OpenLM for AEC
Stop paying for Autodesk and Bentley seats no one's using
See exactly which seats are earning their keep — before your next true-up letter does the math for you.
68%
of large buyers overpay Autodesk market rate
20–50%
spend increase from untracked Bentley over-usage
$100K+
recovered by one OpenLM AEC customer, Ausenco, over several years
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ROI benchmarks, team-by-team impact, and full platform detail for Autodesk-, Bentley-, and BIM-heavy stacks.
A crane parked over the weekend still costs the same day rate. An idle AutoCAD seat works the same way.
Trusted by leading innovators
Your most expensive software
is also your least tracked
The "just in case" buffer.
Firms set license counts once at renewal, then don't touch them until the next true-up letter arrives.
True-ups erase savings.
True-up exposure runs 12–18% of annual license cost when it's caught at audit instead of managed
BIM is outgrowing governance.
70% of construction firms have adopted BIM [G2, "60 Construction Statistics for 2025"]. Almost none track seat-level usage.
Where it breaks
Project delivery risk
No Civil 3D seat during a submission crunch, while idle seats sit open on someone's second monitor. Deadlines with liquidated-damages clauses don't wait.
Multi-office blind spots
One office swings from 4 to 60+ seats a week. No shared pool means duplicate spend.
No project-level cost data
Software costs get estimated per project, not billed from real usage. Time-and-materials contracts leave money on the table.
Zero-leverage renewals
Autodesk and Bentley show up to renewal with usage data. Most firms show up with last year's seat count
Case studies
AEC firms cutting license waste with OpenLM
See usage vs. idle time
Session-level tracking
Checkout time, active time, and idle time, per user, per project, across 100+ license managers.
Automated idle harvesting
Configurable thresholds release unused seats automatically. No one has to remember to log off.
Per-project breakdown
Usage rolls up by users, teams, or client projects, and feeds straight into cost accounting.
One console, every office, every project
Multi-office pooling
Share one elastic license pool instead of managing each office separately.
Project-level billing data
Tie usage to project codes for accurate client billing.
Reporting in minutes
Ausenco cut semi-annual reporting from 1–2 days to an automated export.
Negotiate renewals with data, not guess
At renewal, OpenLM gives a granular-level usage telemetry of your Autodesk and Bentley licenses.
Gap analysis
See where you're over-licensed or running too close to the edge, by product and by office.
Chargeback data
Project-level usage feeds finance systems directly.
True-up protection
Continuous monitoring means entitlement always matches peak usage.
Every denied seat is a deadline at risk
With OpenLM, organizations can log and attribute every denial, so patterns surface before they become schedule problems.
Spot the pattern
see which tools and time windows generate the most denials.
Quantify the cost
denial-duration tracking turns "annoying" into a dollar figure.
Near-zero denials
idle seats auto-return to the pool before the next request comes in.
Built for your AEC stack
Feature-level monitoring
CAD & design
AutoCAD, Revit, Civil 3D, MicroStation, ArchiCAD, Rhino
BIM & modeling
Navisworks, Tekla Structures, OpenBuildings, Vectorworks
Civil & infrastructure
OpenRoads, OpenRail, InfraWorks
Structural & simulation
STAAD.Pro, AutoPIPE, SOFiSTiK
GIS
Esri ArcGIS
What changes, by team
Your next Autodesk true-up is already on the calendar
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