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Bild AI (YC W25) is hiring product and AI engineers(bild.ai)
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Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Founding Product Engineers(bild.ai)
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Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer(ycombinator.com)
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Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Interns to Make Housing Affordable(workatastartup.com)
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Bild AI (YC W25) is hiring – Make housing affordable(ycombinator.com)
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Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding AI Engineer(ycombinator.com)
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Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring(ycombinator.com)
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Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring(ycombinator.com)
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Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring an Applied AI Engineer(workatastartup.com)
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by rooppal 1y ago
More than just red-tape there's whitecollar processes in pre-construction that take months. Just estimating the cost of each subtrade is a process currently done by hand on blueprints (what I work on automating). `white_collar_automati
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Bild AI (YC W25) is hiring a founding engineer in SF(ycombinator.com)
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by rooppal 2y ago
We don't really have plans on using user-data to train our models, since it's too much of a chicken-and-egg problem. Carbon estimating is something we had some clients talk about -- it uses the same material quantity estimation we
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by rooppal 2y ago
I think parsing a whole blueprint with monolithic models is really difficult, but the constrained object detection/semantic segmentation problems are significantly more tractable. You can chain those CV models with VLMs to do things li
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by rooppal 2y ago
I think that's well within the realm of possibility :)
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by rooppal 2y ago
Amazing, I saw you already connected with my cofounder over chat, looking forward to it!
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by rooppal 2y ago
Absolutely! That's our end-goal, to remove the painful back-and-forth of permitting. Once you solve blueprint understanding, the possibilities are enormous, from spell-check to material efficiencies, etc.
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by rooppal 2y ago
Thanks for such a detailed question! We're focused on material quantity estimates right now. We're using pretty generic averages for costing as our primary users (suppliers) have a way better finger on the pulse of the market and
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by rooppal 2y ago
We've seen that suppliers do a ton of bidding and cost estimation, and are keen to be accurate (estimate too high and they lose to competitors). GCs and suppliers don't want to be too low because that potentially costs them tens o
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by rooppal 2y ago
I really wish BIM took off more, unfortunately most suppliers and GCs are still using blueprints (but at least have moved off paper).
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by rooppal 2y ago
Our focus is currently on servicing suppliers and GCs. Our models would need labels to train, so we have to source our own data.
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Launch HN: Bild AI (YC W25) – Understand Construction Blueprints Using AI
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