About Mason

A team of AI engineers on a mission to change how America builds.

Team

People who have done this before.

Meet the team behind Mason AI.

Salim Damerdji

Salim Damerdji

CEO

LinkedIn

Salim is an ICC-certified Residential Plans Examiner who was also an early ML Engineer on what's now the market-leading AI tool for chip design, generating tens of millions in annual revenue. Salim's published academic research on housing policy, led a team of data scientists at Wealthfront, and founded Mason to make it effortless to draft code-compliant blueprints. MSc Statistics, Oxford; BA Statistics, Berkeley.

Francie McQuarrie

Francie McQuarrie

Founding AI Engineer

LinkedIn

Francie is a statistician who'd rather ship than publish. She's happiest at the seam between a statistical model and the people who have to act on it. At Adobe she spent four years turning statistical work into production systems, most visibly a document classifier she redeployed to run 10x faster at 2% of the cost across half a million documents a day. At Mason she's building the experimentation culture — which means evals you can believe, and a clear bar for when a result justifies shipping. MS Statistics, UW; BA, Berkeley.

Why We Built This

Private plan review is under pressure. We built the tool that changes that.

Experienced professionals are leaving the field faster than the pipeline can replace them and that gap keeps getting wider. Microsoft Word and Bluebeam are not tailored software solutions designed for the workflow of a plans examiner.