AI platform for unifying codes, assemblies, products, and specs
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
UpCodes is an Austin-based, remote-first AEC compliance platform founded by brothers Scott and Garrett Reynolds in 2016. It combines a searchable building-code library with code calculators, assemblies/products, specs, Copilot, and AI-native plan review for architects, engineers, contractors, code officials, and related design teams.
Primary product
Searchable building-code compliance platform with AI Copilot and AI-native plan review
Founded
2016
Headquarters
1606 Headway Circle #9083, Austin, TX 78754, United States
Team size
40-50
Work style
Remote
Industry
Information Technology & Services
Sub-industry
AEC / construction code compliance software
Offices
Business model
Stage
Series A
Total raised
$11.1M
Latest round
Undisclosed round · Aug 2024
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & President
Head of Marketing
Head of Content Operations
Head of Operations & Finance
Building Code Technical Lead
Investors
Fully distributed across North and South American time zones; the culture emphasis on the careers page is competence, hard work, humility, and continuous growth.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
No public compensation bands or salary ranges were found in the sources reviewed; hiring pages and LinkedIn activity indicate the company is actively recruiting, but pay is not disclosed publicly.
Benefits
Pricing
Subscription SaaS with Essentials and Professional seat-based plans, annual billing discounts, a 2-week free trial, and enterprise contact-sales pricing.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
USD 1M-10M (company profile also reports about $2M)
Estimated monthly visits
987.3K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
TechCrunch reported UpCodes faced legal disputes, including a false advertising/unfair competition suit by the International Code Council and a separate copyright case; the company won a motion to dismiss and received a favorable fair-use/public-domain ruling in related litigation.
SourceUpCodes publicly warned against the Pro Codes Act (H.R. 4072), signaling continuing policy and legal sensitivity around access to adopted codes.
SourceUpCodes · Jun 2026
Adds collaborative suggestion/approval workflows and revision history for the Specifications product.
UpCodes · Jun 2026
Launches AI-native Plan Review, which analyzes drawings against 11 million locally adopted code sections across 6,000+ jurisdictions and adds discipline-specific QA/QC workflows.
PRNewswire · Jun 2026
Press release announcing the AI-native Plan Review launch and quoting Scott Reynolds on automating QA/QC for AEC teams.
UpCodes · Mar 2026
Introduces Specifications with office master import, collaborative editing, ~300 spec sections, automated QA/QC diagnostics, and Copilot for Specs.
Building Ventures · Aug 2024
Building Ventures says it participated in UpCodes' latest round led by G Ventures, alongside Point Nine, Liquid2, and Y Combinator.