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GPT-6 Astra Scores 92% on Architectural Drawings: What Does It Mean for AI Takeoffs?

We ran eleven multimodal AI models over 119 architectural drawing pages and 1,430 hand-labelled objects. GPT-6 Astra scored 92% F1, up from 62% in August.

September 9, 2026

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How Accurate Is AI at Reading Architectural Drawings? Benchmark Results for 6 AI Models. Part 2

We ran six multimodal AI models over 119 architectural drawing pages and 1,430 hand-labelled objects. Qwen3.8-Max led at 62% F1 — but what you ask the model to find matters more than which model you pick. Volodymyr Hresko 8/28/26

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How Accurate Is AI at Reading Architectural Drawings? A Benchmark of 6 AI Models. Part 1

Multimodal models can find many casework objects on architectural drawings, but accuracy swings with object type, drawing resolution, and workflow — and how you apply the model matters more than which one you pick. Volodymyr Hresko 8/20/26

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6 Questions About AI Takeoffs for Casework Shops

You’re about to spend significant money and management attention on an AI system. Whether it succeeds or becomes expensive technical debt depends almost entirely on what you nail down in the first few meetings. Here are six questions that expose… Volodymyr Hresko 6/22/26

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From 6 Hours to 10 Minutes: How AI Transformed Estimating at the Largest U.S. Casework Factory

One of largest U.S. manufacturer of commercial cabinetry operates a highly automated factory: CNC machines, automated material handling, and robotics. One stage of the workflow was slowing down the overall process – estimating. Each estimate took the team two to… Volodymyr Hresko 6/8/26

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COXIT Newsletter Mar 18, 2025

March 2025: How COXIT Transformed Estimation at Stevens Industries

Stevens Industries' Continuous Improvement Manager on what changed when AI started reading their architectural drawings, and why pre-estimating that took 2 to… Volodymyr Hresko

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Evaluating RAG using LLM-as-a-Judge Independent Evaluation, Automatic Insights Collection

Evaluating RAG using LLM-as-a-Judge Independent Evaluation, Automatic Insights Collection

The entire approach is open-sourced and is accessible as a GitHub repository. Evaluation? Why RAG output still needs checking In my latest article, “Chatting with Large PDFs,” I discussed the technical aspects of implementing a RAG for your PDFs to… Valerii Verezhynskyi 6/19/25

Chatting with Large PDFs (100–500 Pages): Using RAG with OpenAI Embeddings (Local vs. API)

Chatting with Large PDFs (100–500 Pages): Using RAG with OpenAI Embeddings (Local vs. API)

At COXIT, in 2025, we observe a trend when more and more potential customers ask us to implement a way to chat with massive documents or even sets of documents, search information in them, and perform an analysis dynamically. Those… Valerii Verezhynskyi 5/31/25

How to set up monitoring of CPU and memory usage for C++ multithreaded application with Prometheus, Grafana, and Process Exporter

How to set up monitoring of CPU and memory usage for C++ multithreaded application with Prometheus, Grafana, and Process Exporter

Have you ever wondered how to know how much CPU and memory resources is your app taking during a week? Or how to collect and visualize this data to get some useful insights? In this guide, I will show you… Iryna Mykytyn 5/23/25

How To Integrate Valgrind into GitHub Actions?

How To Integrate Valgrind into GitHub Actions?

Have you ever got into the situation that after you fixed memory leaks with Valgrind you see Definitely lost again after a while? Then this CI setup may be useful for you. You can do it in 3 steps: These steps are… Iryna Mykytyn 5/14/25

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