AI has made design teams faster at producing: more images, more options, more variations to review. But output was never really the bottleneck. Projects slow down when decisions slow down, and a stack of new tools doesn't fix that on its own. In many firms, it makes things worse. Ideas generated in one tool get rebuilt by hand in another. Static renderings pile up in folders nobody connects back to the model. Designers test out new AI tools on their own while leadership has little visibility into what's being used or whether it's helping.
This session takes a hard look at where projects really lose momentum, from early feasibility through client approval, and what firms are doing to get it back. We'll share patterns we're seeing across AEC firms, give you a simple way to gauge whether your current workflow is pushing projects forward or just keeping people busy, and get into the questions design teams should be asking before the next AI tool gets added to the pile.