Rick and Alex here, co-founders of Cogram. We’ve been making project-management software for architects and engineers since 2023, and are now experimenting with a second product.

Cogram Studio (studio.cogram.com) is a CAD and BIM workspace for AI agents to create three-dimensional models and dimensioned drawings.

Studio runs FreeCAD (https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD) 1.1 headlessly, using the OpenCASCADE (https://github.com/Open-Cascade-SAS/OCCT) geometry kernel. It imports and exports STEP, IFC, STL, DXF and FCStd files. Studio exposes an MCP server, so you can operate it from Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT, or other agents. Tools cover scripting against FreeCAD, inspecting the model visually, CRUD operations on views, tables, and sheets, importing terrain, etc. Studio also provides a built-in agent based on Pi (https://github.com/earendil-works/pi) and a basic UI for 3D model inspection, measurement, view, table, and sheet creation.

There are two ways to try it:

1. Bring your own agent. Point Codex or Claude Code at studio.cogram.com/skill.md and ask it to follow instructions there. This starts a one-hour Studio session and opens the modelling environment in your browser, connected to your agent. You need to confirm sign up only if you want to save the session.

2. Use Studio’s built-in agent. Submit a prompt at studio.cogram.com and sign up. You receive 50 free credits.

Here are two models created by agents:

- A simple bookshelf (https://studio.cogram.com/view/shr_1agb21nd4) with two sheets

- The Colosseum (https://studio.cogram.com/view/shr_3tm32c64y) [large, can take minutes to load], with two sheets showing dimensioned and annotated views.

For now, Studio works best when you use it iteratively. If you ask an agent for a finished, complex model and “let it rip”, it may produce something that looks convincing but doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Agentic modelling feels roughly like where agentic programming was in 2024: useful for speeding up repetitive or bounded tasks but not yet reliable enough to complete long, complex jobs. Recent models have improved at CAD. We expect progress to accelerate as models become even better at reasoning across the different representations used in architecture and engineering: geometry, drawings, images, materials, physical constraints, specifications, regulations, code, etc.

Early users and our own experience suggest that agents are already useful design collaborators. They can help with repetitive CAD work, fabrication options, part sourcing and cost estimates. We expect that as models improve, agents will be able to explore many different designs, run simulations, and check constraints across an entire project. CAD will become a shared workspace for humans and agents. Because design decisions made in CAD shape much of what is eventually built, even modest improvements could have wide effects.

We’d love to hear your feedback and ideas if you give Studio a try. We’re also hiring across product, engineering and commercial roles. If you’re interested in working on interesting problems involving AI and the physical world, please take a look at our open positions at https://cogram.com/about#careers.

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Cogram builds AI agents for architects and engineers. Our tools automate project management and streamline CAD/BIM for leading firms around the world. We have engaged customers using our products day-to-day on real projects and are growing fast.

We're hiring across GTM and Product/Engineering:

  · Growth Lead / GTM engineer and early-stage marketers: technically strong and excellent writers.

  · Designers that code, PMs that have strong design skills, or design-savvy engineers

  · Account Executives: based in US East/Central or UK. At least two years of exceeding targets in software sales.

  · Builders and former founders: strong at talking to users, understanding requirements, and shipping features end-to-end.

We offer:

  · Work directly with customers using our tools daily on architecture, engineering, and construction projects.

  · Build differentiated products with real traction at the intersection of software, the physical world, and design.

  · A deeply focused, high-caliber team.

We’d love to hear from you.

Cogram builds AI agents for architects and engineers. Our tools automate project management and streamline CAD/BIM workflows for leading firms around the world. We have engaged customers using our products day-to-day on real projects and are growing fast.

We're hiring across GTM and engineering:

  · Growth / GTM engineers and early-stage marketers: technically strong and excellent writers.

  · Account Executives: based in US East/Central or UK. At least two years of exceeding targets in software sales.

  · Builders and former founders: strong at talking to users, understanding requirements, and shipping features end-to-end.

We offer:

  · Work directly with customers using our tools daily on architecture, engineering, and construction projects.

  · Build differentiated products with real traction at the intersection of software, the physical world, and design.

  · A deeply focused, high-caliber team.

We’d love to hear from you.

Cogram is an AI company creating a virtual assistant for teams. Our software integrates data from meetings and other sources, and lets users summarize, synthesize, and derive insights using large language models. We have a fast-growing customer base, are backed by Y Combinator, and very well-funded. We're a remote-first, kind, and welcoming team, and meet up regularly for amazing off-sites in different locations.

Over the past 12 months we rapidly scaled through founder-led sales and are now making a first sales hire. We're looking for a candidate with experience in outbound lead generation and a strong writing ability. As the first sales hire, you will have a high-impact role in bringing a fast-evolving, powerful product to market.

Please reach out to alex [at] cogram [dot] com, with a few sentences on what you find interesting about Cogram and your experience.

Cogram is an AI company building a virtual assistant for teams. Our software integrates data from meetings and other sources, and lets users summarize, synthesize, and derive insights using large language models. We have a fast-growing customer base, are backed by Y Combinator, and very well-funded. We're a deeply technical, remote-first team and meet up regularly for in-person off-sites.

Over the past 12 months we rapidly scaled through founder-led sales and are making our first sales hire:

- Sales Development Rep / Generalist. Requirements: exceptional at outbound lead generation, adaptable, and ambitious. Strong writing ability (content marketing) and a passion for artificial intelligence are desirable.

As the first sales hire, you will have a high-impact role in bringing a fast-evolving, powerful product to market.

Please reach out to alex [at] cogram [dot] com, with a few sentences on what you find interesting about Cogram and your background.

With "add summary there", do you mean syncing the meeting summary to Hubspot, or do you have something else in mind?

The centralised list of actions is an interesting idea, we'll look into this. How/where do you currently centralise your notes/action items?

we’re Rick & Alex and we’re excited, and somewhat nervous, to share Cogram (https://cogram.com) with you. Cogram creates automatic meeting transcripts and uses large language models to turn them into concise, actionable write-ups. Think action items, summaries, and bullet-point notes.

All of these are searchable, across all your meetings.

We currently support Zoom but are just wrapping up an MS Teams integration. Some things are still rough around the edges.

If you’d like to try Cogram, you can get started in < 2 min at https://app.cogram.com/ (free, no card required), with docs at https://docs.cogram.com.

We’d love to hear HN’s thoughts on it!

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If you’re curious, some problems we’re currently thinking about are 1) understanding, and learning, what information users need from meetings and their unique language (acronyms, terminology, your favorite corp-speak/jargon) and 2) understanding if/how to make the platform valuable for all meeting participants. We’d love to get your feedback/ideas on these.

Some teams spend 50%+ of their time in virtual meetings. That’s a lot of rich, complex data. If large language models are a precursor or key component of future AGI, meetings are a really interesting setting for AI to learn how to work closely with humans.

*Edit: updated links.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32900051

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We’re a YC startup using large language models to make computers work in our language. Our first product lets non-technical users get insights from databases without writing code, by translating English instructions to SQL queries.

The company was founded by physics and ML PhDs from Oxford and is backed by some of the best investors in Silicon Valley. We’re building an exceptional team in Berlin, Germany and would love to hear from you — we’re looking for strong software engineering skills, creativity and an ambition to build a category-defining product.

Drop us a line with your resume/LinkedIn/GitHub at founders@cogram.com!