Looking for co-founder: AI-native EPC company for infrastructure

Hi all,

I’m looking for a technical co-founder to build an AI-native EPC company, starting with data center infrastructure.

My background:

Power systems engineer. Battery manufacturing scale-up at a major EV company, electrochemical plant design at a green hydrogen startup, currently deploying multi-gigawatt data centers. Not an AI/ML expert, but I understand the domain deeply and have validated the problem through extensive customer discovery.

The problem:

EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) is brutally inefficient. Projects take 10 to 12 months, require manual coordination across 15+ disciplines, and only 0.5% finish on time/budget. Traditional EPCs bill hourly, so they have no incentive to move faster.

The thesis:

Don’t build software for EPCs. Be the EPC, but use AI internally to deliver 10x faster. The AI is the competitive moat, not a product to sell.

The technical approach:

  • LLM orchestration integrated with engineering tools (AutoCAD, Revit, electrical modeling) via MCP and similar protocols

  • Agentic systems that coordinate across disciplines, check constraints, propagate changes

  • Productized parametric designs that generate bankable deliverables in weeks

This is about applying agentic AI to complex, multi-step workflows with real physical constraints. Not another chatbot.

What I’m looking for:

Someone with hands-on experience building agentic systems and LLM tool integrations. Equal equity, true co-founder partnership. I bring domain expertise and customer relationships. You bring the technical ability to build the AI layer.

If you’re interested in applying what you’ve learned to a massive infrastructure problem, I’d love to chat.

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Hi there, super interesting idea. I am not the technical co-founder you are looking for but would be interested to find out more. Mechanical engineer, ex-BP, ex-Arup (engineering consultancy, designed MEP systems for data centres) now at a management consultancy leading on operational transformation programmes in energy & resource sector. Deep domain expertise in capital delivery and asset management.