We solve the largest construction question humanity has ever faced.

The construction sector as we know it is, in much of the world, not the thing that builds most of what gets built. In the fastest-growing cities, around 60% of dwellings are built informally, outside procurement and approval altogether - at great cost to current and future generations.

Meanwhile, construction capital is allocated, earmarked, banked - yet stranded. Deployable capital is failing to land, to the tune of hundreds of billions worldwide.

At the heart of the problem is a sector that, in spite of its talent, cannot absorb capital in a way that answers the market in compliance with tightening regulatory demands. The industry runs on a sequence in which the answer is sketched before the question has been fully asked, and that arrangement no longer works in the Age of Technology. It is time to End the Stone Age of construction.

With the help of 4,897 cities across 18 territories, the best firms in the industry, manufacturers, and the entire value chain across multiple continents, we answer the question of how cities will house the next billion people.

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Construction is ready for change. The alternative is stranded billions, unmet climate mandates, and a generation locked out of the homes they need.

FutureCraft delivers the open-source, demand-side platform that turns city context into buildable specifications. Cities get free infrastructure. Architects earn from the network. Citizens get cheaper houses. Manufacturers get deal flow, paying only on atoms placed.

And everyone, everywhere, gets a better world.

Platform

DAIdalus: a resolution pipeline.
Three resolvers, three open standards.

The platform takes the context of a place, resolves the structural and material complexity of a building it needs, and produces outputs that anyone - architect, manufacturer, fabricator, construction firm, permitting authority - can act on directly. Each resolver runs on an open standard with an existing community: ETSI NGSI-LD for context, COMPAS for complexity, BHoM for perspicuity.

Context Resolver

Reads the place. Building codes, climate envelopes, carbon budgets, zoning, demand signals, site conditions, mobility and acoustic data - ingested as linked data from a network of context brokers running alongside cities' own urban data platforms. Cities sovereignly govern their data.

Standard: ETSI NGSI-LD, FIWARE Context Broker.
Output: a queryable context object the next stage acts on.

Complexity Resolver

Resolves the building. Takes the context object, the relevant patterns from the Digital Housing Commons, and the verified product data of participating manufacturers, and runs them through a single parametric environment - geometry, structural, fabrication, rule-based analysis. Manufacturer data elevates generic patterns into named, procurable, bankable specifications.

Standard: COMPAS (ETH Zurich, NCCR Digital Fabrication).
Output: the minimal viable configuration that satisfies all constraints.

Perspicuity Resolver

Releases the spec. Materialises the resolved configuration into native BIM files, fabrication-ready geometry, bills of material, and carbon and compliance artefacts that travel with the building rather than being assembled afterwards. Every release carries a state - valid, conditional, expired, non-admissible. The platform only releases configurations whose state supports the decision they are entering.

Standard: BHoM, IFC, BIM-native translators.
Output: downloadable, inspectable, interoperable.

      Some components are operational (the configurator, the COMPAS computational core, the BHoM materialisation). Some are entering pilot use (manufacturer product data calibration, the OPAQ legibility view, the regulatory ingest pipeline). Some depend on participating cities, manufacturers, and certification partners coming on board.
    

What we built

Four years from a handful to nearly five thousand cities.

A network of nearly 5,000 cities across 18 territories, with entire countries signing on, grown from an initial handful over the course of four years. A coalition of world-renowned architects and engineers, hundreds of architecture faculties, the New European Bauhaus, InnovaWood, manufacturers, suppliers, technology partners, and standards bodies. The first AI-designed house from context data in the world, erected and standing in Belgium. A regulatory chatbot proven on Mumbai data, with recent RAG validation in Tallinn confirming the path to automated compliance across the network. A configurator built on Tallinn data. DAIdalus brought to the threshold of release. The Declaration to End The Stone Age, drafted, circulating, and anchoring the city engagement. HOST://protocol published as the platform's ethics charter.

Invited engagements included GAIA-X Summit, FIWARE Summit, Smart Cities Expo, CERN, Alpbach Forum, the New European Bauhaus Summit, and the Belgian national parliament, among many others.

~5,000

Cities across 18 territories, four years from a handful

11 of 13

Typologies of occupiable structure covered, medical and sports pending

450+

Realised precedents informing the seed pattern corpus

First

AI-designed house from context data, in the world. Built and standing.

Typology coverage - Digital Housing Commons

Affordable

Urban

Suburban

Municipal

Education

Multi-purpose

Commercial

Industry

Office

Data

Tiny

Medical

Sports

Eleven typologies of occupiable structure covered. Medical and sports infrastructure pending.

The Commercial Model

Manufacturers pay for dealflow.
We charge based on atoms placed.

Manufacturers' verified product data calibrates into the Complexity Resolver. The resolver is blind to who is paying - it scores fit. Better data sharpens the fit. Better products sharpen the fit. Manufacturers participating with high-resolution data see their products included where they fit, and their volume grows with the network's volume.

Cities and citizens do not pay. Architects and engineers earn from the network rather than paying to enter it. The platform earns on units realised, calibrated to the carbon each unit sequesters or avoids. Manufacturers in a category-region pool share that gross equally, scaled by the category's share of the build. As wood-frame structures win on score and the build sequesters more, the pool grows for every category in that build, including HVAC, finishes, and the rest.

5–20×

Lower than industry cost-per-lead

100%

Calibrated on realised projects, not synthetic data

Team

The core team.

Dr. Davor Meersman

CEO & Founder

Global city network. EC, G20, ASEAN, UN. Self-funded for four years.

Oz Taspinar

Strategy

Fundraising, investor relations, partnerships. Former partner KPMG Global.

Kris Libunao

City Network

Government relationships. Singapore lead. Built the majority of the network.

Oscar Gutierrez

Engineering

Resolver pipeline, data engineering, prototyping.

Evelien Verschroeven

Relational Infra

Service design, community of practice, HACC outreach.

Jan Bunge

Architectural AI

World-class computational architect with a focus on AI system governance.

We solve the largest construction question humanity has ever faced.

DAIdalus: a resolution pipeline. Three resolvers, three open standards.

Four years from a handful to nearly five thousand cities.

Manufacturers pay for dealflow. We charge based on atoms placed.

The core team.

We are a platform doing real work.

DAIdalus: a resolution pipeline.
Three resolvers, three open standards.

Manufacturers pay for dealflow.
We charge based on atoms placed.