Helix works like an engineer. It reads the plans, designs every discipline, finds and fixes the clashes, and produces the drawings and documentation. Qualified people review it and sign it off.
The world needs to build more than it has engineers to build it. Every quarter, A$82.5bn of construction work in Australia waits on the same engineers: A$27.9bn in homes, A$18.0bn in commercial and A$36.7bn in infrastructure. A$81.1bn of commercial work (offices, hospitals, data centres, warehouses) is approved but not yet built, up 33% in a year. The country is 124,000 homes behind its housing target and 141,000 engineers short in 2026, rising to 300,000 by 2027. Bad data, coordination failure and rework cost A$62bn a year, and homes built per hour worked have fallen 53% since 1995. Every project still runs the same manual loop: mark up a PDF, send it to a drafter, check it against code clause by clause, send it back. Every AI tool on the market makes that engineer a little faster, but the engineer still draws every pipe. Faster drawing tools don’t fix this. Engineering is a labour problem.
Helix is building Engineering Superintelligence for the construction industry: an autonomous workforce for a $13-trillion industry. One upload in, a construction-ready project out. There’s an autonomous engineer for every discipline and one orchestrator that coordinates them. Our Hydraulic engineer reads a messy architect’s PDF and produces the 3D model, drainage design, riser schematics, fixture schedule and specification to AS/NZS 3500, saving 80–90% of time and effort per design task. Our Roof engineer takes a floor plan and produces an interactive 3D roof, a full take-off (area, hips, ridges, valleys, fascia) and an estimating report in 10 minutes, where the industry takes up to 48 hours. Under the hood, it’s engineering intelligence that builds its own tools, across four layers: plan understanding, discipline engines, coordination and reasoning. SO IT DOES NOT HALLUCINATE. When it meets a drawing it hasn’t seen, a governed loop adapts, builds a new tool, validates it, completes the job and learns, so every project makes the next one faster. Fire, electrical, mechanical, structural and civil engineers follow on the same platform. Everyone built a tool. We built the engineer.
We’re raising A$500K to go faster, not to stay alive. 72% of it goes to people: three hires ahead of revenue, each released only once the previous quarter’s revenue target is met, so we never spend ahead of the evidence. 52% (A$260K): two engineers to build the next disciplines (fire, electrical, mechanical, structural, civil) on the same platform 20% (A$100K): a sales and customer success hire to convert the Metallink and Millers pilots and the KBR, Aurecon and Lucid talks into paying accounts 12% (A$60K): compute and infrastructure to scale to 5,000 reports a month 8% (A$40K): certification, PI insurance and legal so Helix’s engineering output can be used on real, signed work 5% (A$25K): marketing and industry events 3% (A$15K): buffer By month 12: A$2.0M ARR (A$166K MRR), 5,000 reports a month, 10 engineering firms on seats, 4 live disciplines and a council pilot, with cash-flow positive from month 5.