Our Story
Built by a founder solving his own problem
NanoTech Materials is a material science company. When we developed advanced building envelope products — cool roof coatings, insulating coatings, thermal emittance treatments — we needed to prove they saved energy. But measuring real-world savings meant months of pilot studies and inconclusive data. The industry's tools couldn't give us answers at the speed our business required.
Mike Francis, NanoTech's CEO, asked: What if the building could talk? What if we never had to do pilots again? For a year and a half, he built a physics engine nights and weekends while running NanoTech full-time — every line of code written from first principles, no legacy codebase, no inherited limitations. The platform grew from an internal tool into a standalone energy modeling platform. He took two months off from day-to-day operations to complete the ASHRAE Standard 140-2020 validation, making Roovie one of the few independent engines to pass the industry's most rigorous benchmark.
The Problem
Months of waiting for before-and-after energy data on building materials
The Question
What if the building could talk? What if we never had to do pilots again?
18 Months
Physics engine built nights and weekends while running NanoTech full-time
ASHRAE 140
One of the few independent engines to pass the industry’s most rigorous benchmark
Roovie
From internal tool to standalone platform. Every line written from first principles.
Every tool in this market either wraps a slow engine to make it faster — or builds a fast engine that cuts corners on the physics. We chose a third path.