Spacely AI Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2026 — AI Category

Spacely AI has earned a place on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2026 list for AI.

The list recognizes our co-founder and head of technology, Thanapong Somjai, for the work behind the platform — work that has always been a shared effort. So we're taking this moment to celebrate this as a team.

A little context on what makes it meaningful to us. We built Spacely AI from Bangkok, with the goal of creating something professionals anywhere in the world would trust with real client work. Reaching a global stage from here is something we're proud of, and we got here the way we believe in most: one user, one render, one solved.

So that's exactly what we set out to do.

Building something the world would actually use

Spacely AI has always been built on a straightforward idea — generative AI should handle execution, not creative judgment. The designer stays in control. The tool removes the friction and precise enough that a designer never had to give up creative control to use them.

The philosophy didn't come from a strategy deck. It came from listening. Every feature in the platform, from rendering to controlled to element-by-element editing, exists because someone in the community told us what was slowing them down. We built with you, not just for you.

A Forbes recognition is, in a real sense, a recognition of that loop: users who tell us the truth, and a team that takes it seriously.

We pushed the product forward release after release, because earning a place on the world stage from where we sit leaves no room for "good enough."

A product built around a real problem

The reason any of this worked is simple: Spacely AI solves a problem professionals actually have.

• Designers were outsourcing renders for hundreds of dollars and waiting days to get them back.
• Architects couldn't communicate spatial intent at the concept stage without a budget for an outside studio.
• Realtors were paying thousands to stage empty listings.

We built around those exact frictions from photorealistic rendering to controlled, element-by-element editing, so the repetitive steps disappear and the creative judgment stays with the user.

What Forbes 30 Under 30 means

The Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list recognizes young leaders shaping the region's most important industries. For 2026, the AI category highlights the people building tools that change how real work actually gets done.

For us, the recognition validates three things at once: the effort our team put in to compete on a global stage from Bangkok, the product we built, and the value it delivers to the people who use it every day. It's confirmation that a tool designed around how professionals already work, not around how a demo wants them to.

Thank you to the people who got us here

A recognition like this is never built alone. It's built by the designers, architects, and real estate professionals who chose Spacely AI, told us the truth about what was slowing them down, and trusted us with work that mattered to their clients.

Today that product serves 580,000+ users across 50+ countries, with over 2 million spaces rendered. In July 2025, Spacely AI raised a $1 million seed round led by PropTech Farm Fund III, following a pre-seed investment from SCB 10X — momentum the whole community helped create.

Recognition is a milestone, not a finish line. What matters more is what it points to: a community redefining how spatial design gets done — and a team that intends to keep earning your trust. We're grateful to build for you, and we're just getting started.

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