We thought it was time big tech paid attention to the AEC industry.
We came to AEC from the startup world, where we spent years working alongside the newest software being built. Then we started working with AEC firms and found an industry delivering some of the most consequential work in the country on software that had barely moved in a decade. Not because the industry lacked ambition, but because almost nobody had bothered to build for it.
Atlas is built to show firms how to win. The work moves fast and the stakes on a single pursuit are enormous, so we built a digital twin of the thing that decides whether a firm delivers or not: its people, and what they have actually proven they can do.
It runs on the best of what AI can do today, with a person in the loop and a hard line down the middle. The AI gathers and cites the evidence. Deterministic math does the scoring. Every answer shows its work, because a number you cannot check is a number you cannot act on. We build it with AEC firms, for AEC firms, and we answer the demo calls ourselves.
Built for the firms that build everything else.
Two people, one phone line
Ken Dugan
Eleven years in talent: executive search, talent acquisition leadership through M&A and expansion, recruiting for Bay Area AI startups, and AEC search. Ken still recruits for AEC firms every day, which is where Atlas's problem came from.
Penn State
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Reth Eddy
Sixteen years in talent leadership, running workforce and capacity planning, headcount forecasting, and the standards for responsible AI in hiring at high-growth technology companies. A Certified Diversity Recruiter, angel investor, and advisor to early-stage founders, Reth builds the systems that make hiring repeatable at scale.
Lafayette College · Wharton Executive Education
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