Zero RFI Raises $13.8M in Seed Funding to Improve Construction Decision Workflows
Construction has a strange habit. It can raise a 60-story tower with surgical precision, yet the flow of information behind the scenes still gets tangled in a 4-letter bottleneck: RFI. Request For Information. In practice it means delays, crossed wires, and millions quietly bleeding out of timelines while teams wait for answers that should have surfaced 3 meetings earlier. The industry mastered steel, concrete, and cranes. The information layer never quite caught up.
Enter Zero RFI, and the name alone tells you the ambition is not small. Technology veteran KP Reddy just stepped onto the field with a $13.8M seed round led by General Catalyst, and the signal here is loud. When investors like General Catalyst lean forward, they are not chasing hype. They are placing chips on someone who understands the system from the inside out. Paul Kwan and the team at General Catalyst saw the same thing many of us see every day. Construction is one of the most important industries on earth, yet productivity has been dragging its boots for decades.
KP Reddy is not theorizing from a whiteboard. KP Reddy is a 2nd-generation civil engineer who has spent time where the hard hats live. Founder of Shadow Ventures. CEO of KP Reddy Co. Builder of 3 tech companies that already found successful exits. Author. Podcast host. The résumé reads less like a LinkedIn profile and more like someone who has been studying the mechanics of the built world for a long time, waiting for the right moment to drop something serious into the market.
Zero RFI arrives as an AI native platform aimed directly at the decision layer of construction. Owners and developers shape the earliest and most consequential moments of a project, yet historically they have been operating with the least technological leverage. Zero RFI steps into that gap with practical enterprise ready AI paired with human expertise, designed to bring clarity and confidence to capital project decisions where the stakes are massive and the margin for error is razor thin.
The strategy is not just software. It is a platform play built around a portfolio of companies that understand how projects actually get delivered. The early foundation already includes Brookwood Group, BuildingWorks, and KP Reddy Co. Each piece adds operational intelligence, shared infrastructure, and a growing knowledge layer that compounds across projects.
Think about what happens when construction decisions get sharper earlier. Fewer surprises. Less friction. More predictable outcomes for the people writing the checks and the teams responsible for turning dirt into buildings that last for generations.