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Mercator AI's Rapid Business Development Advances Across the US

By Bernadette Salapare | Apr 18, 2024 09:07 PM EDT

Mercator AI is expanding across the United States, with its inaugural operations set to launch in Austin, Texas. This move is pivotal for the city, which is experiencing a notable evolution in its construction sector.

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Mercator AI's Expansion in the US

On Wednesday, Apr. 17, Mercator AI, a business growth platform powered by artificial intelligence that caters to commercial general contractors, announced a market expansion into Austin, Texas. This event represents the beginning of the Canadian company's growth into the United States, with plans to continue increasing its presence in Texas this year and across the country in the years to come.

Mercator AI's solution can thrive in a precise setting because of Austin's dynamic and rapidly changing construction sector, as well as the city's young and technologically advanced workforce. This transition presents an opportunity for Mercator AI to support it with AI tools that deliver actionable data analytics and real-time updates on early projects and partnerships. The city is experiencing a surge in new construction enterprises, and a younger generation of executives is also present. Compared to their competitors, who lag with obsolete information that is too late, GCs save weeks of groundwork and put them in a position of precedence.

Moreover, Chloe Smith, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mercator AI, indicated that the company is thrilled to provide general contractor firms of medium to large size with artificial intelligence tools that will enable them to dramatically multiply the generation of leads, establish appropriate connections much earlier in the development procedure, and waste a great deal less time pursuing projects that do not exist.

As mentioned, the tool allows for the easy identification of early signals of project movement by analyzing data in real time throughout the development process, beginning with the conception phase and continuing through post-construction. In this way, Mercator AI's customers can engage with the appropriate individuals at the proper moment, which in turn helps cultivate meaningful connections and profitable solutions. Since it saves an average of two hours per day on deciding what to investigate and conducting the research itself, Mercator's artificial intelligence reportedly helps streamline front-office operations.

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Pioneers of Mercator AI

Mercator AI provides an AI-assisted information analysis tool that composes SQL and is more efficient, cost-effective, and intelligent. Accordingy, during their time working together on the Instacart data science team, Andrew and Dayton became co-founders of this company. Before beginning his work at DS, Dayton completed his doctoral studies in physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Andrew was a Software Engineer at Uber for six years, during which time he built my deck, a geospatial data visualization framework that has received more than 12 million downloads. Mercator has received financial backing from several investors, including Y Combinator, Tribe Capital, Soma Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Amplify Partners, and Rebel Fund.

On the other hand, by providing business developers with the information they require for informed and productive discussions, this company aims to free up more time to focus on what they do best: developing business software. To assure their clients that they can locate and evaluate projects and partners more rapidly, the company collects and assesses millions of development data points throughout each project's lifecycle.

Also, Mercator is utilized by businesses in the fields of architecture, engineering, construction, real estate, and manufacturing to inform strategic and tactical decision-making. Recently, a privately held firm, Mercator AI, successfully completed a pre-seed round of funding investments.

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