NEXUS HESTIA
Technologies  ·  Los Angeles, CA  ·  2024
Pre-Seed
$600K
Raise  ·  $4.5M Post-Money Val.
On-premise BIM & asset intelligence — built by architects, for architects.
The Problem

Architecture Firms Are Data Rich, Intelligence Poor

  • 20+ years of project images — unsearchable, unclassified
  • Revit files contain billions of design decisions — locked in proprietary binary format
  • No AI tool runs on-premise; firms won't send client IP to the cloud
  • BIM data silos cost 30%+ of project coordination time
The Solution

Two Interlocking AI Layers — Both On-Prem

Product 01

Image Intelligence Core — NLP search across project photo archives. LLaVA + Llama3 + ChromaDB. Working demo live.

Product 02

BIM Intelligence Core — Revit graph navigation + NLP query layer. Search across BIM element relationships in plain language.

⚡ Breakthrough: Revit graph + NLP search — no equivalent exists on-market
Market Opportunity
8,000+
mid-size US architecture firms — addressable day one
$480M
SAM at $60K ARR/firm × 1% market capture
$4.5B
AEC AI software TAM by 2030 (Mordor Intelligence)
faster project data retrieval vs. manual search baseline
Competitive Landscape
Solution On-Prem BIM NLP Image AI AEC Native
Nexus Hestia ✦
Autodesk Forma ~
Newforma ~
General AI (GPT-4o) ~ ~
Trimble Connect
Traction & Proof Points
2 live working demos — Image Intelligence Core + Revit Graph Search, running locally on Ollama
Active pilot with Southern California architecture firm — real data, real feedback
Trimble 0-60 Accelerator — internal champion engaged; HoloLens integration pathway identified
109-firm prospect list compiled in Southern California with verified technology leadership contacts
Proprietary training data moat — .txt description pairs generated per image create Phase 3 fine-tuning dataset
Use of Funds — $600K
Engineering (hire)
40%
Sales & BD
25%
Pilot Deployment
20%
Hardware / Infra
10%
Operations
5%
18-Month Milestones

3 paying pilot clients → $180K ARR  ·  BIM Intelligence Core v1.0 launch  ·  Trimble partnership or accelerator close  ·  Seed round at $12M+ val.

Team
Natasha Bajc
Co-Founder & CEO
Architect, computational designer, and multimedia artist. SCI-Arc + University of Belgrade. Ongoing studies in Affective Computing at USC. Built the working prototypes. The product is her lived domain expertise.
Mudassar Shaikh
Co-Founder & AI Engineer
AI Engineer with advanced technology background in entertainment industry. Leads model architecture, pipeline engineering, and deployment infrastructure.
Business Model
Phase 1 — Now

Consulting-first deployment. Data harvesting, structuring, and local AI setup. $15K–$40K per engagement. Builds the client relationship and data asset.

Phase 2 — 6 mo.

Annual SaaS subscription. Image + BIM Intelligence Core licensed per firm. $24K–$60K/yr ARR. On-prem or air-gapped deployment option at premium tier.

Phase 3 — 18 mo.

Proprietary model licensing. Description pairs generated per client = AEC-specific fine-tuning dataset. Differentiated image generation model for architecture. Platform play.