Detection and classification
Finds candidate items in photographs and suggests a material category, showing uncertainty for ambiguous cases.
Level 346 doors · 212 floor panels
Material recovery planning
Find the reuse potential before demolition starts.
Salvora helps deconstruction teams identify and organise potentially reusable building materials. AI turns site photographs and survey documents into a proposed inventory that surveyors can verify, prioritise, and export for recovery planning.
- Candidate items proposed from site photographs
- Every suggestion linked to its source image
- Surveyors confirm what goes in the inventory
Candidate queue Sample data
SLV-301Internal doors — oak veneer, single leaf
Quantity mismatch
SLV-302Raised-floor panels — 600mm
Quantity estimate
SLV-303Kitchenette cabinets — laminate
Condition uncertain
Suggestions are unconfirmed until a surveyor verifies them.
Find the reuse potential before demolition starts.AI · Construction Technology · Circular Economy
Why Salvora exists
Why Salvora exists
Every building is a store of materials someone already made, carried and installed. Too often it leaves site as rubble because no one had time to see what was worth saving. We want the reuse potential found before the first wall comes down.
Our purpose
Help deconstruction teams find, verify and plan the recovery of reusable building materials.
Why it matters
Construction and demolition produce some of the largest waste streams in the world. Recovering even part of what buildings contain saves materials, money and carbon, but only if it is identified in time.
The stakes
The scale of construction waste.
600m tons
Construction and demolition debris generated in the United States in 2018.
Source: US EPA38%
Share of total EU waste generation from construction in 2022.
Source: Statista, citing Eurostat>35%
The European Commission’s figure for construction’s share of EU waste, confirmed by fact-checkers.
Source: EUFactcheckFigures are published estimates from the sources linked; they describe the wider problem, not results from this product.
What changes
From photo folders to a verified inventory.
Today
- Hundreds of photos sorted by hand
- Duplicate counts from overlapping photos
- Schedules and site reality reconciled late
- Inspection needs remembered, not tracked
With Salvora
- Candidate items proposed from photos
- Possible duplicates grouped for review
- Document references linked to each item
- Inspection status tracked per item
The problem
Reusable materials are lost because nobody had time to count them.
Buildings can contain doors, flooring, fixtures and components worth recovering. Finding them means walking every floor, then reconciling photographs, plans, schedules and notes into one list. Opportunities are missed, and inventories end up with uncertain quantities, duplicates and gaps in condition information.
- 01Hundreds of site photos and no list
- 02The same door photographed from three angles, counted three times
- 03Door schedules that no longer match what is installed
- 04Condition noted for some items and not others
The solution
A proposed inventory your surveyors can trust because they confirm it.
Salvora detects candidate items in site photographs, suggests material categories with uncertainty, groups photos that may show the same item, pulls references from survey documents, and helps rank confirmed items for recovery.
Duplicate review
Groups photographs that may show the same physical item, so counts are not inflated.
Possible duplicates9 photos → 3 doors?
Documents and priorities
Extracts item references from schedules and surveys, and ranks confirmed items by condition, access and reuse demand.
PriorityRaised-floor panels · high
How it works
From site walk to recovery inventory.
- 01
Upload
Add room photographs, plans and existing survey records for the project.
- 02
Propose
Salvora suggests candidate items, linked to the images and documents they came from.
- 03
Confirm
Surveyors confirm categories, quantities, dimensions and condition, and add access and inspection notes.
- 04
Export
Confirmed items are prioritised and exported as a recovery inventory and inspection plan.
Priorities are calculated only from surveyor-confirmed inputs. Unconfirmed suggestions never reach the exported inventory.
Who it’s for
For teams who decide what a building leaves behind.
Deconstruction and demolition contractors
Plan recovery before strip-out, with quantities you can price.
More recovered materialArchitectural salvage businesses
See what a project could supply before committing to buy.
Better sourcing decisionsProperty developers
Understand reuse potential early in a refurbishment.
Reuse built into the planSurvey and material-reuse consultancies
Produce pre-demolition inventories faster and more consistently.
Faster, consistent surveysNamed organisation types are prospective customers. No affiliation or endorsement is implied.
Honest limits
Photographs show what is visible. Some questions need an inspector.
Salvora helps teams find and organise candidate items. Whether a component is structurally suitable, free of hazardous substances or acceptable under regulations is for qualified people to establish.
- Structural suitability requires qualified inspection or testing
- Hazardous substances require qualified surveys and testing
- Regulatory acceptability is confirmed by the responsible professionals
- The first version focuses on nonstructural commercial-interior items
AI, used carefully
The model proposes. The surveyor confirms.
A recovery inventory has to stand up on site. Salvora speeds up finding and organising items, and leaves verification with surveyors.
What the AI does
- Detects candidate items in site photographs
- Suggests material categories, with uncertainty shown
- Groups photos that may show the same item
- Extracts item references from surveys, schedules and plans
What it never does
- Certifies structural suitability
- Declares materials free of hazardous substances
- Adds unconfirmed items to the exported inventory
- Guarantees resale value or buyers
People decide
Every candidate item is confirmed, dismissed or escalated by surveyors, never by the model.
