Time to Bild

We're incredibly excited to announce Bild AI has raised seed funding led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Mission Street Capital, Ryan Sutton-Gee, and Ooshma Garg, to make it cheaper and faster to build.

The Problem and Our Solution

America has a housing crisis — and it’s only gotten harder and more expensive to build. Local governments constantly add new regulations while old ones are never removed. Today, 10-25% of total project budgets are preconstruction costs — think not just design and permitting, but estimation which tells you how much of each material you need to buy.

That’s nearly a quarter of your budget before you even break ground! And this applies to any project from an apartment building to a hospital to an AI data center, largely because it’s a tedious manual process, literally involving drawing on blueprints by hand.

That's exactly why we created Bild AI - to automatically read and interpret construction blueprints. We extract materials information to create cost estimates and catch compliance issues, empowering builders to be more effective, efficient, and build more.

Since launching in February, our models have analyzed blueprints across 6 countries, including apartment buildings, hospitals, battery factories, and skyscrapers. What would have taken days, Bild AI was able to do in hours—a 20x improvement in speed that allowed more than half a dozen construction customers to meet critical deadlines they otherwise would have missed.

Our Story

Bild AI began when Puneet and Roop met at Hack for Social Impact, where we prototyped an initial blueprint-reading solution to tackle the Bay Area's permit approval challenges. 

Puneet's journey with construction began unusually early at age 16. When no contractors would build a house for someone living on a remote island, he ordered a kit house from Alibaba. When that failed, he built it himself, launching a passion that led to hundreds of homes built over the years. 

After graduating from Columbia at 19 years old, Roop joined Google as one of their youngest software engineers, building AI and computer vision systems for lasers and self-driving cars. Together, we recognized that AI could fundamentally transform how the construction industry approaches preconstruction work.

We're eager to continue developing this technology and scale to more customers in order to fundamentally change how we build and create more affordable housing for all. Our mission is to make it cheaper and faster to build the housing and infrastructure we need.