In Garden Grove, we focused on networking, live demos, and a preview of code compliance, with no stage pitch.

 

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Why We Chose Networking Over Pitching at VABA S4

On Friday September 26 2025 VABA hosted Pitch Perfect Season 4 REDEFINE at the Hyatt Regency Orange County 11999 Harbor Blvd Garden Grove CA. Only eight startups presented on stage creating a focused environment for investor and operator conversations.

Our founder showed up ready to meet and learn

We attended not to pitch but to meet investors, general contractors and construction firms, run hands-on demos, and preview our upcoming code compliance capabilities. We showed how construction teams can review plans faster, standardize estimating and takeoffs, and reduce permit risk.

Meet up with investors and construction professionals

Live Product Demos Builders Tried On Site

Live Product Demos at VABA S4

1) Instant Building Code Lookup

Ask natural language questions about corridors stairs egress fire separations accessibility and more. Jump to the right building code sections faster and reduce early stage guesswork during preconstruction and permit preparation.

2) AI Estimator for Construction Plans

Generate measurements counts and material takeoffs directly from plan sets. Validate quantities, export line items to your estimating templates, and compress bid timelines while keeping an audit trail.

3) AI Plan Review

Run an AI assisted pass over uploaded sheets to surface key sheets potential risk flags and details you can query in plain English. Pair with human QA to standardize checks across projects.

4) Code Compliance Preview

Automated plan aware code compliance checks mapped to the geometry and annotations in your drawings with jurisdiction specific logic for local amendments.

- Contextual checks include egress widths, stair risers and treads, corridor clearances, fire ratings, accessibility, and more.

- Audit ready reporting where every flag links to the relevant code section and the exact sheet or callout.

What We Learned from Investors and Contractors

- General contractors asked about rollout speed and hybrid QA where AI precheck is followed by human review.

- Estimators focused on time savings and exports into existing cost frameworks.

- Owners and developers emphasized code compliance signals to reduce risk and avoid rework.

Why This Matters for Construction

Plan check delays create cost and schedule risk. With construction AI teams can detect likely issues earlier, standardize takeoffs, and bring code compliance into everyday workflows long before formal review. Our goal is to deliver capabilities that are usable, explainable and auditable for real project teams.

 

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VABA Pitch Perfect Season 4 in Garden Grove gave us exactly what we came for, real conversations with investors and builders and real product time on live plan sets. The focus on networking over pitching let attendees experience instant building code lookup the AI estimator for construction plans and AI plan review while also getting a first look at our upcoming code compliance capability. If you want to see how these workflows can shorten your next bid and reduce permit risk, reach out to request a demo or ask about early access to code compliance.

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