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Structured AI

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Structured AI automates QA/QC and compliance review for architects’ and engineers’ drawings, PDFs, and Revit models.

HQNew York City, New York, United States
Employees1-50
2 active roles
Jobs checked 4h ago
PropTech / ConstructionAI Agent / AutomationB2B SaaSPre-Seed / Seed

About

Structured AI builds AI agents that automate QA/QC and compliance review across technical drawing packages for architects, engineers, and multidisciplinary design firms. Its differentiation is that the agents learn firm-specific standards, apply building codes, detect cross-discipline clashes, and review both PDF drawings and native Revit models with precise, auditable findings.

Market

Structured AI competes in the AEC software market for AI-powered construction drawing review, design-engineering QA/QC, coordination checking, and building-code compliance. It positions itself as an AI drawing-analysis engine that can review the 2D PDFs teams already use while also querying native Revit models, rather than requiring a fully coordinated BIM model. Its differentiation is automated issue detection across every sheet, discipline, revision, and firm-specific standard, complementing or replacing parts of manual markup, rule-based BIM checking, and project-management workflows.

Target Customers

Ideal customers are multidisciplinary architecture, engineering, and construction-design firms, especially teams spanning mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, and related disciplines. Likely buyers are design-team leaders and engineering or QA/QC owners seeking to automate documentation review; the available evidence does not establish a specific employee-count segment.

At a Glance

Problem

Structured AI addresses a persistent quality-control problem in construction design: architects, engineers, and contractors still depend heavily on manual, deadline-driven review of increasingly large drawing packages. Errors missed during design reappear downstream as RFIs, change orders, field rework, schedule delays, and reputational damage. The economics are severe: the company cites $177 billion in annual costs from construction mistakes discovered too late, while an industry source says 70% of construction rework traces back to design-drawing errors.

The killer use case is reviewing a large multidisciplinary package before it reaches the jobsite, particularly for MEP coordination and code compliance. Structured says its design-review agent identified more than 400 issues in a single 1,000-page set, illustrating the value of finding coordination conflicts, missing ratings, schedule mismatches, and code problems before they become expensive field issues.

Product / Service

Structured AI is an AI-powered QA/QC platform for construction design engineering. Its vision-language agents review architectural, structural, civil, and MEP drawing sets against building codes, specifications, and firm-specific standards. The system returns actionable findings tied to the exact page and location, maintains an audit trail, supports plain-English custom checks, and can automatically align overlapping views across disciplines to surface clashes without manual overlay work.

The platform works across PDF drawing packages and native Revit models. In Revit, it can query structured BIM data, run checks against model geometry, report failed items with element IDs and levels, and keep the review in the authoring environment without requiring an export. The intended benefit is a consistent second pair of eyes in minutes rather than hours or days, while leaving final decisions with architects and engineers; the company reports that client engineers confirm and fix nine out of ten findings it surfaces and that six times fewer issues reach the field.

Market

Structured AI competes in construction technology, specifically AI plan review, drawing coordination, design QA/QC, and BIM quality assurance. Its target customers are multidisciplinary architecture and engineering firms, especially teams responsible for mechanical, electrical, structural, civil, and architectural coordination. The competitive set includes emerging AI drawing-review products such as Nomic, Helonic, Stru AI, InspectMind AI, and Archidian, as well as adjacent incumbent coordination and review tools such as Bluebeam and Autodesk Construction Cloud. Structured differentiates around cross-discipline review, firm-specific standards, code checking, and support for both PDFs and Revit models.

The company is early but has meaningful commercial and financing signals rather than being merely pre-product. It was founded in 2025, joined Y Combinator’s Fall 2025 batch, and reported a $4.2 million seed round in June 2026, bringing total funding to $5 million. Syska Hennessy Group has been testing the platform and helping develop it, and Structured reports the 400-plus-issue case study described above. Public materials reviewed do not disclose revenue or a customer count, so the best characterization is early commercial traction through design partners, with revenue scale not yet established publicly.

