ABOUT THIS EPISODE
In this episode of The Construction Revolution Podcast, we're joined by Zaid Kahn, CEO and Co-Founder of Neuron Factory, and Mack Rush, Senior Associate of Emerging Technologies at Suffolk Technologies. Neuron Factory, founded in 2025 by Zaid and his co-founder Salil Pandit, is building what they call the knowledge graph of construction, turning fragmented drawings, specs, and project communications into connected intelligence for pre-construction teams. The company first came up through Suffolk Technologies' Boost accelerator program before growing into an expanded design partnership testing the platform across real projects.
We talk about why Zaid and Salil see pre-construction as a context problem rather than a data problem, and why asking “what is a drawing?” from a first-principles, outsider's perspective reshaped how Neuron Factory approaches scene understanding over simple object detection. Mack shares the project that convinced Suffolk the tech was a genuine step-change: an AI catching a risky, underspecified subcontract clause. We close on how AI is starting to change the way pre-construction teams and roles are structured, and where the Neuron Factory–Suffolk partnership is headed next.
