ARK is an agentic reasoning knowledgebase for the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) sector that connects disconnected project systems into a single, cited record. It reads correspondence, drawings, specs, and contracts to surface commercially material changes, design conflicts, and variation entitlements with source evidence attached. The platform supports workflows including variation intelligence, design assurance, and evidence traceability, with continuous monitoring capabilities planned under the "Sentinel" watch packs.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Construction and engineering projects rely on disconnected systems—CDEs, email, spreadsheets, and models—that do not communicate with each other. This fragmentation causes design changes to go unnoticed across domains, leading to rework, delays, disputes, and lost margin, with 98% of megaprojects running over budget and 77% finishing late.
Solution
ARK is an agentic reasoning knowledgebase that connects the systems AECO teams already use and builds a single, cited picture of the project record. It reads documents across the project lifecycle—drawings, specifications, BOQs, RFIs, contracts, emails, and meeting minutes—and answers questions with evidence attached to the source. ARK identifies variation entitlements, reconciles design packages for conflicts, and reconstructs decision histories on demand. Every answer is permission-aware, auditable, and grounded in the actual project record, enabling teams to act on and defend their decisions. The platform is neutral, competing with none of the tools it connects, and is designed to deliver a genuine ROI by recovering lost time and protecting margin.
Target Audience
Primary users are commercial directors, contracts managers, quantity surveyors, design directors, technical managers, and project directors at main contractors, specialist subcontractors, and architecture and engineering practices. The platform also serves claims and disputes leads and heads of project controls who need auditable evidence chains.
Features
- Cross-system document ingestion and reasoning across CDEs, SharePoint, email, Teams, and models, with no replacement of existing tools
- Cited answers that link every finding to the specific document, page, and clause, ensuring defensibility and auditability
- Variation intelligence that checks instructions, client comments, and RFI replies against the contract to surface additional scope with evidence attached
- Design assurance that reconciles entire work packages—drawings, specs, BOQs, schedules, and RFIs—to identify conflicts, gaps, and missing information before procurement
- Evidence traceability that reconstructs chronological decision and change histories from source documents, surviving staff turnover
- Change propagation analysis that maps downstream impacts of proposed changes across cost, scope, and programme
- Client rejection validity analysis that classifies rejections as valid, new scope, or ambiguous, with cited positions
- Commercially meaningful change detection that ranks material differences over immaterial visual ones, naming downstream items affected
- Planned Sentinel watch packs for continuous, automated monitoring and alerts when new correspondence or revisions alter the project picture