Civil + construction. Software builder. Bay Area.

Civil + construction professional turned software builder. I make tools for the problems I ran into firsthand — on jobsites, in CAD, and in the field.

Background

4+ years on jobsites and in CAD — Nibbi Bros, Westland Group, BKF Engineers — before I shipped my first production app. Now I build the tools I wish I'd had.

Currently

Building AI tools at the intersection of civil engineering and software. RedlineIQ is live; more on GitHub.

Get in touch → See work ↗

01/03 Selected work

Production AI tools for engineering work.

All built from problems I ran into firsthand — on jobsites, in CAD, and in agency review.

W—01 Solo build · 2026 Full-stack · AI vision Live demo

RedlineIQ

Upload a redlined PDF. The system reads every annotation and returns a structured drafter checklist — classified, cross-referenced to sheets, and confidence-scored.

Problem

Drafters lose hours each day decoding PM redlines before they touch Civil 3D. I did this job for two years.

Approach

A source-type router parses digital PDFs losslessly and falls back to Claude Vision for scanned sheets. An eval harness with labeled golden sets and a versioned prompt registry keeps accuracy honest.

ReactNodeExpressClaude (Vision + text)SQLiteLangfuseSentry

Live demo → Source ↗

W—02 · Pinned on GitHub

TypeScript

Proposal Editor

AI editing for designed AEC proposal PDFs — describe a change in plain language, review a word-level diff, export to Word with native tracked changes.

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Python

Benefits Rep Copilot

Grounded RAG QA for benefits plan documents — client-filtered retrieval, verified citations, and a CI-gated eval that holds refusal accuracy as a hard floor.

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JavaScript

Leads Toolkit

Two MCP servers — Google Places search and opportunity scoring — that turn hours of per-firm prospect research into one Claude agent workflow.

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All repositories on GitHub ↗

02/03 About

4+ years in infrastructure. Five in software. Same discipline.

Nick Furr — Burlingame, CA

I built physical infrastructure before I built digital. At Nibbi Bros I ran takeoffs, subcontractor coordination, and field problem-solving on the SFO Long-Term Parking Garage and an LIHTC housing project in San Francisco.

At Westland Group I kept automating Excel in VBA until the shop realized I should be writing software. Two years at BKF Engineers as Lead Civil 3D Designer on Treasure Island, Adrian Court in Burlingame, and 2201 Valley St in Oakland.

Then I went heads-down on code. The tools changed. The discipline — check your work, document every decision, the spec is gospel — didn't.

2016 Nibbi Bros — Project Engineer, summers 2016 & 2017. SFO garage, LIHTC housing.

2018 Westland Group — SoCal Gas as-builts. First production VBA.

2019 Cal Poly Pomona — B.S. Civil Engineering. EIT.

2019 BKF Engineers — Design Engineer, lead Civil 3D designer through 2021.

2021 → Independent — workflow consulting and AI tooling for Bay Area civil and construction firms.

Now RedlineIQ live. Building AI tools for plan review, proposals, and field workflows.

03/03 Contact

Get in touch.

Happy to talk about what I've built, where I've worked, or what you're working on.

Email me@nickfurr.com

Based Burlingame, CA

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Burlingame, CA · Bay Area

Let's talk.

Civil engineering background, software skills, and five years building tools for both.

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