Overview
Qonic builds a cloud-based BIM platform for collaboration in architecture, engineering and construction. The company, registered as Qonic NV, was founded in 2021 and is based at Koning Albertlaan 140 in Ghent. It employs between 11 and 50 people. The five co-founders are Erik De Keyser, Mark Van Den Bergh, Tiemen Strobbe, Tjerk Gauderis and Sander Scheiris, all formerly of Bricsys. De Keyser founded Bricsys, the company behind BricsCAD, and sold it to Hexagon in 2018. He is CEO of Qonic. In 2022 the team counted twenty people. Aaron Perry is Head of Strategy. After two years of stealth development, Qonic opened a public beta at app.qonic.com in December 2023, with contractors as the first target group. The platform imports IFC and RVT models, offers direct solid modelling, native Rhino and SketchUp import, Revit import and export, clash detection, issue management and an API, and runs on Windows, macOS, web browsers, Android and iOS. In April 2026 it added native drawing generation with annotated plans and sections and DWG export. Qonic describes itself as completely self-funded. Pricing runs from a Free plan covering up to 5,000 m2 and one active project through Contributor, Team and Professional plans to an Enterprise tier.
Stated facts & numbers
- Founded: 2021
- Headquarters: Ghent
- Legal entity: Qonic NV
- Employees: 11-50
- Founders: Erik De Keyser, Mark Van Den Bergh, Tiemen Strobbe, Tjerk Gauderis, Sander Scheiris
- CEO: Erik de Keyser
- Funding: Self-funded
- Public beta: December 2023
- Supporting partners: Brussels Airport, Grimshaw, Takenaka, Willemen, Cordeel
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In the news
- Manual checks, rigid walls, and locked-in workflows: BIM has tolerated all three long enough. This November, Qonic takes them on. 🔥 LESS MANUAL Qonic AI agents find, check and update your model from the chat. In our demo, they spotted the 4 windows out of 202 without a fire rating and fixed them in two prompts. LESS RIGID Our new Wall Tool builds walls from reusable components. Edit a single wall layer, split it, cut through it or flip it, without losing the link to its component. It even works on walls imported from IFC or Revit.
- IFC export, part 2/2: New file. Same project. The same problems to fix all over again. 😬 4️⃣ New export, new GUIDs Issue links break and version comparisons become unreliable. 5️⃣ Re-import, fixes gone Replace the model, and your downstream corrections disappear. Tired of fixing the same IFC problems after every export? Try Qonic. Work directly in the IFC, keep stable GUIDs and merge new versions without losing your work.
- No AI was used to generate this team photo. And yes, the box costume is still being discussed. Happy (belated) Halloween from all of us at Qonic 👻
- Export IFC” → done. ✅ …and then the coordination meeting starts. Three IFC exchange problems that keep coming back - part 1/2: 1️⃣ Everything is a proxy Elements without the correct IFC mapping become IfcBuildingElementProxy. The geometry is still there, but its meaning is gone. 2️⃣ The model lands in the wrong place One incorrect base point, survey point or rotation can send a model kilometres off-site, creating false clashes and hours of manual realignment. 3️⃣ Properties disappear Custom property sets are often left
- We brought stickers to BIMcelona. A LOT of stickers. 🏗️💚 They ended up on laptops, notebooks, suitcases… and even with our booth neighbours. 😄 Shout-out to DMIx, Reer and KeyShot for being such great neighbours, and for proudly wearing our stickers! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth! See you at the next one.
- Qonic’s bet on procedures over constrained families is a real strategic difference.” What that means in practice: → Components that understand the wall they sit in: stretch a door, and the opening follows → No family library to curate: variants live inside the component → Your model in its real context, with streamed 3D Tiles right where it stands → A whole building in the browser: walls, windows and openings in one model Procedures, not families. Thanks Martyn Day and AEC Magazine for the great write-up! 💚
- Change a wall in the model. Your drawings follow. ✏️ Pick the plans, elevations and details you need, hit generate, and Qonic creates the full set at once, with dimensions included.
- Grasshopper → BIM in under a minute 🤯 At BIMcelona, we showed how it works: design a fully parametric facade in Grasshopper, send it to Qonic, and it lands as real BIM elements.
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