Founders & Leadership

Raymond ZhaoFounder
Co-founder & CEO
Issy GreensladeFounder
Co-founder & COO
Brandon Abreu SmithFounder
Co-founder & CTO

Funding History

2025-07
Pre-Seed$500K

Y Combinator

2026-06
Seed$4.2M

FCVC Advisors

Recent News

2026-06-23funding
Structured AI Raises $4.2M to Bring AI-Powered Quality Assurance to Construction Projects

PropTech Connect reported that Structured AI raised a $4.2 million seed round, bringing total funding to $5 million. The article also described Syska Hennessy Group’s ongoing testing and development partnership with the company.

2026-06-11funding
Structured AI Raises $4.2M Seed to Build the Quality Layer for the Built World

Structured AI announced a $4.2 million seed round led by FCVC, bringing total funding to $5 million. The company said it will use the funding to build an AI design reviewer for code, coordination, and QA/QC issues, with Syska Hennessy Group serving as a design partner.

2026-06-10partnership
Construction Quality Startup Structured AI Raises $4.2M Seed Round

Engineering News-Record covered Structured AI’s $4.2 million seed financing and its AI platform for construction QA/QC. The report highlighted Syska Hennessy Group’s testing, investment, and collaboration with Structured AI.

2026-05-02
Structured AI Featured in ACEC Research Institute's Firm of the Future Report

Structured AI announced that it was featured in the ACEC Research Institute’s Firm of the Future report, alongside major AEC technology companies and innovators.

2026-04-14
Structured AI Founders Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe 2026

Structured AI reported that its founders were named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Europe 2026 list in the AI category.

2026-04-14
Structured AI Listed in AEC Magazine AI Directory for Automated Drawing Review

Structured AI was listed in AEC Magazine’s 2026 AI Directory for automated drawing review, recognizing its construction design-engineering QA/QC platform.

2026-01-21
40 AI-Driven AEC Solutions to Watch in 2026

BuiltWorlds included Structured AI among AI-driven AEC solutions to watch in 2026. The company was described as using AI agents to review technical drawings for construction design engineering.

2025-10-24
Business Insider: From Goldman Sachs to Building AI for Construction

Structured AI highlighted Business Insider coverage of CEO Raymond Zhao’s transition from pursuing finance to building AI tools for construction. The article connected the company’s origin to Zhao’s experience with repetitive documentation in architecture and its acceptance into Y Combinator’s Fall 2025 batch.

2025-10-04product
Structured AI: Agentic Workforce for Construction Design Engineering

Structured AI launched its agentic workforce for construction design engineering. Its initial product uses AI agents to perform QA/QC on technical documents and drawings, applying firm standards and building codes to identify clashes and inconsistencies.

2025-10-04
WSJ: Europe’s AI Startups Look Stateside for Bigger Checks, Quicker Deals

Y Combinator’s Structured AI company profile listed this Wall Street Journal article among the company’s recent press coverage. The article focused on European AI startups looking to the United States for larger funding rounds and faster deals.

Active Roles

2
New York, NY, US/Engineering/34d ago
New York, NY, US/Sales/34d ago

Business Model

Structured AI uses a B2B enterprise sales model, acquiring architecture and engineering customers through introductory calls, live demos, and pilots run on their own drawing sets with customized checks. Public materials do not disclose list pricing; the revenue stream appears to be commercial access to its AI-powered QA/QC platform and related implementation or pilot engagements.

Products

AI drawing-review and QA/QC platform for 2D PDF drawing packagesCustom checks and no-code AI agents trained on firm-specific standardsRevit integration for live BIM QA/QC, code-compliance, and custom checksCross-discipline coordination, clash detection, code-compliance, and document-consistency analysis

Customers

Syska Hennessy Group

Tech Stack

Proprietary foundational computer-vision modelVision-language AI agentsAI-based 2D PDF and technical-document understandingRevit/BIM structured-data integrationBuilding-code and firm-standard knowledge systems

Competitors

Nomic
Stru AI
InspectMind AI
Archidian
Helonic
Solibri
Bluebeam