Welcome to another portfolio profile episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home

Podcast. We're going to talk today about a space that if you're a long time listener of the show,

you know I've sort of been obsessed with, I've been sharing long reads and links about this space

and wondering why it hasn't taken off yet for a while now.

Let's go ahead and get right into it by introducing

the founder of Argyle, Merritt Thatcher.

Merritt, welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home. Thank you for having me, Brian. So Merritt, Argyll, just from the name, people can't guess what the space is, but give me the two minute sort of elevator of what Argyll is or is becoming or is trying to do.

Yeah, so Argyll is overlay of building data on a job site.

And if you think about that Argyll pattern,

that diamond overlay, that's where we got the name from.

So we convert building information models

into an AR-ready format that's lightweight enough to run on even

the current headsets that we've got, and make all of that building data available based on your physical walking location.

So as you're building the project, you have reference to the design models, to the self-performed

models, all of that spatially.

Our dream for spatial computing.

Today we are a BIM to AR Visualizer.

Tomorrow our goal is to become the first spatial project management tool in construction.

So the idea is, at least again, with the technology right now, I put on a headset, I'm on a job site, I'm walking through the job site and sort of the,

describe what BIM is?

Building information model. Okay. it's both the 3D shape of the model but it also

contains information about its parts the wall knows how thick it is and what's inside of it

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