Our mission
AutoSitu’s mission is to increase global GDP by making development approvals faster, clearer, and more consistent.
Every new home, hospital, school, data center, factory, and piece of infrastructure must move through layers of design review, code compliance, coordination, and government approval before it can be built. These processes shape how quickly communities grow, but much of the work is still performed manually across spreadsheets, PDFs, email threads, disconnected regulations, siloed BIM and discipline models and hundreds—or thousands—of pages of technical drawings.
The result is months of avoidable delay, repeated review cycles, costly rework, and experienced professionals spending their time searching for information instead of making decisions.
We are starting with autonomous development-review agents that understand plans, research requirements, identify issues, gather evidence, and escalate the judgment calls that genuinely require human expertise. Over time, this foundation will power agents that can help design, coordinate, and build the physical world.
If we get this right, housing, infrastructure, and economic development will move faster around the world.
Who we are
AutoSitu was founded by George Zhai and Xuanshu “Asher” Lin. George brings expertise in robotics, autonomous systems, and applied AI, while Asher brings experience across architecture, urban planning, and development review. Together, they combine frontier automation expertise with firsthand knowledge of the systems governing how cities and buildings get built and approved.
What you will own and drive
As a Founding Engineer, you will work directly with the founders on ambitious applied-AI and distributed-systems problems spanning multimodal reasoning, spatial intelligence, and the built world. You will help build BIM-native systems that understand plans, models, technical documents, regulations, and spatial relationships, and power autonomous agents that review, reason about, and coordinate complex development and construction projects.
Over time, these systems will evolve into a persistent intelligence layer that can help teams understand, design, coordinate, review, and ultimately build the physical world.
Why join
You will join early enough to shape the product, architecture, culture, and direction of the company.
You will work directly with the founders, ship into active projects, interact with customers making real development decisions, and solve applied-AI problems that do not have established playbooks.
The opportunity is larger than automating individual plan checks. We are building the intelligence layer through which cities and development teams understand, design, review, coordinate, and ultimately build the physical world.