OpenHouse.ai’s CEO Will Zhang’s Predictions for Home Building in 2025
We sat down with OpenHouse.ai Founder and CEO Will Zhang to discuss his predictions for 2025—what the new year will bring for OpenHouse, AI, and the home building industry, and what is shaping the company’s priorities regarding construction technology in the coming months.

An Ambitious 2025 Ahead for OpenHouse.ai
After a few years of working closely with home builders across North America, here’s a universal truth about home building: every home starts with a vision of something better. Whether it’s a cottage on a lake or a large-scale masterplan community, the best builders can see it in their minds before others ever see it in brick and mortar.
Unfortunately, entrenched legacy technology vendors look at a construction site and see chaos—mud, rebar, cranes. They don’t see potential. They don’t see the future. They accept things the way they are because they don’t believe they can shape them. But as we like to say, the future doesn’t just happen on its own. It’s something we build nail by nail.
Our focus in 2025 is to leverage our deep understanding of home builders to deliver real, measurable, and impactful value for them. There’s no doubt that in the coming years, AI will disrupt every established technology player in the home building industry—not through features or usability alone, but through intelligence and automation.
Home builders are uniquely positioned to bypass the “plain cloud” phase—focused on basic data storage and management—and leap directly into the AI revolution, where advanced intelligence and automation transform decision-making and how we organize our resources. With ROI metrics that speak for themselves, we anticipate that home builders—precisely due to the burdens from legacy systems—can be the first movers in AI adoption.
At OpenHouse.ai, we don’t believe in just incremental improvements. Our approach to innovation is driven by our ambition to rethink how complex home building operations are orchestrated from start to finish—from new home sales to closing. As we often share with our home builder partners, “Predictive AI might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but it is simpler than that. It means knowing what homes your buyers will want before they can even articulate it themselves.”
With all of this in mind, here’s our prediction for the industry:
“By 2028, every home builder worth remembering will be running decisions with predictive optimizations. They’ll be doubling productivity, slashing overhead, and setting the bar so high the industry won’t just be changed—it’ll be transformed by AI.”
Every step we take today moves us closer to that reality—where guesswork is replaced by certainty, and homeowners benefit from better, smarter, and more sustainable and attainable homes.
Predictions for AI in 2025: From LLM scaling to DeepSeek
AI is entering a new phase, moving beyond the pursuit of ever larger models based on the “scaling hypothesis.”This approach, which relied on building increasingly massive models to brute-force intelligence, may be reaching its limits. Even Ilya Sutskever—a key figure in AI and former chief scientist at OpenAI, recently suggested that “pre-training as we know it will end,” signaling large language model (LLM) scaling might have hit a plateau. Instead of focusing on size alone, the emphasis is now on advancing reasoning capabilities and developing autonomous agents.
This shift has already led to innovations like DeepSeek, an open-source model that rivals GPT-4 in performance while being trained at a fraction of the cost. Such progress highlights the potential of open-source AI to surpass proprietary models, as more minds can freely contribute and innovate, similar to what we observed in the early days of the internet.
In 2025, I expect we’ll see autonomous agents emerge in practical, tightly defined use cases—particularly in areas known as Vertical AI. Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach, these specialized solutions will understand the unique data, constraints, and workflows of a specific industry, whether home building, insurance, or logistics. By tailoring AI to solve domain-specific problems, it can operate with human oversight and drive tangible value.
Regardless of where the scaling debate lands, AI will continue to prove its enormous utility. We will see AI-driven scientific discovery, automation, and day-to-day business operations. As we layer intelligence on top of mobile connectivity, we’ll see “AI in your pocket” driving innovation across nearly every aspect of life.
If the Internet revolutionizes global connectivity and communication, AI will do the same for intelligent problem-solving, shaping society for decades to come. I would argue that AI will have a more transformative impact on human life than the Internet.

Predictions for Home Building in 2025
The home-building market is shaped by multiple forces: interest rates, policy changes, labor availability, and more. One constant, however, is the pressing need for more housing—especially more affordable options. If supply can’t keep pace with demand, prices will rise, and more people will be locked out of homeownership.
But amidst the challenges, there’s something special about this industry. Visionaries always find a way to build. In 2025, that means focusing on operational efficiency and scalability—enabling builders to construct profitably while increasing volume and quality and closing the supply gap at scale. AI can address these challenges by reducing cycle times, controlling overhead, and optimizing resources, making it possible to offer more competitive pricing without sacrificing margins.
Another piece of the puzzle is labor: we face a shortage of skilled trades, and AI-driven automation—and potentially robotics—could eventually help fill that gap.
At OpenHouse.ai, we’re focused on pushing the boundaries of research and technology to bring impactful intelligence to the home building industry. Our goal is to help builders leverage data to predict demand, streamline operations, and create homes people genuinely want. This can help drive new home sales, improve buyer satisfaction, and accelerate the overall pace of development.
Because at the end of the day, home building isn’t just about constructing more houses—it’s about shaping communities where life happens.
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