TT5: There's Gold in Your Meeting Transcripts
June 11, 2026
This weekly email is my curated selection of interesting and useful topics related to BIM, design, and technology. I aim to provide you with some good information and a few laughs along the way. So, what did I find interesting this week? Read down to find out!
I'm breaking format this week. Normally I send you five links from around the web, but enrollment for Claude Workflows for Architects closes Monday, so this issue is five things I've made and written about working with Claude on real project work. The consistent thread running through all of them is the same: AI is moving from something you type questions into and toward something that does actual work on your projects. If even one of these makes you think "I could use that," that's the whole idea behind the course.
#1: I Connected Claude Directly to Revit, Live
Yesterday, I ran a bonus workshop for the Claude Workflows course on wiring Claude straight into Revit through an MCP server. This lets you query and change a model just by asking in Claude. Is it 100%? Well, I asked Claude which walls were missing a fire rating, and the first answer came back as "zero walls," which I didn't believe for a second. A second, more specific prompt sorted it out. That back and forth, a fast first pass plus your judgment to catch what's off, is the entire point. This was a bonus session inside the course, and the kind of thing that happens when you're in the room.
Enrollment closes Monday. See the full course here
#2: Claude Cowork: From Chat Tool to Project Teammate
Most of us use Claude by opening a tab, typing a question, and pasting the answer somewhere. Cowork flips that around. You point it at a project folder and it runs on a schedule or watches for new files, so a submittal can get a first-pass review sitting in your output folder before you've even opened the email. This shift from pulling answers to having work delivered to you is most of what weeks 6 and 7 of the course cover.
Click here to read the full article at ArchSmarter
#3: You Tried AI. It Wasn't Great. Here's Why.
Before a recent workshop, I surveyed 134 AEC professionals about AI. Most had tried it. Most were underwhelmed. The piece digs into why, and the short version is that the output problem is almost always a prompting problem, not a tool problem. If your read on AI is stuck on one disappointing ChatGPT session from a year ago, this is the case for giving it another look.
Click here to read the full article at ArchSmarter
#4: There's Gold in Them Thar Hills
Nobody reads a 90-minute meeting transcript, which is why we throw them away and keep the minutes instead. That used to be the rational move. Nowadays, AI has flipped it. The raw transcript is now the asset, because Claude can mine the 5% that matters out of an hour of crosstalk in seconds. I walk through three tiers of doing it, from skipping the meeting minutes write-up to treating fourteen stakeholder transcripts as primary research data for a building program.
Click here to read the full article at ArchSmarter
#5: I Rebuilt My Twisting Tower Three Times
I've built the same parametric twisting tower three times: once in Dynamo, once as a Launchpad add-in, and finally as a single HTML file. The third version won, and the lesson had nothing to do with towers. It's that what makes a design tool actually good is the speed between changing a number and seeing the result. There's a free download of the HTML tool at the end of the post.
Click here to read the full article at ArchSmarter
That's it for this week. If any of this resonated, Claude Workflows for Architects is the eight-week version where you build these workflows yourself, on your own projects, with me and a room full of other professionals. Enrollment closes Monday, June 15, and we kick off with orientation on Wednesday the 17th.
See everything and enroll here
Michael
P.S. I went on BIM After Dark recently to talk through a lot of this, Claude and Revit, where it works and where it doesn't. Watch it here.
