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Blueprint Crusher: Revenue, team and how it was built

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Blueprint Crusher (AI bill-of-quantities parsing and cost estimating from construction tender documents, Ireland): About US$5.8K a month (€5K MRR) reported, March 2026. Evidence grade D: reported, not verified. Team: Founder Jason Park and 4 more people on the company's team pages (5 in all), November 2026; founding team from 4 countries. Launched January 2025; still running.Added 5 November 2026 · updated 6 November 2026

Outcome
About US$5.8K a month (€5K MRR) reported, March 2026
Evidence
D reported, not verified
Launch
January 2025
Status
Still running
Team
Founder Jason Park and 4 more people on the company's team pages (5 in all), November 2026; founding team from 4 countries
Outside funding
Amount not published; the home page shows five logos under the heading "Backed by" and "Accelerators & ecosystem partners"
Main channel
Not stated
Reported, not verified

What is not verified

The only revenue figure, €5,000 in monthly recurring revenue from paying customers in Ireland, appears once, in UpNext World's START Summit report of 24 March 2026 by Aqeela A. Somani and Edwin J. Frondozo, which presents each startup's pitch and traction. No second source, payment-processor profile or filing was found, and the company's own pages give no revenue or customer count. A reader could look for a later interview with the founder, an accelerator demo-day report, or the company's accounts at Ireland's Companies Registration Office. The headline number is grade D: one claim or one estimate, with no second source. Aiolum shows it because the story is useful, and marks it so that it is not mistaken for a verified figure.

Blueprint Crusher is software for quantity surveyors and estimators, the people at a construction company who calculate what a job will cost before the company bids for it. Their main input is the bill of quantities (BoQ), a list in the tender documents of every item of work with its quantity and unit, for example 220 m² of suspended ceiling. The product reads that bill from PDF or Excel, does takeoff (measuring lengths, areas and counts from the drawings), and matches each line to the contractor's own rates with semantic search, a search that compares the meaning of two descriptions instead of their exact words.

The company's site says it has roots in Ohio, Ireland, Korea and Finland and gives Ireland and Finland as its locations; it lists five people on its team pages, and UpNext World names Jason Park as founder. The first copy of the site in the Internet Archive is from 7 January 2025. On 24 March 2026, in its report from the START Summit startup conference in St. Gallen, UpNext World wrote that the company "has paying customers generating €5,000 MRR in Ireland". At the US Federal Reserve rate of that day, that reported figure is about US$5,789 a month.

That is the only revenue figure found, from one source on one date, so the evidence is grade D. Current prices are on the company's own pricing page: free for takeoff and manual estimating, and from €75 a month for the AI features. This page also shows earlier construction-technology companies from our database of failed startups that failed.

Blueprint Crusher: About US$5.8K a month (€5K MRR) reported, March 2026. AI bill-of-quantities parsing and cost estimating from construction tender documents, Ireland, team of 2 to 10, evidence grade D.
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01

How much revenue does Blueprint Crusher make?

Each row shows the evidence grade and the source numbers from the list at the end of this page. The grades are explained in How Aiolum verifies.

