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It scores 81.6% on our benchmark — ahead of human estimators (77.6%) and \\~20 points clear of the best frontier model. It runs in \\~2 hours vs. up to a week for a human.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=106241&key=user_uploads/428748/ccaeb6b3-ba3f-4330-acd0-8e8ff779cca2)\n\n\n**The problem**\n\nBefore a contractor can bid a job, someone has to do a takeoff: read every sheet, count materials trade by trade, measure walls and roofs, cross-reference dimensions that live on different pages. It takes an experienced estimator 8–20 hours per project and years of training to do at all. It's the tax on every bid in a huge, fragmented industry.\n\nYou'd think a frontier model could do this now. It can't. Foundation models today aren't capable of understanding construction drawings to a level that is actually useful for a construction business. So this massive $2 trillion industry still runs on blueprints that are being analyzed by humans pretty much the same way they have been for the last few hundred years.\n\n**What we built**\n\nHandoff has developed H1: an AI model that understands and analyzes blueprints better than a human estimator, thus resolving this manual bottleneck once and for all.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=106241&key=user_uploads/428748/e3a9fd8f-cdf2-48f1-b4d6-9e30aa807ec5)\n\nH1 has three layers:\n\n* **Scope analysis** — a detailed, trade-by-trade breakdown of what the project actually involves, read straight from the drawings.\n* **Takeoff with quantities** — a complete material quantity list per trade: framing members, sheets, linear and square footage, counts, all with units.\n* **Localized construction costs** — accurate pricing on those quantities, localized to your ZIP code.\n\nAll of it programmatic and autonomous. No human needs to be involved in the process of creating the entire takeoff. You can simply upload plans and get structured scope, quantities, and costed output back.\n\n**The benchmark (TakeoffBench-V1)**\n\nAs part of this, we are also releasing the industry's first takeoff benchmark that enables us and anybody else in the research community to compare models against 15 real, permissioned, PII-stripped residential blueprint sets, each paired with a consensus-validated expert takeoff.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=106241&key=user_uploads/428748/b4f0b802-c841-403e-8867-5b1ac2e9fcb2)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=106241&key=user_uploads/428748/abdfeb2b-4ed7-4764-bc47-a6305f6d8ff9)\n\nHere's how we performed on the benchmark:\n\n* Handoff-H1: 81.6%\n* human estimator (with takeoff software): 77.6%\n* best frontier model (Claude Fable): 61.4%\n\nThe rest cluster in the low-to-mid 50s (gpt-5.6, Claude, Kimi) down to 34.7% (DeepSeek-V4-Pro).\n\n**Try it**\n\nH1 is live in the [Handoff](https://handoff.ai) product and on the API. We have one of the world's largest suppliers already using our model in every one of their locations across the country, including thousands of projects every month.\n\nIf you're looking for an intelligence layer to extract detailed structured data from blueprints with construction costs priced out to the nearest cent, hit us up at [api@handoff.ai](mailto:api@handoff.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RdZ-handoff-h1-a-takeoff-model-that-outperforms-human-estimators", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-07-22T20:04:49.600Z" }, { "id": 93974, "title": "Handoff - AI Agent for Residential Contractors", "tagline": "Handoff makes you more money, saves time, and runs your residential contracting business with AI.", "body": "### **The Problem**\n\nThere are 1.2M+ residential contractors (remodelers, home builders, etc.) in the US. They are severely understaffed and overworked:\n\n* 40% of their time goes to paperwork instead of building.\n* They rely on pen & paper or outdated software.\n* The US needs 4.7 million new homes (and contractors need to keep up with that demand).\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd85wN1hhBo\n\n### **The Solution: Handoff AI Agent**\n\nHandoff is the AI agent that helps owners of residential construction businesses automate their back office with AI.\n\nHere are some of the things Handoff can do:\n\n* Generate accurate construction estimates from short project descriptions and files (blueprints, photos, videos).\n* Automatically create material shopping lists (with links to purchase).\n* Send invoices, accept payments, and issue consumer loans.\n* Build project schedules, subcontractor bid invites, daily logs, and more.\n\nHandoff takes on the roles of:\n\n1. Cost estimator\n2. Project coordinator\n3. 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Sign up [here](https://app2.1build.com/public/register?signupType=SOFTWARE_DEVELOPER) to get your API key.\n\nHere are just some of the use cases for our data:\n\n* Your contractor sent you an estimate and you want to validate their quote vs market rates.