# What is laiout

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<summary>What is laiout?</summary>

laiout is the world’s only fully automated AI platform for commercial floor planning. It is used in more than 36 countries and generates millions of square metres of layouts every month. Upload a PDF or DWG, press Generate, and review multiple credible layout options in seconds, each adapted to real building constraints and ready for human refinement.

**Video guide:** [laiout lessons - In Practise / From empty plan to resolved design in under 10 minutes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at9txcVFgOI)

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<summary>Who is laiout for?</summary>

laiout serves multiple audiences: landlords who want to accelerate leasing and reduce vacancy, tenants planning new workplaces and comparing spaces, brokers creating instant test-fits during tours to close deals faster, designers and architects who want to automate repetitive work and focus on creative judgment, and flex/coworking operators standardising and marketing their spaces at portfolio scale.

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<summary>What file formats does laiout support?</summary>

For uploads, laiout accepts DXF, DWG and PDF floor plan files. For exports, the platform supports PDF presentation reports, DXF/DWG CAD files, IFC for BIM coordination, Revit (.rvt) for native Revit workflows, OBJ for 3D visualisation, and CSV for data export. Shared links can also be generated for browser-based stakeholder collaboration.

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## Video guides

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