🏛️ Keystone

AEC Project & Document Intelligence Platform

Construction documents constantly contradict each other — one spec says 30 MPa concrete, a drawing says 25. Keystone is the lighttable that catches it. It reads across every spec, drawing, and RFI to surface contradictions other tools hide, and maps the blast radius of every revision before it reaches the site.

TypeScript · Next.js 14 · tRPC · Prisma · PostgreSQL + pgvector · Tailwind · Docker · MCP

The idea

Most AEC document tools are passive file cabinets with a search box. On a real project, dozens of people work off the same documents, and two things constantly go wrong:

1. Documents contradict each other and nobody notices until it's expensive.

2. A revision quietly makes other documents stale — and no one gets told.

Generic RAG makes #1 worse: it returns one confident answer from the top-matching chunk, even when another document disagrees. Keystone does two things differently.

1. Conflict-aware RAG

Ask "what concrete strength is required?" and instead of one answer, Keystone retrieves the evidence, clusters the claims, and — if sources disagree — returns the contradiction:

⚠️ Conflict — 03 30 00 (Rev C) says 30 MPa, S-201 (Rev A) says 25 MPa.

In construction, the disagreement is the answer worth knowing.

2. Change-impact graph ("blast radius")

Every document references others (S-201 → "per Spec 03 30 00"). Keystone extracts those references into a dependency graph. Revise one document and it traces the blast radius — every drawing and RFI downstream that just became suspect — and animates it outward from the epicentre.

Both are tractable because AEC documents use rigid identifiers (CSI MasterFormat codes like 03 30 00, sheet numbers like S-201), so reference extraction is deterministic, not guesswork.

Related MCP server: Autodesk Build MCP Server

Stack

Runs with zero API keys — a deterministic local embedder backs the AI layer out of the box. Set OPENAI_API_KEY (or any OpenAI-compatible base URL) to swap in a real provider.

Quick start

npm install
cp .env.example .env          # defaults work for local Docker
npm run db:up                 # Postgres + pgvector in Docker
npm run db:migrate            # create schema
npm run db:seed               # demo project with a planted conflict
npm run dev                   # http://localhost:3000

Sign in with the seeded account: demo@keystone.dev / password123, then open Riverside Hospital — Phase 2.

Features

• Multi-tenant workspaces — organizations, members, role-based access (Owner / Architect / Engineer / Contractor / Client)

• Documents — drawings, specs, and RFIs; chunked, embedded into pgvector, cross-referenced into a graph

• Impact graph — interactive blast-radius visualization; click any document to trace what it affects

• Conflict detection — flags graph-adjacent documents that assert different values for the same unit

• Ask your project — conflict-aware Q&A with citations

• MCP server — exposes project tools (ask_project, search_documents, list_conflicts, …) to any MCP client

MCP

npm run mcp        # stdio server for Claude Desktop / MCP clients
npm run mcp:test   # in-process smoke test

See mcp/README.md for the Claude Desktop config.

Deploy

• CI — .github/workflows/ci.yml runs typecheck, lint, and build on every push.

• Docker — docker build -t keystone . produces a standalone production image.

• DigitalOcean — doctl apps create --spec .do/app.yaml provisions the web service + managed Postgres and runs prisma migrate deploy as a pre-deploy job. (Enable the vector extension on the managed database.)

Project structure

src/
  app/                 # routes: landing, auth, /app dashboard, /app/projects/[id]
  components/          # providers, auth shell, workspace (impact graph, ask, conflicts)
  server/
    routers/           # tRPC routers: auth, projects, documents, conflicts, ai
    services/          # ingest, conflict detection, conflict-aware ask
    lib/               # access control (RBAC)
  lib/                 # db, ai (embeddings + LLM), chunking, reference extraction, claims
prisma/                # schema + seed
mcp/                   # Model Context Protocol server
design/                # the "Lighttable" interactive prototype