BIM Level 3 is often treated as an inevitable destination — a promised land where silos disappear, decisions stick, and collaboration finally works. But beneath the ambition sits an awkward truth: nobody ever agreed on the question it was meant to answer.
When BIM deadlines loom, architectural practices often reach for the same solution: add more people. It feels decisive, but it rarely works. BIM has a sequence, a memory, and a stubborn relationship with time — and no amount of last-minute resourcing can change that.
Jackson Lamb wouldn’t survive a corporate BIM steering group, which is precisely why he’d be effective. Slow Horses is a lesson in how flawed teams, badly housed and poorly regarded, still manage to deliver. If you’ve ever worked in BIM, this will feel uncomfortably familiar.