How Upstart AEC works

We partner with firms providing experienced architects, engineers, and designers in your time zone. Along with AI solutions that streamline workflows, reduce delays, and protect margins. Our goal is to boost capacity, speed up delivery, and keep projects moving.

Built to keep work moving

We step in where projects usually stall. Backlogs clear, coordination tightens, and momentum comes back without adding noise.

Experienced teams, real output

Seasoned operators who know the work and the pace. They plug into your workflows and produce work you can ship.

Global teams, no friction

Nearshore teams work your hours and your standards. Same expectations, same accountability, none of the usual drag.

Scale without adding weight

Add capacity when demand spikes and pull back when it settles. No permanent overhead and no reshuffling every quarter.

AI implemented into your operations

We build and implement AI that automates the slow, complex processes that eat weeks. It runs inside your workflows, with guardrails, so the results are faster and dependable.

. . .

Clear the Backlog.

Speed Up
Execution.

Stop drowning in
submittals and RFIs.
Our LATAM teams
keep your projects
moving.

Service Firms

Production talent who keep drawings moving when the clock is against you.

Architectural, mechanical and electrical design production staff who work inside your standards — vetted for output, not just software fluency.

Book a call See what this covers

100% Same working hours as your team

<2 weeks Typical time to a shortlist

Month-to-month Billing, no multi-year contract

Top 1% Make it through our vetting bar

What this covers

One role, every discipline you're short on

Design production spans more than one discipline. We staff across all four without you running separate searches.

Architectural Production

Documentation & coordination

Staff who extend your licensed team without muddying the lines of responsibility.

Revit AutoCAD Documentation Coordination

BIM & Digital Delivery

Clean handoffs

Modeling and coordination built for downstream use, not just a pretty screenshot.

Revit BIM Navisworks Clash detection Model coordination

Mechanical Design

Systems & layouts

Designers who understand constructability, not just how to draw a valve.

Layouts Systems Constructability AutoCAD MEP

Electrical & Controls

Schematics & panels

Hard to hire locally, expensive when you find them — worth having done right the first time.

Schematics Panel layouts Documentation Revit MEP

Levels we place

From an extra pair of hands to someone who owns it

You tell us the seniority the work actually needs — we don't upsell a lead for a task list.

2–5 years

Drafter / Designer

Produces clean, standards-compliant drawings from direction.

5–8 years

Senior Designer

Owns a discipline's package end to end with minimal oversight.

8+ years

Production Lead

Coordinates across disciplines and keeps packages moving under deadline pressure.

Why Built by Upstart

The difference isn't the rate card

Plenty of vendors can quote you a rate. The difference shows up in how the person actually works once they're on your team.

Same clock

Full working-day overlap

Reviews, standups, and questions get answered live — not async, across a nine-hour gap, with an answer waiting for you tomorrow.

AI-fluent

Trained to get more done with AI

Everyone we place runs an internal AI readiness track before day one, matched to your tools wherever we can.

Vetted hard

Top 1% of who we screen

Backed by a 200+ person team and a #64 ranking on Forbes' Best Places to Work in the US — the bar doesn't loosen at scale.

How it works

From scoped role to a working teammate

Scope the role

What you need, the seniority, and how you'll measure it — one call.

We source and vet

A shortlist already cleared against our own bar.

You choose

You interview, you decide. No pressure.

They start on your clock

Full overlap, your tools, your standards, from day one.

CAD, BIM & Design Production

Build your design production team.

Tell us the discipline and the standards you work to. We'll bring a shortlist that already fits your workflow.

Book a call See all services

Your Extended Team, By Role

Nearshoring Works

Your tech stack? Covered

Let’s talk

About Upstart