IES Intelligence

Natural-language engineering for IES programs—build, investigate, and iterate using conversational prompts.

Talk like an engineer. Let the program work.

Just 30 minutes per month
of time savings can be enough for the subscription to pay for itself.
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IES Intelligence is built into supported IES programs.

No separate installation is required. Try 100 free prompts, then continue with an IES Intelligence add-on subscription.

100
Free Prompts
25
Per Day
Available Now in VisualFoundation 14
VisualAnalysis and additional IES programs are planned for later in 2026.
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Work with your model conversationally
You describe the task. IES Intelligence builds, investigates, and iterates.
You Create a 4 ft by 4 ft footing, add a 15 in square pier at the center, and apply 10 kips of dead load and 15 kips of live load.
IES Intelligence The footing and pier have been created, and the loads have been applied.
You What is controlling the design?
IES Intelligence Bearing pressure controls the design, with a unity value of 1.71 for load case D+L.
You Optimize the footing. Increase both dimensions in 0.5 ft increments until the bearing check passes.
IES Intelligence I tested 4.5 ft, 5.0 ft, and 5.5 ft square footings, rerunning the analysis and checking the bearing unity after each revision: 1.38, 1.15, and 0.97. The first passing design is the 5.5 ft square footing.
Open the bearing pressure report

Example prompts are illustrative. Available actions depend on the supported IES program and the current model.

Build & Modify

Create and revise model information using familiar engineering language.

  • Create model objects and geometry
  • Apply loads and update properties
  • Make targeted model revisions

The only learning curve left is the engineering.

Analyze & Design

Understand analysis and design results and perform engineer-directed design iterations.

  • Identify critical analysis results
  • Review governing design results and combinations
  • Perform engineer-directed design iterations

Bump the thickness, re-run, check the unity, repeat — now the loop is a sentence.

Investigate & Report

Ask focused questions and quickly access the information you need.

  • Explain why an item passes or fails
  • Open relevant results and help topics
  • Generate and summarize reports

From FAIL to why in one question.

AI drives. IES calculates. You decide.

The same trusted IES calculations. The analysis is the same IES finite-element engine — moments, shears, displacements, and bearing pressures are calculated by the program, never by AI. The design checks are the same validated IES checks — whether an element passes or fails is decided by the program, never by AI. And results appear in the same IES reports, so you review and verify your design exactly as you always have.

Your work stays confidential. Your project files never leave your machine — IES Intelligence works from your requests and a compact text description of the model, sent encrypted through IES’s own service. Your data is not used to train AI models.

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