Structural Intelligence
Our Mission
Planning, assessing and maintaining structures is complex and demanding. We develop AI agents to support you in this work: AI that combines expert knowledge with verified calculation tools to deliver verifiable results grounded in structural mechanics.
For structural engineers, architects and building and infrastructure owners, our goal is that our AI supports you in your day-to-day work. Ask technical questions, delegate tasks or explore and compare alternatives.
Our team brings together experience in engineering practice, AI and software development, and research at ETH Zurich. Drawing on this experience, we develop our Structural Intelligence together with the engineering firms and owners who use it.
Would you like to learn how daicon can support you? Or would you like to help shape its development? Get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
Your daicon team
TECHNOLOGY
Why our AI works so well
daicon provides a framework that makes AI physics-based and auditable.
AI does the reasoning, physics delivers the numbers and you stay in control.
Frontier AI
Reasons, plans and orchestrates
Verified physics
Deterministic calculation tools, connectors to existing software and physics-based AI models
Physically correct and auditable
Every number and source traceable
Team
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Dr. Sophia Kuhn
Co-Founder & CEO
Dr. sc. ETH in structural engineering & computer science. Previously schlaich bergermann partner and Swiss Life Asset Managers.
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Rafael Bischof
Co-Founder · AI & Software
MSc Computer Science ETH. Previously IBM Research and Swiss Data Science Center. NeurIPS spotlight paper 2025.
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Dr. Marius Weber
Co-Founder · FEM specialist
Dr.-Ing. University of Stuttgart. Co-founder Analytica Engineering GmbH. Senior researcher and lecturer at ETH and HSLU.
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Dr. Severin Häfliger
Co-Founder · Reinforced concrete specialist
Dr. sc. ETH, lecturer at ETH, member of the SIA working group on reinforcing steel. Co-founder Analytica Engineering GmbH. Previously dsp Ingenieure + Planer.
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Prof. Dr. Walter Kaufmann
Scientific Advisor
Professor of Concrete Structures and Bridge Design at ETH Zurich, president of the SIA 262 standards committee. Previously over 15 years in practice, incl. as partner and CEO of dsp Ingenieure + Planer.
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Dr. Matthias Kuhn
Business & Legal
Business graduate (Dipl.-Kfm.), attorney-at-law and certified tax advisor, former partner at the international law firm Freshfields.
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Software Engineer (100%)
Open position
Apply: info@daicon.ch
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Structural Engineer (100%)
Open position
Apply: info@daicon.ch
References
ETH News
“Artificial intelligence helps with the design and preservation of bridges” — ETH News, 02/2025
Picked up by SWI swissinfo, E&T (IET), Blick, TechXplore, Bayerische Ingenieurekammer
Research
Research projects with several industry partners: SBB, Basler & Hofmann, WSP UK, Laing O’Rourke, ASTRA
Journal and conference papers in renowned venues: Advanced Engineering Informatics, Automation in Construction, NeurIPS (spotlight paper), Construction and Building Materials, Structural Concrete, Engineering Structures, IABSE (best paper award, honourable mention)
Open-source Python package: Computer-Aided Design (AIXD toolbox)
Pilot projects
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Demonstration of accuracy
You pick 1–3 completed projects. We show the accuracy of our AI.
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Use AI agents on your live project
Query expert knowledge, delegate tasks, have results checked – and test how much time you save.
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Company onboarding
You learn from past projects: project archive and expert knowledge become your private knowledge base.