When Deadlines Are Tight, Your Desktops Shouldn't Be the Bottleneck
GPU-accelerated virtual desktops engineered for architects, engineers, and AEC firms — not stitched together from a hyperscaler's parts catalog.
Your designers shouldn't wait 40 seconds for a Revit model to open. Your project leads shouldn't fight a VPN to review a site walkthrough. And your firm shouldn't be on a status page wondering when a region-wide AWS outage will end.
With IntelliData Architecture VDI, you get:
- Revit, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Navisworks, and Bluebeam streaming at workstation speed — from the office, a hotel, or a job site trailer
- A named U.S.-based engineer who knows your stack, your plug-ins, and your project calendar
- Flat monthly pricing with firewalls, backups, and unlimited bandwidth included — no egress surprises, no "add-on" security SKUs
- A SOC 2 Type 2-examined hosting platform, conducted by an independent third-party auditor, covering all five Trust Services Categories — architected for HIPAA-aligned workloads (BAA available)
Book a 30-Minute Infrastructure Review → Talk to a real engineer — not a sales bot.
The Cloud You're On Wasn't Built for the Way Architects Actually Work
October 2025 was a rough month to depend on a hyperscaler. AWS suffered a multi-hour US-East-1 outage on October 20 caused by a DNS race condition in DynamoDB — taking down Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Coinbase, and thousands of business applications with it. Nine days later, Microsoft Azure went down for more than eight hours after what Microsoft described as a faulty tenant configuration deployment, grounding Alaska Airlines flights for the third time in 2025. A few weeks later, Cloudflare went down and took X, ChatGPT, and roughly 40 million live websites with it.
Different vendors. Different root causes. Same lesson: when a hyperscale region fails, you fail with it — and there's no one to call who knows your name.
That's not the only thing AEC firms struggle with on big-box cloud:
- Workstations that sit idle in the office while teams are on a site visit — or on the couch
- VPNs that turn a 200 MB Revit central file into a 20-minute headache
- Surprise egress, storage tier, and "premium support" fees that wreck project margins
- Ticket queues and offshore chatbots when a deadline is on the line
- Shared-tenancy GPUs that throttle right when your render is due
You didn't go into architecture to manage a cloud SKU catalog. You went into it to design buildings.
The IntelliData Difference, in One Table
| Axis | AWS / Azure | IntelliData Architecture VDI |
|---|---|---|
| Support | Ticket queues, tiered escalation, offshore chatbots | A named engineer who knows your firm, your plug-ins, your projects |
| Pricing | Variable, egress fees, surprise bills | Flat monthly fee per seat — firewall, backups, bandwidth included |
| Performance | Shared tenancy, throttled bandwidth, noisy-neighbor degradation | Dedicated GPU, all-SSD storage, unlimited bandwidth |
| Compliance | DIY shared-responsibility model — your problem to figure out | SOC 2 Type 2-examined across all five Trust Services Categories; HIPAA BAA available; architected for HIPAA-aligned environments |
| Outages | Region-wide cascades (see Oct. 20 and Oct. 29, 2025) | Smaller blast radius, faster recovery, a human on the phone — Level 5 response target under 1 business hour per SLA |
| Relationship | You are an account number | You are a partner |
The Hidden Hours audit
Two minutes. Five questions. One number you can take into your next partner meeting.
We won't ask for your email until after you see your numbers.
[Interactive audit interface - coming soon]
A Fully Managed VDI Platform — Designed for the Way AEC Firms Actually Run
👥 Human-Driven Technology
Real engineers, in the U.S., who learn your environment and stay on your account. No chatbots. No "Tier 1 will escalate to Tier 2." When a Level 5 issue — one that stops your team from working — hits our ticketing system, our SLA targets a response in less than 1 business hour. Level 4 (significant productivity loss): less than 2 business hours. (Full response tiers documented in our SLA — available on request.)
⚡ Performance-Obsessed Infrastructure
NVIDIA® GPU-backed virtual desktops. All-SSD storage. Unlimited bandwidth — no throttling, no "data transfer out" line items. Tuned specifically for Revit central files, large Civil 3D drawings, Navisworks coordination, and rendering workflows.
💰 Transparent Pricing
A flat monthly fee per seat, tiered by GPU/CPU/RAM. Firewalling, daily backups, MFA, monitoring, and bandwidth are included — not bolt-ons. You can quote a project and know your infrastructure cost. Imagine that.
🔒 Compliance by Design
Our hosting platform completed a SOC 2 Type 2 examination, conducted by an independent third-party auditor, covering all five Trust Services Categories: Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy. The platform is also architected for HIPAA-aligned workloads (BAA available) — including the documentation depth FDA-regulated and DoD supply-chain firms need for their own audits.
🤝 Proactive Partnership
We don't wait for tickets. We monitor performance, watch capacity, and call you before a project ramp turns into a slowdown. Quarterly reviews align your VDI configuration to what your project pipeline actually looks like next quarter — not last quarter.