\n* You're serving bank underwriters who need to check whether their client's construction loan application has an accurate budget.\n* You're working with insurance brokers who need to approve a quote for home repairs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70854&key=user_uploads/428748/7736013a-63ee-4a2c-ae3e-72873fb8f515)\n\n**Features**\n\n⚫ Search or browse our catalog of 68 million construction items and assemblies localized to your project. 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₹1.01M INR", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [] }, { "id": 106710, "title": "VIP Client Advisor", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/landeed/jobs/NV3HYUX-vip-client-advisor", "location": "Hyderabad, TS, IN / Hyderabad, Telangana, IN", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "₹880K - ₹1.22M INR", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [] }, { "id": 106711, "title": "Priority Case Manager", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/landeed/jobs/MVVWBdh-priority-case-manager", "location": "Hyderabad, TS, IN / Hyderabad, Telangana, IN", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "₹780K - ₹1.06M INR", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [] }, { "id": 108452, "title": "People & Operations Associate (HR & Admin)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/landeed/jobs/SkrpiOU-people-operations-associate-hr-admin", "location": "Hyderabad, TS, IN / Hyderabad, Telangana, IN", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Recruiting & HR", "role_type": "Operations", "salary_range": "₹500K - ₹750K INR", "equity_range": "", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Building trust in India’s property system through digitisation", "url": "https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/opinion/building-trust-in-india-s-property-system-through-digitisation-13750337.html", "date": "Dec 31, 2025" }, { "title": "Indian proptech at an inflection point: Panelists at VCCircle summit", "url": "https://www.vccircle.com/indianproptech-at-an-inflection-point-panelists-at-vccircle-summit", "date": "Oct 29, 2025" }, { "title": "Landeed: Mapping ownership through AI", "url": "https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/2025/Oct/09/landeed-mapping-ownership-through-ai", "date": "Oct 08, 2025" }, { "title": "Landeed: Mapping ownership through AI", "url": "https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/2025/Oct/09/landeed-mapping-ownership-through-ai", "date": "Oct 08, 2025" }, { "title": "Landeed Introduces Zero-Fee Bill Payments Feature for Property Transactions", "url": "https://www.rprealtyplus.com/allied/landeed-introduces-zero-fee-bill-payments-feature-for-property-transactions-119421.html", "date": "Apr 03, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 100213, "title": "🏠 Terra: Turning Indian property from a who-you-know market into a what-you-know market.", "tagline": "Indian property, finally legible. ", "body": "Today we're launching Terra: the thing we've wanted to build since day one.. If you caught our original launch: you know we've spent three years building India's property infrastructure. More than a million people use Landeed monthly searching millions of properties and growing at an increasing pace. The result of that work is Terra - India’s first and most intelligent property AI trained on 500M+ title documents. 24 states. 22 languages.\n\nEven more importantly, we built Terra on the foundations of our groundwork not guesswork. The answers are backed by verifiable records from regulatory registries and ground truth minimizing hallucination risks. Furthermore, this is the third major launch from Landeed Labs (our internal AI division) after AITSR our flagship product for enterprises which has now evolved into Terra Black.\n\nCheck it out below:\n\n\n\n**Here's what's broken.**\n\nIndia is two markets stitched together: _who you know_ and _what you know_. Most of India's economy has shifted toward what-you-know over the last twenty years. Real estate has not. It is the most extreme who-you-know market in the country.\n\nWho you know determines what you can buy, what price you pay, what risks you discover, and whether your title holds up in court. If you have the right cousin in the registrar's office, the right lawyer in the right city, the right broker who owes you a favor — you have edge. If you don't, you're flying blind with your life savings.\n\nThis is why India has $10 trillion in property and most of it is **dead capital** — Hernando de Soto's phrase. You own it but you can't prove it. You inherit it but you can't read it. You want to buy it but you can't verify it. Many call this dead capital but at Landeed we call this just another Tuesday. The data was always there. It was just illegible, scattered across 28 state systems, locked in 22 languages, and impossible to reason about.\n\n**Here's what we built.**\n\nTerra is the first product that makes data competitive with relationships in Indian property — and wins.