Evidence first
Each flag links to the site photographs, plans, schedules and survey records behind it, so a reviewer can check the reasoning before acting.
Confidence shown
Scores come with a confidence level and the data gaps that lower it, so weak signals are not mistaken for facts.
Role-based access
Permissions are set per role: who can view, comment, assign, decide, escalate or export.
Complete audit trail
Assignments, notes and decisions are time-stamped with the person and reason, and can be exported.
Your data stays yours
Customer data is isolated per tenant, encrypted at rest and in transit, and never used to train models for other customers.
What we believe
What we believe about material recovery.
- 01
Surveyors verify
Nothing enters the inventory until a surveyor confirms it.
- 02
Every item has evidence
Each entry links to the photos and documents behind it.
- 03
Uncertainty is shown
Ambiguous materials are marked as ambiguous.
- 04
Safety needs inspectors
Structure and hazards are for qualified people.
- 05
Start where reuse is proven
Interior items first, done well.
- 06
Count once
Duplicate observations are resolved, not multiplied.
A note from the founders
Why we are building Salvora.
Ikenna has walked buildings days before strip-out, photographing doors, panels and fixtures that would have been worth saving, knowing there was no time to turn those photos into a usable list.
Toyin works with organisations trying to reuse more materials and sees how often recovery fails for lack of reliable quantities. Mustapha builds vision models and knows that a proposal is only useful if people can check it quickly.
Salvora is designed to do the tedious part, finding and grouping candidate items, so surveyors can spend their time verifying, prioritising and planning recovery.
Ikenna Obiora, Founder/CEO · Toyin Adebanjo, Co-founder · Mustapha Aliyu, CTO
Where we’re going
Where Salvora is going.
From interior items to portfolio-wide recovery planning.
Now
Concept and prototype
An interactive prototype on fictional survey data, and conversations with contractors.
Next
Interior inventory
Photo-based suggestions, duplicate review, confirmation, inspection status and export for doors, cabinets and floor panels.
Then
More item types
Fixtures, finishes and further categories as models are validated.
Later
Portfolio planning
Recovery reporting across many buildings, with integrations for partners.
Pricing
Simple plans that grow with you.
Project-based assessment fee, or a subscription for contractors handling multiple sites.
Project
For a single assessment.
$1,800/ project
- Up to 5,000 m²
- Photo-based inventory suggestions
- Duplicate review
- Inventory export
Contractor
For teams running several sites.
$950/ month
- Up to 6 active projects
- Everything in Project
- Document and schedule extraction
- Recovery prioritisation
- Unlimited users
Portfolio
For developers and large contractors.
Custom
- Unlimited projects
- Portfolio reporting
- Integrations
- Dedicated support
Illustrative pricing for a proposed product. Final pricing is agreed with early-access customers and excludes taxes.
Proposed production design
Architecture on Amazon Web Services
How Salvora could run in production, from site photographs to an evidence-linked recovery inventory.
- 01
Store
Amazon S3Site photographs, plans and survey documents per project.
- 02
Detect
Amazon SageMakerDetection, segmentation and material classification models.
- 03
Extract
Amazon TextractItem references and specifications from supported survey documents.
- 04
Record
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQLInventory, review decisions, inspection status and evidence links.
- 05
Summarise
Amazon BedrockRecovery summaries that cite the images and documents behind them.
- 06
Govern
AWS CloudTrail · AWS KMSAccess logging and encryption per customer.
Proposed, not deployed. No AWS services are connected to this website or the prototype, which run in your browser on fictional data.
The team
The people building Salvora
A proposed founding team for this concept.
Founder/CEO
Ikenna Obiora
Pre-demolition surveyor with experience on commercial refurbishment projects.
Co-founder
Toyin Adebanjo
Circular economy consultant focused on material reuse in construction.
CTO
Mustapha Aliyu
Computer vision engineer working on detection and segmentation.
What items does the first version cover?
Nonstructural commercial-interior items such as doors, cabinets and raised-floor panels. Structural assessment and a resale marketplace are deliberately out of scope.
Can Salvora tell us if materials contain asbestos?
No. Hazardous-substance questions need qualified surveys and testing. Salvora can record that an inspection is required and track its status.
How are quantities kept accurate?
Possible duplicate photos are grouped for review, and only surveyor-confirmed quantities go into the exported inventory.
Is Salvora a live product?
Not yet. Salvora is a proposed startup concept. The team is fictional, pricing is illustrative and the prototype runs on fictional data in your browser.
Does the AI make decisions?
No. Salvora flags, ranks and explains. Surveyors review the evidence and record every decision with a reason.
How would our data be protected?
In production, data would be encrypted, isolated per customer, access-controlled by role and never used to train models for other customers. Data-sharing terms are agreed before any pilot.
Early access
Pilot Salvora with your own team.
We are looking for a small number of early partners to shape Salvora. A pilot starts with a sample of your historical data and a fixed review period, so you can judge the results before committing.
- Tell us about your team and the records you work with.
- A founder replies personally to arrange a short call.
- We agree a pilot scope, data-sharing terms and how success will be measured.