Cloud platform for building and sharing generative building-design functions.
Why we recommend it
It lets a practice encode its own design logic as reusable functions, so expertise compounds across projects rather than living in one person's file.
Strengths
- Encodes practice knowledge as reusable logic
- Cloud-based collaboration
- Free tier available
Drawbacks
- Requires computational thinking
- Small ecosystem
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