Built by people who've lived the problem

Forebuilder is founded by a product leader in AEC technology and a research scientist who spent 25 years building the design tools the industry runs on.

Alex Tessier
Alex Tessier
Co-Founder · Technology
Alex spent 25+ years at Autodesk Research, most recently as Director of Simulation Optimization & Systems Research. He was a founding member of the Autodesk Complex Systems group, building the computational foundations that power generative design, building simulation, and architectural analysis tools used across the industry.
MSc Computer Science, University of Toronto
BASc Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo
25+ years at Autodesk Research — computational geometry, building simulation, generative design
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Dania El Hassan
Dania El Hassan
Co-Founder · Product
Dania led product management for Autodesk's $2B+ AutoCAD line for a decade, shipping AI features to 1M+ users and launching AutoCAD Web from zero. Before that, she managed construction at Turner on $300M projects and saw firsthand how design reasoning disappears across phases, tools, and teams. She started Forebuilder to fix it.
MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management
BS Civil Engineering, Tufts University
Autodesk (Director, AutoCAD PM), Turner Construction, Fieldwire, Onshape
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Why we're building this

The AEC industry generates trillions of dollars in built work every year, but the reasoning behind design decisions — the constraints, tradeoffs, and institutional knowledge — disappears the moment a meeting ends. We believe that intelligence should compound, not evaporate. Forebuilder is the platform that makes that possible.

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