Krane Launches on the Autodesk Design and Make Marketplace, Bringing AI-Powered Supply Chain Management to Autodesk Forma Customers

Krane, the AI-native platform for construction supply chain management, today announced its availability on the Autodesk ^® Design and Make Marketplace, making Krane’s procurement and materials management capabilities directly accessible to Autodesk Forma ^® customers. Autodesk Forma is the first end-to-end, cloud-based, AI-native platform built for architects, engineers, contractors, and owners. The listing extends an existing integration between the two platforms with deeper API connectivity, expanded document intelligence, and new supply chain workflows—giving project teams one-click access to Krane’s AI agents for submittal tracking, delivery coordination, and procurement risk management.

Krane has maintained an active integration since early 2024, with customers using the existing integration to sync project data between both platforms. The Marketplace listing represents a significant expansion, offering deeper API access, broader document processing capabilities, and a streamlined onboarding path that eliminates setup friction from manual configuration. For general contractors and owners running Autodesk Forma, Krane is now one click away.

The expanded integration brings new capabilities to teams working across both platforms:

• Connecting submittals to supply chain workflows: Submittal data from Autodesk Forma Build™ links directly to Krane’s procurement, delivery tracking, and supplier coordination activities. Krane’s AI agents calculate submittal due dates based on required on-site material dates, monitor status in real time, and flag risks to submittal timelines before they become schedule problems.
  
  
• Document intelligence: Krane’s document intelligence engine processes specifications, drawings, submittals, and other project documents from Autodesk Forma, automatically linking related documents and workflows to identify supply chain risks

“We’ve been working with Autodesk since 2024, and our shared customers kept telling us the same thing: the moment project data flows into Krane’s supply chain workflows, procurement decisions happen faster and delays get caught weeks earlier,” said Eshan Jayamanne, Founder and CEO of Krane. “Launching on the Autodesk Design and Make Marketplace means every Forma Build customer can now access that same capability without any custom setup. This is about meeting construction teams where they already work and giving them a direct path from design data to procurement execution.”

“Contractors are under constant pressure to keep projects on schedule while managing increasingly complex supply chains and a vast amount of project information,” said James Cook, director of industry and technology partnerships at Autodesk. “Krane’s integration with Autodesk Forma opens yet another avenue for enhanced execution with synchronized documentation workflows for procurement, material tracking, and supply chain risk management, helping customers identify and prevent costly delays.”

Customers See Results

Some leading general contractors already use the Krane–Autodesk Forma connection to manage supply chain risk on active projects. The Boldt Company, a national construction services firm managing complex healthcare, industrial, and mission-critical facilities across the U.S., has deployed the integration to connect project document workflows in Autodesk Forma with Krane’s procurement and delivery tracking, giving project teams earlier visibility into long-lead material risks and submittal bottlenecks before they impact the construction schedule.

“On complex healthcare builds, a single delayed switchgear panel or late HVAC submittal can cascade into weeks of rework across every trade on the floor. Having Krane pull our Autodesk Forma project data directly into procurement workflows means our teams are flagging those risks during preconstruction—not discovering them when the truck doesn’t show up.” said Klas Breghede, Vice President of Innovation at The Boldt Company.

Nibbi Brothers General Contractors, a San Francisco–based firm known for delivering complex mixed-use, life science, and residential projects across the Bay Area, uses the joint solution to tighten the loop between design documentation and material procurement. By connecting Autodesk Forma’s submittal and specification data to Krane’s AI-driven procurement workflows, Nibbi’s project teams can track material lead times against construction schedules in real time and coordinate trade partner deliveries with greater precision.

Krane is available today on the Autodesk Design and Make Marketplace. Autodesk Forma customers can install the integration and begin syncing project data to Krane’s supply chain workflows immediately. The combined solution is purpose-built for general contractors, subcontractors, and owners managing complex projects where procurement timing, trade coordination, and material delivery are critical to staying on schedule and on budget.

To learn more, visit: https://www.krane.tech/en

About Krane

Krane is an AI-native Platform for Construction Procurement and Material Management for GCs, Owners and Subcontractors. Krane catches every procurement risk before it becomes a schedule impact. The platform performs like a construction operations team, automating time-consuming material planning, procurement, and coordination workflows across a project’s lifecycle. Built by a team with more than 30 years of combined construction and operations experience, Krane helps contractors and developers reduce friction across suppliers, submittals, and material decisions, saving teams up to seven days per scope during pre-construction before delays cascade into costly downstream impacts.

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