Structured AI, a platform that has quality assurance and quality control artificial intelligence agents developed for construction, has raised a $4.2-million seed round, bringing its total funding to $5 million. The round was led by FCVC. Other investors include the Y Combinator, 20VC, Cherry Ventures, Zero Prime Ventures, Transpose Platform and Sequoia Capital Scout.

Raymond Zhao, co-founder and CEO of StructuredAI, said, “We trained our own computer vision models. Over the last couple of years, vision has gotten really good and identifying the marks on documents and checking them against work in the field has been unlocked.”

Structured AI’s optical recognition platform runs QA checks across entire drawing sets before a senior engineer reviews them. Engineer Syska Hennessy Group has been testing the platform and helping StructuredAI develop its platform.

Robert Ioanna, executive vice president of Syska Hennessy Group in New York, said, “About four years ago, we invested in them as one of our seed stage companies, and we also partner with them with sort of a goal of seeing innovation and change in the industry. By partnering with some of these startups and giving them access, we get a tool that we really like and can use that’s custom built.”

Early on in their partnership, Syska Hennessy engineers told Zhao and the Structured AI team that MEP coordination was a common pain point. That feedback eventually evolved into the OCR and AI-powered platform that addresses all manner of QA/QC issues on projects.

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