Ephany is Now Open Source
For the past year, Ephany has quietly worked towards solving one of the biggest pain points for the design and construction of commercial real estate: managing design-standard assets across large, multi-site programs. Whether you’re a retailer rolling out 50 stores a quarter, a hotel group updating brand standards, or a developer juggling dozens of build-outs, the challenge is always the same:
- Asset libraries live everywhere and nowhere
- Every project team requires different information about the same assets
- Downstream teams struggle to figure out which assets are in each project for procurement, merchandising, or other workflows
Ephany was built to fix that.
It provides a structured way to onboard assets, manage supporting documents, and understand exactly how those assets roll out across projects. It bridges design, procurement, construction, operations, and more, giving teams a single source of truth.
Did Ephany solve everyone’s problems?
As we worked with more and more multi-site building owners, one thing became impossible to ignore: everyone was solving the same fundamental problem, just with their own standards and processes. Different workflows, different data models, different integrations, yet almost all of it held together by spreadsheets. Why would enterprise teams manage mission-critical asset data this way? Because it lets them manage their own data on their terms.
Every organization has its own structure, its own logic, its own way of seeing the world, and they aren’t willing and/or able to give that up.
So we made a big decision.
We’ve Open Sourced the Core of Ephany
Introducing Ephany Framework — the open-source asset and BIM content management system you can deploy in minutes. It’s the same foundation we built for enterprise-scale asset programs, now minified and open-sourced so the whole industry can leverage and customize it.
By open sourcing our framework, we’re giving the industry something it’s been missing:
- A standardized, extensible framework and data model for FF&E and other equipment
- An asset database that anyone can run locally or deploy on their own servers
- A clean, modern API for building custom tools including integrations with BIM tools, procurement platforms, and facilities management systems
You own your deployment. You own your data.
This is our commitment to interoperability and community growth within the AECO space.
This is an API, not a desktop client.
To be clear, this open source project is primarily an API, so there’s no fancy UI or frontend application that comes along with it. In fact, the goal of this framework is to give developers a way to programmatically manage asset data and develop automations that need access to their content library. They can even use it to give AI models the ability to query asset data like never before.
🚀 The GitHub Repo is Live
You can start exploring the repo today, just keep in mind that this is an early-stage initial commit. We’re actively shaping the foundation, and this is the perfect moment for developers who want to influence the direction of the framework. Whether you’re interested in data modeling, API design, integrations, or documentation, we’d love your eyes, ideas, and pull requests.
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/TripleZeroLabs/Ephany-Framework
Don’t want to roll your own?
If you want to migrate to Ephany Framework but don’t have the time to spin up an instance yourself, Triple Zero Labs also offers full implementation services. We’ll stand up and manage your Ephany instance for you, handle configuration, and support your team so you can start using the platform without lifting a finger.
What’s Coming Next
Open sourcing the backend framework is only the first step. Next, we’ll be releasing a front-end open source project built entirely on the Ephany Framework. More information on that effort will be published in the coming months.
A New Era for Asset Data
Our goal is simple: give the industry a foundation we can all build on.
Ephany started as a service for enterprise clients, but now we’re opening the doors to make it a free, open, and extensible framework which can be shaped by the AECO community.
We can’t wait to see what we build together.
🤓 Explore the repo: https://github.com/TripleZeroLabs/Ephany-Framework
