Design with an AI assistant

A forest house an assistant designed from a four-line brief. Open it in the editor.

Zaaglijst Studio has a connector for AI assistants. You add it once to Claude or ChatGPT. Then you describe a timber frame in plain words, and the assistant builds it in your cloud projects, checks it and shows you drawings. You open the result in Studio with one link.

How it works

1. You add the connector address to your assistant: https://<Zaaglijst address>/mcp, for example https://zaaglijst.contact-534.workers.dev/mcp.
2. The assistant opens the Connect an AI assistant page. You sign in with your email link and click Allow.
3. You write a brief. The assistant draws members, lets the engine work out the joints and parts, fixes the warnings and renders views.
4. The assistant gives you a Studio link. Opening it loads the project on your device, in the fitting view.

What the assistant can and cannot do

It can	It cannot
Create, read and change your cloud projects	Delete projects
Validate a project and apply suggested repairs	Change sharing or reach other accounts
Render views, close-ups, plans and sections	Export BTLx, BVN or BVX files: do that in Export
List quantities by profile, grade or object	Check the structure: the drawings are not a structural check

The assistant runs on your own Claude or ChatGPT plan. You need a Zaaglijst account for the cloud projects; see Sharing and cloud.

Caution

If you edit a project in Studio while the assistant works on it, the assistant gets a conflict. It reads the project again and redoes its last step on your version.

Limits per account

What	Limit
Tool calls	1,200 per hour
Renders	60 per hour, 300 per day
Applied operations	20,000 per day
Cloud saves, shared with the app	600 per hour

When you reach a limit, the assistant gets a message saying so. Wait and continue later.

Next

• Set it up: Claude or ChatGPT.
• Pick a model: Choose a model.
• Write a good brief: Get good results and Design briefs to copy.

Related pages

• Connect Claude: Add the Zaaglijst Studio connector to Claude on the web or Claude Desktop, switch it on in a chat, and use it on your phone.
• Connect ChatGPT: ChatGPT needs developer mode to use the Zaaglijst Studio connector. Turn it on, add the connector on the web and confirm each change.
• Get good results: Write a brief an assistant can build from: sizes, levels, spaces and timber. Work in stages, ask for drawings and read the warnings together.
• Design briefs to copy: Real briefs that assistants turned into complete timber frames: a tiny house, a forest house, two fishermen's houses and a forest cinema.
• Choose a model: Which Claude or ChatGPT model to use for Zaaglijst Studio designs: a strong reasoning model for new frames, a faster one for small edits.