Oxford to YC: Scaling Frontier AI for the World’s Largest Legacy Industries
Interested in applying Agentic AI and Computer Vision to the world’s most massive physical industries?
Join us for an evening with Raymond Zhao, Oxford alum (Maths & Stats, OXAI) and co-founder of the Y Combinator-backed startup Structured AI.
While much of the AI world is focused on LLM wrappers, Structured AI is tackling a $12 trillion problem: building the AI workforce for construction engineering. Their agents don't just "chat" - they perform high-precision, automated QA/QC on complex technical drawings, catching costly clashes and inconsistencies before they hit the field.
What we’ll cover:
🧠 The Technical Leap: Moving from academic research to deploying frontier Vision Models and multi-agent systems in "noisy," real-world engineering environments.
🚀 The YC Blueprint: Raymond’s unfiltered journey from the Oxford research ecosystem to the high-velocity world of Y Combinator in San Francisco.
🏗️ The Legacy Opportunity: Why the most rewarding AI problems are currently found in the "unsexy" legacy sectors that run our world.
The AMA & Networking: Following the talk, we will open the floor for a candid Q&A/AMA. Come prepared with your questions on how to get into YC as a technical founder, the reality of building AI for non-text data, or tips for students looking to join high-growth startups.
Stick around after the Q&A for pizza and networking drinks! 🍕🍻