This week, the entire Arcol team stepped away from the product roadmap.

No sprint goals. No feature tickets. No standup updates. For five days, every person on the team is building whatever they want, as long as it's broadly related to Arcol.

We're calling it Arcol Interlude.

Why we're doing this

The AEC industry is at an inflection point. AI and agentic workflows are moving faster than any product roadmap can keep up with. The gap between what's possible and what's productized is widening, not narrowing.

Arcol Interlude is our way of giving the entire team a way to explore everything that is new and possible and to uncover insights we haven't planned yet.

The structure is intentionally minimal. There's no theme, no judging panel, no formal presentations. The only requirement is that the entire team build something.

By giving the team space and removing any constraints, we open up the possibilities for the people who live inside this product every day to chase the ideas they've been thinking about but haven't had time to explore.

Why this matters for AEC

We are far from the first tech company to have an idea like this; Figma runs Maker Week twice a year, and Auto Layout came directly from one of those weeks. Dropbox's Hack Week produced Lepton, a compression project that saved them millions. Atlassian's ShipIt has been going since they were 14 people.

AEC software companies don't do this. We think that AEC can take a page from these other companies and try new ways of taking shots to actually reshape the industry with new ideas and voices rather than defaulting to long development cycles, cautious releases, and features designed by committee.

What's next

We'll be posting throughout the week as projects take shape. Follow along to see what the team builds.

Is there a feature you want to see in Arcol? We want to hear about it: