Philippine-built, women-led construction intelligence startup earns top TECH PLANTER recognition and a special industry award from Japan-based infrastructure group IGNYSIA.

The dual recognition gives AIMHI both competition-level and industry-level validation of its approach to construction decision intelligence — helping project teams connect fragmented information, detect risks earlier, and make clearer decisions before delays and cost problems escalate.

AIMHI was built from firsthand experience inside the Philippine construction industry.

Founder and CEO Cherryanne Lee Angoy spent 16 years working in U.S. wireless technology before returning to the Philippines and later spending eight years operating a construction company.

During those years, she saw engineers spend hours consolidating reports, project information scattered across spreadsheets, paper records and chat groups, and teams discovering delays or budget issues only after the problems had already developed.

— Cherryanne Lee Angoy, Founder and CEO, AIMHI

Angoy, the granddaughter of a Mansaka, said AIMHI was shaped by both her technology background and her firsthand experience with the realities contractors face on the ground.

Together with an all-women founding team whose expertise spans artificial intelligence, systems design, construction operations, governance, intellectual property, legal, accounting and customer experience, AIMHI was built around a simple question: What if project teams could see a problem early enough to still do something about it?

AIMHI is a construction intelligence platform that turns scattered project data into clarity.

The platform connects information across schedule, cost, quantities, materials, manpower, equipment and field progress so teams can identify developing risks earlier and decide what to do next.

Its core workflow is simple: Capture. Connect. Detect. Recommend.

AIMHI captures field progress and resources, connects them to project information, detects deviations and risks, and recommends next actions — including catch-up recommendations when a project begins falling behind.

The platform also includes mobile and offline capability, reflecting a practical challenge across many Philippine construction sites where internet connectivity can be limited or unstable.

Mindanao TECH PLANTER is part of Leave a Nest’s deep-tech ecosystem, which connects science- and technology-based innovators with corporate partners, investors, researchers and other collaborators.

The 2026 finalists were evaluated on four core TECH PLANTER criteria: Novelty, Practicability, Impact to the World and Passion.

For AIMHI, the Grand Winner Award validates the company’s evolution from conventional construction project management toward construction decision intelligence — a system designed not only to record what happened, but to help teams understand what is happening and what they can still do next.

AIMHI also received the IGNYSIA Award, a special corporate recognition from IGNYSIA Co., Ltd., one of Mindanao TECH PLANTER 2026’s global partners.

Formerly Yamada Shokai Holdings, IGNYSIA is a Nagoya-based infrastructure group whose roots go back to 1906. Over more than a century, the company has built expertise in infrastructure-related industries and today works across areas including gas, water, electricity and telecommunications.

The relevance of the award goes beyond the recognition itself.

IGNYSIA is actively exploring how technologies from startups and researchers can be applied in real operating environments, including through international co-creation in Southeast Asia.

Its Managing Director and Group CEO, Toyohisa Yamada, also served as a global judge for Mindanao TECH PLANTER 2026.

For AIMHI, the recognition is especially meaningful because it came from an organization that understands infrastructure, engineering and field operations — the same broader environment AIMHI is seeking to improve through greater project visibility and earlier decision support.

The TECH PLANTER win follows another major milestone for AIMHI in 2026.

Earlier this year, AIMHI Construction Clarity Intelligence advanced to the National Competition of the Presidential Filipinnovation Awards, after being selected as one of four Mindanao innovations to move forward from the sub-national stage.

The Presidential Filipinnovation Awards is a national innovation competition that recognizes Filipino-developed products and services with strong commercialization and impact potential. Entries are evaluated on innovativeness, sustainability, scalability, marketability, and potential impact and relevance.

Together, the two recognitions place AIMHI across two distinct innovation platforms: one focused on national innovation and commercialization, and another rooted in deep-tech, industry collaboration and international partnerships.

AIMHI said its customer growth nearly tripled in 2025, while revenue increased 75%. The company is also in early discussions with potential partners in Thailand and Malaysia.

Its traction extends beyond commercial growth.

Through the DTI SUNPH-ADB initiative, AIMHI is helping contractors strengthen the digital skills needed to adopt new technology. Through its education track, the company is introducing future architects and engineers to digital construction tools before they enter the industry.

— Cherryanne Lee Angoy

AIMHI’s initial beachhead is the mid-sized Philippine contractor managing multiple projects, with a longer-term goal of serving contractors across Southeast Asia.

The company’s next priority is to move from validation to broader real-world adoption.

Beyond expanding adoption among contractors, AIMHI is also seeking local government units, project owners and industry partners willing to pilot the platform and evaluate how real-time project visibility and earlier risk detection can improve project implementation.

AIMHI believes the problem it is solving is not limited to one region.

Across Southeast Asia, construction teams continue to face fragmented project information, uneven digital adoption and reactive decision-making.

Through TECH PLANTER and the relationships formed around Demo Day, AIMHI is seeking technology collaborators, pilot and industry partners, strategic investors, and regional ecosystem partners that can help deepen its construction intelligence technology and support expansion into Japan and Southeast Asia.

– Cherryanne Lee Angoy

The company’s broader vision is for every builder to be able to see a project problem before it becomes an unnecessary delay, a major cost, or a broken promise to the people waiting for that project.

“Construction is still one of the least digitized industries, and changing a legacy industry is never easy,” Angoy said. “Technology alone cannot eliminate every inefficiency or every bad practice. But clarity and better information make it harder for problems to stay hidden. And that matters to us.”