Lintel
AI-powered risk detection for construction documents
Team
The right team for this problem
Ibrahim Mohsin
UNC Chapel Hill
Built SMS-based RAG AI connecting 1000s of government resources for elderly caregivers in Western NC. Founded Workly, a gig marketplace reaching 400+ users and $4000+ job volume across two college towns in 3 months. Developed AI customer portal MVP handling 300+ daily support requests for e-commerce business.
Jathan Pai
Claremont McKenna College
400+ hours reviewing Civil Engineering documents during internship. Research at CalTech (Applied Physics) and Vanderbilt Medical School. Led Governor Gray Davis's housing policy research at the Rose Institute. Brings deep technical rigor and domain context to Lintel's contradiction detection and administrative agent workflows.
5+ years building together
Jathan and Ibrahim have been collaborating since high school. They won the VEX Robotics State Championship together and were a top 5 U.S. team, were debate partners, and research collaborators on a 180+ page economics paper.
The Problem
Construction loses $100B+ annually to poor documentation
We spoke with 50+ construction and engineering professionals about the top causes of cost overruns. The same pain points emerged.
Scope Gaps and Ambiguities
Project scopes are often missing key details and leave trade responsibilities open to interpretation. Teams lose time resolving preventable scope disputes, change orders, and rework.
Plan Conflicts
Drawings, specs, and schedules drift out of sync as revisions stack up. Those conflicts reach the field, triggering RFIs, coordination churn, and costly schedule slips.
Regulatory Non-Compliance
Code and permitting issues often sit undetected from design through preconstruction. When they surface at review or inspection, teams absorb delays, redesign cycles, and potential fines.
The Solution
Catch risks before they land on-site
Lintel's AI continuously scans your entire project document set, detecting contradictions and compliance risks — with citations for instant verification. Administrative agents speed up submittal drafting, compliance reports, RFI management, and addendum tracking, dramatically cutting administrative time and costs.
Cross-Document Detection
Find contradictions across drawings, specs, and schedules automatically — no manual cross-referencing.
Evidence-Based Citations
Every issue is backed by precise references to source pages and sections for instant verification.
Workflow-Ready Outputs
Administrative agents speed up submittal and compliance report drafting, RFI management, and addendum tracking — all with deep understanding of your project's documents. Export directly to Procore and more.
Dashboard
LiveHow It Works
Five steps from documents to decisions
Connect
Upload or connect your entire project document set from cloud or local storage.
Scan
AI parses drawings, specs, and schedules in real-time for contradictions and compliance risks.
Prioritize
Issues are ranked by severity and confidence to focus team attention on highest-impact risks.
Cite
Every issue includes precise citations to source pages and sections for instant verification.
Act
Generate issue logs and RFI-ready packets with context for seamless workflow integration.
Product
Built for how construction teams actually work
Automated Issue Detection
AI-powered scanning identifies contradictions across drawings, specs, and schedules in real-time — no manual cross-checking.
Administrative Automation
Administrative agents handle RFI management, submittal drafting, compliance reports, and addendum tracking. With deep understanding of your project documents, they dramatically reduce administrative time and costs.
Evidence-Based Insights
Every issue comes with pinpointed evidence from source documents, making verification instant and auditable.
AI Document Intelligence
Ask questions across your entire construction document set and get instant answers with citations. Agents understand your project context to deliver accurate, actionable insights.
Market Opportunity
A massive, underserved market
Total Addressable Market
Construction management software is a $10.6B market in 2025, growing to $11.6B in 2026. U.S. construction spend hit $2.15T in 2024.
Serviceable Market
U.S. nonresidential teams working on complex projects — where RFI volume and documentation complexity are highest.
Initial Target
ENR Top 400 contractors and mid-to-large builders already adopting workflow technology. Buyers are VP Precon, Ops, and Project Execs.
Traction & Go-to-Market
Discovery done. Product built. Ready to deploy.
Customer Discovery
Engaged 50+ construction professionals to identify where contradictions arise and who owns resolution.
Prototype Development
Built MVP with issue detection, evidence citations, and RFI packet generation capabilities.
Design Partner Pilots
Planning pilots on active projects to validate workflows and drive adoption metrics.
Paid Deployment
Convert pilot projects to paid contracts and begin multi-project expansion.
Go-to-Market Strategy
Demo
Free Pilot on active projects with complex document sets. Deliver prioritized issue logs, evidence, and RFI-ready packets.
Prove and Iterate
Measure issues found before field impact, verification time saved, and user adoption to validate clear ROI.
Expand
Convert pilots to paid deployments with enterprise customers, roll out across additional projects, teams, and portfolio accounts.
Competitive Landscape
Why Lintel wins
Existing tools manage workflows, but they still rely on manual admin effort for RFIs, submittals, and compliance reporting. Lintel combines contradiction detection with administrative agents that materially reduce both cycle time and processing cost.
Existing Solutions
Procore · Bluebeam · PlanGrid · BuilderTrend
Manage workflows but lack systematic contradiction detection
Manual review is slow, inconsistent, and doesn't scale
Admin teams still draft RFIs, submittals, and compliance reports largely by hand
No agent-driven workflow that consistently lowers admin hours and RFI processing cost
Lintel
Purpose-built for contradiction detection
Cross-document contradiction and scope gap detection
Evidence-based citations with source page references
Administrative agents automate RFI management, submittal drafting, compliance reports, and addendum tracking
Faster admin cycles and lower processing cost with auditable, construction-specific outputs
The Ask
Let's build the future of
construction intelligence
We're seeking pre-seed funding and strategic support to bring Lintel to thousands of contractors — helping them build homes, offices, and apartments faster and more affordably.
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