Our manifesto.

Why We Exist

The world cannot solve housing shortages, energy constraints, or infrastructure decay without fixing how we build. Every major challenge from housing affordability to climate resilience traces back to slow, fragmented development and construction processes.

The people developing and building are not the problem. They are ambitious, deeply skilled, and responsible for delivering the places where people live, work, and power the world. What slows them down is a knowledge system held together with spreadsheets, PDFs, legacy portals, disconnected consultants, and workflows that change whenever someone changes roles.

Cities grow slower than the demand placed on them. Entitlements drag. Bids come in inconsistent. Scopes vary by trade. Tender cycles slip. Coordination breaks. Risks multiply.

The world needs a new operating system for pre-construction.

Mason exists to create it.

Our Mission

We want to accelerate the development of large physical projects by orders of magnitude. Our mission is to build the intelligence layer that connects city data, drawings, specifications, precedent knowledge, contract requirements, and project workflows into a unified AI-native system that works alongside every developer and builder.

Imagine saying, "We need a new site," and minutes later your team has precedent research, zoning analysis, risks mapped, and path-to-approval steps. Imagine a tender cycle where bids arrive clean, scopes match perfectly, exclusions are caught instantly, and the GC can compare and validate everything with confidence.

This is the world that becomes possible when pre-construction workflows are powered by purpose-built AI employees instead of manual, disconnected processes.

Where We Begin

We start with the bottlenecks that cost developers and GCs time and capital every day, and require creating reports or documents from some data pool.
Workflows like:

• Entitlement research that waits on consultants

• Tracking requirements across hundreds of city PDFs

• Tender and bid analysis buried in emails

• Scopes of work that vary by trade and format

• Data room review that burns entire weeks

• Navigating policy and zoning changes across portfolios

These are repeatable, document-heavy, context-driven processes that AI can execute with precision. By capturing the knowledge behind each workflow and pairing it with real-time municipal data, Mason becomes a force multiplier.

The Intelligence Layer

Each workflow that Mason automates feeds a shared knowledge and reasoning system. As we ingest more city data, more project data, more bids, more scopes, and more expert feedback, Mason compounds.

This layer enables:

• Site diligence and precedent research that happens in minutes and is always current

• Automated city submission drafting

• Institutional design memory that transcends team changes and calibrates capital to outcomes, ensuring you never over-design or under-deliver

• Real-time entitlement tracking across portfolios

• Structured scopes of work extracted from drawings and specs

• Tender and bid comparisons surfaced with clarity on gaps, risks, and exclusions

• Construction requirements pulled directly from regulations and design documents

Developers guide the projects. General Contractors execute the build. Mason powers everything that creates drag between the two.

The Path Forward

Our roadmap is not a feature list. It is a progression toward an autonomous development and construction platform.

Phase one delivers AI employees that execute core workflows for acquisition, entitlements, tender analysis, scope generation, and pre-construction.

Phase two expands the intelligence layer to support design coordination, procurement evaluation, and advanced compliance automation.

Phase three unlocks downstream automation across construction oversight, material sequencing, and cost intelligence, turning the development and build lifecycle into a connected chain of machine-driven decisions validated by experts.

The end state: a world where projects move from concept to approvals to tender to build-ready with speed that matches real demand.

How We Operate

Built for the field. Mason adapts to real workflows across developers, REITs, and GCs.
Accuracy matters. Cities do not accept errors and neither do builders.
Security is foundational. Customer data stays private, controlled, and isolated.
AI native, not AI added-later. Every workflow is powered by multi-agent systems designed for real estate and construction.
Co-build with customers. Developers and GCs shape the evolution of Mason by using it, challenging it, and pushing it toward outcomes that actually move the needle: approvals, clean bids, and faster project delivery.

Join Us

We are building the intelligence infrastructure that will reshape how cities grow and how projects reach the finish line.
If you develop, build, analyze, plan, design, or invest in the built environment, Mason is for you.

Together we can accelerate the projects that shape our cities and unlock a more abundant world.

Alexander Wu, CEO

alexander@usemason.ai