THE CRUNCH

Blueprints AI, a Santa Monica startup incorporated in 2025 by architect Al Drams and data scientist Coco Cao, uses AI to produce code-compliant, permit-ready architectural construction blueprints in minutes from a 2D sketch or PDF. It is exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this week as part of the Startup Battlefield 200 cohort.

The company is unveiling a second-generation version at the event, which runs from October 13 to 15. Customers can start with a description or sketch and generate blueprints covering architecture, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and interior design at once. A single design change updates the entire project and is checked against local building codes, an upgrade over the first iteration, which produced construction documents but did not allow in-tool design changes. Early customers are already using version 2, and Drams said it becomes publicly available this week.

The models were trained on eight years of approved drawing sets from Drams' own design and construction firm. The first-generation software costs between $3,200 and $8,500 a month depending on the plan, with custom enterprise pricing available, and the startup may add a one-time flat-fee option for single projects. It is targeting professional architecture, engineering and design firms as well as developers and real estate owners, and a third version adding structural analysis and electrical panel design is already in the works.

The co-founders stress the technology does not replace licensed architects: professionals still review the documents and affix their seal before submission for permits. Drams, who holds architecture degrees from the University of Tehran and ran his own firm before turning to software, argues the payoff is time. He said architects spend roughly 80% of their day on drafting and only 20% on design, and he wants to flip that ratio.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

The second-generation software is set to become publicly available this week, and a third version adding structural analysis and electrical panel design is in development.