Community guidelines & ethics

BIMplusai is a closed community of people who automate architecture, engineering and construction with software and AI. What we build ends up in real buildings, so we hold ourselves to the standards of the professions we serve. Everyone agrees to these guidelines when they request access.

1. Contribute honestly

• Only submit contributions you made or substantially shaped. Team work is welcome; say who else was involved.
• Don't inflate, split or recycle contributions to keep your membership. One real contribution beats five thin ones.
• Credit the people, repositories and posts you built on, and respect their licences.
• Reviews of your contributions are done by people. Accept a “not yet” and improve it.

2. Use AI openly and responsibly

• Using AI agents to write code is normal here. Say when a contribution was mostly AI-written, and what you checked.
• You are responsible for everything you submit, whoever or whatever wrote it. Read it, run it and test it first.
• Check AI output for the mistakes it makes in our field: units (feet vs. metres), coordinate systems, wrong API versions, silent changes to models.
• Tools that change models must be reviewable and reversible: dry runs, transactions and a person approving changes.
• Don't present AI checks as a replacement for professional sign-off, code compliance or structural, fire or accessibility review.

3. Protect clients, employers and data

• Never share client models, drawings, project names, contracts or anything covered by an NDA, inside or outside the community.
• Don't paste confidential project data into AI tools that aren't approved by the owner of that data.
• No credentials, API keys or licence files in code, discussions or screenshots.
• Only share code you have the right to share. Your employer may own what you wrote at work.
• Respect personal data: no scraping, tracking or publishing information about people without a lawful reason.

4. What happens inside stays inside

• Missions, member repositories, discussions and member profiles are for members. Don't repost them publicly without asking the authors.
• Talking about what you learned is fine. Copying members' work or conversations out is not.
• Invitations are personal. Send people to request access instead of sharing yours.

5. Treat people well

• Members range from students to principal engineers and write in many languages. Be patient and assume good intent.
• Criticise code and ideas, not people. Explain why, and offer a better way.
• No harassment, discrimination, personal attacks or sexual content, in any channel connected to BIMplusai.
• Disagreements about tools and vendors are fine. Vendor bashing and flame wars are not.

6. Keep it free of spam and self-dealing

• No advertising, affiliate links or unsolicited sales messages to members.
• Companies looking to hire go through us, not through direct messages to members.
• Disclose conflicts of interest: say when you work for, or are paid by, a vendor you recommend.

7. Security

• Found a vulnerability in a member's tool or in BIMplusai? Report it privately first and give people time to fix it.
• No malware, hidden telemetry or code that does more than it says.

8. If something goes wrong

• Report problems to mahdy@bimplusai.com. Reports are handled confidentially.
• Depending on what happened, staff may edit or hide content, warn a member, pause access or remove a member.
• Removed members can ask for a review once, by email, explaining what has changed.