Founder @DraftedAI (P26) | Prev. Founder Atmos (S20) | Investor @Merge, @Sabi, @BrincDrones, @Railway, @ReflectOrbital, @catalystlabsx, @nucleusgenomics, +45

San Francisco, CA
A few years ago, I was helping people design and build custom homes. I expected the hard part to be construction. Instead, I became obsessed with something that happened much earlier. People had questions about what was possible, but getting answers often required weeks or months of work. Then AI started making it dramatically easier to explore possibilities in other creative domains - images, music, video, coding. It made me wonder: What happens when exploring architecture becomes easy too? That's what eventually became Drafted. We believe AI can make it dramatically easier for people to imagine, explore, and ultimately shape the physical world around them.
1/4 Most people spend their lives living in buildings they had little influence over. We believe AI can help change that. Over the last month, 120,000 people generated 325,000+ home designs with Drafted.ai Today, we're excited to share that we've raised a $16M Seed led by Buckley Ventures to continue building multimodal generative models for residential architecture and spatial design. Here's a glimpse of what we're building:
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Super excited to see what architects and drafters do with this!
Introducing Drafted in Revit. Draw a footprint, add your room list, and 5 AI generated floor plans come back in 45 seconds, built as native Revit walls, floors, roofs, doors, windows, and rooms.
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This is super sick!!
Today we're launching rentahuman.ai/signs The easiest way to advertise your product to the highest concentration of builders in the world. Pick a corner, an event, or a company's front door, and real humans will show up holding your sign.
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1/ Biological threats can bring a country to a halt without a single shot being fired. Yet much of our biodefense infrastructure has barely changed in decades, even as America’s institutions produce extraordinary scientific breakthroughs.
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I've been only using Codex for a while now, but I finally canceled my Calude subscription after seeing so many step function improvements with Astra 🙌 Such a good feeling!
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Announcing: Railway Sandboxes Spin up thousands of VMs right next to your infra on Railway Run, checkpoint, and fork and let your agents (and code) run
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ok we're getting somewhere
what the fuck am i doing
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Designing the right roof used to mean hours of tweaking parameters. With Drafted, you can now sculpt a roof in minutes.
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After seeing how unique my design designs are with the new roof editing, it's hard to imagine buying a house that already exists. Everything else just feels super cookie-cutter now.
Damn, our new roof editing is sick!
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When I feel uncertain, I talk to users. When I feel inspired, I build. I love this cycle.
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it’s just insane that designing a custom home literally costs $10,000-$50,000+ and takes months but this AI now lets you do it for free in under an hour lol > you choose every room you want and set the target square footage > next, you sketch the shape of the house and place important rooms like the kitchen, garage, or primary bedroom > the AI turns those inputs into a complete floor plan, filling in the walls, doors, windows, and hallways > if any section feels wrong, you highlight it and the AI regenerates only that area while keeping everything else intact > when you drag a wall or resize a room, the AI automatically updates the roofline, exterior, and 3D model in real time > once the layout feels right...you choose the materials, the AI renders the finished concept, and you export everything as PDF, CAD, or BIM files so before a single wall gets built, you can keep redesigning the house until it finally matches the one in your head then hand your architect the floor plan, exterior renders, and 3D model they need to bring it to life
It’s never been easier to design your dream house. Draw a shape. Define your rooms. Set your constraints. @DraftedAI generates complete floor plans, elevations, and 3D home designs in seconds. Over the last month, 120,000 people generated 325,000+ home designs with Drafted.ai.
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My conversation with Sam Altman (@sama), CEO of OpenAI. We discuss: - Kimi, distillation, and open source - OpenAI's compute bets - The Hugging Face incident - What happens after AGI - Raising kids in an age of abundant intelligence - And much more Enjoy! TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 4:10 The Race for Compute 14:24 A Sci-Fi Cyber Incident 16:14 The Promise and Risks of AGI 23:27 How AI Will Change Jobs 29:38 Sam’s Vision for a Personal AI 35:02 Robotics, ChatGPT, and What Comes Next 44:39 The Weight of Leading OpenAI 51:36 OpenAI’s Biggest Lessons
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This is the huge danger with vibe coding. Everyone wants to build and create now but it leads to a lot of team members trying to recreate a slightly better version of something that isn’t a good use of time. It’s super important to push back on this and prioritize what moves the business forward. Not work about work.
quick update on how this is going: they have gone back to linear because maintaining their internal tool that they vibecoded was taking away from their actual work’s bandwidth.
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Windows and doors just got smarter in Drafted. -> Stretch a window and it adds more to fill the space -> Swap any door between single, double, sliding, or sidelights -> Edits and moves show up instantly on the 3D model
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Is this a feature or a bug?
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That's cool
Pulled the fastest-growing startups on X by follower growth over last 90 days:
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Users in 150+ countries asked for it. Now it’s live in Drafted. Metric units! Switch between imperial and metric at anytime.
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Introducing Projects & Collaborators in Drafted. Create a project, invite collaborators, design together in one shared space, and approve or reject designs as a team.
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New Operating Systems for the Physical World @charliewarren Most of the global workforce does not sit at a desk, but the software used to manage physical work has barely changed in decades. The next operating systems will coordinate humans, robots, and AI agents together. The companies that build them could manage far more than software workflows. They could manage the labor itself.
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