\n\nYou just talk to it. In English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil — whatever you think in.\n\n\"Find me 2BHK apartments in Gachibowli under 1 crore and with nice gym.\" Or drop the link or url from your favorite listing to explore more about the property in detail like guideline value or average rentals. Terra shows you real listings across all aggregated from listings platforms, helps you create watchlists, calculate price trends and check property risks all in one screen in real time in one conversation.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100213&key=user_uploads/95984/c59d4a61-5060-44eb-bdc9-ee30b31e2d74)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100213&key=user_uploads/95984/4a929008-2772-42f7-b0a8-bd7e19e4f86b)\n\n\"Who has owned that property since it was built?\" Ownership tree. Every transaction. Linked to source documents you can open.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100213&key=user_uploads/95984/6a4338fb-af05-4c24-bc80-0d5dc9e3b049)\n\n\"Are there any encumbrances or legal issues?\" Light diligence in minutes. Not a lawyer's 2-week report.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100213&key=user_uploads/95984/b035d906-223a-4a67-8b4f-3305132df9d4)\n\n\"Compare this to the one in Kondapur I was looking at yesterday.\" Side by side.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100213&key=user_uploads/95984/7914e052-0078-469a-9947-e2af051b4f7d)\n\nUnder the hood: a system of specialized AI agents working in parallel. Live integrations with 24 state governments. Proprietary OCR for 22 Indian languages including handwritten records from the 1980s. Terra doesn't guess. It reads the actual government records — the same ones a lawyer would read — and reasons about them in real time.\n\n**One moment that shows what this unlocks.**\n\nA user told Terra about his property next to a biryani shop in Chennai. Terra pulled the documents _and_ found a municipal announcement from that week — the user was now eligible to build additional square footage on his existing plot. He didn't know to ask. Terra found it anyway.\n\nThat's the point. Terra doesn't just answer questions. It tells you things you didn't know to ask.\n\n**Early traction.**\n\nSoft-launched on web a month ago. 50,000 users showed up without a rupee of paid acquisition.\n\n**Try it:** [https://web.landeed.com/terra](https://web.landeed.com/terra?thread=a3c27682-da8c-462a-8855-5d2ebcd80632) or download our app from play store or iOS\n\n**What we want from the community:**\n\n* Know anyone buying, selling, or inheriting property in India? Send them to Terra. Especially NRIs — they have the worst version of this problem.\n* Know a bank, NBFC, or real estate operator in India? We have Terra Black (enterprise API) already running with HDFC Bank, Hero FinCorp, Amazon India, Vastu Housing, and others. Warm intros welcome: [sanjay@landeed.com](mailto:sanjay@landeed.com)\n* Feedback, ideas, critiques — send them straight to us.\n\nIndia's property market has been a who-you-know game since the British left. Terra is how it finally becomes a what-you-know market. We make this inevitable. 🐂", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Q4L-terra-turning-indian-property-from-a-who-you-know-market-into-a-what-you-know-market", "votes": 107, "created_at": "2026-04-25T15:27:09.197Z" }, { "id": 89737, "title": "Landeed Bill Pay: Property bills, tax, and documents — handled in one app", "tagline": "India's first property super-app: pay property tax, electricity, water & more — all linked to your property", "body": "**🏡 We’re Landeed — the fastest way to access property documents _and_ pay property-related bills in India**\n\nHey YC — we’re the team behind **Landeed**, a property super-app used by over 1 million people across India to instantly retrieve legal property documents like Encumbrance Certificates, Survey Maps, and Sale Deeds.\n\nToday we’re launching **Landeed Bill Payments** — a major upgrade that lets users instantly pay for all their property-related bills, directly in the same app.\n\n---\n\n### ❌ The Problem\n\nIndia’s government has digitized property documents — but property _bill payments_ are still a mess.\n\nEvery billing cycle, property owners deal with:\n\n* 3–5 broken government portals (BBMP, BESCOM, BWSSB, etc.)\n* Clunky UIs with mismatched property IDs and consumer numbers\n* OTP loops, failed UPI/card transactions, no real support\n* No central history or receipts\n\nIt’s painful for anyone — and 10x worse for landlords managing multiple properties across cities.\n\n---\n\n### 🧑‍💼 Meet Ramesh, a typical Bangalore landlord\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89737&key=user_uploads/95984/6f635ff1-7dea-4270-bc01-3526f95f8022)\n\n### ✅ Our Solution\n\nWe built **Landeed Bill Payments** right into the same app our users already trust for property documents.