For prospective residency partners

Field Intelligence Infrastructure for AI's expansion into the physical world.

Field Intelligence Infrastructure built into your projects — and patented for the next 14 years.

Headline · Residency partner view
One partner. 12-month exclusive. 2026.
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The thesis

Bits raced ahead. Atoms got left behind.

Software ate the digital world. The physical world — buildings, plants, infrastructure — is still run on text messages, paper, and memory. That's the gap where information dies.

BITS
Digital world
SaaS, cloud, AI. Trillions in value. Compounding daily.
← where information & productivity die →
ATOMS
Physical world
13% of global GDP. Productivity flat for 40 years.

Built Data closes that gap. We turn what happens in the field — every conversation, decision, and change — into structured intelligence the rest of the stack (AI, ERP, BIM, insurance) can actually use.

The problem

The most valuable data on every project never gets captured.

Text messages
↘ lost
delete after the project closes
Phone calls
↘ lost
no record exists
Whiteboard sketches
↘ lost
erased Friday
Field notebooks
↘ lost
left in the truck
Tribal memory
↘ lost
walks out the door
Email threads
↘ lost
buried in 200 inboxes
Live counter · industry-wide
$0 of construction knowledge has been lost since you opened this page.

Modeled from McKinsey's 2017 finding that large projects typically run 20% longer and up to 80% over budget. Industry put-in-place spend ≈ $2T/yr in the US alone. The knowledge that would prevent it is being created — and immediately discarded — every second of every shift.

What McKinsey prescribed · 2017
"The construction industry needs a control tower — a real-time digital nerve center for every project."
McKinsey Global Institute · Reinventing Construction
Eight years later
Built Data is the only patented control tower for the field.
Granted patent. Live deployments. 30,000+ events processed.
The solution · three pillars

Capture. Structure. Defend.

One platform. Three job-to-be-done outcomes. Tap a pillar to see what the operator actually sees.

Live · interactive

What Built Data is worth on your next project

Drag the sliders to model documentation hours eliminated and claims-defense exposure protected.

Project size
$50M
Field crew
60 people
Project duration
18 months
Loaded hourly rate
$95/hr
Your scenario
Documentation hours eliminated
1.1K
hrs
Cost recovered
$107.7K
Claims-defense exposure protected
$600K
Modeled at 0.75 hrs/super/workday across crew/15 supervisors. Claims protection reflects 30% reduction on the typical 4% project-claims exposure.
Traction

Already in the field. Already producing data.

Why now · the patent vs. AI adoption

The window between "filed early" and "obvious to all" is now.

Scroll to scrub through the timeline. The mint line is Built Data's patent. The dotted curve is general AI adoption inside enterprise.

201920222025202620302039
2019
Patent filed
Provisional application for the Field Intelligence method.
2022
Patent granted
Granted; foundational claims locked in.
2025
Technology viable
LLMs + voice + edge make the workflow finally usable in the field.
2026
the window
Residency window
12-month exclusive co-development with one anchor partner.
2030
Embedded standard
Field intelligence layer assumed across enterprise GCs.
2039
Patent runway
End of granted patent term; 14 years of defensive moat.
Market

A $2.9T physical buildout, a $10–50B addressable layer.

$13T$120B$10–50BBUILT DATA
TAM
$13T
TAM · Global construction & physical infrastructure
SAM
$120B
SAM · Digital field tools & project intelligence
SOM
$10–50B
SOM · Patented field intelligence layer
The scenario you modeled in the calculator above lands inside this SOM. Every residency partner contributes to capturing it.
Team

Field-grade founders. Patent in hand.

B
Brett
Co-founder & CEO
MEP JourneymanPatent InventorField operator
Spent a decade in the field as an MEP journeyman before inventing the Field Intelligence method now patented.
C
Connor
Co-founder & CTO
AI systemsVoice → StructuredEdge deployment
Builds the engine that turns the messiest possible input — humans on a jobsite — into structured data.
B
Brett U.
Co-founder & COO
GTMEnterprise OpsConstruction GC alum
Runs the residency program and owns deployment with anchor partners.
Software ecosystem

A layer underneath the stack you already run.

Built Data feeds structured field intelligence into the systems your teams already use — not another window to log into.

Built Data
Procore
Autodesk Construction Cloud
Bluebeam
Bentley
Trimble
Microsoft Azure
AWS
OpenAI
Slack
Microsoft Teams
Mission

We believe construction productivity has been flat for 40 years for one reason.

The data that matters most has never been captured.

We are the field intelligence layer that closes the gap.

We turn what humans say and do on a jobsite into structured truth.

And we make AI's expansion into the physical world finally possible.

Apply for the 2026 Residency

The 2026 Residency window is open.

One partner. Twelve months. Co-developed and exclusive. Apply to deploy Built Data across your active projects in 2026.

Slots
1 partner
Term
12 months
Exclusivity
Region + segment
Start
Q1 2026