Upgraid

Upgraid is building the digital infrastructure for built environment upgrades: an AI model native to the built environment that helps building upgrade providers target, assess and propose upgrades. The problem it addresses is substantial. People spend roughly 90% of their time inside buildings; buildings consume about one third of global energy and produce around 40% of global emissions; and there are billions of them worldwide. The company's core product, the Upgraid model, extracts and interprets billions of datapoints to determine what upgrades a building needs and which factors affect whether those upgrades will actually happen. Alongside it sits a platform for upgrade providers, with tools to identify buildings requiring their specific upgrades, prepare compelling first meetings with building owners, assess upgrade feasibility rapidly, and produce persuasive upgrade proposals. The technical work spans artificial intelligence, machine learning, building science, built environment data analytics, energy efficiency and feasibility modeling. Upgraid describes an interdisciplinary team of building scientists, AI and ML experts, and business leaders, comfortable with both the detailed physical dynamics of buildings and the financial and practical considerations of the businesses that upgrade them. The stated mission is to upgrade the buildings people live, learn and work in. The company is hiring, and can be found at https://upgraid.us/.