Prose with AI

Your AI assistant, now fluent in Prose

Describe what you need in plain English. The AI handles the busywork, Prose runs the calculations, and you do the engineering.

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What you can ask

Anything you can do in the app, your assistant can do: build projects, edit inputs, run every load type, and pull results.

“Set up a new building from the architect’s drawings and run all the loads.”

“Risk Category changed from II to III. Update it and tell me what changed.”

“Compare wind pressures for Exposure B and C.”

“Add the roof step on the north side and give me the leeward and windward drift loads.”

How it stays trustworthy

AI lowers the barrier to automation. It doesn’t replace the calculation engine or your judgment.

Step 1

The AI drives

Your assistant reads your request, finds the right inputs in Prose, and fills them in. It handles the clicking and typing.

Step 2

Prose calculates

Every load comes from the same Prose engine you use by hand. The assistant sets inputs and reads results; it does not do the math.

Step 3

You review

Every report keeps its equations and ASCE 7 code references, so you check the inputs and results the same way you would check a junior engineer’s work.

What’s MCP?

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standard connector, like a USB port, that lets an AI assistant operate other software. Prose includes one, so your assistant can work in Prose directly instead of guessing at the math.

Getting connected

It takes about a minute, with nothing extra to install.

  1. 1

    Install Prose Desktop and sign in

    Prose runs on Windows. Create an account to download it.

  2. 2

    Open AI assistants in Prose

    Click your avatar to open the account menu, choose AI assistants, and click Connect next to your assistant.

  3. 3

    Restart your assistant and ask

    Restart the assistant so it picks up Prose, then describe what you need.

Already have Prose?

Pick your assistant to open its connection panel in Prose. Nothing changes until you click Connect.

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Using another assistant? Prose lists every one it finds on your computer under AI assistants.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is my project data sent anywhere?
When you ask an assistant to work on a project, the project data it reads, including project and file names, folder paths, inputs, and results, is sent to that assistant’s provider (for example Anthropic or OpenAI) under the provider’s terms, the same as anything else you share in a chat. Projects can include client-confidential information, so confirm your client agreements allow sharing it with your assistant’s provider. Connecting an assistant is optional and up to you. An assistant running a local model, such as one in LM Studio, generally keeps the data on your computer, depending on how you set it up. None of this passes through Prose’s servers. Prose’s anonymous usage statistics record which assistant tools are used and the type of each request, plus the code edition, risk category, and live-load items selected in a project, never your other inputs, file paths, or project names. You can turn usage statistics off in Prose.
Which AI tools work?
Claude Desktop, ChatGPT desktop and Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI, Google Antigravity, Kiro, LM Studio, and GitHub Copilot CLI. Prose lists the ones it finds on your computer and connects each in one click. Any other assistant that supports MCP can be set up by hand.
Who’s responsible for the numbers?
You are, the same as with any software you use. Prose runs every calculation, but the assistant chooses the inputs from what you tell it and what it reads, and it can misread a drawing or misunderstand a request. Review the inputs and results in the report before you rely on them.
Does the AI calculate the loads?
No. Loads, coefficients, and pressures are calculated by the Prose engine, not the assistant, and every report shows its equations and ASCE 7 references. The assistant can still enter a wrong input or restate a result incorrectly in chat, so check the Prose report, not the chat.
Do I need anything extra?
Prose Desktop on Windows and an AI assistant. The connection is part of the Prose install, with nothing extra to download. Changing a project needs Prose signed in, using the same license seat as the app; signed out, the assistant can only read projects. Your AI assistant’s subscription, if it has one, is separate from Prose.

You check it, you own it

  • The same code-referenced reports you’d get by hand
  • With Prose open, watch every change as it happens
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