Build

What Build does

Build Technologies, Inc. is an AI-native operating partner for commercial real estate development, automating mission-critical workflows including site selection, desktop due diligence, underwriting, zoning analysis, environmental diligence, investment committee memo generation, and ESG/SFDR/CSRD compliance reporting. The core platform, Dougie, is a multi-agent AI system built on LangGraph that ingests over 1,600 live data sources spanning geospatial, municipal, utility, environmental, financial, and proprietary datasets, with findings stored in Vault, a proprietary data repository featuring a citation engine that traces every output to source document, page, and line item. The company serves F500 enterprises, governments, and the world's largest institutional developers, investors, and infrastructure operators, with delivered work reaching firms representing over $2T in collective AUM across 100+ projects in 15 countries spanning data centers, energy and power, industrial and logistics, and telecommunications asset classes.

The platform is delivered via an email-based interface where clients send project context to the AI worker Dougie and receive completed work outputs in return, supported by a domain-expert team for judgment and accuracy validation. Build is SOC 2 Type II certified with zero-trust architecture, AES-256 encryption, and private cloud deployment, and maintains GDPR and CCPA compliance with a policy that client data is never used to train AI models. Offices are located in New York, San Francisco, and London.

Build operates on a fixed deliverable-based pricing model at claimed 50% of market prices, with multi-year contracts and no retainers or hourly billing, generating professional services revenue from outcome-based AI delivery. The go-to-market motion combines enterprise field sales with email-based self-serve adoption. The company is privately held and venture-backed by Tier 1 VCs and strategic investors including C-suite executives at Blackstone and OpenAI, founders of Meta AI Research and Google Maps, and backers from Google DeepMind and Palantir. Co-founders James Stirrat-Ellis (CEO, Harvard Architecture, ex-Heatherwick Studio) and Ben McClusky (multi-agent reinforcement learning at Imperial College London, ex-Gorillas) lead the company.

Name

Build

Legal name

Build Technologies, Inc.

Website

https://build.inc/

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Build Technologies, Inc. is an AI-native operating partner for commercial real estate development that automates site selection, due diligence, underwriting, and investment committee workflows for institutional investors, governments, and the world's largest developers via its multi-agent platform Dougie.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Real Estate Development Services

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers (5312)

SIC

Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Integration & Orchestration Platforms (Connectors, Workflow, iPaaS for AI) (HDAEANAI), AI/ML Engineering & Model Development Services (BPAEAHAF)

Keywords

• Commercial real estate development
• AI due diligence
• Site selection services
• Investment committee memos
• Real estate underwriting

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. AI-Powered Development Services: Build delivers site selection, due diligence, underwriting, and other development workflows as outcomes. Clients pay for results delivered by a combination of agentic AI and deep domain expertise. The pricing model is fixed deliverable-based - upfront rates by the deliverable, not by the hour. No retainers, no hourly billing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Build delivers AI-powered commercial real estate development outcomes as completed work products through "Build Services." Its multi-agent AI platform Dougie, combined with human domain experts, automates site selection, technical due diligence, underwriting, and investment committee memo generation for institutional investors, developers, governments, and F500 companies. Engagements are accessed by emailing the AI worker Dougie or via direct enterprise sales, with outputs delivered as fully cited, auditable deliverables.

Product overview

Build is an AI-native operating partner for the built world that combines autonomous AI agents with domain experts to accelerate commercial real estate from concept to completion. The core platform is Dougie, a multi-agent AI system built on LangGraph, which powers two primary service offerings: Site Sourcing and Technical Diligence. All findings are stored in Vault, Build's proprietary data repository with built-in citation engine. Build Services delivers completed work outputs as outcomes (not software) through email correspondence, with AI agents executing workflows while human domain experts ensure judgment and accuracy. The platform covers asset classes including data centers, industrial/logistics, energy/power, office, telecommunications, mixed-use, hotels, and multifamily across 15 countries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Dougie: Build's AI platform - a multi-agent AI system built on LangGraph that automates the full commercial real estate development workflow.

Products and services

• Build Services Build's primary paid offering, delivering AI-powered commercial real estate development outcomes as completed work products — site selection studies, due diligence reports, and investment committee memos — to institutional investors, developers, governments, and F500 companies. Engagements are activated via email to the AI worker Dougie, executed by AI agents with domain expert oversight, and returned as fully cited deliverables.
• Site Sourcing Service AI-powered site sourcing service that systematically reviews on-market and off-market opportunities across target geographies, scoring each against a client's buy box across geospatial, planning, utility, environmental, and financial dimensions before surfacing results. Targeted at hyperscale data center developers and institutional investors.
• Technical Diligence Service Concurrent technical due diligence service that evaluates multiple jurisdictions in parallel across grid capacity, fiber access, planning constraints, environmental risks, physical conditions, and community sentiment — replacing sequential specialist reviews with a single auditable workflow. Used by hyperscale data center developers and institutional investors.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100+ projects delivered across 15 countries
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• LangChaincoreTechnology or IntegrationBuild uses LangGraph (from LangChain ecosystem) to launch multi-agent architecture for automating critical CRE workflows for data center development. Build has introduced AI Agents to CRE using LangGraph.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Skyline AI: AI-native commercial real estate investment analytics platform that applies machine learning to asset valuation and underwriting. Directly comparable to Build in bringing AI to CRE investment workflows.
• CompStak: Crowdsourced CRE lease and sale comp data platform used by appraisers, brokers, and investors. Comparable to Build as a data-driven CRE intelligence provider supporting underwriting decisions.
• Reonomy: CRE data and intelligence platform providing property intelligence, ownership data, and market analytics to brokers, lenders, and investors. Overlaps with Build's site sourcing and underwriting data layer.
• LightBox: CRE data and workflow platform for site selection, environmental due diligence, and risk analysis. Closely aligned with Build's technical diligence and environmental compliance offerings.
• Cherre: CRE data and analytics platform aggregating property, financial, and market data for institutional real estate owners. Compares to Build on the data-integration and underwriting layer of the CRE workflow.

Emerging players

• Bowery Valuation: AI-powered CRE appraisal platform for commercial and multifamily properties. Overlaps with Build's underwriting and valuation workflow but is narrower in scope.
• Placer.ai: AI-powered location intelligence and foot-traffic analytics platform used by CRE investors and retailers. Adjacent to Build's site selection and market research layer with a different primary data source.

Broad incumbents

• CBRE: World's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, offering valuation, advisory, and AI-enabled analytics. Comparable as an incumbent in the same end-to-end CRE workflow Build targets.
• JLL: Global commercial real estate services giant with capital markets, advisory, and AI/data initiatives (including the Skyline AI acquisition). Competes with Build across CRE investment workflows but as a broad incumbent.
• Cushman & Wakefield: Global CRE services firm covering capital markets, valuation, and project advisory with growing data and analytics offerings. Comparable broad incumbent competing for the same institutional buyer set.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors7 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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