“Upcodes is one of the best things that has ever happened to the profession—hands down!” – Teri Coates CANVAS Architecture
Constructing or renovating anything in the built environment means reconciling two constraints: physics and regulation. While physics remains thankfully consistent and straightforward, understanding building regulations is more like doing battle with the Lernaean Hydra. Historically, the process has been tedious. Architects, engineers and builders have had to flip through books and locate individual manuals in an analog journey unique to each project. At least that was how it was before UpCodes.
UpCodes simplified this byzantine labyrinth into one comprehensive code compliance platform, enabling users to research, collaborate, and calculate code requirements efficiently—effectively accelerating design to construction. Today, over 900,000 AEC professionals use UpCodes each month. Having cemented its platform into the daily workflow of the AEC community, UpCodes is now launching its second pillar of functionality: code compliant building product discovery.
Having cemented its platform into the daily workflow of the AEC community, UpCodes is now launching its second pillar of functionality: code compliant building product discovery.
With over 6 million digitized codes and regulations, as well as hundreds of thousands of building products and assemblies, in its library, UpCodes is perfectly positioned to help AEC professionals discover the products that best meet their design requirements. The construction materials market in the US was $147 billion in 2022, and this number is estimated to have increased in subsequent years. Today, building products manufacturers spend over $80 billion each year marketing their products hoping they get remembered during the design phase. With their libraries integrated into UpCodes, BPMs can now reach a project with the right product at the perfect time—similar to Google Ads.
Brothers Scott and Garret Reynolds have been aggressively pursuing their vision since they launched in YC’s Summer 2017 Cohort. We have been privileged to watch them grow, and in 2022, Building Ventures led the company’s Seed round. Over the past two years, we have witnessed incredible growth in revenue, product capabilities, and perhaps most importantly users and, with this, user engagement.
Recently, the company launched its AI Copilot, an LLM specifically designed to facilitate research and provide contextual answers to code questions, pulling from frequently updated code sections and jurisdiction-specific code adoptions. Only UpCode’s real-time databases and contextually aware workflows can provide compliance-grade results. And now with the addition of Product Libraries, users can turbocharge their product discovery and selection with more efficient and compliant workflows across an integrated ecosystem.
The UpCodes platform features Copilot, an AI-powered code assistant to provide tailored responses to project-specific questions, complete with links to relevant code sections.
We are thrilled to have participated in UpCodes most recent round led by G Ventures, along with our friends at Point9, Liquid2, and Y Combinator. We look forward to working with Scott & Garrett and the entire team as they embark on this new chapter of the UpCodes story.
Learn more about UpCodes here.
