DBF Enterprise Platform and Onthology Spatial AI

Digital Blue Foam (DBF) is AI city-planning software developed by a team whose co-founders are based in Singapore and first met at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. It targets cities, governments, large asset owners and facility operators whose masterplans and site decisions are often made without traceable evidence.

The DBF Enterprise Platform combines generative design, spatial analytics, sustainability metrics and instant BIM conversion. Its Onthology layer reads real spatial data, generates scenarios for growth, density, investment, data centre or plant siting, and returns ranked options scored on infrastructure load, ROI and liveability, each with an evidence chain back to the source data. DBF Hikari is a SaaS variant for feasibility studies in Japan. Clients include municipalities, industrial city authorities, engineering firms and contractors.

• Onthology reasoning: Returns ranked spatial scenarios with an evidence chain for any site or brief.
• AI generative design: Generates and compares masterplan and building layout options against goals.
• Spatial analytics: Analyses location data, accessibility and urban context at any scale.
• Sustainability first: Embeds energy, daylight and embodied carbon metrics in early design.
• Instant BIM: Converts early-stage designs into BIM-ready models for facility management.
• DBF Hikari: Offers per-seat SaaS feasibility analysis for the Japanese market.

A Vietnamese urban planning institute can compare density and street configuration scenarios for a new district before approval. An industrial park developer can test whether parcels can carry a factory or data centre within power, access and setback limits. A hospital investor can optimise department layouts in early design.

DBF reports 90% faster scenario evaluation than manual workflows and 75% of design coordination tasks automated, benchmarked on a healthcare facility deployment. Ranked scenarios with an evidence chain help councils and boards defend decisions. Enterprise deployments can run on-premise or hybrid, and the platform is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified.

Governments and large developers face pressure to justify masterplans and capital allocation with data, while urban digital twins are moving from 3D visualisation to decision support. In Southeast Asia, rapid urbanisation, industrial park expansion and data centre investment create demand for fast, evidence-based site and scenario analysis.

Co-founders Camiel Weijenberg (CEO) and Sayjel Vijay Patel (CTO) are listed in Singapore; the company story traces DBF to their work at SUTD in 2016. Privacy policy states data is processed in Singapore. Customer logos include Takenaka, Jacobs, Emaar, Dubai Municipality and EGIS; market development team in Japan.