Augmenta is a Toronto company building spatial AI for autonomous building design, starting with automated electrical raceway routing and coordination for VDC teams.

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Definition

Augmenta is a Toronto-based company, led by co-founder and CEO Francesco Iorio, that describes its work as spatial AI for autonomous building design. Its first product area is electrical: the Augmenta Construction Platform (ACP) routes conduit and raceway systems through a building model, checks them against duct, pipe, and structure, and generates multiple clash-free options for a VDC team to compare. ACP runs in the browser, with a Revit add-in used to import the electrical and background models and to export finished conduit back to Revit as native elements. ACP 2.0 became generally available on June 17, 2026, adding real-time clash detection inside the platform, interactive steering and editing of routes, and underground and in-slab routing with pitch and slope. Augmenta says it developed the release with electrical contractors working on projects from warehouses to hyperscale data centers. Investors reported by CB Insights include Prelude Ventures, Montage Ventures, Hazelview Ventures, Eclipse, BDC Capital, and Suffolk Technologies. Pricing is not published.

In Depth

Anyone who has modeled electrical rough-in for a coordination meeting knows the work: hundreds of conduit runs threaded through a ceiling already crowded by duct, sprinkler main, and steel, followed by a clash report and another round of edits. Augmenta targets that production modeling. The VDC team defines the specs and preferred pathways, ACP generates routed raceway that avoids the background geometry, and the team reviews and adjusts the result rather than drawing every bend by hand. Each study returns several solutions, which is useful when the question is not just "does it fit" but "which layout uses less material and is easier to support."

The June 2026 ACP 2.0 release moved more of the coordination loop into Augmenta itself. Clash detection now runs live against the full 3D background, routes can be steered and edited in place, and underground and in-slab conduit with pitch and slope sits in the same workflow as overhead work. Revit remains the home for the model and the drawings: the add-in handles import, and finished conduit goes back as native Revit elements for QC and fabrication detailing.

The company frames electrical as the first step toward broader autonomous design of building systems, but what ships today is an electrical VDC tool for contractors. Teams evaluating it should test it on a dense area of a live job, compare the generated routes against their own detailing standards, and check how comfortable their fabrication shop is with the exported families.

Tool Details

Website

www.augmenta.ai/

Platforms

Cloud, SaaS, Web

Compatible With

Revit

Project Phases

Planning and Programming (Pre-Design)Schematic Design (Conceptual Design)Design Development

Location

Canada

Examples

1

An electrical contractor's VDC team imports a data hall model and generates overhead raceway options that avoid ductwork and cable tray before the first coordination meeting

2

A coordinator routes underground conduit with set slopes for an in-slab package and exports the result to Revit as native conduit

3

A preconstruction team compares several generated routing solutions to value engineer conduit lengths on a warehouse project

Frequently Asked Questions

Augmenta is a Toronto-based company, led by co-founder and CEO Francesco Iorio, that describes its work as spatial AI for autonomous building design. Its first product area is electrical: the Augmenta Construction Platform (ACP) routes conduit and raceway systems through a building model, checks them against duct, pipe, and structure, and generates multiple clash-free options for a VDC team to compare. ACP runs in the browser, with a Revit add-in used to import the electrical and background models and to export finished conduit back to Revit as native elements. ACP 2.0 became generally available on June 17, 2026, adding real-time clash detection inside the platform, interactive steering and editing of routes, and underground and in-slab routing with pitch and slope. Augmenta says it developed the release with electrical contractors working on projects from warehouses to hyperscale data centers. Investors reported by CB Insights include Prelude Ventures, Montage Ventures, Hazelview Ventures, Eclipse, BDC Capital, and Suffolk Technologies. Pricing is not published.

An electrical contractor's VDC team imports a data hall model and generates overhead raceway options that avoid ductwork and cable tray before the first coordination meeting. A coordinator routes underground conduit with set slopes for an in-slab package and exports the result to Revit as native conduit. A preconstruction team compares several generated routing solutions to value engineer conduit lengths on a warehouse project.