# Archneura

Working to stop disposable buildings.

## Elevator pitch
We measure building quality.

- Canonical URL: https://wefunder.com/archneura
- Entity ID: wefunder:company:81404
- Last updated: 2026-06-22T05:03:18Z
- Generated at: 2026-06-23T01:20:56Z

## Quick facts
- Total addressable market is all commercial buildings in the world (5.9 million in the US alone.)
- The CEO has 10+ years of building industry experience as a registered architect.
- Reduce operational costs for commercial & public buildings.
- Reduce carbon footprint of buildings by lengthening building lifespan.
- Reduce landfill waste resulting from premature demolition, which is 249 million tons annually.

## Active fundraises
- wefunder:fundraise:43492: 4(a)(6) successful (USD)
- wefunder:fundraise:43493: 4(a)(6) successful (USD)

## FAQ
1. **Sorry for missing it. What is the revenue threshold?**
   - Hi Omar, my apologies that this was left out. The threshold is $100,000 of annual revenue. As soon as we reach this amount, we pay back each investor with 10% of our revenue. For example, if our revenue in 2022 is $200,000, we have $40,000 with which to pay investors. This gets divvied up proportional to the amount invested. So investors of a small amount might receive one check, whereas investors of a larger amount may receive more than one, if it takes multiple years to pay back. A summary ...
2. **I don't understand how your technology is better than the way we're doing it now? Is Archneura the first company/platform to offer this building quality index your company created? Why do investors/corporate organizations/PE firms need to use your platform/technology to buy a ...**
   - Thank you for all your questions. Q1. I don't understand how your technology is better than the way we're doing it now? Q1 Answer: To clarify, the BQI can be used for: 1) Portfolio management / capital improvement planning / decisions to invest, sell, renovate etc 2) Transactions For portfolio management: The way the real estate industry is currently making life cycle decisions is done with missing information. Individual building owners or firms managing portfolios on behalf of owners are no...
3. **First, aside from strategy around women owned businesses, let me applaud your use of the Revenue Share. There are a number of us interested in finding more opportunities to participate in Revenue Shares knowing VC math doesn't work, and leaving control in the hands of a values...**
   - Market Break down: We are first targeting US public sector facilities through grants and proposals to property-owning agencies. Since these have a long waiting period, we are also targeting private sector at the same time. While we had initially targeted any real estate corporation that did portfolio management, we have recently zeroed in on REIT's as our target US private sector customer. Europe: We have a lead with a university in France which occurred through a relationship. Due to the lan...
4. **--one additional question (and I do see you've identified getting customers as one of your biggest obstacles, but would still like to hear about efforts to overcome it. You might also consider bringing on an additional team member with sales skills). I am also curious about yo...**
   - Sales Team Member: We have been testing a relationship with a sales executive since March. As the relationship was not yet formalized this wasn't included in the pitch. They were working part time and on track to join as a CRO/CMO but just this week had to decline permanently due to a family situation. We will be looking for a new person to fill this skillset. Number of Reports: Our goal is to get to 8-9 per month as quickly as possible because this allows us to hire a team to do manual analy...
5. **Will you ever open up to investment for equity investors (to own direct shares)?**
   - Potentially in a future campaign.

