# Gradon

[Gradon on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/gradon)

Startup · 2 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://heygradon.com/)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gradon)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/heygradon)
- [X](https://x.com/heygradon)

## About

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## YC company profile

Legora for AEC (Architecture, Engineering, & Construction) firms

Gradon is Legora for the firms that design the world's buildings and infrastructure. Every road, bridge, water system and building starts with engineers, and there aren't nearly enough of them for everything the world needs to build. 

Gradon works across every workflow and tool an engineering firm runs on, from CAD design and calculations to full plan sets, and firms using it today have decreased average project times by more than 75%. We're building the platform that makes every engineer a 10x engineer, and with it, how the world gets built.

- **YC batch:** Fall 2026
- **Founded:** 2026
- **Team size:** 2
- **Location:** San Francisco
- **Country:** US
- **Status:** Active
- **Industry:** B2B
- **Stage:** Early
- **Tags:** Construction, B2B, AI
- **YC partner:** Ankit Gupta

## Founders

### Nour Zahzah — Founder/CEO

Co-Founder & CEO at Gradon (YC F26). MechE at UC Berkeley. Previously founded a company building in-store AI shopping assistants for retailers and did mechanical design for startups. Played professional academy soccer at SJ Earthquakes for 7 years.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nourzahzah) · [X](https://x.com/nourzahzah)

### Yousef Helal — Founder/CTO

Co-Founder at Gradon (YC F26). I graduated top of my class from UC Berkeley at 19, and then went and got an MS from Stanford.

I previously designed software and hardware at Apple (FPGA infrastructure) and AMD (Microblaze V), and then founded a startup building in-store AI shopping assistants for retailers. Before that, my teachings methods as a TA at Berkeley won awards and got published in a paper.

[LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/yousef-helal) · [X](https://x.com/yousefhll)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gradon) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Nour Zahzah](https://hacklab.so/nour-zahzah) — Founder/CEO (Present)
- [Yousef Helal](https://hacklab.so/yousef-helal) — Founder/CTO (Present)