TestFit was founded to design buildings in milliseconds — to help architects and developers solve real estate deals with ease. This idea, and our implementation of it, has enabled us to survive our first year as a startup. As we approach October 1st, the one-year anniversary of releasing TestFit, we're taking a moment to look back.
October 2017
- Launched Residential Engine — the first out-of-the-box generative design tool for multifamily
- Made the first sale of Residential Engine
November 2017
- Released Residential Engine 1.011 — "Spaces and 3D"
- First sale outside of Texas (Atlanta, Georgia)
December 2017
- Released Residential Engine 1.012 — "Tabulation"
- First out-of-state trip (Atlanta, Georgia)
- First annual contract, company-wide sale
January 2018
- Released Residential Engine 1.013 — "Input"
- Presented at Society for Construction Solutions, Boston
- First sale in Florida
February 2018
- Released Residential Engine 1.014 — "Manual Mode"
- Presented at Society for Construction Solutions, San Francisco
- First sales in California and Massachusetts
March 2018
- Released Residential Engine 1.015 — "Wrap-Podium"
- First sales in Colorado and Wisconsin
April 2018
- Rebranded to TestFit
- Released TestFit 1.0
- First sales in Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Virginia
- Formalized Deal Information Modeling
- First international sale — United Kingdom
May 2018
- Released TestFit 1.001 — "Multiple Sites"
- Implemented Deal Information Modeling
- First sales in Indiana and Washington
June 2018
- Released TestFit 1.002 — "Lifts"
- First conference booth at AEC Next
- Won AEC Hackathon for "Scan Point"
- First sales in Arizona and France
July 2018
- Released TestFit 1.003 — "Unit Editor"
- Presented at USC BIM BOP — our first academic engagement
- First sales in Maryland and Iowa
August 2018
- Released TestFit 1.004 — "Dynamo"
- Released Submit-A-Site, a SaaS solution for the test fit process
- First company to publish an algorithm on Hypar
- Posted our first job listing
- First sales in North Carolina
September 2018
- First BIM model built from TestFit geometry
- First implementation of automatic free trials
- Accepted to Y Combinator Startup School
- Working on a secret project to be released in October...
One year. Twelve states. Three countries. Twelve product releases. One rebrand. Zero outside funding. The machine is learning to walk.