en.Wedoany.com Reported - Kestrel Labs unveiled a compliance platform at the American Institute of Architects 2026 Conference on Architecture & Design, which operates within Autodesk Revit's Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflow, integrating jurisdiction-specific regulatory requirements into the design process before drawing submissions are reviewed. The company also announced $2.15 million in pre-seed funding from New Stack Ventures, FirstMile Ventures, Denver Ventures, and Avesta Fund.

The platform includes three features: Kestrel Compliance Analysis performs compliance checks within Revit in approximately 30 seconds, linking results to specific model elements and referencing relevant code sections; Kestrel Compliance Chat is an AI building code assistant that answers project-specific compliance questions in plain language, citing relevant code sections, and is accessible within Revit and browsers; Kestrel Portal is a web-based compliance dashboard for project managers and company leadership, requiring no BIM files.

The platform is designed to address the knowledge transfer challenge of regulatory expertise in architecture firms: experienced senior architects nearing retirement, while junior architects handle project work but lack sufficient time for knowledge transfer. Co-founder Austin Pulford (AIA, NCARB) brings 20 years of practice experience to product development; co-founder and CEO Marian Pulford led the company's formation around this issue. Kestrel's compliance checks use code data from an agreement with the International Code Council, which publishes model building codes used in the United States and other countries.

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