AI for the Built World.

The world's largest institutions trust Build to accelerate their most important projects.

Build is your AI operating partner for the Built World. Build pairs domain expertise with agentic AI to accelerate your most important projects a magnitude faster than market.

Top teams use Build for

Site Selection
Due Diligence
Deal Screening
Geospatial Data
Development Services
Complex Workflows
AI Implementation
Site Selection
Due Diligence
Deal Screening
Geospatial Data
Development Services
Complex Workflows
AI Implementation
Site Selection
Due Diligence
Deal Screening
Geospatial Data
Development Services
Complex Workflows
AI Implementation

Why Institutions
Build with us.

By Builders, for Builders

Domain experts from real estate, infrastructure, and energy train our systems and stay involved through the lifecycle of your project.

Quality, delivered in hours rather than weeks

Domain expertise and institution-grade AI are at the core of our operation, not a layer on top. You get better output, faster.

We meet you where you work

Connects to your existing email, data rooms, and internal systems. Rather than rip-and-replace, we augment the processes you already have.

100% auditable accuracy

Trace every recommendation back to a primary source. No black boxes — auditable outputs your team can present with confidence.

Enterprise Security

Built for security, compliance, and auditability on day one. Controls and configurable guardrails with institution-grade infrastructure.

By the numbers.

$2T+

Collective AUM of firms served

100+

Projects delivered

1,600+

Live data sources and tools

15

Countries served

What is Build?

Build is the AI-native operating partner for the built world — the first agentic development firm combining autonomous AI agents with domain experts to accelerate commercial real estate from concept to completion.

What does Build do?

Build's AI platform, Dougie, automates mission-critical CRE workflows including site selection, desktop due diligence, underwriting, investment committee memos, test fit analysis, market research, zoning analysis, environmental diligence, and ESG reporting. The world's largest institutional investors, developers, and operators trust Build to deliver fully vetted opportunities in days rather than weeks.

Who uses Build?

Build serves institutional real estate clients across data centers, industrials, energy, power, office, telecommunications, mixed-use development, hotels, and multifamily. Clients include Tishman Speyer and Stack Infrastructure.

Who founded Build?

Build was co-founded by James Stirrat-Ellis (CEO, Harvard Architecture, ex-Heatherwick Studio) and Ben McClusky (CTO, multi-agent reinforcement learning at Imperial College London, ex-Gorillas). The company has offices in New York, San Francisco and London.