A five-person construction software company in Ireland and Finland with a reported €5,000 a month in recurring revenue in March 2026
FactValueGradeHow we knowSources
Monthly recurring revenue, March 2026€5,000DUpNext World, report from START Summit 2026 published 24 March 2026: "Blueprint Crusher has paying customers generating €5,000 MRR in Ireland." One source, one date; no second source found.[1]
The same figure in US dollarsabout US$5,789 a month, about US$69,468 a yearcalcCalculated: €5,000 times the H.10 rate of 24 March 2026, 1 euro = US$1.1578; the yearly figure is that times 12.[1, 8]
FounderJason ParkCNamed as founder in the UpNext World report. The company's first team page is for Jason C. Park.[1, 5]
Team, November 20265 peopleCThe company's site has five team pages. The About page says the founding team represents 4 countries and has 20+ years of combined domain and AI experience.[4, 5]
First archived copy of the site7 January 2025CInternet Archive capture list for blueprintcrusher.com. No source gives a launch date; this is the earliest date the site is shown to exist.[7]
LocationsIreland and FinlandCSite footer: "Ireland · Finland". The About page says the company has roots in Ohio, Ireland, Korea and Finland.[2, 4]
Backersfive logos, amounts not publishedCThe home page shows Helsinki Partners, JumpStart Trailblazer, Leo Capital, Northern Lights and The Gear under the heading "Backed by" and "Accelerators & ecosystem partners". No source gives a funding round or amount.[2]
Lowest paid plan€75 a month, about US$84CPricing page, 5 November 2026. Free for takeoff, assemblies and manual estimating.[3, 9]
Main contractor plansfrom €199 a month, about US$222CPricing page and home page: "Unlimited invites · Unlimited subs · Full audit trail."[2, 3, 9]
Performance figures on the home page10× faster cost build-up, 95% bill-parsing accuracy, €2.4M average surfaced savingsCThe home page marks them "Illustrative, based on pilot engagements." Not checked by anyone outside the company.[2]
HostingScaleway, ParisCHome page: infrastructure on Scaleway's PAR2 / DC5 data center in Paris, EU data residency.[2]
Time from first archived site to the revenue report14 monthscalcCalculated: January 2025 to March 2026.[1, 7]

How to read this table: grade D is a figure reported by one source on one date and not checked by anyone else. Grade C is the company's own statement on its pages. Grade A is an official exchange rate. A grade X value was computed on this page from the rows it names.

Blueprint Crusher prices on 5 November 2026, from the company's pricing page, converted from euros at the US Federal Reserve H.10 rate of 30 October 2026, 1 euro = US$1.1163 (grade C for the prices)
PlanPer month, billed yearly (US$)Per month, billed monthly (US$)Limit
Free, subcontractor001 seat, 2 active projects and 10 AI chats a month, 1 GB
Basic, subcontractor70841 seat, unlimited projects and specification checks, 5 GB
Pro, subcontractor1401673 seats, 50 GB, priority support
GC Starter, main contractor1852223 seats, 100 GB, bid packages and bid levelling
GC Pro, main contractor3714458 seats, 200 GB, onboarding
Enterprisecustomcustomunlimited seats, SSO, service-level agreement

The company charges in euros and says the prices are approximate: Basic €75 a month or €750 a year, Pro €150 a month or €1,500 a year, GC Starter €199 a month or €1,990 a year, GC Pro €399 a month or €3,990 a year. Yearly billing gives two months free. Subcontractors can answer a main contractor's package for free. The Free plan has 2 active projects, 2 specification checks and 10 AI chats a month. The pricing page marks the AI use of the paid plans as "Unlimited*".

02

When did Blueprint Crusher launch, and how did it grow?

From the first archived web page in January 2025 to a reported €5,000 a month in March 2026. Each entry carries its grade.

  1. 7 January 2025CFirst copy of blueprintcrusher.com in the Internet Archive. [7]
  2. March 2026CThe company is one of the startups described from START Summit 2026 in St. Gallen. [1]
  3. 24 March 2026DUpNext World reports that paying customers in Ireland give it €5,000 in monthly recurring revenue. [1]
  4. 11 May 2026CA company blog post describes startup events in Malta and says European investors expect traction and revenue even at the pre-seed stage. [6]
  5. November 2026CThe site sells free, subcontractor and main contractor plans from €75 a month, in English, Irish and Korean, with five people on its team pages. [2, 3, 5]
03

Why did Blueprint Crusher work?

Four causes, in the order they mattered. Each one is a reusable lesson.

01

Start from the documents the customer already has

The estimator uploads PDFs, spreadsheets, drawings or a ZIP of the tender. The FAQ says there is no complex setup and no integration with other company software. UpNext World named this as what stood out: the platform processes tender files directly, which removes a common reason why construction companies do not adopt new software.

