We’re reinventing the development process for the betterment of the world’s communities.

TestFit was started to solve a simple problem: we hate counting.

One of our founders, Clifton Harness, was working at a development company when he got frustrated endlessly drawing apartment units and counting parking stalls. The effort it took to complete these mundane tasks was painstaking (and honestly, a waste of his time).

That’s where our other co-founder Ryan Griege comes in. Clifton reached out to his college roommate who was a software developer and asked if he could build a program to help him do his job faster.

The first version of TestFit was a simple command-line utility to help Clifton solve apartment unit mixes. It wasn’t fancy. It didn’t even have a user interface, but it was designed to solve a real problem in the real world.

TestFit quickly grew as they automated other monotonous, error-prone steps in the deal process, like counting parking stalls, generating multiple design options, calculating yield on cost…

What started as a site planning AI for multi-family development also expanded into mixed-use, single-family, and industrial developments to help build better communities. With real-time insights into design, cost, and constructability, TestFit has now become the real estate feasibility platform for the entire deal team including developers, architects, urban planners, civil engineers and general contractors.

We believe that everyone deserves quality communities. By creating meaningful automation that helps deal teams visualize and compare various schemes in seconds, we can optimize the feasibility process to build what the world needs, faster.