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Structured AI is building an AI-native quality layer for construction: agents that can read complex drawing sets and 3D models, find design and coordination issues, and increasingly act inside Revit to help fix them. Their thesis is simple: QA/QC is still too manual, too inconsistent and too dependent on people catching everything under time pressure.
In this episode, Raymond Zhao and Ben Remy unpack how Structured AI is approaching that problem technically — combining software engineers with experienced architects and engineers, tightly managing agent context, and embedding domain knowledge so the system understands not just that something is wrong, but why it is wrong and how it should be resolved.
The conversation then moves beyond QA. Structured AI is already giving its Revit agent permission to make isolated changes to models, and sees a path from identifying errors, to fixing larger sub-problems, to eventually generating more of the building itself. In that future, the QA layer becomes even more important: if agents are designing and building, another agent still needs to verify the output.
A discussion about the evolution from fragmented construction documentation toward agent-generated, machine-checked buildings — and what it takes to make AI genuinely useful in the physical world.
Chapters:
0:00 Welcome — Ben & Raymond from Structured.ai
0:26 The mission: an AI quality layer for construction
2:25 Raymond’s path — architecture to Oxford stats
3:14 The fighter-jet origin story
6:05 Inside Y Combinator — solving the right problem
9:05 What is a forward-deployed engineer?
10:45 One of the great problems in construction
12:37 Under the hood: the giant vector soup
14:28 Context management is everything
17:47 The write side — fixing designs from first principles
20:42 Outcome as a Service
22:05 Who goes first on AI-generated design?
23:17 Productizing a messy industry
24:08 Biggest bottlenecks: scaling and talent
27:51 Should software set the standard?
29:36 Winning over the 40-year veterans
31:58 Agents checking agents — hallucination management
34:47 Closing thoughts + who should reach out
Structured.ai → https://getstructured.ai
Built to Scale is Scott Wilcox (W.) and Matt Perrott (BuildPass) building in public at the intersection of construction and AI.
Follow Scott → https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-wilcox-wilcoxbuilt/
Follow Matt → https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattperrott/
