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[ Posted Jun 22, 2026 · 3 min read ]
At its 12th Best of Show Honors for digital technologies at AIA San Diego, Architosh named Kestrel the Innovation winner, calling it a "brand-new tool … that Omaha Beach moment" for the profession. "We believe Kestrel is that."
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Short notes, longer essays, and product releases, in reverse chronological order.
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Jul 14, 2026
"No one gets into architecture with a passion for code compliance"
Marissa Ritchen joined Startup Conversations, the interview series from Chaos's CGconnect community, for an hour on the future of BIM: why 80% of compliance is black and white, and what real-time code checking gives back to design.
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Jul 9, 2026
"An architect will always be a storyteller"
Dezeen covered The Productive Architect, its Trimble SketchUp panel at AIA26, where Marissa Ritchen argued AI belongs on the repetitive work, like code compliance, so architects get more time for design and storytelling.
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Jun 30, 2026
Architects spend up to 20% of their week on code compliance. Checking should take 30 seconds.
BusinessDen profiled Kestrel: the pre-seed round led by New Stack Ventures, whole-building code checks in about 30 seconds, and several dozen customers across hundreds of projects, from a nine-person team in downtown Denver.
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Jun 22, 2026
Architosh names Kestrel Best of Show for Innovation at AIA26
Architosh's 12th Best of Show Honors named Kestrel the Innovation winner: "a brand-new tool … that Omaha Beach moment … We believe Kestrel is that," wrote founder & editor-in-chief Anthony Frausto-Robledo, AIA.
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Jun 11, 2026
When senior architects retire, their code knowledge leaves with them
Architosh covered our AIA '26 launch with a bigger argument: as a generation of architects retires, decades of tacit code knowledge goes with them. Kestrel, wrote its editor-in-chief, "arrived just in time for the world of architecture."
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Jun 10, 2026
Kestrel Labs unveils the first AI-powered compliance platform built natively inside BIM
Announced at AIA 2026 in San Diego: the public launch of Kestrel's building code compliance platform, running inside Autodesk Revit at the design stage, backed by $2.15M in pre-seed and a data agreement with the ICC.
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Jun 1, 2026
"The architect finds out while changes are still cheap, not after submission"
aec+tech sat down with Co-Founder & CEO Marian Pulford on why the timing of finding a code issue decides what it costs, and how Kestrel turns building codes into machine-readable logic checked inside the model.
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May 18, 2026
Sponsoring the archi+tech Social Night at AIA '26
Friday, June 12 at Carrier Johnson + Culture in San Diego, alongside the AIA 2026 Conference on Architecture & Design. Co-sponsored with Slantis.
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May 14, 2026
Kestrel at AIA '26: live demos in the Innovation Zone
Marissa Ritchen, Austin Pulford, Brian Farber, and Marian Pulford will be demoing Kestrel live throughout the conference in the Innovation Zone.
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Apr 30, 2026
Notes from the Autodesk AECO Technology Partner Summit
A short read on what we heard from the AECO ecosystem in San Francisco, and where the partner landscape around AI and BIM-native workflows is heading next.
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Apr 21, 2026
Kestrel is sponsoring AECTechCon 2026 in St. Louis
Booth + team on the floor at AECTechCon 2026 this May. Co-sponsoring alongside KAI. Come find us if you're working on AI, BIM, or building code compliance.
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Apr 10, 2026
Brian Farber, who led global PR for Autodesk's AEC business, joins Kestrel
Brian led global PR for Autodesk's AEC business for nearly seven years, and was a White House appointee at the US DOT. He brings deep AEC ecosystem fluency to the team.
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Mar 27, 2026
Marissa Ritchen joins Kestrel as Chief Industry Officer
A licensed architect (AIA, RA, NCARB) with 15+ years across residential, commercial, and landmark work joins Kestrel to lead industry engagement.
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Dec 9, 2025
Demand from 60+ firms and jurisdictions: our Techstars Boston wrap
Three months that compressed years of progress into a single quarter: paid design partners, demand from 60+ firms and jurisdictions, ecosystem partnerships with Autodesk and Trimble.
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Sep 8, 2025
Kestrel named a finalist in the Trimble 0-60 Challenge
A signal that model-based building code compliance is gaining industry adoption. Notes on the selection, the broader shift, and what it means for design teams.
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