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by PrimalNick 2 days ago
You are literally building your own house? that's cool!

I started and ran a tech-enabled pre-construction service for ~6 years and grew up in a homebuilding family.

Codes, structural, MEP, and pricing are definitely huge pieces of the buildability puzzle. These are layers we plan to train into the model. Right now we are focused on the schematic level ideation process. So figuring out the flow and shape that can often a take a while to stabilize in the architectural design process.

Once we have this tooling built out, we will add more layers of context that helps make better buildability and cost decisions.

Super familiar with other BIM software. Chief Architect is a more residentially opinionated one. We are hoping to bridge the gap between these high-skill bar softwares and anyone wanting to design. Their capabilities and data structures are helpful robust usability. Just a bit complicated for most people. We are working on more interopability, so people can continue in whatever workflow while we are focused on the schematic level design phase (currently have DXF, IFC, GLB, and PDF exporting).

I'll shoot you an email :)