Higharc

Frontier AI models can reason about words and code. Floor plans, load-bearing walls, and change orders? Not so much. Join Higharc's Conor Sedam and Vaidas Razgaitis for a HousingWire webinar on why static CAD drawings aren't data, and what "homebuilding intelligence" really requires. August 27th | 2 p.m. ET Save your spot: https://lnkd.in/gP9Z4Q_e

We’re excited to share that Higharc’s research on BIM-native AI has been accepted for presentation at EUVIP 2026! “BIM-Native Tokenization for Constraint-Aware Room Layout Synthesis,” by Manuel Rodríguez Ladrón de Guevara, Ph.D, Jinmo Rhee, Ardavan Bidgoli, Ph.D., Vaidas Razgaitis and Michael Bergin, explores the representation of BIM scenes as sequences of structured tokens containing categorical and continuous building attributes. The research introduces the Small Building Model (SBM), a domain-specific model for BIM layout generation. The work helped inform the research behind Higharc’s Generative Building Model (GBM), which powers generative design in Higharc Studio. The paper will be presented at the European Conference on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP 2026) in Luxembourg this fall. Read about the research: https://lnkd.in/gEAw2ejH Read the paper on arXiv: https://lnkd.in/gNQQnSax #EUVIP2026 #GenerativeDesign #BIM #SpatialAI

Today, Higharc was named to the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies. No. 517, growing 5x faster than this year's median honoree, in our first year on the list! We started this company because we believe better homes could be built more affordably. Every day since, builders have proven that thesis. They've used Higharc to design homes faster, cut time to community open, and sell more once they get there. This growth is theirs before it's ours. To our team, thank you for building something builders actually trust with their most complex work. To our customers and partners, thank you for trusting Higharc to build your homes, for the feedback that made it better, and for building alongside us. We're proud of what we've built, and even more proud of what it's making possible for the builders who use it every day. Read more about the Inc. Magazine recognition: https://lnkd.in/erVrjupJ #Inc5000

Congratulations to our co-founder and Chief R&D Officer, Michael Bergin, named a 2026 HousingWire Insider! The Insiders award recognizes operational leaders across mortgage, real estate, technology, and finance whose behind-the-scenes execution drives real business results. Michael was recognized alongside 84 other honorees for the work that's helped shape Higharc's platform and impact for homebuilders. We couldn't be prouder to see his contributions recognized industry-wide.

Our AI Special Projects team has been experimenting with applying GAN logic (yes, the same framework behind image generation) to software engineering itself. The result: two AI agents locked in an adversarial loop. A Generator agent hunts for vulnerabilities and fragile code, then writes fixes using red/green TDD. A Discriminator agent reviews every diff against our AGENTS.md files before anything merges. A third "Moderator" agent watches for friction between the two and improves the codebase's legibility for agents overall. One specific agent worth knowing about: Jacques-the-shrimp, our resident codebase cleaner (yes, named after Finding Nemo's tank-obsessed shrimp). Jacques hunts down under-tested code, architectural drift, and functions begging to be broken apart, then opens PRs while the rest of us sleep. Vaidas Razgaitis breaks down the full framework, the tech stack, and what he learned building it:

What a week at PCBC 2026 From meaningful conversations at our booth about AI in homebuilding and the value of connected product data, to catching up with customers, partners, and friends old and new, this show reminded us why we love this industry. Always energizing to be in a room full of builders and innovators pushing this industry forward together.

A wall in Higharc isn't a line. It's data, tied to a builder's own rules, regional codes, and preferred SKUs, computed rather than inferred. Martyn Day at AEC Magazine frames it as a shift in where value sits in homebuilding tech, away from drawing geometry, toward the data underneath it. That's the whole idea behind Higharc: homes as structured data, not drawings with information bolted on. It's why a design can move from sketch to structural detail without anyone touching a redraw. Read the full feature: https://lnkd.in/en_Ur4TC

Our Director of Industry Engagement & Strategic Partnerships, Conor Sedam, is joining a PCBC 2026 roundtable alongside Bob Cain (ECI Software Solutions) and John Galante (AE Ventures) to discuss digital design, purchasing, and production solutions. The conversation digs into where digital tools are actually moving the needle across design, estimating, purchasing, and production, and where they're falling short, plus how builders are connecting design to estimating and purchasing, improving bidding and scheduling, and cutting down on rework across trade coordination. If you're at PCBC, come sit in: https://lnkd.in/ein2qY7N And swing by the Higharc booth afterward, we'd love to talk.

Higharc’s Generative Building Model produces AI floor plans that can actually be built. https://lnkd.in/eBj-9uNu Our production version generates furnished room layouts within existing room envelopes, always taking geometry, spatial relationships and constraints into account. Our researchers are also developing the next version of GBM, which generates complete BIM home models from natural-language descriptions. #HomebuildingAI #GenerativeDesign #BIM #ConstructionTech

Our Co-founder and Chief R&D Officer, Michael Bergin, is taking the stage at PCBC 2026 alongside Al Trellis (Home Builders Network) for a live case study on AI across the homebuilding lifecycle. The session walks through a real local market from start to finish, identifying the target buyer, shaping product and pricing strategy, modernizing a dated plan with AI design tools, and closing with an AI-generated marketing campaign to sell the home as spec. A builder's full workflow, compressed from weeks to minutes. If you're at PCBC, you won't want to miss it: https://lnkd.in/daiwHFwE