\n\nNow users can:\n\n* 💡Instantly pay **Property Tax, Electricity, Water, Gas, Broadband**\n* 💳 Use **UPI, cards, or wallets**\n* 🏙️ Access **20+ utility boards** across India\n* 📂 Automatically save receipts per property\n* 📈 View full **payment history** across all properties\n\nNo logins, no portal hopping, no stress.\n\n---\n\n### 💡 Why Now\n\nIndia digitized land records — but not the ownership experience.\\\nYou can _see_ your property online. But you can’t act on it.\n\nWe’re building the **operating system for property ownership** — starting with documentation, and now enabling transactions.\n\n---\n\n### 🚀 Traction\n\n* 1M+ users across 400+ districts\n* Cover 24 states and union territories in India\n* Live integrations with 20+ major utilities & DISCOMs\n* Multi-lingual support and over 12 vernacular languages supported\n\n---\n\n### 🎥 Product Demo\n\n\n\n> _See how Ramesh pays 3 bills in under 60 seconds, directly from his property dashboard._\n\n---\n\n### 🙌 What You Can Do\n\n* **Try it now**: — no fees, no logins\n* **Share this** with landlords, real estate operators, or civic tech folks\n* **Talk to us**: [founders@landeed.com](mailto:founders@landeed.com)\n\nThanks for checking us out — we’d love your feedback and intros.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NLN-landeed-bill-pay-property-bills-tax-and-documents-handled-in-one-app", "votes": 100, "created_at": "2025-04-22T14:56:32.985Z" }, { "id": 72566, "title": "Landeed XF (LXF): Founder's real estate concierge 🚀", "tagline": "Real Estate reimagined for Founders by Founders 🤝", "body": "# **Landeed XF (LXF): Your Ultimate Real Estate Ally!**\n\n**Quick Summary:** Landeed is thrilled to launch LXF! We present an all-encompassing real estate solution tailored for founders, ensuring hassle-free accommodation and workspace solutions, along with legal support for your company setup. No deposits, no brokerage fees, just an annual contract that bundles everything you need into a single monthly invoice.✨\n\n## **💥 What’s The Issue?**\n\nFounders are swamped with responsibilities and need to be laser-focused on their vision. Real estate complications, finding the perfect workspace, and dealing with legal requirements for company setup are all distractions that no founder needs. The market lacks an efficient, all-in-one solution that caters specifically to the founders' real estate and legal needs. Landeed XF is here to change that.\n\n## **🎯 Here’s What We Offer**\n\nLandeed XF is your one-stop solution, specially curated for founders looking to set their foot in India and vice versa. We’re here to enable you to hit the ground running.\n\n🧾 **Single Monthly Payment Mechanism**: Experience the simplicity of our financial structure. No deposits or brokerages; only transparent, all-inclusive monthly invoicing.\n\n🏡 **Move-in Ready Living Spaces**: No more endless apartment hunting or paperwork. Live comfortably in our fully-furnished apartments and enjoy single monthly payments sans any brokerage fees.\n\n👩‍💻 **Workspace That Matches Your Drive**: Choose from a range of coworking spaces and private offices, ensuring your workspace is conducive to your vision. We find the best locations for you and your team!\n\n👩‍⚖️ **Legal Entity Structuring**: Our expert partners will guide you through the complex maze of legal entity structuring between the US and India. We’ve negotiated discounted fees for you.\n\n🛂 **Hassle-free Company Setup**: We manage all the administrative tasks such as entity formation and government registrations, so you can focus on what matters most – your startup.\n\n⏩ **Fast-Track Your Launch**: Don’t let delays hinder your momentum. Our efficient lease negotiations and expedited legal processes mean you can be operational in just 2 weeks!\n\n## **📢 Landeed + YC Founders = Unstoppable Force**\n\nWe're on a mission to pave the way for your startup’s triumphant journey in India. With Landeed XF by your side, you can leave the real estate and legal complexities to us, and focus on what you do best – building and scaling your business.\n\n## **🎉 YC Exclusive Deal! 🎉**\n\nAs a special launch celebration, we’re excited to offer an exclusive deal for our YC community! Find out more about this limited-time offer [**here**](https://deals.ycombinator.com/deals/1847).\n\n## **🤝 Let’s Get Started**\n\nReady to take the leap? We’d love to hear from you. Reach out to [**namansrivastava@landeed.com**](mailto:namansrivastava@landeed.com) and let's explore how Landeed XF can propel your startup to new heights.\n\nJoin us on this exciting journey. Landeed XF is here to revolutionize real estate for founders! 🚀💡🏢", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IsQ-landeed-xf-lxf-founder-s-real-estate-concierge", "votes": 90, "created_at": "2024-01-09T22:13:42.397Z" }, { "id": 65182, "title": "🌆Landeed: Do you own your property in India? Are you sure? Let's check 🕵🏽", "tagline": "Landeed is India's first, fastest and only multi-state property title checker🥇 ", "body": "**TL; DR We make it easy for real estate agents, owners, developers, bankers and legal advisors to instantly check property titles. Our Landeed** [**app**](https://www.landeed.com/) **retrieves government generated Encumbrance Certificate (EC) within seconds. This document summarizes all present and past transactions pertaining to a property going back multiple decades.