Architosh Xpresso-4X Arrived — Newsletter Moves to Quarterly

Architosh’s EmTech (emerging technologies)-focused newsletter has moved to a new format and quarterly schedule, with the latest release delivered this week on 17 June 2025.

The focus of issue no. 53 was on AIA25 Boston technology coverage, plus new apps we learned about at the CBT + Nemetschek Group Tech Social at AIA25. Read below to learn more. You can sign up for Xpresso-4x here.

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Originally a monthly newsletter that had been pared back to allow for end-of-year holiday and summer vacation respites, the new quarterly schedule is part of a series of production changes for Architosh in general as it begins to focus on new content types, such as its new video interview series ToshTalks and its new Architosh Official YouTube channel.

Xpresso-4X will be released four times per year, one release each quarter, on this intended schedule:

• Q1 Release — Timed for February
• Q2 Release — Timed around coverage of AIA National in June-July
• Q3 Release — Timed for September / October
• Q4 Release — Time for December

Architosh will announce the upcoming Xpresso-4x release date a few weeks in advance in our notifications bar at the top of the Architosh website. Veteran readers have seen this bar many times.

No 53 – What’s Inside

Release No. 53 went out to nearly 600 AEC firms and professionals and includes information on new AEC industry software tools like Permio.AI shown at AIA25 Boston. Additionally, the new format of the newsletter will no longer point to long-form articles in other publications and will instead develop a deeper version of its primary focuse area: curated news on AEC applications and digital technologies.

Xpresso-4X No. 53’s table of contents focuses on what we saw at AIA25 Boston plus what we saw and learned about at the CBT Architects + Nemetschek Group Tech Social event during the convention. Here is the Issue No. 53 table of contents:

• The Word: — Conversations and Signals
• The Briefing: — Top CAD Industry News
• emTech: — Emerging Technologies — we looked at less-known digital technology providers at AIA25 Boston, plus others attending the CBT + Nemetschek tech social event, Companies included bimbeats, Giraffe, C.Scale, Arcol, Archistar and PermioAI, among others.
• Special Feature: — ‘Thoughts on the State of Digital Practice in Architecture’

Xpresso-4X will continue to focus on developing and delivering unique critical perspectives inside a Special Feature article at the end of each issue. In Conversation and Signals, we briefly discuss things we have heard and try to parse out the signals from the noise in the industry. In No. 53 we talk about the new technologies at bimbeats and the movement towards data and measurement in digital practice. bimbeats is a software company that aligns with our hearts as we have written about the lack of self-measurement and critical assessment as it relates to workflow productivity efficiency rates. We wrote three key special features in past Xpresso issues, one focused on average user BIM/CAD skills in practice and two focused on computer hardware performance and its impact on overall productivity rates. With the existence of bimbeats we now know that we have aligned souls in this world who have pondered similar lines of inquiry.

Xpresso’s 53 Releases

Over more than four years via Xpresso we have covered and brought to light hundreds of emTech companies and their digital technologies impacting AEC/O. Later this year, Architosh will deliver a way to discover, look-up, and review all the content in all past issues in a manner more complete than the limited web archive available now. Here are some of the past covers.

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