This AI startup says it can generate permit-ready blueprints in minutes

Nearly two decades ago, a young college student wrote his final thesis about software capable of generating design documents for school buildings. Al Drams was studying architecture — following in the footsteps of his parents and grandfather — but it was technology that really intrigued him.

There was just one problem: the technology his idea required didn’t exist yet.

“Then ChatGPT came along,” said Drams, recalling when OpenAI released the generative AI chatbot that uses large language models (LLMs) in…