Felipe Polito

My name is Felipe Polito.

I am one of the co-founders and I lead the technology teams at ReFrame Systems.

They do manufacturing, factory software, and robotics across our production process.

In the United States, there are over 30,000 zoning jurisdictions.

Every single project has to be built custom to meet the demands for that site.

You cannot build a single product repeatedly in a factory because you need to get this variation outcome.

What it lets us do is have the local labor work on the houses in our communities.

So our electrician, our plumber who are working in the factory are the same ones that are wrapping up the work on site.

which means that we as ReFrame are going all the way to the finish and delivering that home from end to end.

So you imagine a world where you can type in an address and get a house that is compliant to that local with the right price and timeframe for it to be built.

Behind you over here is a smart saw.

This machine feeds lumber and cuts it automatically while printing onto the material.

And what we got here then is that this is a kit that then will be assembled into a wall.

But as somebody assembling it, all you need to know is that 18 goes to 18, 16 goes to 16, 14 goes to 14.

And very much like an Ikea kit, you're just assembling it the way it's supposed to be.

What is interesting is that today actually we have much wider pool of operators than you would get on the field.

We can have folks that otherwise would not be doing construction actually doing these tasks.

We have six high school students from Lawrence Technical and they come in every other week and they're just as effective as our master carpenters, master plumbers because they are operating in an environment that

guides them through that information, but also lets them do the work without requiring a lot of the skills that you would require to do it on site.

One thing my co-founders and I were doing at Amazon was building fulfillment centers within 100 days.