Quay Quarter Tower (QQT)
Sydney CBD
Curved high-rise and precinct beside Circular Quay. Michael architected how the delivery team phased BIM, coordination, and handover across consultants and trades on one of the city's most visible towers.
About / 01
We're building the engineering tool we wished existed in the field.
Civly started in Sydney with two founders and a small group of advisors who have spent years inside the firms we build for. We are not pitching from the sidelines; we are trying to fix workflows we have seen break on real projects.
Founders
Hassaan Shamshiri
CEO and co-founder
Looks after customers, partnerships, and how Civly gets into firms. Previously started an ag-tech company and sold it before turning 20. Spends most of his time on calls with engineers and partners, not slide decks.
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Yash Mittal
CTO and co-founder
Runs engineering and the product stack. Background in applied ML at UNSW and shipping ML systems at Anthrobyte. Obsessed with the unglamorous stuff: exports that open cleanly, stable APIs, and models teams can actually edit.
LinkedIn profileThe backstory
The problem was described to us by Leo Chan, a structural engineer who'd spent years wrestling with compliance sign-offs. His firm was using disconnected tools, emailing PDFs between disciplines, and discovering clashes only once steel was in the ground.
He described his dream software to us. We built it.
Civly is the result: an AI engine that reads any design input, coordinates all five engineering disciplines, and outputs a fully compliant, editable BIM model. We think of it as the same leap that Cursor made for developers, applied to the physical world.
Strategic advisor
Michael Westerlund
Project manager with 3XN and GXN in Copenhagen, former regional BIM manager at Semren and Månsson, and founder of Sonder Studios. He connects Civly to studios across Northern Europe and brings the same rigour to how we talk about delivery in Australia.
Michael has led complex BIM and coordination packages on high-profile waterfront and tower work. Two Sydney projects that sit in his portfolio are Quay Quarter Tower in the CBD and the new Sydney Fish Market at Blackwattle Bay, where he architected delivery sequences, stakeholder interfaces, and how design intent moved from model to site.
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Sydney Fish Markets
Blackwattle Bay, Sydney
Working wholesale markets and public harbour frontage. Michael architected circulation, servicing, and BIM workflows so the market could keep trading while major upgrades and new structures moved forward.
Advisors
Field Experts Who Validated the Problem
NZ
Nathan Zygouras
Structural Engineer, Robert Bird Group
TA
Tahmid Asad
Student Civil Engineer, Sydney Water
MK
Momen Kazi
Structural Engineer, Gilcon Structural
OP
Obadiah Pewee
Ex-Structural Engineer, AI & Deeptech Expert