Can we use Nolliworks without AI?

Yes. Everything works without it. The parts that use AI, such as the AI chat and asking a job a question, can be switched off under Settings like any other part.

Where do the AI’s answers come from?

Only from the job’s own record, with every point traced back to its source, so you can check it.

Can AI change a job’s record on its own?

No. What it suggests waits in the job’s inbox until someone confirms it, changes it, or lets it go.

AI ready… but only when you are.

Most architects have tried an AI tool by now, and most have the same worries about it: that it will be confidently wrong, that client information will go somewhere it should not, and that nobody will be able to say where an answer came from when it matters.

Those are the right worries. They are worries about records more than about AI.

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In order first

Nolliworks does everything a practice needs without AI: jobs, drawings, site notes, letters, fees and time, each in its place and shared with the people who need them. The parts that use AI can be switched off like any other part, and nothing else changes.

Because each job is kept as structured data, its decisions, constraints, people, drawings and documents and how each connects to the rest, it is ready for AI whenever you are.

Answers from the job’s own record

Ask a job a question, the way you would ask someone who was there, and the answer comes only from its record, every point resting on something you can follow back to its source. What you asked stays on your screen, and nowhere else.

Nothing reaches the record unseen

Letters, emails and the minutes of a meeting arrive a little at a time. Nolliworks reads each one, and what it suggests waits in the job’s inbox beside the words it came from. Nothing reaches the record until someone has looked, and confirmed it, changed it, or let it go.

The same holds for the day book, where a few lines at the end of the day are read back as things worth keeping, and for the specification, where AI can make a first pass for an architect to confirm or change.

In the small print

The AI chat, and asking a job, switched off like any other part
Answers cite the job’s own record, not the internet
Suggestions wait beside the words they came from
What the practice keeps is private by default, enforced by the database itself

Questions practices ask

Can we use Nolliworks without AI?: Yes. Everything works without it. The parts that use AI, such as the AI chat and asking a job a question, can be switched off under Settings like any other part.
Where do the AI’s answers come from?: Only from the job’s own record, with every point traced back to its source, so you can check it.
Can AI change a job’s record on its own?: No. What it suggests waits in the job’s inbox until someone confirms it, changes it, or lets it go.