Paul Andrus is the founder of BuildCore AI, an applied-AI platform focused on automating AEC and construction-industry workflows — from drawing ingestion and material takeoff to compliance, fabrication, and field reporting. He has a background in structural and miscellaneous steel estimating and has led teams that bridge real-world construction constraints with modern AI/ML capabilities. At BuildCore AI he’s building agentic, GPU-powered pipelines that can read architectural/MEP/steel drawings, normalize them to industry standards, and expose that intelligence to estimators, GCs, fabricators, and owners in real time. Paul speaks frequently about “drawing-native AI” — using the information already inside plans and submittals to reduce rework, compress bid timelines, and increase project certainty.
Company Bio (BuildCore AI)
BuildCore AI is a US-based construction intelligence company that turns project drawings, specs, and field data into structured, machine-readable assets for estimating, fabrication, and operations. The platform combines computer vision, multi-agent orchestration, and standards-aware data models (AIA/CSI/AISC) to automate tasks like quantity extraction, annotation, compliance checks, and document routing. BuildCore AI is built to run on local GPU hardware as well as in the cloud, making it ideal for contractors, fabricators, and owners who need speed, privacy, and repeatability across projects.