**\n\nNamaste 🙏🏽 we are Jonathan, ZJ and Sanjay, the three musketeers fighting for your land rights. This is our second YC startup together and have known one another for 7 (lucky) years.\n\n### **💀** **Serious Problem 🚨**\n\nApproximately 67% of all court cases in India deal with land-related disputes. This is due to India’s legal framework of “presumptive ownership.” Under this model, the due diligence on property purchases falls on the buyer with government claiming no responsibility. Furthermore, there is no concept of a single “title document” leading to prolonged due diligence phase ranging from 2-6 months whereas most property transactions in US can be concluded in 2-4 days.\n\n### 🧪**Landeed Solution ⚡**\n\nLandeed is a national property title search engine. Use our [app](https://www.landeed.com/) and check property transaction ledger going back 20 years in 2 seconds. Think of it as “Google of real estate titles.” We built a standardized interface simplifying the multiple search methods across states into an intuitive and fluid user experience. Next up, Landeed for the world not just India!\n\n### 🪄**Let’s talk about the magic 👏🏽**\n\nLandeed weaves together multiple government departments across various states producing a “plaid-like” property summary data. Whereas government platforms focus on taxing users for civic micro-services and document generation, our product is built around specific user profiles that have strong intent to transact. The end-result of this approach is a consumer-centric product with enterprise capabilities. Search property titles 10x faster guaranteed or money back ! (it’s free for YC)\n\n### 🤵🏽**Damn I look good (the app)** 📲\n\n![landeed app encumbrance certificate screenshot 1](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/acf78d_f957a692fca24048b10ea00073c1a49a~mv2.png/v1/crop/x_736,y_180,w_1037,h_2120/fill/w_238,h_488,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/ec_details_portrait.png)\n\n![landeed app encumbrance certificate screenshot 2](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/acf78d_92d55dce18e54a0e8c491f12cceb502a~mv2.png/v1/crop/x_731,y_171,w_1041,h_2128/fill/w_238,h_488,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/webview_portrait.png)\n\n🗺️And yes, we support multiple states (Home court advantage: TS 🏏)\n\n🙏🏽Asks\n\n1. Download Landeed [app](https://www.landeed.com/) if you or anyone that you know have property in India\n2. Request a state to launch if we are not currently covering it! We have a high demand waitlist and are constructing our build plans accordingly\n3. Follow us on [twitter](https://twitter.com/LandeedInc?s=20&t=nWcLlnd9LyDH_vTopux4wA) and give us your feedback. It’s still day zero at Landeed.\n4. If you have any other feedback, we’d love to hear it at [founders@landeed.com](mailto:founders@landeed.com)\n5. And of course, if you feel what we are building is impactful, we would appreciate the upvote!\n6. Full disclosure and request: Do not illegally trespass, set up meat shacks (it will be bulldozed 🐂) or try to sell our lands without our express written consent and permission\n7. Nothing to see here except it’s our lucky number and proof that some of you have read all the way to the end. If so, slack or email Jonathan, ZJ or Sanjay simply with the message “7\" and get a surprise gift from us 🧧🎁", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GxK-landeed-do-you-own-your-property-in-india-are-you-sure-let-s-check", "votes": 913, "created_at": "2022-08-07T08:56:12.741Z" } ] }, { "id": 27704, "name": "FlexDesk", "slug": "flexdesk", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7ba7b37dc3c29d740d89959501d5950b59307a9f.png", "website": "https://www.flexdesk.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Real estate rent is often the largest non-payroll expense for companies. 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Passionate about the future workplace experience. Previously an early employee at a Proptech startup. Started my career as a management consultant at Bain & Company.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/clark-jacobs-19a86665/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e4e9ba0b9d5c0d17b4a29c08a55233d9bb1208d7.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 70359, "title": "Sales Development Representative", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flexdesk/jobs/ZOzsdXq-sales-development-representative", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / New York, NY, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$70K - $95K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 68615, "title": "FlexDesk - Booking engine for coworking space", "tagline": "We help companies book, manage, and track their spend on coworking space", "body": "👋 Hey everyone, we’re [Clark](https://www.linkedin.com/in/clark-jacobs-19a86665/) & [Dhanvi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhanvi/) from FlexDesk.