Empowering your team with Computational BIM
What we do
Paratonic Design helps architecture and engineering businesses enhance your BIM workflows through Computational Design. We don’t just build better tools, we help you train your team to use them and set up the organisational infrastructure to implement them at scale.
What is Computational Design?
Sometimes mistakenly conflated with Visual Programming or seen as only for making fancy geometry, it is so much more than that. Ultimately, it is just about combining design expertise and coding to empower you to take more control of your software. By rethink how digital processes can deliver better outcomes, we automate tedious tasks, improve quality, create new services, and integrate AI into your workflows.
What is Computational BIM?
Computational BIM focuses on making practical improvements for day-to-day BIM processes through automation and better data management. Too often, this work gets neglected because BIM managers are overwhelmed with project firefighting, BIM Execution Plans, training staff and managing standards. Ad-hoc scripting falls apart when it needs to scale. Computational BIM is about doing the strategic systems thinking to make the interface with BIM data more user friendly. Its BIM with a human face!
Blah blah blah something something AI?
AI tools like large language models can help with small coding tasks, but they aren’t a replacement for real expertise. You still need people who can not only write code with AI, but also read it! We give you advice on which off the shelf tools to use, orchestrate the output of LLMs into the big picture, and build our own algorithms for faster more reliable outputs. We help you integrate AI safely and effectively, without relying on “vibe coding.”
Why not just use Revit?
"Revit is the worst BIM software, apart from all of the others."
BIMstan Churchill
Architects and engineers have a love hate relationship with Revit. They are dependant on it like drug addicts, but also resent its technical limitations and license costs. But lets be realistic. Many emerging AEC software systems that promise “BIM 2.0” will not replace it as the dominant software in the market any time soon. By driving Revit from Rhino, we offer you tools which can give you better control of geometry and data without needing to retrain your team for something radically different. Its BIM 1.5: right here, right now.
How we operate
We work in an Agile, collaborative way. Regular check-ins keep projects moving. We test ideas quickly instead of overplanning, so you see results sooner and steer us in the direction you want to.
Why we do it
We cut the bullshit and make AEC work better. Too many architects and engineers are stuck doing endless tedious rework and documentation tasks instead of the creative and scientific work we trained for. The AEC industry is under pressure: tight margins, slow software, and constant rework. We believe Computational BIM is the key to helping companies become more competitive in the age of AI.
How we do it better
Many firms rely on fragile, nightmarishly complicated spaghetti scripts that break or get abandoned or underutilised. Instead, we bury the complexity to keep the interface easy to understand while not wasting time reinventing the wheel. We build tools that are robust, well-documented, and easy for everyone to use, not just the tech enthusiasts. By training your team and streamlining workflows, we help you spend less time wrestling with software and more time designing.
