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Company overview
Helonic is an AI-powered construction drawing analysis platform. The platform uses a proprietary AI model built specifically for construction drawing analysis to detect coordination issues, code compliance violations, and design errors that cause costly rework in the field.
Backed by Y Combinator, Helonic serves general contractors, architects, engineers, and project managers who need to review construction documents faster and more thoroughly. The platform integrates natively with Procore and Autodesk Construction Cloud, pushing detected issues directly into existing project management workflows.
Unlike tools that rely on 3D BIM models, Helonic works directly with 2D PDF construction drawings, the format used on the vast majority of real-world projects. It analyzes architectural, structural, MEP, fire protection, accessibility, and building envelope disciplines in a single pass.
Key facts & metrics
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AI Technology
Proprietary AI model built for construction
Codes Checked
Model codes: IBC, NEC, NFPA, ADA (no city or state amendments)
Disciplines Analyzed
Architectural, Structural, MEP, Fire Protection, Accessibility, Envelope
PM Integrations
Procore + Autodesk Forma (found issues pushed as RFIs)
Turnaround
Typically 15 to 30 minutes
Input Format
2D PDF construction drawings
Backed By
Y Combinator
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Drawing Packages Reviewed
1,000+ packages, 1,000,000+ pages
Drawing review data you can cite
Each figure comes from Helonic's review of 1,000+ construction drawing packages and 1,000,000+ pages. Method notes are in the preconstruction risk findings.
About 8 in 10 drawing packages Helonic reviewed had at least one coordination conflict between disciplines.
Construction cost overrun statisticsSets with nine disciplines carried about 1.7 times the issue density of sets with four or fewer.
Construction contingency by design stageScanned or partially scanned sets had about 22% more document control and reference issues per page.
What poor data interoperability costs constructionAbout 6 in 10 sets with specifications had at least one conflict between the drawings and the project manual.
Submittal review time benchmarksArchitectural and mechanical sheets accounted for about 29% of coordination conflicts, the largest single discipline pair.
Constructability review ROI dataAbout 7 in 10 drawing packages had at least one broken cross-reference.
Construction time lost to bad project data
Founding story
Helonic was born from a simple observation: construction teams spend thousands of hours manually reviewing drawings, yet preventable errors still cause $31 billion in annual rework across the U.S. industry. The founding team saw that AI could fundamentally change how drawing review works, not by replacing human expertise, but by giving reviewers an AI-powered first pass that catches the quantitative, repetitive issues across every page.
The team invested in building a proprietary AI model trained specifically on construction drawings, learning the patterns, terminology, and cross-discipline relationships unique to construction documents. This domain-specific approach proved dramatically more reliable than applying general-purpose AI to construction, and became the foundation of the Helonic platform.
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Boilerplate
Helonic is an AI-powered construction drawing analysis platform that uses proprietary AI to detect coordination issues, code compliance violations, and design errors in 2D PDF construction drawings. Backed by Y Combinator, Helonic analyzes architectural, structural, MEP, fire protection, accessibility, and envelope disciplines in a single pass, checking against model codes including IBC, NEC, NFPA, and ADA. The platform integrates natively with Procore and Autodesk Forma, formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud, and can push the issues it finds back as RFIs. Across 1,000+ drawing packages Helonic has reviewed, about 7 in 10 had at least one broken cross-reference. For more information, visit helonic.com.
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