Neuron Factory and Suffolk Expand Design Partnership to Advance AI-Powered Preconstruction
Partnership builds on Neuron Factory’s participation in Suffolk Technologies’ BOOST accelerator program and ongoing
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Neuron Factory, the knowledge graph of construction, announced today an expanded design partnership with Suffolk, one of the country’s most innovative and successful builders, to advance how artificial intelligence can support complex preconstruction workflows.
The partnership builds on a relationship that began through BOOST, Suffolk Technologies’ accelerator program, and has since evolved through a series of collaborative pilots and real-world use cases across Suffolk’s organization. As an early design partner, Suffolk has worked directly with the Neuron Factory team to identify high-value applications for AI, test the technology within active workflows, and provide feedback that is helping shape the platform for the needs of enterprise general contractors.
Preconstruction teams manage thousands of drawings, specifications, scope decisions, revisions and conversations before a project ever reaches the field. The most consequential risks often do not exist within any one document, but in the dependencies and changes between them. Neuron Factory is built to preserve that project history and make those connections visible. The platform ingests project information and organizes it into a connected knowledge graph, giving teams a record of what changed, why it changed and how individual decisions may affect other parts of a project. The goal is to help teams uncover scope gaps and cross-discipline risks earlier, while carrying critical context from initial pursuit through production handoff and beyond.
“Suffolk has been an important partner in shaping Neuron Factory from its early days,” said Zaid Kahn, co-founder and CEO of Neuron Factory. “Their teams bring deep experience navigating the complexity of preconstruction, and they’ve brought that perspective directly into how we’ve built our platform. Working alongside them has helped us sharpen where AI can have the greatest impact: connecting project knowledge, surfacing risk earlier, and giving teams the context they need to make better decisions. We’re excited to deepen that partnership and keep building around the realities of how leading construction teams work.”
Through the partnership, Neuron Factory and Suffolk teams are exploring capabilities across the preconstruction lifecycle, including the ability to retain institutional project knowledge, reason across drawings and specifications, identify potential scope and coordination gaps, and improve the transfer of project context between teams.
The collaboration also gives Neuron Factory direct feedback from experienced builders as the company continues developing technology specifically for the complexity, accuracy requirements and workflows of large general contractors.
“Every project creates an enormous amount of institutional knowledge across drawings, specifications, scope, decisions and revisions, and the relationships between all of that information become more valuable as the project evolves,” said Salil Pandit, co-founder and CTO of Neuron Factory. “Our work with Suffolk allows us to build against that complexity with experienced teams who know exactly where context matters. That feedback is helping us create an intelligence layer that can follow a project from preconstruction through handoff and beyond, while making what the team learns useful for the projects that come next.”
Mack Rush, Senior Associate of Emerging Technologies, Suffolk Tech said, “From the outset, we believed Neuron Factory had the vision and technical ability to make a meaningful impact on one of construction’s most challenging problems. Their team brings a rare combination of first-principles thinking, deep experience from companies like Waymo and Microsoft, and a genuine willingness to collaborate with industry partners. It’s been so exciting to work alongside them to explore how AI can turn the complexity of preconstruction into more connected, actionable intelligence; and it’s been doubly exciting seeing results we knew were possible with AI finally being delivered.”
The design partnership marks the next phase in Suffolk and Neuron Factory’s efforts to transform how preconstruction information is organized, analyzed, and acted upon. The organizations are evaluating opportunities to deploy Neuron Factory across increasingly complex project environments and scale its impact across Suffolk’s operations.
About Neuron Factory
Neuron Factory is the knowledge graph of construction, turning fragmented data into clear project context. Founded by former Microsoft and Waymo executives Zaid Kahn and Salil Pandit in 2025 in Redwood City, California, the company is backed by Zacua Ventures, Trimble Ventures, Suffolk Technologies, Imad Ventures, Activant Capital, Colle Capital, Karman Ventures, Punch Capital and Cordeel Group.
With multilingual capabilities built for global project teams, Neuron Factory works with leading construction teams across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, including some of the industry’s largest general contractors, such as Cordeel Group and Suffolk Construction.
To learn more, visit neuronfactory.ai
About Suffolk
Suffolk is a national enterprise that builds, innovates and invests. Suffolk is an end-to-end business that delivers value across the entire project lifecycle by leveraging its core construction management services with vertical service lines that include design, self-perform construction services, technology start-up investment (Suffolk Technologies), supply chain management, and innovation research and development focused on advancing AI and data-driven solutions that will redefine the way America builds.
Suffolk – America’s Contractor – is a national company with more than $10 billion in annual revenue, 3,500 employees, and offices in Boston (headquarters); New York City and Westchester County, New York; Estero, Miami, Tampa and West Palm Beach, Florida; Dallas; Los Angeles, Milpitas, San Francisco and San Diego, California; Las Vegas; Portland, Maine; New Haven, Connecticut; Herndon, Virginia; and Salt Lake City.
Suffolk manages some of the most complex, sophisticated projects in the country, serving clients in every major industry sector, including healthcare, life sciences, education, gaming, transportation/aviation, government and public work, mission critical, advanced technology and commercial. Suffolk is privately held and is led by Founder, Chairman and CEO John Fish. Suffolk is ranked #7 on its list of “Top CM-at-Risk Contractors.” For more information, visit www.suffolk.com and follow Suffolk on Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.
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