With this investment, Verka Collective strengthens its shared capabilities in AI and digital development – both centrally and across its architecture, landscape architecture, and design firms. NORDFY will help translate emerging technologies into tangible value in projects, workflows, business development, knowledge sharing, and capability building.
For Verka Collective, the investment reflects a clear strategic conviction: Artificial intelligence has become an integral part of how architecture is conceived, delivered, and organized. With NORDFY, the collective gains a specialized partner that can help integrate AI in a responsible and relevant way that is tailored to architectural practice.
“With NORDFY, we are adding a new strategic capability to the platform that every company in the collective can access. It is a shared investment in knowledge, technology, and expertise that will be essential for the architecture firms of the future – and that would be difficult to build independently. This is not about standardizing the companies within the collective, but about giving them stronger foundations to develop on their own terms,” says Frants Nielsen, CEO of Verka Collective.
As part of the partnership, NORDFY founder Tiago Pereira becomes Chief AI Officer at Verka Collective, responsible for delivering AI consulting, development, and support both for Verka Collective’s shared platform and for the individual companies within the collective. At the same time, NORDFY will continue to operate independently and serve clients beyond the collective.
“Supporting a growing collective of leading design and consultancy firms is exactly the kind of opportunity NORDFY was built for. Within Verka Collective, we will focus on creating value beyond any single company. At the same time, we will continue to serve our own clients and develop NORDFY independently”, says Tiago Pereira, Founder of NORDFY.
Across Europe, architecture and consultancy businesses are facing increasing complexity. Projects are shaped by rising demands related to sustainability, transformation, documentation, regulation, digitalisation and new technologies. For Verka Collective, NORDFY adds a new layer of expertise to the group, not as a replacement for architectural knowledge, but as a way to strengthen people, processes and companies.
“The reality is that AI is becoming a critical driver of competitiveness for architecture firms. It is about responding more quickly to market opportunities, improving the quality of proposals and projects, and developing new ways to create value for clients. With NORDFY, we gain a partner that helps strengthen Verka Collective as a shared platform while enabling each firm to turn AI from potential into tangible business value – without losing what lies at the heart of our businesses: architecture and people,” says Sonja Stockmarr CCO of Verka Collective.
