Pre-design automation
for architectural competitions

Competition intelligence, not guesswork

Upload your competition brief and get structured outputs with source citations — schedules, KPIs, jury research, and area programmes. Built by architects for competitions.

"Replaces 0.5 to 7 days of manual setup work"

Overview Research Design
✓ Analysed Export ZIP

National Cultural Centre

International Design Competition · 2026

Registration

15 Mar 2026 · p.4

Q&A Closes

02 Apr 2026 · p.7

Submission

28 May 2026 · p.12

Results

30 Jul 2026 · p.18

Architectural Quality Direct · p.12
Sustainability Inferred · p.8
Contextual Sensitivity Direct · p.13
Public Accessibility Inferred · p.9

Submission deadline falls on a Sunday. Verify against official brief.

Main Auditorium 1,800 m²
Gallery Space 950 m²
Foyer / Circulation 620 m²
Restaurant 340 m²
Total GIA 5,200 m²

Source: Brief pp. 14–17 · 12 spaces extracted

15min

Brief to project folder

10

Parallel extractions

8–20hrs

Saved per competition

40+

Languages supported

Three steps to structured outputs

1

Upload

Drop your brief — PDF, Word, Excel, or images. Up to 5 files, 200 MB each.

"Takes 5 seconds"

2

Analyse

AI extracts schedules, areas, KPIs, jury, deliverables, and research in parallel.

"Takes 5–10 minutes"

3

Download

Review outputs in browser, then download Excel files, Gantt charts, and Word dossiers.

"One-click ZIP export"

What you get

Every output structured, cited, and ready to use

Project Schedule

Key dates extracted with page references. Interactive Gantt chart with drag-and-drop editing. Downloadable as Excel with milestones, consultant dates, and review dates.

Area Programme

Spatial requirements extracted into structured tables. Treemap visualisation and force-directed network graph show relationships between spaces. Downloadable as Excel.

Jury Research & Dossier

Jury members identified from your brief via web search. Background summaries, notable projects, portfolio images, and strategic recommendations. Downloadable as Word.

KPIs & Evaluation Criteria

Evaluation criteria extracted with direct quotes and page numbers. Labelled "Direct" (stated) or "Inferred" (implied). Downloadable as Excel with source citations.

Deliverables & Drawing List

All required submissions extracted and categorised. Drawing list includes scales and formats. Separate Excel files for deliverables checklist and drawings.

Research Reports

Four parallel research studies: precedent projects, context/vernacular, technology, and visual moodboard. Real images from the web. Downloadable as Word with grids.

Every output cites its source

Unlike generic AI tools, Lorm provides verifiable outputs you can check against your brief.

Direct quotes from your brief
Page numbers and source documents
"Direct" vs "Inferred" labels on all KPIs
Source URLs for jury and research findings
Quality warnings for scheduling conflicts or weekend dates

Your brief is processed once and not stored. Files are deleted after your session ends. GDPR-compliant.

Built for architects who need transparency — not black-box AI predictions.

Architectural Quality & Innovation

Direct

"The jury will evaluate proposals on the basis of architectural quality, innovation, and contextual sensitivity…"

Source: Brief p. 12 · Evaluation Criteria section

Sustainability & Environmental Impact

Inferred

Implied from BREEAM requirement on p. 8 and net-zero carbon target referenced on p. 15.

Source: Brief pp. 8, 15 · Technical Requirements

Submission deadline falls on a Sunday (28 Sep 2026). Verify against official brief — likely the preceding Friday.

"Can't I just use ChatGPT?"

You can. Here's what you'll miss.

