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nPlan

Machine learning to improve construction projects

21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Construction
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Analysis
133 Whitechapel High Street, London, England E1 7PT, GB

Company mission

nPlan's vision is that all construction projects should be built on time and budget, enabling the cities of the future to be built better.

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32% female employees

106% employee growth in 12 months

Otta's take

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Theo Margolius

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nPlan is leading the drive to improve decision-making in construction by applying machine learning to dramatically improve how information is retained and utilised to influence risk and uncertainty.

They noticed the construction industry has remained static for decades and projects are consistently not delivered on time or budget. With intelligent software, nPlan has started to change the fundamentals of the industry and improve the outcomes for all stakeholders.

Over the next year, nPlan is set to grow its team and develop its tech for new markets, including an insurance product to cover clients on project overruns. Having already worked with some of the biggest construction and infrastructure companies in the world, including Network Rail and Google, the company completed its Series A at the start of 2021 with GV as its lead investor.

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours - core hours of 11-3pm, besides that we're to be flexible
  • Work-from-home opportunities
  • Unlimited paid time off policy - yes it's really unlimited!
  • Share options for all employees
  • Fitness allowance - £50/month to expense on any fitness activity
  • Flexible work locations - work from our office, home, or abroad, as long as there's wifi we're not too fussed!
  • Annual company retreat and regular social events on our roof terrace
  • Learning budget: £1000/year to spend on conferences, books, courses and subscriptions
  • Visa Sponsorship and contribution towards relocation costs (role dependant)
  • EAP & eye tests
  • Season ticket loan
  • Health insurance - Private Medical Insurance with Vitality

Company values

  • Aim high, run fast - Set challenges that will defy your skills, implement the most efficient solution
  • Be radically truthful - Care deeply, challenge directly, and tell the truth no matter how hard
  • Learn from everything - Always question your current knowledge, reflect on outcomes, and learn from these

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Nov 2020

$18.5m

SERIES A

Jan 2020

$0.6m

GRANT

$23.1m

Total funding

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Founders

Previously worked at Shell for 9 years before authoring the UK's National AI Strategy.

Spent 7 years as a technologist in quantitative finance and is completing a PhD in deep learning.

People progressing

Carlos joined in September 2018 as a Machine Learning Engineer and has since moved to a Product Manager role, heavily influencing product direction and strategy.

Rachel joined in 2022 as a Business Development Representative, she's since progressed to Account Manager, and now manages her own team of Business Development Representatives.

Diversity & Inclusion at nPlan

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Sarah Grisman (Operations Director)

  • At nPlan we believe that diversity within the team helps us to be our best. Whilst growing our team we see the benefits that a range of views and opinions can bring. This supports an environment of creativity and innovation which has helped drive our product and service forward
  • It’s important to us that our whole team feel that nPlan is the place that they can achieve their aspirations whilst feeling welcome, supported and respected.
 nPlan have a growing list of clients from around the world and everyday we see the benefit of an international team.
  • We work hard together to make nPlan an inclusive and collaborative environment, with flexible working hours & benefits with health and wellbeing at the centre of what we do
  • We have an internal DE&I committee here at nPlan, and are prioritising DE&I as an area of focus for 2023.

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Challenging work (2)

Autonomy (2)

Intelligent people (2)

Open and honest communication (2)

Flexible working (2)

Clear values (2)

Meaningful work (1)

Team energy (1)

Focus on employee wellbeing (1)

Everyone in the company shows a real respect for self-care and the need for a healthy work-life balance. Employees are not made to feel guilty for taking time off when they need it and openly addressing concerns or stress

Software Engineering

Focus on employee wellbeing

Aug 2021

Radical candor is one of the main company values, and there is a real effort from management to be open and direct about what is happening. Everyone is welcome to join other team's meetings or slack channel, and has access to the same company-wide documentation including meeting notes.

Software Engineering

Open and honest communication

Aug 2021

The company puts real effort into making sure that everyone who joins fits in with the company values, including a dedicated "values" interview as part of the recruitment process. Given that the company size is still small (<50 people), I think this really helps in making everyone feel aligned from the start.

Software Engineering

Clear values

Aug 2021

A truly first-of-its-kind solution means that there is often to set path or route behind what we should build. Exciting to think about the scope and potential around building something without a template and with a truly open-ended problem.

Software Engineering

Challenging work

Jul 2021

There on very few constraints on how / when / where employees work at nPlan, which can seem like somewhat of a trope these days, but being truly free means productivity increases and people have a much better day-to-day life. Being able to chose how I work helps me to feel empowered to do the best work that I can.

Software Engineering

Flexible working

Jul 2021

One of nPlan's core values. All about stripping away the pretense of coporate beating around the bush and being radically truthful, while caring personally, in order to make communication as efficient as possible. nPlan approaches this with a very satisfying shift to the cultral norms of modern companies.

Software Engineering

Open and honest communication

Jul 2021

Working at nPlan I get to work with a company that takes its core values seriously, and I see the positive effect this has on the team. I also feel a level of trust and support which I really enjoy and gets the best from me. nPlan also offer amazing benefits and flexibility which has allowed me to achieve a work life balance I have always been looking for

People, HR, Recruitment

Autonomy

Jun 2021

I have never been surrounded by such a high performing team before, but this also comers with no visible team hierarchy. Everyone is very friendly and helps push each other to achieve the best they can. I definitely feel that I can achieve my potential with nPlan

People, HR, Recruitment

Intelligent people

Jun 2021

The level of flexibility and autonomy at nPlan is amazing. I feel trusted to do my job to the best of my ability in my own time, which has allowed for the best possible work life balance

People, HR, Recruitment

Flexible working

Jun 2021

I love working for nPlan because the work we are doing and the products we are building have real, tangible impact on the world around us. There's a really strong ideas-first mindset and research/exploration is actively encouraged (such as using at least 10% of time for research) which is exciting - we're motivated to build things that are truly impactful.

Operations & Strategy

Meaningful work

Jun 2021

I absolutely adore the team here at nPlan. So much positivity and enthusiasm, super friendly and excited about ideas and information-sharing. I really enjoy coming to work! I know that I've grown and developed as a direct result of my colleagues going out of their way to share their knowledge and help me to be successful, and I can see the positive impact I've had on others too.

Operations & Strategy

Team energy

Jun 2021

Our values aren't just words on a page - we really live by them and they're threaded through everything that we do. We even have them as Slack emojis! Knowing we are all working with the same values in mind definitely helps to bond us as a team and enables us to work not only fast but well - we focus on the right things. We build our values into our hiring process too, which means that we are confident that the people joining us align with what matters to us.

Operations & Strategy

Clear values

Jun 2021

As an ML Engineer, I have the opportunity to work with a massive dataset with a unique structure. Graphs, language models, and uncertainty estimation are a few examples of topics we have to tackle in just one of our products.

Software Engineering

Challenging work

Jan 2021

Solving our problems is entirely up to the engineering team, where everyone contributes with ideas. Moonshots are also highly encouraged, either as a team or as a solo side-project. Good ideas can even change our roadmap -- serendipity is the boss.

Software Engineering

Autonomy

Jan 2021

You can really feel the impact of being surrounded by intelligent, motivated people. And not just by learning from field experts -- smart life hacks are also really impactful!

Software Engineering

Intelligent people

Jan 2021

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