BuiltWorlds

VIDEO Bricks & Bytes hosted a live podcast recording at our day at the Leonard innovation campus during last month’s Paris Global Summit. BuiltWorlds CEO Rosemarie Lipman joined hosts Owen Drury and Martin Piekarz to discuss a bit about BuiltWorlds, collaboration between Big Tech and the startup ecosystem, and incentives for collaboration between large corporations and small-to-medium sized contractors.

Helonic (formerly Articulate) CEO Milind Sagaram pitched the Y Combinator-backed startup that aims to provide an AI-powered platform that analyzes construction drawings, catch design errors, and automate tedious communication processes. The platform integrates with major industry tools, including Procore, Bluebeam and Autodesk, running automatically to help construction contractors eliminate delays, confusion, and rework.

This session explored how adopting connected, open-data systems and mobile technologies can eliminate inefficiencies, enhance governance, and empower real-time decision-making. Attendees learned how organizations are scaling innovation through phased implementation, while also successfully navigating digital transformation with effective change management and stakeholder engagement.

BuiltWorlds CEO Rosemarie Lipman is interviewed during the Bricks and Bytes podcast This year’s Paris Global Summit was special. It was intimate, actionable, and its holistic content examined the full, sweeping landscape of built environment tech, considering the perspectives of contractors, investors, and technology solution providers alike. It was an event for AEC industry leaders and decision makers.

Building Ease CEO Barbra BatShalom pitched the all-in-one digital workflow platform during the 2025 Innovating Building Materials & Supply Chain Conference. Instead of using multiple disconnected tools, Building Ease aims to combine design data, purchasing power, and supply chain management into a single, cohesive ecosystem bridging the gap between building design and project procurement.

The latest installment of BuiltWorlds Conversations, our webinar series available to the public, we had the chance to sit down with two experts (and speakers at the upcoming BuiltWorlds Construction Tech Conference) on data collection and governance as well as artificial intelligence adoption.

Following the news of Trimble’s acquisition of AI-powered risk reduction startup Document Crunch, a group of key players gathered at the Chicago Global Summit to break down the Document Crunch success story. Document Crunch CEO Josh Levy walked attendees through the startup’s early history, including how he connected with early investors Vivin Hedge (Zacua Ventures) and Jenny Song (Navitas Capital) at BuiltWorlds events.

As AI adoption accelerates, the demand for hyperscale and edge data centers is reaching unprecedented levels. This panel brought together leaders from the data center space to explore the why behind data centers, specifically how design, construction, and operations are evolving to meet the compute needs of the future.

As the AECO sector undergoes rapid transformation driven by technology, sustainability, and shifting market demands, its workforce faces unprecedented change. This panel brought together industry leaders and major global contractors to explore how the industry can navigate reskilling, talent retention, and evolving roles in light of new technologies.

“Superman is probably the most known superhero that can see through concrete,” said Birdsview CEO Andreas Persson in the opening of his winning pitch at the BuiltWorlds Demo Day Competition hosted by Leonard during the Paris Global Summit. “If that’s what’s defining a superhero, then Birdsview can let everybody become one.” The AI-powered solution aims to make it easier to secure and prolong the lifetime of the built world environment through rapid and user-friendly concrete inspection.