The people behind the work / KhaMetric
KhaMetric is looking for an accurate match to the work of the architects and engineers who came before us. That is why our agents carry their names.
History remembers its kings. It rarely remembers the people who designed and organised what the kings are known for. Their talent was in everything we can still see, and their effort was almost always understated. They did not receive the credit they deserved.
We would like to recognise them. So each KhaMetric agent is named after an engineer or architect who stood behind an impressive design.
Skilled architects and engineers are priceless. We are not trying to replace them. We want to take the repetitive, redundant work off their desks, such as tracing a plan and counting what is on it, so that more of their day goes to design and judgement.
We still need their innovation and their support. With that, we believe we can build a more convenient world for people.
Two agents will be released soon. Each reads a floor plan image or PDF and returns an editable DXF drawing and an Excel quantity takeoff.
Vizier under Khufu, about 4,500 years ago
Hemiunu oversaw the royal building works of his time. He is widely credited as the architect of the Great Pyramid at Giza, and his tomb stands beside it. The title in his tomb is usually read as supervisor of all of the king's construction projects.
An agent that turns a floor plan into a drawing and a takeoff, named for a builder of precision at a very large scale.
Coming soon
Overseer of works to Hatshepsut, about 3,500 years ago
Senenmut rose to hold many offices in Hatshepsut's court. He is remembered as the chief architect of her terraced temple at Deir el-Bahari, set into the cliffs at Thebes, a building still admired for how it sits in its landscape.
An agent that turns a floor plan into a drawing and a takeoff, named for a designer who made space and setting work together.
Coming soonMore agents will join them, and each will get its own place on this page. Dates are approximate, and some details about these two lives are still debated by historians.
Images from Wikimedia Commons: Hemiunu, statue in the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim, photo by Djehouty, CC BY-SA 4.0; Senenmut, block statue with Neferure in the Egyptian Museum, Berlin, photo by Marcus Cyron, CC BY-SA 3.0. Both are cropped and resized. To read more: the Egyptian Museum on Hemiunu and on Senenmut.
Accuracy is the thing we care about most. A drawing that is nearly right still costs an engineer time, so we measure our results against drawings made by hand and we keep improving them as we learn.
We are still validating the app. We will publish a number when we can show the run behind it, and not before.
We have not set prices for the agents yet. We would rather hear from the people who will use them than guess.
If you are an engineer or an architect, we would be glad to know what you would find fair, and what would make these agents more useful in your work. Write to info@khametric.com.
Thank you for the work you do, and for taking the time to read this.
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