Chaos acquires architectural AI tools developer EvolveLAB
Originally posted on 20 February 2025, and updated on 24 February with more details.
Chaos has acquired architectural tools developer EvolveLAB. The financial terms of the deal have not been announced.
The firms have not confirmed whether there will be any price changes to EvolveLAB’s tools, which include AI ideation and visualization app Veras, but all will remain standalone products.
EvolveLAB: workflow add-ons and AI ideation tools for Revit and other architectural apps
Founded in 2015, EvolveLAB develops workflow tools for architectural design and BIM software: primarily Revit, but also AutoCAD, Rhino and SketchUp.
Its flagship application, Veras, is a generative AI-powered tool, available as an add-on for Revit, Rhino, SketchUp and VectorWorks, and as a web app.
It generates AI images of buildings, primarily for the ideation phases of architectural design.
EvolveLAB’s other products include Revit add-ons Morphis, for generative design, and Glyph, for documentation; plus Helix, which converts AutoCAD and SketchUp files to Revit components.
Veras: a natural fit for Enscape users?
Chaos has now acquired all of EvolveLAB’s tools, and all of its staff, including EvolveLAB founder and CEO Bill Allen and CTO Ben Guler.
Of the new tools, the one with the most obvious fit to Chaos’s own software is Veras: the announcement gives examples of architectural practices using Veras for ideation, and Enscape, Chaos’s real-time renderer, for final rendering.
According to Chaos’s FAQs on the buyout, “In the future, we will look to integrate Veras and Enscape for even faster iteration cycles.”
Chaos previously previewed its own work-in-progress AI technologies, announcing them last year under the banner Chaos Next, although it has since removed that page from its website.
Chaos told us that all of the technologies it listed are still in development, and the two firms will now “work together to explore ways to integrate products and accelerate our AI roadmaps”.
What does the buyout mean for users of EvolveLAB and Chaos’s other software?
EvolveLAB’s other products are much further from Chaos’s existing software, which is focused far more on visualization than design, and includes the V-Ray, Corona and Vantage renderers.
Veras is currently the only EvolveLAB app listed in the All Products section of Chaos’s website.
However, the FAQs on the acquisition say that “all products will remain available as standalone offerings”. Chaos told us that it will continue to develop Glyph, Helix and Morphis.
The FAQs don’t say whether the cost of the products will change, but note that Chaos is “exploring options to combine the EvolveLAB and Chaos offerings at an attractive price”.
Read Chaos’s announcement that it has acquired EvolveLAB
Read Chaos’s FAQs on the buyout (at the foot of the page)
Read EvolveLAB’s own announcement
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