The AI boom needs somewhere to live. Data centres, power lines, and factories all start with months of paperwork before a single wall goes up. A British-founded startup says its AI can cut that grind by 95 per cent.
The company is Build, and on Tuesday it raised $8.5mn (€7.4mn) in seed funding led by Index Ventures. Pebblebed, Puzzle Ventures, and Tiny.vc joined, alongside a notable set of angels. They include OpenAI’s chief financial officer Sarah Friar and Blackstone’s chief technology officer John Stecher, Build told Tech Funding News.
Build works on the unglamorous front end of construction. Before anyone builds a data centre or a power plant, consultants spend weeks on site sourcing, technical due diligence, power assessments, and environmental checks.
Build automates that work. It pulls from more than 1,600 data sources and weighs planning, power, and political risks in parallel rather than one after another. The company says this cuts due-diligence timelines by more than 95 per cent, turning weeks into hours.
Selling work, not software
