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Mar 3, 20265 min readAfrasayab MahsudProduct

Introducing ConGro AI v0.1 — the World's First Functioning AI Agent for Structural Engineering

After eight months and a Long Video Compressed File of build footage, the project finally has a name. ConGro AI v0.1 is the first ConGro-branded version of the structural-engineering AI agent — built on lessons from the SAP 2000 MCP prototype, the CSIChat experiment, and a custom framework that replaces all of it.

Introducing ConGro AI v0.1 — the world's first functioning AI agent for structural engineering. It took some time. I just got it from a Long Video Compressed File of demo footage to a working tool you can actually point at a real ETABS session.

It took 8 months from the first SAP 2000 MCP prototype I posted about last July. Now it is officially available — limited release for now, broader access coming.

A modes-of-operation primer

ConGro AI v0.1 ships with a small set of operating modes that you can mix and match per session:

  • Chat — Talk to your model directly
  • Discussion — Research across codes and standards
  • Assist — AI-driven script execution against the live engineering session
  • Create — Describe a building, watch it get built

What is inside

Powered by world-class AI models working together — researching codes, generating design reports, writing scripts, executing them, and self-correcting when something goes wrong. All autonomously. You can chip in for more accuracy and control; after all, its meant to assist engineers and even the curious mind out there as well.

No more Context limitations

Best part, I do not have to abide by the limitations of MCP tools. It is way past that.

Code-compliant. Self-healing. Real engineering output.

When the AI generates a script and that script errors out in ETABS, the agent reads the log, identifies the problem, rewrites the script, and re-runs. The human stays in the loop as a reviewer, not a debugger. That is the core of what makes this feel different from a chatbot stapled onto an engineering tool.

Currently working with ETABS, more integrations on the way

ETABS is the launch product. Revit, CSiBridge, STAAD, RAM, Robot Structural Analysis, Civil 3D, Advance Steel, PLAXIS, and Tekla Structures are all on the roadmap. The CSI family comes first because the OAPI surface area we already built carries across.

Thanks

Computers and Structures, Inc. — thanks for the OAPI. Anthropic — thanks for the model side. Everyone who responded to the earlier MCP-prototype posts and pushed me to keep going — thanks for the encouragement. The next post will be about how the public launch goes.

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