AI will take jobs. We decided to give it some of ours.
- May 7
- 2 min read
We gave our studio an AI coordinator. Here’s what actually happened.
REN DESIGN is a Budapest-based interior architecture practice with 28 years of project experience across residential, hospitality and workspace design. This week the studio introduced Mira — an AI agent built specifically around how the team works.
Not a plugin. Not a template generator. An agent that runs in the background, every day.
Mira briefs the team each morning — who is working on what, what the deadline is, what needs a decision. She manages FF&E documentation, tracks specification consistency across drawings, flags errors before they reach a contractor, and closes the day with a summary of what moved and what didn’t. The administrative layer that sits between design thinking and design delivery is now largely hers.
What she can’t do is equally worth stating. She can’t feel when a proportion is off. She can’t read a client’s uncertainty in a presentation and
adjust the direction in real time. She can’t make the judgment call that holds a project together when the brief changes in week six.
That remains the work. That will continue to be the work.
But reclaiming the hours spent on coordination, documentation and administrative follow-up changes what a small studio can produce — and how much of its energy goes into the parts that actually require experience.
The question isn’t whether AI will reshape the design profession. It already has. The only real question is what studios do about it.
REN DESIGN will be sharing what it learns as this develops — the parts that work, the parts that don’t, and what it means for a practice built on craft to work alongside tools built on pattern recognition.
If that’s of interest, follow along.
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