ArchiLabs

AI Copilot for Architects

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AI Copilot for Architects

ArchiLabs is building an AI co-pilot for architecture. Instead of spending hours on tedious tasks, architects can 10x their design speed with simple AI prompts. Brian and William met at Carnegie Mellon as engineers and separately had their own frustrating new construction experiences. Brian ran a tech-enabled homebuilding factory and found the design iteration process to be a massive bottleneck, while William built ground up homes in Texas and had a similar frustration. However, at the time, there wasn't an easy solution to the many pain points in the design process. As AI reasoning models improve, Brian and William realized that there was a massive opportunity to fix the long-tail of frustrations and build a new construction design experience by fine tuning existing models, becoming bigger than Autodesk, the $60B company in the space.

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ArchiLabs

Founded:2024

Team Size:2

Location:San Francisco

Group Partner:Nicolas Dessaigne

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Brian Bakerman, Founder

Brian is the co-founder & CEO of ArchiLabs. Previously Brian built and sold an AI transcription startup that reached 1 million transcriptions/mo and ran a YC-backed tech-enabled homebuilding factory that scaled to a $10.6M contracted revenue run rate. Brian graduated with a degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.

Brian Bakerman

ArchiLabs

William Meng, Founder

William is the co-founder & CTO of ArchiLabs. Previously, William ran an independent homebuilding business in Texas and built his own CAD tool from scratch. Before that, William studied Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon and worked as a software engineer at Facebook.

William Meng

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ArchiLabs - AI Copilot for Architects

Hey everyone! We’re Brian and William from ArchiLabs and we’re building an AI copilot for architects!

⏩ TL;DR

ArchiLabs is building an AI copilot for architects. Architectural drafting tools like Revit are clunky and difficult to quickly iterate in. With ArchiLabs’ AI automation tool, architects can put requests into a chat bar and the AI is able to automatically run transaction-safe Python scripts to automate tedious tasks in CAD tools, making the collaboration process faster and more efficient.

https://www.loom.com/share/aaa3f2c0362d4144b15663940ab512f2?sid=82aa3c09-943c-4836-aefa-4fefcc183296

😩 The Problem

Architects are talented, but the tools they use (like Revit) to draft homes and buildings are from the early 90s. The tools are clunky and slow to iterate in. This means that the iteration process is slowed down and leaves less time for filling in important construction details at the end.

👌 The Solution

Many architectural drafting tools have powerful automation languages to get around the clunkiness of these drafting tools, but they are too time consuming to learn and use. ArchiLabs taps into this by creating a chat interface for architects to type in what they want to do in their CAD tool and have an AI write and execute a transaction-safe script in their CAD tool to automate any task they want.

🤠 The Team + Backstory

William graduated with a degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon, then went on to work at Facebook. He realized his passion was the built world and set out to build homes from scratch in Texas where he experienced this frustration first hand. He then set out to build his own CAD tool.

Brian graduated with a degree in ECE from Carnegie Mellon and went on to run a YC-backed tech-enabled homebuilding factory. He had a lot of frustrations with the architectural back-and-forth, primarily stemming from the limitations of existing tools. He then went on to build and sell an AI transcription startup.

Brian and William met back up, sharing the same vision for reimaging the construction design experience and eventually taking on Autodesk, the $60B industry-leader.

🙏 The Ask

More beta testers! We are always looking to fine-tune our workflow engine to fit common architectural workflows, so if you know any architects or BIM modelers or are one yourself, we would love to chat! Feel free to email us: founders@archilabs.ai