AI for Fire Protection: Inside the Automated Design Platform of FireDesign.ai

Jason Tielve, CEO of FireDesign.ai, an AI tool that automatically designs code-compliant fire sprinkler systems in minutes instead of days joins Enterprise Radio.

This episode of Enterprise Radio is in association with the Artificial Intelligence Channel.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Jason Tielve discuss the following:

Let’s kick things off with the big picture. When you look at FireDesign.ai, what’s the core mission that gets you out of bed every morning—and how did you decide to launch?
In construction, architects are constantly moving walls, shifting columns, and tweaking layouts at the last minute. For a fire protection engineer, that usually means completely redrawing pipe networks and rerunning calculations from scratch. How does FireDesign.ai handle those inevitable, frustrating project changes when a deadline is staring you down?
In your industry, you can’t just move fast and break things—people’s lives depend on this equipment working. Code compliance is everything. How does your AI ensure that every sprinkler head and pipe route perfectly follows National Fire Protection Association standards without making mistakes?
Engineers are fiercely protective of their software workflows. Does a firm have to adopt a whole new system to use this, or does it plug right into the CAD and Revit tools they are already using every day?
Whenever the word ‘AI’ comes up, people wonder about automation replacing humans. To set the record straight: does FireDesign.ai replace the licensed engineer, or is it more like a superpower for the engineers you already have?
How can people find out more? I hear that you’re going to the 2026 NFPA Conference & Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada – tell us about that.

Jason Tielve, CEO of Ai Fire Design LLC

Jason Tielve’s journey in fire safety began not behind a desk, but in the field, starting as a fire sprinkler helper after serving in the US Army from 1999 to 2003. Over two decades, he mastered every facet of the trade, from foreman to project manager, eventually co-founding 24/7 Fire Protection Inc., which he grew from a $600K startup to a $20M industry leader employing 120 people.

Recognizing that fire design innovation had plateaued since the early 2000s, Jason founded FireDesign.ai to solve the industry’s critical bottleneck: a labor-intensive design process that typically takes weeks. By combining his deep field expertise with advanced AI, he has created a patent-pending solution that reduces manual design time by 80%, turning an eight-hour engineering task into a ten-minute automated process.