Freeda raises €3.4M to transform construction plan reviews with AI

Paris-based Freeda,
the startup that detects hidden errors in construction plans using artificial
intelligence, has closed a €3.4 million funding round led by Frst with
participation from Brick & Mortar Ventures. The company is also joining
Station F’s Future 40, a program that selects the 40 most promising startups
from the Parisian campus.

In construction and real estate, plan
inconsistencies, regulatory non-compliance, and deviations from brand standards
account for about 70 per cent of delays before construction begins. Each month
of delay costs project owners on average more than €100,000, with higher
impacts for owner-operators. Teams typically spend over 100 hours per project
on manual compliance checks, and critical issues are still missed, leading to
redesign, change orders, and budget overruns.

Freeda has developed a plan-intelligence
platform that combines AI with field expertise to industrialise plan
verification. The process is broken into clear, actionable steps and executed
in hours or days rather than weeks.

By pairing artificial intelligence with
human expertise (architects, engineers, accessibility specialists, and
fire-safety experts), the platform identifies plan errors within 48 hours, compared
to more than 100 hours with manual checks. The results are both financial and
operational: avoiding delays can bring revenue forward and improve cost
control, while teams spend more time on design and other creative work instead
of repetitive verification.

Mariano Rodriguez,
CSO and co-founder of Freeda, explains:

Architectural
plans aren’t just voluminous — their complexity is on another level. Each sheet
is a layered document mixing graphic formats, successive versions, and nearly
identical symbols where a single line changes everything. OCR isn’t enough:
geometry, topology, units — two centimetres of discrepancy can fail an
inspection. This very complexity represents a massive opportunity, and our
expertise lies in transforming it into clear, automatable verification
processes.

With more than 10 clients and 10,000 plans
verified in 2025, Freeda targets the analysis of 1 million plans by 2026,
supporting projects across Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, and
the Middle East.

Freeda will use the funding to expand its team and industrialise plan reviews, recognising that AI alone isn’t enough. In
parallel, it will adapt the platform to local standards and practices as it
expands internationally, leveraging field expertise for globally relevant
analysis.