Foveate at BuiltWorlds 2025: Transforming How AEC Wins Work
New York City – May 21–22, 2025
At the 2025 Buildings Conference by BuiltWorlds, Foveate’s co-founder Kitae Kim took the stage to share a bold vision: revolutionizing how Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) firms sell, engage, and win projects in an industry still relying on outdated sales tools.
Presenting Foveate at BuiltWorlds 2025
Tackling the AEC Proposal Problem
For decades, the AEC industry has relied on static slide decks and PDF proposals — formats that haven’t fundamentally evolved since the 1990s. Despite billions of dollars at stake, the tools for securing projects have lagged far behind advances in design, construction, and technology.
The result?
- Inefficient, time-consuming bid processes.
- Inability to stand out in competitive pursuits.
- A persistent struggle to communicate complex technical expertise in a way that clients, stakeholders, and the public can easily understand.
Foveate is changing that.
A New Category: Sales & Engagement for AEC
Foveate is not another project management or BIM platform — it’s creating an entirely new category: Sales & Engagement for AEC.
The platform blends immersive 3D and 2D storytelling with real-time analytics to help firms:
- Capture attention instantly with interactive, web-based presentations.
- Show, don’t tell by integrating CAD models, renders, animations, and site data in one seamless experience.
- Track engagement so teams know exactly where prospects are focusing — and what needs follow-up.
It’s sales enablement designed specifically for the way AEC wins work.
Why It Matters
AEC firms are brilliant at solving technical challenges — but often struggle to convey that brilliance in terms that resonate with non-technical audiences. This communication gap costs firms both time and opportunities.
Foveate bridges that gap by making it possible to:
- Demystify complex designs through interactive storytelling.
- Build confidence with stakeholders who can’t “read” technical drawings.
- Accelerate decisions by eliminating misunderstandings and rework.
Kitae Kim, Foveate and Elliott Jones, Trimble Ventures
BuiltWorlds 2025: A Launchpad for Change
Being featured in the Demo Night Competition at BuiltWorlds 2025 put Foveate alongside some of the most innovative companies in building technology. It was the perfect stage to show how modern, immersive tools can replace outdated proposal workflows and transform how the industry pitches and wins projects.
The Future of AEC Sales
In an industry that has mastered engineering precision but left its sales tools decades behind, Foveate is setting a new standard. By combining immersive presentation, real-time analytics, and client-friendly storytelling, we’re redefining how AEC firms compete — and win.
About the Author
Kitae Kim
Architect with 10 years of experience in design and client communication. Co-founder of Foveate, where he builds proposal and presentation tools for AEC firms. Former studio lead who saw too many winning designs lose to worse proposals.
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