Milestones, events and insights from the team.
Matthias Hornung, CTO of flinq, sorted the published benchmarks for AI in architecture, engineering and construction by year, language and data type. Two gaps stand out: apart from English, not a single European language is represented, and only a few benchmarks use 3D data as their main input. AI for construction is mostly tested on documents about buildings, rarely on the buildings themselves.
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On 11 November, flinq exhibits in the German Pavilion as part of the Startup Germany delegation, organised by Germany Trade & Invest on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. If you build software for the construction industry, come by for a live demo.
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After the Founders Program, flinq takes the next step with Scaleway: the Early Stage Program brings up to €9,000 in cloud credits over six months, hands-on support from Scaleway’s solution architects and access to its European start-up ecosystem. The compute runs in European data centres, because data sovereignty and inference infrastructure in Europe are a deliberate choice for flinq.
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At the Female FutureTech Summit at Messe Stuttgart, our CEO Valentina Mayer-Steudte joined Dr. Iris Schwenk and Melanie Kamrath on a panel about founding as a woman in tech: where you stand today, what you learn along the way, and which networks and programmes help turn an idea into a company.
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futurefeed magazine presents 40 AI start-ups worth meeting at Web Summit 2026 in Lisbon. flinq is listed under “AI for specific industries” as a domain-specific AI API for architecture, engineering and construction: document extraction, embeddings and reranking, hosted in the EU.
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At Gründerwasen in Stuttgart, Valentina Mayer-Steudte pitched flinq to 1,200 guests in 90 seconds. Three hours later came the call back on stage: the Finance Accelerator awarded flinq its Female Founders Stipendium, worth €10,000. Recognition for the work behind the scenes, and a tailwind for showing the construction industry what flinq can do.
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Since August, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the European Union have been funding a full year of development. The team continues to build the cross-modal embedding model for construction, supported by the Institute of Construction Economics at the University of Stuttgart and Prof. Christian Stoy.
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BIM models, bills of quantities, product data and technical documents describe the same physical reality, yet follow different structures, standards and vocabularies. flinq maps them into one shared semantic space, trained on European infrastructure with HammerHAI at HLRS Stuttgart. The text-based beta is available today; the first cross-modal version follows in September.
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Invited by the ZIA at S-TEC and Fraunhofer IAO: the conversations confirmed that companies are not looking for yet another off-the-shelf tool, but technology that understands their workflows and fits in. An announcement on this follows in the coming weeks.
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Two intense days in Attendorn: Lukas Simon pitched how flinq supports AI-driven tendering in building services (TGA). A clear takeaway: manufacturers and wholesalers want to match line items automatically too.
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In dialogue with the board and members of the Bavarian Construction Industry Association: construction meets its challenges best with openness to technology and a collaborative spirit of innovation.
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