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A comment on Launch HN: PillarPlus (YC W20) – Automatically create construction blueprints.

Re:Launch HN: PillarPlus (YC W20) – Automatically create con... by edferda on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @01:35PM (#22740057)
Reading your website I've understood that your customers need to send you a complete set of architectural plans and you use your software to generate the MEP plans. Currently I work in the construction field and I can already see some reluctance to send the architectural plans to a third party. How do you plan on addressing this? Some(most, at least around here) companies already have in house MEP consultants(and they would still need them to validate your designs, as per local laws).

Since your designs are mostly being made by algorithms without much need of human intervention, why not provide it as a SaaS? Allow the firms to generate their own designs while also allowing their in house consultants to validate the designs.

That being said I am really excited for your project and I wish you the best of luck. This is something I've being dreaming of for ages.

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Re:Launch HN: PillarPlus (YC W20) – Automatically create con... by Rushil on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @02:41PM (#22740928)
Hey, Thanks a lot for your feedback. For your first question answer will be that we sign privacy agreements with architectural companies thus giving them surety of privacy for their drawings, and also all their drawings are saved in cloud with high security.

Coming on to MEP consultants requirement, so when we come in picture we assure that there is no need of any other MEP consultants as we work according to the local laws applying for the project and validate all drawings.

So, Right now we are using the software in-house only thus becoming only tech enabled consulting firm providing drawings at superior speed & quality, also we are working as a back office team for some consultants but the future vision is to convert it into SaaS.

Hope I answered all your questions, please let me know if there is anything else you want to know. Thanks!

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