Dream automates design and engineering for commercial buildings, taking a project from layout through structure and building systems to a drawing set a general contractor can build from. The models account for geometry, building code, and physical constraints, including beams, ductwork, plumbing, and HVAC inside the walls. Dream also works as architect of record in California and Texas, so clients receive construction documents their contractor can build from. The launch follows a long stall in output. U. S. spending on construction has doubled over 20 years, yet fewer buildings were completed in 2025 than in 2005, and most design work still runs through software first built in the 1990s. Early projects focus on retail storefronts, offices, and data centers. The models are trained on more than 100 million square feet of real, permitted buildings drawn from U. S. permit archives. Dream calls the resulting capability structural cognition, meaning a change to structure, power, or cooling is checked against the rest of the building before it reaches the drawings. Design options can be generated and checked against code in minutes, including adapting one store or restaurant prototype to each new site. That class of work has traditionally taken more than a year for a single design. Co-founders Andy Elder and Arjun Mathur met as computer science students at Stanford and each spent about a decade at Palantir. Elder was global head of product design. Mathur was senior vice president and head of the commercial business. Dream emerged from stealth with $17 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, XYZ, and Zigg Capital, and is already architect of record on 10 projects in California and Texas.