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D5 Wants Architects to Stop Waiting for the Picture
The rendering upstart began by chasing offline quality at game-engine speed. Now it is chasing a bigger prize: keeping a design intact from the first SketchUp move to the room where the client says yes.
The 55-Year-Old Tampa Software Company Teaching Project Managers to See Trouble Coming
BST Global spent five decades helping architects and engineers record what happened. Its newer bet is harder and more useful: predict the project that is about to miss its margin while there is still time to fix it.
Deepak Aatresh Is Teaching Buildings to Think Like Chips
A magazine article pulled him toward microprocessors. A construction time-lapse sent him in a new direction. Deepak Aatresh has spent the years since translating the logic of silicon into a language for buildings.
The VC That Bet the Cost Curve of a Building Can Bend
Two lifelong construction-tech investors raised $148 million, then handed their startups something rarer than money - a rolodex of the general contractors, builders, and design firms who become their first customers.
Bentley Systems
Five brothers, one CAD engine, and four decades later the software running underneath much of the world's roads, rail, and water networks - now being rebuilt around digital twins and infrastructure AI.
Ashish Desai
Ashish Desai is the CEO of Monograph, the San Francisco software company that helps architecture and engineering firms run the business side of the practice - budgets, staffing, forecasting and billing. An electrical engineer turned product leader, he scaled product at 99designs, Handshake and Shutterfly before joining Monograph as Chief Product Officer in July 2023 and stepping up to CEO in 2026, succeeding co-founder Robert Yuen. His pitch is simple: software that understands how architects actually work, so firms can spend more time on design and less time guessing at their numbers.