Arcol
Browser-based collaborative design platform with embedded construction intelligence
Cloud-native platform that integrates massing, floorplans, metrics, estimating, and documentation in a single shared model. Enables real-time multiplayer collaboration on architectural design while keeping all decisions constructible through embedded feasibility analysis.
- Pricing
- contact the vendor
- Alternatives
- Zenesis, Skema for SketchUp, BIMIT
- Who it's for
- Architecture, Engineering
Why This Tool Exists
Architects and designers work with fragmented, disconnected tools that slow collaboration and creativity. Teams manually create metrics, cost estimates, and documentation repeatedly as designs evolve across different software. Exporting between tools requires constant rework, and there is no single source of truth for design decisions and their cost/feasibility implications. Version control chaos and legacy software impede real-time team collaboration.
Web-based platform that keeps all design information—massing, floorplans, metrics, estimates, and documentation—synchronized in a single model. Real-time multiplayer collaboration enables simultaneous work with instant feedback. Embedded construction intelligence automatically calculates costs and feasibility, flagging issues early. Planned integrations with tools like Rhino allow designs to flow between applications without rework.
How You Use It
Data Transparency
Exactly what this tool uses and how
API documentation in development; contact vendor for accessUse Cases
- ·Real-time architectural design collaboration across distributed teams
- ·Rapid design iteration with automatic cost and feasibility feedback
- ·Site design and massing studies with instant metric updates
- ·Integrated floorplan development and space planning
- ·Design presentation board creation with linked data
- ·Feasibility assessment of design options before detailed development
Pricing
Sources & Research NotesResearch date: 2026-04-03
- https://arcol.io
- https://arcol.io/about
- https://arcol.io/blog/launch-announcement-june-2025
- https://arcol.io/customer-stories
- https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/arcol-7292
- https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/17/arcol-aims-to-do-for-building-design-what-figma-did-for-ui-design/
- https://www.aecplustech.com/tools/arcol
- https://www.engineering.com/arcol-launches-collaborative-and-web-based-building-design-platform/
- https://aecmag.com/bim/arcol-unleashed-bim-2-0/
- https://architosh.com/2026/01/a-new-center-of-gravity-arcol-is-rebuilding-architectural-authoring/
- https://liveblocks.io/blog/revolutionizing-the-aec-industry-how-arcol-used-liveblocks-to-create-a-figma-like-experience-for-bim
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