Turkish fencing champion turns founder with Arctis AI
A former Turkish fencing champion has swapped the piste for the building site with the launch of Arctis AI, a construction technology startup that has raised more than $1 million to bring AI agents into one of the world’s least digitised industries.
The athlete-turned-entrepreneur, whose competitive background in elite sport informs the company’s focus on precision and discipline, is positioning Arctis AI as a new kind of digital assistant for contractors, developers and project owners. The platform uses specialised AI agents to automate many of the planning and coordination tasks that often cause delays and cost overruns on major projects.
AI agents for construction workflows
Arctis AI is building domain-specific AI agents that can ingest architectural drawings, schedules, procurement data and on-site reports. These agents are designed to flag clashes between trades, highlight potential safety issues, and forecast cost and timeline risks before they impact the build.
By combining computer vision, large language models and construction-specific knowledge graphs, the startup aims to give project managers a real-time, conversational layer over complex project data. Instead of manually reconciling spreadsheets and PDFs, teams can query the system for progress, risk hot spots or compliance questions and receive structured, auditable answers.
Fresh capital to accelerate product and market expansion
The newly raised $1M+ round, from a mix of early-stage venture capital firms and strategic angel investors with backgrounds in construction and enterprise software, will be used to deepen the product and expand pilot deployments.
According to the company, the funding will support hiring in AI engineering, product and customer success, as well as integrations with widely used tools in the sector such as project management suites and Building Information Modeling (BIM) platforms. Initial go-to-market efforts are focused on mid-sized contractors and developers that are under pressure to improve margins while meeting tighter regulatory and sustainability requirements.
As labour shortages, volatile material prices and stricter oversight reshape the industry, Arctis AI is betting that specialised AI agents will become an everyday tool on construction projects, much like drones and digital twins are today.