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PLAN0 AI

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AI powered construction cost estimation & analytics.

Spring 2026Founded 20245 people
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AI insightcan contain mistakes
Construction Cost AnalyticsSaaSReal estate developers, contractors, investorsLow competition
Moat
Proprietary historical cost database and computer vision IP; growing advantage with each project analyzed.
Key risk
Adoption friction in conservative industry; regional cost variations hard to generalize; data quality risk.
Why now
Cost inflation and labor shortages forcing builders to optimize; AI enables rapid plan analysis.
Competitors
RSMeans, Turner Cost Index, custom consulting models
โ†ป Pivot / rename signal

This company has previously operated under โ€œPLANO AI Inc.โ€. A rename frequently marks a pivot in positioning or product โ€” useful raw material for variant ideas.

About

PLAN0 is building the Bloomberg of construction for real estate developers, investors, and general contractors โ€” $20B of projects are already running through the platform. We analyze architectural plans using computer vision AI models to generate detailed cost estimates and analytics in minutes. Through industry partnerships, the platform is also building a database of historical and real-time localized project cost data that power its analytics. Using quant finance inspired ML models, it can decompose construction costs in market observable factors to predict all local trade level costs up to 24 months out with high accuracy.

Founders ยท 2

Arash Barati
Arash BaratiFounder
Columbia

Co-Founder & CEO at Plan0 AI. 12 years in real estate private equity, development, and lending ($7B+ of real estate projects). Columbia MSc + ex adjunct professor.

Shervin Barati
Shervin BaratiFounder
AppleUToronto๐ŸŽ“ University of Toronto

Co-founder & CTO at Plan0 AI. Former Apple engineering manager (8 years), leading development of hearing health features for AirPods. Roboticist at heart (Engineering Science - Robotics, University of Toronto).

Real Estate and ConstructionComputer VisionReal EstateConstructionProptechAI

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