ChatGPT / Claude Lorm
Output format Text in chat window Excel, Word, interactive Gantt, ZIP
Source citations Sometimes Page numbers + direct quotes
Jury research with photos No image download Portraits + project images
Analyses per session 1 prompt at a time 10 in parallel (Analyse All)
Architecture-specific Generic prompts 25 optimised prompts
Cost for 2 competitions/year £240/year subscription £200 total (pay only when you compete)

Before Lorm vs. After Lorm

Without Lorm

📋

Read 100+ page brief manually

📊

Build Excel schedule from scratch

4–8 hours

🔍

Google jury members one by one

2–4 hours

📐

Extract areas into spreadsheet

2–3 hours

Create deliverables checklist

1–2 hours

🔬

Research precedents and context

3–6 hours

Total: 0.5 to 7 days

Save 8–20 hours per competition.
Spend your time designing, not administrating.

Built by architects, for architects

Built by a practising architect

Created by an architect who competes regularly and knows the pain of manual brief analysis.

Powered by Google Gemini

Uses Google's latest language models with web search grounding for jury research and precedents.

Any architectural competition

Supports 40+ languages. GDPR-compliant. Tested on briefs from the UK, Europe, North America, and beyond.

50+ competition briefs processed

Active beta testing with architects worldwide. Growing library of analysed briefs and verified outputs.

Built for every competition scale

From local open calls to international invited competitions

Small / Local

1–5 person team · 10–30 competitors

School, kindergarten, community centre. You'd normally build a Gantt chart in Excel over an afternoon. Lorm does it in minutes.

Saves half a day

Large / International

20–50 people · Invited competitions

Airport, museum, masterplan. 100+ page briefs, massive coordination. The tool gives your team a structured starting point in the first hour instead of the first week.

Saves 5–7 days

Buy tokens, use them when you compete

Overview dashboard is always free. Use tokens for deep research and downloads.

No subscription. Tokens valid for 12 months. Rollover on refill.

Free (0 tokens): Overview dashboard — project info, area programme, deliverables, and milestones. Viewable in your browser for 24 hours.

What tokens unlock: Jury research & dossier, research reports, client & site background (5 tokens) + schedule generation & KPI analysis (4 tokens). A full analysis run uses 9 tokens.

Starter

£50

12 tokens

  • ~1 full analysis run
  • Or mix and match modules
  • Great for trying Lorm
Get 12 tokens — £50

Professional

£450

125 tokens · 10% off

  • ~13 full analysis runs
  • For busy practices
  • Priority email support
Get 125 tokens — £450

Studio

£800

250 tokens · 20% off

  • ~26 full analysis runs
  • For large studios
  • Priority email support
Get 250 tokens — £800

Competitions are irregular. Buy tokens once, use them across multiple competitions. No monthly fees you'll forget to cancel.

Frequently asked questions

PDF, DOCX, TXT, HTML, Markdown, XLSX, CSV, PPTX, and images (PNG, JPG, JPEG, WEBP, GIF). Upload up to 5 files per brief, 200 MB per file.

5–10 minutes for full analysis. Schedule and areas extract in 2–3 minutes. Jury research and reports take 5–10 minutes due to web search. Progress updates stream in real-time.

No. Briefs are uploaded to Google's servers for analysis, then deleted. Outputs are available for 24 hours, then removed. We do not store your competition data.

The overview dashboard (project info, area programme, deliverables, milestones) is always free. Tokens unlock two module groups: Research (5 tokens) covers jury dossier, research reports, and client/site background. Schedule & KPI (4 tokens) covers schedule generation and evaluation criteria. A full analysis run uses 9 tokens. You can run modules independently or together.

Yes. The Research group (5 tokens) and Schedule & KPI group (4 tokens) can be purchased independently. You can also re-run individual modules for 1–3 tokens instead of repeating the full 9-token analysis.

We offer refunds if the extraction is significantly incomplete or incorrect. Minor inaccuracies that require refinement are expected — outputs are starting points, not final deliverables.

Yes. Briefs are processed via Google Gemini (GDPR-compliant infrastructure). We don't store competition data. Downloaded files are yours to keep. No personal data beyond basic anonymous analytics.

Tokens are valid for 12 months from purchase. If you buy a new token pack before they expire, your remaining balance rolls over with a fresh 12-month window. Larger packs (Professional and Studio) include volume discounts of 10–20%.

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