02

The customer's own rates, found by meaning

Each line of the bill is compared with the company's rate library by vector-based semantic search, with a confidence score, and the estimator accepts or skips each suggestion. A rate stays traceable to its build-up of materials and labour, which matters when an estimator must defend a price.

03

A free side that brings in the other side

Subcontractors can measure, build rates, export and answer a main contractor's package for free. A main contractor who pays from €199 a month invites subcontractors, and each invited subcontractor meets the product without paying.

04

Carbon figures on every line

Every rate can carry an embodied-carbon factor (kgCO₂e, the greenhouse-gas emissions of making the material) with its source, so a contractor can answer a client's carbon question with the same bill it prices.

How it was built

These details come from the company's own pages. They are grade C. [2, 10]

  • Bill parsing reads Excel and PDF bills, classifies each row and uses AI post-processing; scanned documents are read with OCR (optical character recognition, turning a picture of text into text).
  • Rate matching uses vector search: each line's description is turned into numbers that represent its meaning, and the nearest items in the rate library are suggested.
  • Supplier price sheets and invoices are imported with "vision AI", which reads the sheet and pulls out items, packs and prices.
  • An AI assistant answers questions over all project documents and cites the specification clause, drawing or bill row it used.
  • The servers run on Scaleway in Paris. The FAQ says rate data is never sent to external AI services. The public web site is built with the Hugo static site generator.
  • The site uses Plausible and PostHog for analytics and Calendly for booking demo calls.

Tools named in the sources

Each one opens its page in the Tools tab, with every story that uses it.

04

Who tried this before Blueprint Crusher, and why did they fail?

Four construction-technology companies in our database of failed startups promised to remove the waste in how buildings are planned, priced and built, and failed. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.

Died 2015 to 2022Burned US$2.6B

Katerra

The promise

Do everything in construction in one company, from design and materials to the building itself.

Why it died

It built factories before it had the customers for them, bought other companies, and went bankrupt.

Unit Economics
Died 2014 to 2020Burned US$60.8M

Pro.com

The promise

Home renovations with an instant price and a matched contractor.

Why it died

Better-known rivals in a market built on trust, and a service that needed many people for each job.

Competition
Died 2017 to 2020Burned US$17M

Social Construct

The promise

Cheaper and faster housing through a technology-driven building process.

Why it died

Permits and regulation were slower than planned, and the pandemic came before more money did.

Ran Out of Cash
Died 2008 to 2024Burned US$647M

Veev

The promise

Factory-built homes assembled in days instead of months.

Why it died

Premium-priced homes for a market that buys on price; the factory kept costing money when interest rates cut demand.

Unit Economics

The failed startups come from our database of 1,749 dead startups, retold here in our own words. Its entries are AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so these cards carry no evidence grade.

What changed

All four predecessors tried to change how buildings are built: factories, new building methods or a company that does everything. That needed hundreds of millions of dollars before the first customer paid, and each failed on cost, regulation or demand. Blueprint Crusher changes none of the building. It changes only the office work before a bid, and its customers keep their own methods, rates and documents.

What made a small team possible is that language models and vision models can now read messy tender PDFs, scanned price sheets and specifications well enough to fill a structured bill, with a person checking each suggestion. Before such models, this reading had to be done by hand or with rules written for each document layout.

05

Can one person copy Blueprint Crusher now?

Yes for one trade, one country and one document type.

The method is narrow and repeatable: pick an industry whose bids or claims start from a pile of documents in a known format, read them with AI into a structured list, and match each line to the customer's own price history. The hard part is domain knowledge: the team needs to know how an estimator works, and the site says its discovery calls are made by an estimator.

Where it is still open: Other trades and other countries' bill formats, and other document-heavy bids: public procurement responses, facility-maintenance tenders, and insurance repair estimates.

