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You've built deep expertise. Now make it scale.

Most AEC teams can do more with technology than their current systems allow. Vessll transforms your expertise into scalable digital systems that power both conventional tools and agentic solutions, providing both technical delivery and organizational guidance services.

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What's in your way?

What's in your way?

Tool overload

Too many tools compete for attention, increasing cognitive load and context switching. Instead of clarity, teams experience fatigue, fragmentation, and difficulty forming a coherent way of working.

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Pilots that don't scale

Proof of concepts and early experiments often succeed in isolation, but lack the structure, ownership, or integration needed to become durable, organization-wide capabilities.  

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Knowledge stuck in people

Critical expertise lives within individuals rather than systems, making institutional knowledge fragile, hard to transfer, and difficult to leverage across teams and projects.

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Broken workflows

Disconnected data, tools, and processes force manual workarounds that slow delivery, increase risk, and pull teams away from higher-value work.

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Unclear ROI

Without clear measurement and feedback loops, it’s difficult to evaluate which digital investments create value, making prioritization, and decision-making harder.

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Lack of computational thinking talent

Your teams have strong domain expertise, but limited ability to translate that knowledge into computational approaches that can be built, reused, and scaled.

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Opportunity is everywhere. Systems to leverage it are uneven. Clear direction is rare.

This is solvable — with the right choices.

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We believe…

Momentum > Activity
Progress should accelerate over time, not reset with every new initiative.
Compounding Innovation > Isolated Experimentation
What works should strengthen the next effort, not stay trapped in pilots.
Shared Direction > Opportunity Grabbing
Clear priorities focus effort and prevent teams from chasing everything at once.
Valuable > Exciting
Lasting impact matters more than novelty or short-lived enthusiasm.
Adoption > Completed
Work isn’t done until teams use it confidently and frequently in everyday practice.
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Our Services

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Solution Development

We don’t start with tools. We start with understanding where value is trapped, then design and deliver digital systems that fit real workflows, scale reliably, and remain adaptable over time.

Discovery grounds the work in reality.

We focus on understanding how work is done today, where expertise is trapped, and where computational approaches can unlock meaningful value. This phase builds alignment across teams and establishes a clear problem definition before any solution is proposed.

Turn insight into a clear, executable path.

We work with you to define what should be built, how it should work, and how it fits into a broader solution roadmap. The emphasis is on sequencing work so early progress strengthens long-term foundations.

Build solutions that teams can adopt and extend.

We develop and test solutions alongside your team, support rollout and adoption, and use feedback to guide subsequent iterations.

Ensure solutions continue to deliver value over time.

The focus here is on stewardship rather than support. As workflows evolve and teams learn, we help ensure solutions remain relevant, reliable, and aligned with broader systems, without creating long-term dependency.

Translate ambition into an operating reality.

This involves translating ambition into a practical operating model, defining where to focus, how work fits together, and what should happen first to build momentum.

Build capability while work is underway.

We build your team’s capability while collaborating through real work, ensuring teams can operate, adapt, and extend digital systems independently as needs and conditions evolve.

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Organizational Guidance

We focus on building the clarity, operating structure, and internal capability organizations need to lead, govern, and sustain digital work independently over time.

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Who we are

Our mission is to help AEC firms do better

With 25+ years of combined experience, we’ve worked as computational design leaders across AEC teams delivering digital capability in practice. Nearly nine years ago, while working at different firms, we founded a nonprofit to build community and expand awareness of computational thinking across the Detroit AEC ecosystem. That work showed us that awareness alone isn’t enough. Firms need a catalyst and a guide. That insight led to Vessll.

Alongside industry work, we have taught Computational Thinking to undergraduate and PhD students at Penn State and Lawrence Tech University, and have published papers in leading journals. We’ve also each received AIA Honorary Member Awards recognizing the impact our computational approach to design thinking has had across our industry.

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We’re ready to bring that impact into your organization.

Leland Curtis

Co-Founder

An internationally-awarded designer and educator with a degree in Architectural Engineering and a background in data science, machine learning, and software development. He led digital transformation efforts as Co-Lead of Computational Design at SmithGroup and Director of Computational Design at CRB.

Azubike Ononye

Co-Founder

A certified product leader, award-winning computational designer, and educator with over a decade of experience leading digital innovation across the AEC industry. He has worked with several Fortune 500 clients and led multidisciplinary teams to translate complex processes and discipline knowledge into repeatable, maintainable systems that improve productivity and business growth.

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