FlowGrid

FlowGrid is a web and desktop app for architects, interior designers, and facility planners to simulate and optimize circulation in buildings and campuses before anything is built or renovated. Users import a floor plan (CAD, BIM, or even a cleaned-up PDF), define entry points, destinations, and user types (staff, visitors, patients, students), and FlowGrid runs agent-based simulations to show how people will actually move through the space. The app highlights bottlenecks, conflict zones, dead corridors, and underutilized areas with heatmaps and time-based animations. Instead of vague intuition about “good flow,” teams get hard metrics: average travel time between key points, queue length predictions, and egress performance under normal and emergency scenarios. It’s not a toy: the goal is to catch circulation failures before they become expensive construction mistakes or operational headaches. This is a traditional + AI hybrid app: traditional simulation engine plus AI helpers that auto-detect circulation paths from plans and propose layout tweaks. It’s not cheap to build, but if you get it right, it’s the kind of tool firms will budget for and use on every serious project.