  1. 1Choose one document that a whole trade must process to bid, such as a bill of quantities, a schedule of rates or an insurance claim form.
  2. 2Accept the files as customers already have them, with no integration project.
  3. 3Match each line to the customer's own past prices and show the source of every suggestion, so the expert stays in control.
  4. 4Make the side that answers requests free, so that each paying customer brings the other side to the product.

What could go wrong for Blueprint Crusher?

The risks are the mirror image of the causes above.

What is not verified

The only revenue figure, €5,000 in monthly recurring revenue from paying customers in Ireland, appears once, in UpNext World's START Summit report of 24 March 2026 by Aqeela A. Somani and Edwin J. Frondozo, which presents each startup's pitch and traction. No second source, payment-processor profile or filing was found, and the company's own pages give no revenue or customer count. A reader could look for a later interview with the founder, an accelerator demo-day report, or the company's accounts at Ireland's Companies Registration Office.

Figures and logos on the home page

The home page shows 10× faster cost build-up, 95% bill-parsing accuracy and €2.4M average surfaced savings, marked "Illustrative, based on pilot engagements." It shows five logos under "Backed by" without saying what each one provided. One testimonial is signed with a person's name and a ceilings and partitions company; it was not checked.

Competition

Construction takeoff and estimating software is an established category with many larger vendors, and new AI entrants target the same estimators. On this site the nearest stories are AngebotFIX and Tutti, which make quotes and invoices for tradespeople; Blueprint Crusher instead prices tender bills for contractors and quantity surveyors.

Dependence on model providers

The company's pages name no AI model or model provider. The FAQ says rate data is never sent to external AI services and that all processing happens within its own environment on Scaleway in Paris; that is the company's statement and was not checked. If it runs open models on its own servers, its cost depends on GPU prices rather than on a provider's API price.

A long sales cycle in a relationship business

The company's own Malta blog post says construction is still very much a people business and that many projects move through trusted relationships rather than open bidding. Software that speeds up bidding helps most where open tenders are common.

Sources

The grade next to each source is the best grade that the source can support. "Read in full" means that the text of the page was downloaded and the numbers were checked in it.

  1. D UpNext World, 24 March 2026: START Summit 2026: Europe Moves From AI Hype to Deep Tech Execution, by Aqeela A. Somani and Edwin J. Frondozo
    Read the section on Blueprint Crusher, downloaded 6 November 2026. Source for the founder's name, the pitch and the €5,000 monthly recurring revenue.
  2. C Blueprint Crusher home page, read 5 November 2026
    Read in full. Source for the product, the FAQ, the hosting, the backers' logos and the illustrative figures.
  3. C Blueprint Crusher pricing page, read 5 November 2026
    Read in full. Source for the plans and euro prices.
  4. C Blueprint Crusher About page, read 5 November 2026
    Read in full. Source for the countries of the founding team and the company description.
  5. C Blueprint Crusher team pages (five pages, from the site map), read 5 November 2026
    Read the five team pages listed in the English site map. Each shows one name; no roles are given.
  6. C Blueprint Crusher blog, 11 May 2026: Startups, Construction, and the Future of Europe: Notes from Malta
    Read in full. Source for the company's view of construction as a relationship business and of European pre-seed funding.
  7. C Internet Archive capture list for blueprintcrusher.com
    Read the first captures. The earliest is 7 January 2025.
  8. A Federal Reserve Board, Foreign Exchange Rates H.10, historical rates for the euro
    Read the row for 24 March 2026: 1 euro = US$1.1578.
  9. A Federal Reserve Board, Foreign Exchange Rates H.10, release of 2 November 2026
    Read the euro row: 1 euro = US$1.1163 on 30 October 2026. Used for the pricing table.
  10. C Blueprint Crusher documentation: Importing Price Sheets
    Read in full. Source for the vision AI import of supplier price sheets.
  11. C Database of failed startups, local export
    Local export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.

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