricing Signup Formats

Also covers

Skema also appears in these sub-categories:

BIM Authoring

Extends the same design-reuse engine into coordinated, construction-document-ready Revit output (LOD 300-350) with IFC export, though as a design-stage automation layer rather than a full BIM authoring tool.

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