## Team
- Clair Marie McDade (Founder and CEO)
- Daniel Cummins (Co-Founder and Lead Software Engineer)

## Q&A
- Q: Sorry for missing it. What is the revenue threshold?
  - A: Hi Omar, my apologies that this was left out. The threshold is $100,000 of annual revenue. As soon as we reach this amount, we pay back each investor with 10% of our revenue. For example, if our revenue in 2022 is $200,000, we have $40,000 with which to pay investors. This gets divvied up proportional to the amount invested. So investors of a small amount might receive one check, whereas investors of a larger amount may receive more than one, if it takes multiple years to pay back. A summary of terms have been added to the deck, and full legal terms will be visible as soon as the campaign reaches the $50,000 minimum.
- Q: I was wondering when you were going to share your 2021 financials with your investors.
- Q: Will you ever open up to investment for equity investors (to own direct shares)?
  - A: Potentially in a future campaign.
- Q: --one additional question (and I do see you've identified getting customers as one of your biggest obstacles, but would still like to hear about efforts to overcome it. You might also consider bringing on an additional team member with sales skills). I am also curious about your thought process around generating revenue. I see the pricing model. I also see your competitors mentioned in your pitch deck. Using parallels with your competitors, how many reports do you anticipate generating in year 1, 2, 3...5? When do you anticipate breaking even? (your best and educated guess). What year do you anticipate being positioned to start paying back on your revenue share? Where are you finding your biggest interest to date? Warehouses? Hospitals? other? Focusing in on a specific industry niche where you can use networking effects (one warehouse owner sees success and mentions to others), and build on data for rapid and specialized machine learning is a great way to get traction and build to other specializations for other buildings. I love this idea, but need the numbers to fulfill my stewardship and determine if this is too early for me.
  - A: Sales Team Member: We have been testing a relationship with a sales executive since March. As the relationship was not yet formalized this wasn't included in the pitch. They were working part time and on track to join as a CRO/CMO but just this week had to decline permanently due to a family situation. We will be looking for a new person to fill this skillset. Number of Reports: Our goal is to get to 8-9 per month as quickly as possible because this allows us to hire a team to do manual analyses while we are developing the technology. For this reason we have pivoted to only targeting customers that have a large volume of buildings - hundreds or thousands - for now. Once we get 1, 2 or 3 reports we will shift towards the goal of getting a contract signed with at least one volume customer. We want to do 100 buildings in the year after we get our first customer. Break Even: This should occur at some point between 50-100 buildings or shortly after starting with a volume customer. At $10,000 average per building, doing 9 per month would net us $90k/mo which is enough to pay a team of 5-6 plus expenses. Since we are discovering the sales cycle to be 6 months - 1 year or more I hesitate to put a date on it. Building Type: So far our best leads include an older office building, large retail complex, and a university. Network Effect: We agree and this is why we have pivoted to the volume customer approach - large REIT's or public property-owning agencies only. Unfortunately these targets have some of the longest sales cycles in the CRE industry. Grants are also a pathway for us and we have submitted 2 applications this year. For one we were declined and the other we are waiting. As they are labor intensive and competitive, we only have bandwidth to apply to a few.
- Q: First, aside from strategy around women owned businesses, let me applaud your use of the Revenue Share. There are a number of us interested in finding more opportunities to participate in Revenue Shares knowing VC math doesn't work, and leaving control in the hands of a values-driven entrepreneur over a singularly-profit-driven investor can be a good thing. Second, let me ask about market share and traction. I understand this is a start up and you have yet to see traction. That said, 'all buildings in the world' is a broad and humungous market that you need to break down (and is generally a red flag for investors). You noted two entry points for your go-to-market strategy, partnering with other RE and data analytic companies after you patent; and a sense that Europe may be a better entry point. This raises questions, first, around the patent -- which will likely not be as protective as you like-- what is the danger of others replicating and how do you intend to get market penetration quickly to compensate for knock-offs or in-house development? Do you have the financial where-with-all and time to fight new renditions and iterations on your original idea? As to the market traction, have you done outreach to RE and data analytic companies to determine their interest? Further, you note larger buildings as one strategy with solid reasoning, and Europe with a reasoning centered on anecdote - though I agree with your thoughts about Europe. What tactics are you planning to pursue to actualize this strategy? Do you have Letters of Interest (LOIs) from RE and data analytic companies that help de-risk the strategies? If the proof is all in the financial and impact trade-off, how do you intend to get an audience with these owners to prove your perspective and create opportunities for a marketplace to move beyond status quo?
