Consor, an employee-owned engineering firm working across the United States and Canada, announced on October 14, 2026 that it had acquired ConeLabs, a startup that builds AI-powered tools for inspecting infrastructure and managing assets such as bridges and roads. Terms were not disclosed.
The deal was announced at the same time as Mindy Shimanek's appointment as Consor's president and chief executive, which makes ConeLabs one of the first acquisitions of her tenure. ConeLabs co-founder and chief executive Albert Mansour said joining Consor would let the company deploy its technology on larger and more complex infrastructure programmes, and apply it to some of the most demanding structural inspection work in the industry.
Consor plans to combine ConeLabs' software with its own structural assessment teams, which it says are nationally recognised and help set industry practice through training and standards work.
What ConeLabs built
ConeLabs' inspection platform converts photographs taken in the field into detailed 3D digital twins, then uses AI-assisted analysis to find and map defects. Field data capture, high-resolution 3D modelling, AI inspection, semantic analysis and reporting all sit in one workflow, so engineers can move from site visit to report without switching tools. A digital twin in this sense is a detailed 3D model of the real structure, built from the photographs, on which defects can be located and mapped.
The company serves owners of transport infrastructure, utilities and buildings, including bridges and roads, and says its tools help those owners understand the condition of their assets and make faster maintenance and capital planning decisions. It has already worked with departments of transportation in several US states.
CB Insights lists ConeLabs as founded in 2023 and based in Kitchener, Ontario, and describes it as combining AI with drone and other imaging sources.
“Joining Consor gives us the opportunity to deploy our technology into some of the most sophisticated structural inspection work in the industry and apply it across large, complex infrastructure programs.”
Why Consor is buying
Consor provides advisory, planning, digital, engineering design, structural assessment, construction management and programme delivery services, and employs more than 1,800 people. It has more than 50 years of history and is backed by New Mountain Capital, which manages nearly $60 billion.
The firm has been building up what it calls smart infrastructure work. That already includes connected roadway technology through its Cavnue division and AI applications for flood management and infrastructure inspection. ConeLabs gives it an established platform that has been used in real inspection and assessment programmes. Consor said that ConeLabs, with its proprietary inspection platform, adds capabilities across digital twins, structural assessment and intelligent infrastructure management.
Consor said combining ConeLabs' software with its inspectors should let teams carry out more thorough assessments. It described the platform as the next evolution in infrastructure inspection, and the purchase as consistent with its commitment to using technology to improve its services.
The founders and the funding
ConeLabs did not disclose how much it had raised. Consor said the startup had previously been backed by investors including Spatial Capital. Albert Mansour is its co-founder and chief executive, and Josh Meler is listed as chief marketing officer.
Mansour said the two companies saw a strong cultural and technical fit from their first conversations, and shared a belief that technology should be built around how engineers actually work. He said Consor brings the engineering expertise, industry relationships and scale to speed up ConeLabs' development while keeping its technical rigour.
What happens next
Consor did not say whether ConeLabs will keep its brand or how many of its staff are joining. It said the integration could let its inspection teams run more comprehensive assessments and give clients richer digital records of asset condition, which they can use for maintenance and capital planning.
For a startup founded in 2023, the sale gives ConeLabs access to large inspection programmes run by an established engineering firm, while Consor adds software it did not have to build itself. Consor said its structural assessment professionals and ConeLabs' technology together would create new possibilities for how infrastructure is managed, helping clients make more proactive, data-informed decisions.
