C.Scale
United States
- San Francisco, CA
- 05/11/2025
- Pre-Seed
- $2,000,000
C.Scale is a software platform enabling architects and building owners to make data-driven decisions throughout the design process, driving down both costs and whole life carbon emissions. Leveraging data on thousands of buildings in planning and design, the platform connects supply and demand for high-performance, low-carbon products in the fragmented, $1 trillion building materials market.
C.Scale's AI/ML-powered platform that solves a critical supply chain inefficiency: connecting building product manufacturers directly with designers at the point of specification. As regulation and owners seeking higher performance buildings drive demand for low-carbon products, C.Scale enables architects to make streamlined, data-driven design and procurement decisions while helping manufacturers reach qualified buyers.
C.Scale utilizes building life cycle assessment to give a holistic description of a building’s materials, systems, and environmental impacts. The company’s unique AI/ML toolkit gives designers and owners the ability to evaluate the impacts of their decisions from the very beginning of the project. For manufacturers, the platform will offer a flow of high-quality leads by tracking detailed material quantities and carbon performance requirements from the earliest project phases, while providing visibility into the design process from concept through construction.
In the past six months, hundreds of enterprise customers have modeled over 1,200 projects representing more than 120 million square feet of construction in C.Scale. These customers include 2 of the top 3 largest architecture firms in North America and 9 AIA Firm Award recipients. Global corporations, including Autodesk and Schneider Electric, are integrating C.Scale into their products and platforms. And Stanford University is piloting the platform to align building planning and procurement with long-term campus commitments.
- Industry Climate Data and Analytics
- Website https://www.cscale.io/
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/c-scale/
Related People
Jack RuskCo Founder
United States -
New York, New York
Jack Rusk is the CEO and co-founder of C.Scale, a software platform democratizing access to whole life carbon data and design strategy. C.Scale was founded on the belief that data-driven tools can help get "all hands on deck" in the work of transforming buildings and cities from a climate burden to a climate solution.
In the last few years, he's presented research at the International Mass Timber Conference, applied machine learning and remote sensing techniques to model how urbanization is changing people’s exposure to natural hazards in mountainous areas, helped the US GSA define its carbon mitigation strategy, and written articles for a number of architecture publications and peer-reviewed research journals. He currently volunteers for the Living Future Energy+Carbon Technical Advisory Group, the AIA DDx working group, and as an AIA representative on the Embodied Carbon Harmonization and Optimization (ECHO) Project.
Feel free to reach out if you ever want to chat about C.Scale, the built environment's role in the climate crisis, climate policy, or planning low-carbon buildings and real estate portfolios!
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