Product Salamandra Gives the Drafting Away and Meters the AI, for One Code and One Sheet Set Surfaced publicly this week in two contech roundups: a Tel Aviv company whose browser tool takes an architectural DWG and returns a life safety sheet set — core detected, doors and stairs measured, symbols placed under one legend, occupant load tables built per floor, exported as a layered DWG. Manual drafting is free and the AI runs on a daily credit allowance. A second service line drafts for fire safety engineers in 48 hours and says plainly who signs. Hugo Pegley · Nov 10, 2026
Funding Mach9 Raised $34M After Deciding the Scanner Was Not the Bottleneck A $34 million Series A announced 21 October, co-led by First Round Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners, takes Mach9's total funding to $49 million. The company was founded in 2021 as Mach9 Robotics to build inspection hardware; it dropped both the hardware and the word from its name and now sells the drafting step instead. Hugo Pegley · Oct 21, 2026
Funding Rayon Raised €10M to Put AI in the Drawing Rather Than the Render Partech led a €10 million Series A into the Paris company behind a browser-based CAD tool for interior designers and architects, taking its total to roughly €16 million. Version 4, due before the end of the year, adds 3D and agentic AI. The bet is about which artefact AI should attach to. Hugo Pegley · Sep 30, 2026
