AI-Powered Venture Studio · Springfield, MA · Est. 2026

The Future of
Construction
Built by
Builders

UDOR Studios is the construction industry's first AI-powered venture studio — built inside a $400M+ firm with 93 years of domain expertise and zero patience for tools that don't work in the field.  

Partner With Us Why Now
$400M+
Annual Revenue
93yr
Fontaine Legacy
1M+
Sqft Under Construction
$650K
Innovation Budget / Year


The Problem

Construction Is
A Boundless
Frontier For AI.

A $2 trillion industry. 8 million workers. An enormous surface area for AI to drive efficiency, reduce cost, and amplify the expertise of every skilled tradesperson on the job. The opportunity is not just real — it's generational.

$2T

Global Industry Size

Construction represents one of the largest sectors in the global economy — and one of the least digitized.

8M

Workers, No Real Tools

Eight million construction workers operating with technology that hasn't meaningfully changed in decades.

500K

Worker Shortage

A critical skills gap that AI-driven efficiency tools are uniquely positioned to bridge — multiplying the impact of every expert in the field.


The Approach

A High-Performance Construction Company Is the Perfect Live Laboratory for AI Invention.

Every idea gets tested in the real world — on active job sites, with real crews, under real deadlines. We don't demo. We build, we validate, and we scale what works.

Spark

Frictionless, speed-of-light iteration driven by any and all Fontaine team members. Every person on every job site is a potential source of insight.

Ideas from the Field
Flame

Accelerated projects with evidence of product-market fit receive focused investment and external development support from our partner studios.

Proof of Value
Torch

Products that demonstrate external revenue and potential to scale initiate a process to capture external investment and spin out as independent companies.

External Capital

Portfolio

Current Ventures

Our first company proves the model. More in the pipeline.

Active · In Development

AI-Powered Procurement & AP Intelligence for Construction

Built by someone who has lived the problem of real-time construction procurement and disintegrated vendor spend firsthand. Triplicate turns $40M in annual spend data into actionable intelligence — catching waste, flagging anomalies, and surfacing savings that slip through every manual process.

Targeting $3–5M in annual savings for anchor customers alone.

What It Does

  • Real-time procurement intelligence across all vendor spend
  • AP anomaly detection — catches errors before they become losses
  • Validated against $40M in live Fontaine Bros spend data
  • Built for construction accounting workflows, not generic ERP
$40M
Spend Data Validated
$3–5M
Target Annual Savings
Live
Tested on Real Projects
#1
First UDOR Portfolio Co.
Learn More About Triplicate →
ANCHORSITE AI · FIELD INTELLIGENCE Active · In Development

AI-Powered Field Intelligence for Construction Job Sites

Construction's most expensive problems happen in the field — not in the back office. Anchorsite gives superintendents, foremen, and project managers an AI co-pilot trained on construction knowledge: answering questions, surfacing risks, and helping crews navigate the complexity of live job sites without picking up a phone or waiting for a meeting.

Targeting zero-training field adoption — built to work the first time a crew member picks it up.

What It Does

  • AI field assistant trained on construction workflows and trade knowledge
  • Real-time answers to job site questions — sequence, spec, safety, and more
  • Validated against live Fontaine Bros project conditions and crews
  • Speaks the language of construction — not enterprise software
Field
Built for Crews First
Day 1
Zero-Training Design
Live
Tested on Real Sites
#2
Second UDOR Portfolio Co.
Learn More About Anchorsite →

More ventures in the pipeline at the Spark stage. Interested in co-founding?
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The Team

Builders First.

From the fourth-generation operator who's led hundreds of millions in projects to the team that shipped 15 apps to App Store top-10 rankings — every person here has earned their seat at the table.

DF

Dave Fontaine Jr.

Founder / CEO

Hybrid fourth-generation leader who bridges the boardroom and the wheelbarrow. The embodiment of what UDOR believes: domain expertise is the unfair advantage.

JS

John SanGiovanni

Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Former Microsoft, Disney, Logitech. Deep experience with venture studio models and go-to-market strategy across consumer and enterprise products.

MM

Michele McMullen

Head of Design

15 apps in the top 10 of their respective App Store category. Brings consumer-grade design sensibility to an industry that has never had it.

Trailmix Labs

Development Partner

Seasoned agentic build team. Our primary technical partner for productionizing the ideas that make it from Spark to Flame stage.

Pact

Platform Partner

Pact's speed-of-light agentic engineering platform and team will bring tremendous velocity to UDOR's builds.


Why Springfield

Innovation Happens Where Things Break.

Springfield, MA is not a tech hub. That's the point. We're not building tools that look good in a demo environment — we're building tools that survive contact with actual construction sites, actual crews, and actual deadlines.

Being embedded in Western Massachusetts — where Fontaine Bros has built the community for 93 years — gives us something no SaaS company headquartered in San Francisco can replicate: real projects as our test environment, every single day.

$650K

Innovation budget already operating — not a pitch, not a promise. The machine is running.

Live Test Environment

Over 1 million square feet under active construction. Every idea gets deployed against real conditions, real crews, and real deadlines.

93 Years of Relationships

Vendor networks, subcontractor relationships, and municipal trust built over four generations. No cold outreach required.

Anti-Silicon Valley by Design

Construction operators don't trust tech built by people who've never been on a job site. We have credibility that can't be manufactured.

Builders First — Then World

Springfield to the world. The problems we solve here are universal to every construction market globally.


Get Involved

Let's Build Something.

Whether you're a construction operator with a problem you've been living for 20 years, a capital partner who sees the opportunity, or an innovator looking for a real test environment — we want to hear from you.

Domain Experts & Co-Founders

You've lived a problem that needs solving. You have the expertise. We have the platform, the capital, and the test environment to build around it.

Capital & Strategic Partners

Looking for construction's AI future at the ground floor. We offer direct access to a live laboratory and a 93-year-old network.

Economic Development & Government

UDOR is exactly what Massachusetts looks like when it bets on its own industrial future. Let's talk about how to amplify that story.