Buildings Conference Demo Winner: ARKI

ARKI Co-Founder and CEO Natalia Bakaeva impressed our panel of judges at the 2025 Buildings Conference Demo Day, winning this year’s pitch competition. A former architect, Bakaeva recognized the need for architecture firms to be able to search past projects leading to the founding of ARKI. The AI-powered platform categorizes, labels, and organizes past projects into a searchable hub. By empowering architects to retrieve assets efficiently, ARKI aims to accelerate project timelines, reduce costs, and promote sustainable design practices. “If I’m ever a full-time architect again,” Bakaeva concluded, “I want ARKI to be working alongside me.”