Architosh published a feature on Kestrel Labs’ launch at the AIA Conference on Architecture and Design 2026 — written by founder and editor-in-chief Anthony Frausto-Robledo, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, himself a licensed architect.
The piece walks through what we built: a compliance platform that runs natively inside BIM, starting in Autodesk Revit, with Trimble Connect live and SketchUp on the way. One click runs a full compliance check in about 30 seconds, every result tied to a model element and cited to the exact code section — alongside Kestrel Compliance Chat and the Kestrel Portal.
But the part that stayed with us is how the article closes — with the bigger reason this matters now:
“What Kestrel is doing is democratizing code compliance knowledge, which is especially meaningful as we enter the crest of the Baby Boomers wave as they retire over the next decade. When they leave, so does decades of hard-earned tacit knowledge about how code compliance works in architecture. Kestrel Labs has arrived just in time for the world of architecture.”
That knowledge cliff is exactly the problem Kestrel was built to meet: keeping decades of code expertise in the model, visible to the whole team, at every phase of design.
Read the full feature on Architosh: AIA26: Kestrel Labs — Native BIM Compliance Platform →
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