Bay Area · General Contractor · Est. 2025
Expert-led.
AI-powered.
Altero is a Bay Area general contractor for life science, municipal, office, retail, and multifamily residential projects. Operators run the work. AI runs the workflow. Fewer surprises, faster decisions, on-budget delivery.
Bay Area · Boston · Dubai · $1B+ delivered
Where Elie has delivered $1B+ in capital projects
Featured work
Experience
750 Gateway Blvd
cGMP + Vivarium + BSL-2South San Francisco · 2020–2024Delivered at SmartLabs
301 Cambridge
Specialized vivariumCambridge, MA · 2020–2024Delivered at SmartLabs
Day-2 Upgrades Program
30+ projects · $500K–$2.5M eachMulti-site · 2020–2024Delivered at SmartLabs
430 California St
$62M · 22-story TISan Francisco · 2019–2020Delivered at WeWork
475 Sansome
$17.5M HQ fit-outSan Francisco · 2019–2020Delivered at WeWork
2201 Broadway
$8.5M · Adaptive reuseOakland · 2019–2020Delivered at WeWorkMarkets
Five markets. One operating model.
01
Life Science
Lab build-outs, GMP suites, vivariums, and BSL-2 work for biotech and pharma operators.
02
Office
Tenant improvements, semi-occupied high-rise build-outs, and headquarters fit-outs.
03
Retail
Storefronts, in-line build-outs, and historic adaptive reuse delivered without shutting the doors.
04
Multifamily Residential
Mid-rise and high-rise residential, mixed-use, and adaptive conversions across the Bay Area.
Our approach
Expert-led, AI-powered.
We're not a tech company that does construction. We're a general contractor that built the operating system we wished existed — judgement from operators, leverage from AI.
See the full approach01
AI-assisted estimating
Historical cost models trained on Bay Area subcontractor data — quotes ready in days, not weeks.
02
Real-time RFI tracking
Every RFI auto-routed, tagged, and SLA-tracked. No PDF graveyard.
03
Schedule risk modeling
Continuous critical-path simulation. We surface slips before they cost you.
04
Submittal automation
Spec-to-submittal matching cuts coordination time by 60%.
05
Document intelligence
Drawing revisions, change orders, and contracts indexed end-to-end.
06
Subcontractor coordination
AI-managed look-ahead schedules keep every trade aligned to the same plan.
How we operate
Three things we believe.
01
Operator-driven design
Standards before scale. Standardization is what makes thirty lab upgrades feel like one project — not thirty.
02
Honest cost models
We tell you what it costs before we tell you what we'd charge. Margins are conversations, not surprises.
03
Repeatable platforms, not bespoke heroics
Every job leaves us sharper. The next client gets the version that learned from yours.