🦄 Snaptrude: Designing buildings collaboratively

The world of Building Information Modeling (or BIM) tools is dominated by giants like Autodesk. As is the case with most industries monopolized with specific brands of software, innovation is slow. Popular real estate design platforms suffer from limited collaboration tools. Given the many kinds of people involved in each architectural project (engineers, interior designers, developers), it’s no surprise that this industry is ripe for disruption. Enter Snaptrude. CEO Altaf Ganihar comes with a background in computer vision and graphics and realized the need for such software after working on an architectural project for an internship. His team wants to innovate real estate design the way Figma or Google Docs changed interface design and word processing, respectively. By being accessible through a browser, Snaptrude is easy to access and simple to add other collaborators to regardless of their operating system. While Snaptrude isn’t the only company looking to shake up the market, it is one of the most comprehensive up-and-coming BIM solutions. Features like its cost estimation and simulation tools make it, in the words of its CEO, a truly “full-stack scenario.”