Built by a designer who's done the work.
I'm Seb. I've spent close to a decade in AEC drafting — nine years in hydraulic, and recently moved into mechanical. BesiaBIM is the company I started to build the tools I always wished existed: small, reliable, one-click tools that kill the repetitive work — built by someone who's actually sat in the seat, not a shop that solves the problem on the brochure instead of the one in the room.
Different discipline, different firm — completely familiar problem: the same repetitive tasks are everywhere. Stamping the same fields across a title block, sheet after sheet. Setting up the same views on every new level. Re-checking a model the night before issue because something always slips. None of it hard. All of it slow. And every drafting team has its own version of the list — too fiddly to outsource, too repetitive to keep doing by hand, and somehow never quite worth a big software company's time to fix.
The tools that did exist were usually built by people who'd never been the one staying back to finish the boring part. You could tell — they solved the problem on the brochure, not the one in the room. So I started BesiaBIM to build the other kind. The idea is simple: tell us the task your team keeps doing by hand, and we build a small, reliable tool around it. One click instead of an afternoon, a predictable result every time — the kind of thing you can hand to someone new without a half-day training session.
The part I'm most excited about goes further than the drawings. Drafting teams sit on a huge amount of structured data that never leaves the model, and most of it stays locked away because pulling it out by hand is too slow for an already-stretched team. The real opportunity is turning that drafting work into something the whole company can use — counts, schedules, reports, automated checks — so the team isn't just producing sheets, it's producing value the rest of the business actually needs.
And deliberately not “AI chat bolted onto Revit.” When you're issuing a model you don't want to negotiate with a chatbot — you want a button you can trust to do the same correct thing on every project. We're early, and there's a lot to build, but the first tools are shipping, and I'd rather share the journey than wait for a polished launch moment. If your team has a task that makes everyone groan when it lands on their desk — or data trapped in the model the business keeps asking for — I'd genuinely like to hear it.
Based in South Australia. Independent of Autodesk.