The problem we are charging is the most manual effort that produces a lot of material and estimated costs from the blueprints today. Contractors and suppliers spend a lot of time doing takeoffs by drawing blueprints by hand – it’s a disturbing, good industry of $ 30b one year. An error can lead to thousands of losses in a project.
My co-founder punetet experienced it itself as he built hundreds of houses in Canada. Meanwhile, my background is applied ML – I start with Google at 19, then Waymo where I build mental models for self-driving cars. Puntoet and I met at Hack for the social impact on which we built our first _very_ narrowly targeted prototype.
Since then we have extended our scope gradually, with a laser-focus of accuracy. Our method is to use a suite of specialized machine learning models for specific tasks in Blueprint, instead of a model end at the end. For example, we have developed computer visibility models that are very accurate to discover and measure areas of floors, or identify and counting framing elements such as studios and doors. By composing these expert sub-models, we can achieve high accuracy of total takeoff.
It’s a bit alike to approach way of Waymo for self-driving – There are many Tesla announcement models – Unfortunately we haven’t had enough data.
We work with some early customers such as floor suppliers to help automate their estimated workflows. But we see a great opportunity to expand this “AI understands the blueprints” approach to all trades.
Would like to get thoughts and feedback in HN community! Building an industry I think ripe for applying ML-cut methods. If you have experience with this domain as a builder, architect, staddle, supplier and other
As well as if you are a researcher or engineer eagerly about applying state-of-the-art procedures to real world problems with inexplicable industries, definitely reachable industry,
We live living with customers but can only serve a subset of trades properly. Head to https://www.bild.ai/upload If you want to try uploading a blueprint and we can talk about your used case. I believe we can solve the AI plan understanding, and it seems to have many applications. I will go all day to chat and answer questions!
2025-02-27 20:30:00
