🎧 START pod: Milind Sagaram, Co-Founder & CEO, Articulate / Helonic "Speeding Up Construction with AI"

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Construction doesn't fail on the jobsite. It fails in the drawings. The jobsite just reveals it

Project managers spend half their time scanning plans page by page for conflicts between disciplines. Plumbing through steel beams. Electrical into HVAC

They still miss most of it. Millions in rework when caught in the field

Milind Sagaram built Articulate to catch these issues before construction starts

AI reads the PDFs. Finds clashes across architectural, structural, and MEP sheets. Generates draft issue reports automatically

The surprise: construction teams aren't resistant. They want it more than anyone expected

🎙️ Milind Sagaram, Co-Founder & CEO, Articulate / Helonic.com on Fondo START pod

00:18 AI for finding drawing issues before construction starts
02:24 The old workflow: manual plan review
02:45 The consequence: rework and delays
03:00 Small issues, massive downstream cost
03:27 Copilot, not replacement
04:04 Why AI belongs in construction
04:39 What surprised him about selling into the industry
05:59 Who Articulate sells to