Rio Aguina-Kang

ML Engineer @DraftedAI. Prev research @AdobeResearch, @StanfordHAI, @BrownVisualComp. Chiller of chillers

[Drafted @DraftedAI]

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We spoke with Business Insider (@ryajetha) about the vision, technology, and where we're headed next:

https://t.co/eWjZI7BDVa

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

It’s never been easier to design your dream house.

Draw a shape. Define your rooms. Set your constraints.

@DraftedAI generates complete floor plans, elevations, and 3D home designs in seconds.

Over the last month, 120,000 people generated 325,000+ home designs with https://t.co/XqC0LP5n3y.

[Drafted @DraftedAI]

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Most people spend their lives living in buildings they had little influence over.

We believe AI can help change that.

Over the last month, 120,000 people generated 325,000+ home designs with https://t.co/M3bUUqREhP

Today, we're excited to share that we've raised a $16M Seed led by Buckley Ventures to continue building multimodal generative models for residential architecture and spatial design.

Here's a glimpse of what we're building:

[Rio Aguina-Kang @rioagka]

Turning a floor plan into a working Revit model is one of the most tedious parts of early-stage design. You're squinting at a PDFs, tracing wall after wall, placing every door and window, just to recreate what's already on the page.

So I built Image2Revit at @DraftedAI . Upload a floor plan, get a Revit model with:
→ True-to-scale wall thicknesses
→ Doors with matching swing and family
→ Windows with real dimensions
→ Auto-alignment over the original plan
→ Fully complete, editable geometry

Hours of tracing, done in seconds. Demo below ↓

[Martin Pocius @MartinPocius]

The permitting process for home building is still painfully manual.

For subdivision planning, builders and developers test housing footprints against lots one-by-one - manually rotating plans, checking setbacks and frontage constraints, and making sure garages and driveways actually work with the road layout.

So I built a Revit tool at @DraftedAI that automatically:
→ matches viable footprints to lots
→ validates setbacks and frontage constraints
→ aligns garage and driveway orientation
→ generates lot/plan views ready for permitting

Generating PDFs for an entire development used to take a couple of days. With this tool, ~30 minutes.

[Rio Aguina-Kang @rioagka]

@umesh_ai @DraftedAI So cool to see people of all skill levels get this much creative control over their own house plans :)

[Umesh @umesh_ai]

The AI for floor plans!

You can now draw a custom shape and turn it into a cool floor plan.

@DraftedAI makes it all look easy.

[Rio Aguina-Kang @rioagka]

@const_ bro is roasting me live on main