How We Move You from Aging Workstations to a Cloud That Just Works
1. Assess & Design (Week 1–2) — We sit down with your IT lead and design principals. We map your actual toolset — Revit versions, plug-ins, Enscape, Bluebeam Revu, Civil 3D, BIM 360, whatever you live in. We size GPU/CPU tiers per role: drafter, designer, BIM lead, principal.
2. Build & Migrate (Week 3–6) — Our engineers build your environment in our SOC 2-audited hosting platform, configure golden images, and integrate with Microsoft 365 (or your identity provider). We pilot with one team first. We don't move 70 people on day one — that's how migrations get a bad name.
3. Go Live & Optimize (Ongoing) — Your team launches their virtual desktop from any approved device — laptop, thin client, iPad on a job site. We monitor. We tune. We adjust as new projects ramp up. You design buildings. We handle the cloud.
How a 70-Person Architecture Firm Replaced Workstations Without Replacing Their IT Lead
A growing AEC firm with offices in two states was stuck: aging workstations, a VPN that buckled under Revit central files, and an internal IT lead drowning in tickets. A hyperscaler VDI trial gave them unpredictable monthly bills and a support model that escalated three times before answering a basic question about GPU allocation.
We rebuilt their environment on IntelliData Architecture VDI:
- Three standardized seat tiers — Design & Drafting, Advanced BIM, and Power User — matched to actual roles
- Centralized project data accessible securely from any office, any home, any site
- A named onboarding engineer through go-live, then a proactive support team that monitors capacity ahead of project ramps
- Their internal IT lead, freed up to focus on the firm's growth — not desktop fires
Result: Faster model open times, predictable infrastructure costs, and an IT function that finally felt like an enabler instead of a bottleneck.
Project-Friendly Pricing, Sized to How You Actually Work
Three standard seat tiers. Every seat includes firewall, daily backups, monitoring, MFA, and unlimited bandwidth.
Design & Drafting Seat
For CAD, 2D documentation, and lighter 3D. Optimized for AutoCAD, drafting teams, and project coordinators.
Advanced BIM / Visualization Seat
More GPU and RAM for heavy Revit central files, Enscape walkthroughs, and rendering. Built for senior designers and visualization specialists.
Power User / Lead Architect Seat
The highest GPU and compute configuration. For BIM managers, technical directors, and principals who can't tolerate slowdowns on multi-discipline models.
Final pricing is customized to your application mix, seat count, and compliance scope. But the invoice itself is flat, transparent, and free of usage surprises — subject to SLA terms.
Security and Compliance — Audited, Not Asserted
🛡️ Security Controls (standard on every seat)
- Isolated tenant environments with network segmentation
- Advanced firewalling at the platform edge
- Encryption in transit and at rest
- MFA and role-based access to desktops, data, and management portals
- Continuous monitoring for performance and security anomalies
📋 Compliance Posture
- SOC 2 Type 2 examination, conducted by an independent third-party auditor, covering all five Trust Services Categories: Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy
- HIPAA BAA available
- Architected for HIPAA-aligned environments
- Documentation depth suitable for downstream audits in FDA-regulated, healthcare, financial services, and DoD supply chain contexts
- Data residency and access policies tailored to your firm's and your clients' requirements
Architecture VDI — Frequently Asked Questions
Will IntelliData work with our actual toolset?
Yes. We design around what you already use — Revit, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Navisworks, Bluebeam, Enscape, Lumion, BIM 360, plug-ins included. We pilot performance with real users before firm-wide rollout.
How is this different from AWS or Azure?
We're a fully managed platform, not a self-serve menu. You get GPU-optimized performance, a flat monthly bill, named U.S.-based engineers, and a SOC 2-audited platform. You're not stitching together 14 services and hoping the bill makes sense at month-end.
What happens during an outage?
We're architected for high availability with multiple layers of redundancy. If something does go wrong, you get a real engineer on the phone — not a status page. Our SLA defines response times by severity (Level 5 issues that stop your work: less than 1 business hour). When AWS US-East-1 went down for hours in October 2025, our platform kept running on its own infrastructure with its own footprint.
Can we pilot before moving the whole firm?
Yes. Most firms start with one office, one project team, or one application stack. We validate performance, then scale out.
How fast can users be productive?
Once design is locked, provisioning is fast. Total project timing depends on scope — applications, data volume, number of locations — but a smooth, no-drama cutover is the goal. We don't ship migrations that need weekend war rooms.
Move Your Architects Off Hyperscale Cloud Roulette
If your team is fighting slow VPNs, aging hardware, surprise bills, or another headline-grabbing hyperscaler outage, there's a different way to run your infrastructure. IntelliData Architecture VDI gives AEC firms what big-box cloud structurally can't: GPU-tuned performance, flat predictable pricing, audited compliance posture, and a U.S.-based engineering team that treats your uptime like their own.
Partner with real people who care about your uptime and your budget.
