About Volve
Understanding construction projects
We’re dedicated to bringing clarity and a competitive edge to key project processes, helping one of the world’s largest industries deliver better project outcomes.
Purpose
The background
Construction is massive, complex, and high-risk. Yet the decisions that shape projects are still buried in tenders, contracts, and technical documentation, depending on slow, manual reading and individual experience.
We started Volve to change project outcomes in construction through better decision-making. Project decisions live in documents, but teams rarely have the time, tools, or traceability to fully understand them. That slows projects down, hides risk, and makes it hard to learn from one project to the next.
Our purpose is simple: To help construction teams use AI to understand what matters in their documentation, so they can move faster, reduce risk, and make better decisions when the stakes are highest.
Year founded
The road ahead
Competitive edge in high-stakes construction decisions
Volve is a specialized AI platform for construction that turns complex project documentation into structured, actionable insight. It reads, structures, and connects tenders, contracts, specs, and records, so teams can evaluate and manage them faster, more consistently, and with full traceability back to the source.
We’re building the decision layer for construction projects: linking information across tenders, contracts, and execution; guiding key workflows; and surfacing risks, requirements, and obligations before they become issues.
Under the hood, Volve combines state-of-the-art AI with construction-specific intelligence. As it’s used on real projects, it improves, capturing patterns and learnings so each new tender and contract starts smarter than the last.
Volve integrates into core project processes and tools today, and we’re continuously expanding how and where this AI platform supports the work that matters most.
Team
The people behind Volve
An international, diverse team in both origin, expertise, location, and mindset, combining construction experience and deep tech with a shared focus on making complex project information clearer and decisions easier to trust.
Herman B Smith
Co-Founder & CEO
Abyl Ikshanov
Co-Founder & CTO
Alf Jørgen Dovland
Co-Founder & COO
Eirin Bye
Head of Customer Success
Matthew Harrison Raft
Lead Product Designer
Mouhanned
Senior Python Engineer
Olivier Lepinoy
International Business Development
Coming soon
Lead Full Stack Engineer
Our advisors
Christoffer Herheim
Advisor (Optio Incentives)
Kristian Jul Røsjø
Advisor (Antler)
Silvija Seres
Advisor (Technorocks)
Tor Jocabosen
Industry Advisor (KPP)
How we work
The Volve Way
How we build, decide, and show up every day, moving fast with integrity, and using clear principles to drive real improvement in project outcomes in a high-stakes industry.
Backing
Investors and partners
Backed by leading early-stage investors and partners who believe specialized AI is needed to fundamentally improve decision-making in construction projects.
Let’s talk
Get in touch
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