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

C1 4/5 reflects the free community tier plus self-serve paid tiers, C4 4/5 reflects RVT round-trip and IFC export, and C5 4/5 reflects the Revit, Grasshopper, and Miro integration set. C2 2/5 reflects the absence of public developer docs for the vendor-claimed API surface.

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

Pricing

Modeltiered subscription with a free community tier

Entry price$199

Free tieryes

Trialyes

Billing unitper-seat

Free tier scopeusable

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

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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

Sources

Pricing Signup Formats

Also covers

Skema also appears in these sub-categories:

BIM Authoring

The BIM-authoring placement is limited to Revit-based schematic-to-LOD 300-350 output rather than a standalone authoring environment. C4 4/5 reflects RVT round-trip plus IFC export, and C5 4/5 reflects the Revit and Grasshopper integration set.

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