Built by structural engineers who lived the problem first
Our founders started Pirros to give AEC firms a way to find everything they have ever solved.
What would it take for a firm to remember everything it has ever solved?
Ari and Peter first ran into that question as engineers at the same structural firm, in the same office, seeing one problem from two directions.
Peter’s version is one most engineers will recognize. He would spend an afternoon working through a condition, fairly sure someone at the firm had already done it better, but often it was faster to draw it himself and move on. Ari saw the same thing from the firm’s internal software team, across every project at once.
What stuck with them was not the wasted time. It was how much good work the firm was sitting on and never fully using. Details drawn by engineers who had spent decades building expertise, almost none of it reachable by the next person who needed it, and most of it gone the day those engineers retired.
They started Pirros in 2022 to answer the question, and went through Y Combinator that winter. Today, the question has not changed. Our answer keeps getting better.
The people who bet on us built the software this industry already runs on
Carl Bass
Former CEO of Autodesk
Ryan Sutton-Gee, Tracy Young, & Ralph Gootee
Co-founders of PlanGrid
Ara Mahdessian & Vahe Kuzoyan
Co-founders of ServiceTitan
Tim Olshansky
Former CTO of Crunchtime and Aconex
Meet the team.
From inside the industry.
We’re AEC industry veterans, which is why Pirros works the way it does.
Where the team worked before Pirros
Ari Baranian
Co-Founder & CEO
Combined structural engineering with software at KPFF, where he led the group building internal tools and saw an industry overdue for better software, then co-founded Pirros in 2022.
Peter Johann
Co-Founder & COO
Turned years in structural production at different engineering firms across Los Angeles into a conviction that the industry needed new tools, then co-founded Pirros in 2022.
Talar Grace
Head of Customer Success
Started her career in architecture, shaping retail, residential, and community spaces across Los Angeles as a designer at studios like Wall for Apricots and retail brands like Alo.
Ross Wagner, Assoc. AIA
Head of Industry & Product Strategy
Left a career in architecture for AEC technology, and helped scale PlanGrid past $100M through its Autodesk acquisition, and led GTM teams supporting Autodesk’s AECO customers.
Isaac Nemzer
Head of Engineering
Founded and scaled Yext’s first international engineering team in London, growing it to serve over 100 accounts, then came to Arup where he saw firsthand how much engineering knowledge lives in past projects.
Jerok Giauque
Head of Finance
Led finance and data teams at Goldman Sachs, Nike, and Disney, including global business planning for Nike’s $50B P&L, before founding an applied AI startup.
Anthony Dedousis
Head of Growth
Founded a California homebuilding marketplace after leading international go-to-market and data-driven marketing teams at ZipRecruiter, where he helped scale the company’s expansion into new markets.
Rafi Kurkdjian
Head of People & Talent
Brings nearly 30 years of experience building and scaling teams at high-growth technology and software companies, from startups like ServiceTitan to large global organizations.
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