BusinessDen, the outlet covering Denver's business and real estate scene, profiled Kestrel Labs: the pre-seed round led by New Stack Ventures with participation from Denver Ventures and FirstMile Ventures, the nine-person team working at 18th and California downtown, and the product built to take the permitting grind off architects' desks.
The piece starts where the problem starts: the sheer share of an architect's week that code compliance consumes.
“Architects are spending up to 20% of their time a week doing these activities.”
The article walks through how Kestrel gives that time back: the platform plugs into the 3D design tools architects already use and checks the entire building in about 30 seconds, surfacing every error against roughly 80% of municipal codes before the design ever reaches a plan reviewer.
It also captures where the company is today: several dozen customers running Kestrel across hundreds of projects, concentrated in Colorado and reaching design teams in Florida, California, New York, and Illinois.
We are proud to build this company in Denver, and hometown coverage like this means a lot.
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