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title: "About Atlas AI — The Specialist AEC Chatbot"
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# About Atlas AI

> Atlas AI is a free specialist AEC chatbot purpose-built for architects, planners, and engineers. It is trained on the full NPPF 2023 corpus, London Plan 2021, 40+ urban design frameworks, and 6 sustainability certifications — and it generates SVG diagrams, density tables, and policy citations with legal status.

## Quick Answer

**What makes Atlas AI different from ChatGPT or Claude for architects?** Atlas AI is domain-grounded (no NPPF hallucination), marks legal status of each policy citation (statutory / material / guidance), generates real SVG diagrams, benchmarks density calculations to specific jurisdictions, connects to live site intelligence data, and always cites UK government sources. General-purpose AI chatbots do none of these reliably.

## The Problem Atlas AI Solves

Architects and planners use general AI tools for research and lose hours re-checking outputs. Common failure modes with ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini on AEC questions:

- Hallucinated NPPF paragraph numbers
- Missing legal status on cited policies
- Generic density guidance with no jurisdiction benchmark
- No integration with the actual site being analyzed
- No persistent memory across a project
- No visual outputs (SVG diagrams, shadow studies)

Atlas AI removes all of these by being purpose-built.

## What Atlas AI Knows

### Planning Policy (complete corpus, not snippets)
- **NPPF 2023** — all paragraphs, with weight and legal status
- **London Plan 2021** — every policy (D3, D6, D11, G5, G8, H1, H10, etc.)
- **UK local plans** — via LPA lookup
- **US frameworks** — R/MU/C districts, overlays, TOD, form-based codes
- **UAE regulations** — Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan, Abu Dhabi Plan 2030

### Urban Design Frameworks (40+)
Gehl (Cities for People, 12 Quality Criteria), Jane Jacobs (Death and Life), CABE / Building for Life 12, NACTO Urban Street Design Guide, Project for Public Spaces, TfL Streetscape Guidance, Manual for Streets / MfS2, Healthy Streets Indicators, Active Design (Sport England), Secured by Design, 15-Minute City (Moreno), Transit-Oriented Development (Calthorpe), and 28+ more.

### Sustainability Certifications (6)
BREEAM (Communities, New Construction, In-Use), LEED-ND, WELL Building Standard v2, Passivhaus, NABERS, SKA Rating.

## What Atlas AI Can Generate

- **SVG diagrams** — massing studies, shadow diagrams, walkability radii, access plans, density comparisons
- **Density tables** — FAR/PTAL/dph/units-per-hectare comparisons with jurisdiction benchmarks
- **Policy citations** — paragraph numbers + legal status (statutory / material / guidance)
- **Feasibility calculations** — buildable area under setback + height + FAR rules
- **Precedent comparisons** — similar schemes with references
- **Step-by-step site advice** — e.g., "what should I check on this Shoreditch site before designing?"

## How It Connects To Your Work

If you have an Atlasly site intelligence package open, Atlas AI reads its data layers (flood zones, heritage, ecology, topography, transport, microclimate) into context-aware answers specific to that site. The chat has persistent site memory across sessions.

## Pricing

Atlas AI is **free and unlimited** on the Starter plan. No credit card required. https://atlasly.app/atlas-ai

## Links

- Try Atlas AI: https://atlasly.app/atlas-ai
- Pricing: https://atlasly.app/pricing
- Related blog: https://atlasly.app/blog/atlas-ai-free-architecture-planning-assistant