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Physical AI · in build

AI designs it. A printer builds it. The home runs itself.

Vitruvius designs structurally-valid homes — architect-validated, not rendered — and drives them straight to a 3D-printing construction machine. Then each home looks after itself: powered by its own solar, catching its own rain, meshed with its neighbours, and run by Collab-Foundry’s on-device AI — sovereign, off-grid, and secured by Aegis. A design an architect would sign, printed as a building you can stand in.

What it does

From a brief to a building.

Three stages on one sovereign stack — the design, the proof, and the print.

Designs the building

From a brief — site, budget, constraints, building code — Vitruvius generates real, buildable designs on your own hardware. Not mood-boards: geometry meant to be poured.

Proves it stands up

Firmitas first. Every design passes structural and code checks, and a real architect reviews and corrects it — and the correction flows back in, so the next design is better. A building it can’t prove safe, it won’t print.

Prints it for real

Validated geometry is exported to a 3D-printing construction machine — toolpaths, not renders. Bits become a poured structure you can walk into.

Why it matters

A home shouldn’t cost a lifetime.

Building a house is slow, labour-heavy and wasteful — and a home is out of reach for millions. 3D-printed construction changes that economy, and Vitruvius is the intelligence built to design for it.

Less labour, less time

A printer lays the structure a crew would raise by hand — fewer trades, fewer hours, a shell in days rather than months.

Less waste

Material is extruded exactly where the design needs it — no off-cuts, no over-ordering. You pour what you use, and not a bag more.

Designed for cost, not just looks

Vitruvius optimises every design for material, span and printability from the first line — the cheapest sound way to build the brief, not the prettiest render.

A home within reach

Lower cost and a faster build mean shelter for more people — the humanity-first point of the whole exercise: dignity and a roof, not luxury.

Self-sufficient by design

Every home, its own power bank.

Vitruvius doesn’t just design a building that stands — it designs one that runs itself. Each home makes its own power, banks it, catches its own water, and holds its own temperature — off-grid by design, not by upgrade. The AI solves for it from the first line, not as a finish bolted on at the end.

Makes & banks its own power

Every design is planned around on-site solar, then stores what it makes — battery plus the structure’s own thermal mass — so the house carries itself through night and cloud. A home that is its own power bank.

Catches its own water

Rainwater capture is designed into the roof and form, so the home collects and lives on what falls on it — less drawn from the mains, more from the sky.

Heats and cools itself

Orientation, mass and shading are optimised for passive comfort, and the home’s own stored energy handles the rest — so heating and cooling are solved by design, not by a power bill.

Built from reused material

Designs favour recycled and reclaimed inputs — reused aggregate in the print mix, salvaged material where it’s sound. Circular, not extractive: a home that takes less from the world to stand.

A house with a mind

Every home runs its own AI.

A Vitruvius home doesn’t just stand and sustain itself — it thinks. Each one is built to run Collab-Foundry’s own sovereign AI on-device: a brain that manages the house and guards it, with nothing leaving the walls.

Runs the whole house

The brain orchestrates power, storage, water and climate moment to moment — balancing solar, battery and comfort so the home looks after its own resources without you thinking about it.

Guards it — on-device

Security is built in, powered by Aegis: the home watches over itself, recognises trouble and acts — all processed inside the house, never streamed to a stranger’s cloud.

Talks to its neighbours

Homes mesh together over Meshtastic — long-range LoRa radio, ground to ground, with no internet or cell tower. A street of Vitruvius homes stays connected and coordinated even when the grid and the network go down.

Sovereign & private

The same on-device stack behind Aegis, Neuron AI and Cipher lives in the walls — your home’s intelligence is yours alone. Private by default, resilient with no internet, owned outright.

The principle

Strength, function, beauty — in that order.

Two thousand years on, Vitruvius’ order still holds — and it’s the system’s spine.

1
Firmitas — it must standStructural integrity is a hard gate, not a suggestion. Vitruvius will not print a structure it cannot prove safe.
2
Utilitas — it must workDesigns answer a real brief: site, budget, code, and how people actually live in the space.
3
Venustas — it should be worth looking atSound and useful first; then beautiful. Never the other way around.
In build — the foundation is already past halfway. Vitruvius’ design-and-validation core runs on the same sovereign stack as Aegis, Neuron AI and Cipher; the full build is now well underway. It is not yet a released product — it is the next thing we’re building, in the open.
Collaborate · build it with us

One architect. One house. Free.

Vitruvius is the proof of the Collab-Foundry model: we build the system, a domain expert brings the truth we can’t. We’re inviting an architectural firm — or an independent architect — to co-create the first real Vitruvius build: design and 3D-print one real house with us, at no cost. You help shape the tool and you’re first to use it; we earn the proof. Structural engineers, construction-tech teams and 3D-printing builders who want in are welcome too.

Architect, firm or builder — let’s build it together