  - A: Market Break down: We are first targeting US public sector facilities through grants and proposals to property-owning agencies. Since these have a long waiting period, we are also targeting private sector at the same time. While we had initially targeted any real estate corporation that did portfolio management, we have recently zeroed in on REIT's as our target US private sector customer. Europe: We have a lead with a university in France which occurred through a relationship. Due to the language barrier present on documents that we obtain data from, this is a challenge. We are gently pursuing this lead, but keeping US customers as our primary targets. We plan to pursuing other leads in Europe after getting US customers. Danger of IP Replication: We have a dual system of patent + a proprietary algorithm. Because only the process can be patented, but no the algorithm itself, we can retain our uniqueness even if our process is copied. We are not currently capitalized to the extent needed to fight competitors with litigation, however, we anticipate that this level of copying probably would not occur for at least a few years. Outreach to RE and data analytic companies: All RE data analytic companies are competitors, so we do not reach out to them. LOI's This does not make sense at the moment because we just pivoted our approach to US REIT's, and are too early in the process. However, LOI's are definitely an ask at a later time. Audience with Owners: Through individual outreach (direct sales) and real estate networking groups. At a later date, we plan to add PR to broaden the reach.
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- Q: I don't understand how your technology is better than the way we're doing it now? Is Archneura the first company/platform to offer this building quality index your company created? Why do investors/corporate organizations/PE firms need to use your platform/technology to buy a building/lock in a lease/etc? Also, as a investor, it seems like here on Wefunder this is more of a short term investment as opposed to an exit strategy or IPO because correct me if I'm wrong, but your capping the Wefunder's gains at a 2.5X payback multiple?
  - A: Thank you for all your questions. Q1. I don't understand how your technology is better than the way we're doing it now? Q1 Answer: To clarify, the BQI can be used for: 1) Portfolio management / capital improvement planning / decisions to invest, sell, renovate etc 2) Transactions For portfolio management: The way the real estate industry is currently making life cycle decisions is done with missing information. Individual building owners or firms managing portfolios on behalf of owners are not using life cycle cost information to determine the payback on investment of improvements. This leads to short term decision making. There are many opportunities for buildings to increase ROI over a long time frame if the right reinvestments are made. But these projects are often not done because the cost is seen as a one-time, prohibitive event that must be financed with debt. This can lead to a tipping point – when the cost of improvements is greater than the cost to build new, the building will be demolished. However, if building quality is improved, the rent the building can command in the market will increase. This helps the building to build up its cash reserves, which can be used for periodic improvements, helping the owner to lengthen lifespan and increase net operating income. Increasing quality --> increasing rent --> increasing lifespan--> lower construction waste + increased ROI. In transactions: The most common ways the industry is measuring building quality include the Co-Star building rating, and environmental rating systems such as LEED and BREEAM. The Co-Star building rating isn’t based on a comprehensive review of architectural and engineering data, and it is not precise – it only goes from 1-5 stars. In addition, it doesn’t look at lifespan. Environmental rating systems look at only environmental performance – water, energy, daylighting etc. They are not focused on the functioning of basic building systems like plumbing, electrical, and roofing that are often neglected. Similarly, these systems are also not precise, most of them using a 5-point scale. Commercial real estate is very diverse – we need a finely graded system to understand more about our buildings. For example, a building might be over or under valued according to the comps used for appraisal – because it has different characteristics. The BQI will reveal these characteristics which can assist buyers and sellers in negotiating the fairest price. Q2: Is Archneura the first company/platform to offer this building quality index your company created? Yes. Q3: Why do investors/corporate organizations/PE firms need to use your platform/technology to buy a building/lock in a lease/etc? If they want to know how long the building will last, and how they can maximize their ROI from the investment over this lifespan, the BQI is the best tool on the market for this purpose. Q4: Also, as a investor, it seems like here on Wefunder this is more of a short term investment as opposed to an exit strategy or IPO because correct me if I'm wrong, but your capping the Wefunder's gains at a 2.5X payback multiple? Yes, for the revenue share the payback multiple is 2.5. Because the revenue threshold when we start paying back investors is $100k, it is likely we will hit that within our first 10 customers. While we can’t promise any specific timeframe, this would definitely occur before an IPO or a large VC funding round. If you are interested in a longer-term equity investment that would cash out at an exit or liquidation event instead, please contact me directly at clairmarie@archneura.com.