\n\n**_Tl;dr:_** _Through FlexDesk, your employees can search and book from a network of 7,000+ coworking locations worldwide. For employers, FlexDesk makes it easy to create spend policies, track bookings, and streamline billing across all employees, geos, & brands._\n\n### **🥴 Problem**\n\n**1 - Search and discovery:** The coworking landscape is fragmented. Less than 65% of people live within a 50 mile radius to a WeWork location. 75% of workers have experienced it taking longer than 30 minutes to identify and book a coworking space.\n\n**2 - Spend controls and tracking:** It is currently hard to create and enforce standardized spend/booking controls. Companies have reported employees renting $400+ daily conference rooms to serve as their ‘personal office’.\n\n**3 - Payments:** Employees are currently required to pay for each booking using a credit card and submit for reimbursement. This is cumbersome for both employees and the company’s Accounting department, especially when dealing with multiple currencies.\n\n### **🔥 Solution**\n\n**1 - Booking engine:** Search and rent from a network of 7,000 coworking locations worldwide - including WeWork, Regus, and thousands of local brands.\n\n**2 - Compliance + system of record:** Create and enforce custom booking/spend policies. Track and analyze all bookings to inform and refine coworking strategy.\n\n**3 - Streamlined billing:** One bill across all employees, geos, and brands.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68615&key=user_uploads/494003/9795eb02-917f-4ec0-ba42-c3880873f753)\n\n### **💵 Bottom line impact**\n\nFlexDesk is a **win-win-win** across all major stakeholders at a company.\n\n* **For Real Estate teams:** Eliminates manual work that previously took up 15% of their workweek.\n* **For Finance teams:** Unlocks 10% savings compared to going direct with a single coworking brand. Unlocks 60%+ savings compared to a traditional lease strategy.\n* **For People teams:** Empowers employees with the freedom of choice to find a coworking space that fits their needs and within a short commute.\n\n### **🤔 Why do companies use coworking space?**\n\n* **Distributed workforce:** Hiring across the US/world, while simultaneously downsizing and even exiting office leases given low utilization + high opex.\n* **Dynamic space needs:** Established an ongoing need to support employees with space for in-person collaboration, to meet with clients, and to escape WFH.\n* **Flexible and cost-efficient:** Coworking space offers companies the flexibility to address each of these needs at a significantly lower cost than a traditional lease.\n\n**Enter FlexDesk to offer spend controls, data visibility, and a booking engine with global coverage 🌎**\n\n### **😎 How to sign up**\n\nIf your business **currently uses coworking space or is thinking about it**, we would love to chat with you or the appropriate person at your company. 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We’re [Sam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samsonstein/) & [Abe](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abrahamwheeler/), founders of [Trigo](https://trigodata.com/).\n\n**TLDR:** **Trigo** aggregates **consumer rent history** to help **landlords approve better tenants** and **lenders write more loans**. We have **25x more coverage** than the credit bureaus, and we’ve already consolidated **tens of thousands of rental units** to provide data instantly.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69852&key=user_uploads/1092278/edd9cd08-b7d8-48f6-8830-8a7d9f3d4731)\n\n## ❓ Rent Data is Missing\n\n🏠 **Landlords**: **Bad debt & evictions are at all time highs** in the U.S., and landlords need more data for added protection across the **60+ million tenants screened annually**. Applicants with positive rent history are **4x more likely** to pay their rent on-time and in full.\n\n🏦 **Lenders**: In 2021, financial institutions including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac added rent payment data to their underwriting models to expand access to credit. Without rent data to input into these models, **lenders are writing 17% fewer loans than they could**. That’s a lot of missed loans across the **300 million consumer loan originations** annually in the U.S.!\n\n❌ **No solution exists** to consistently furnish this data to landlords and lenders today. The largest database has only **3% coverage** of rent data.\n\n## 🔌 Trigo Rent API\n\n**Trigo** is a federally regulated **Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA)** that provides this missing rent data set through a **real-time API** and web application. We’ve already consolidated **tens of thousands of rental units** to provide **instant data**. Where we don’t yet have data coverage, we **automate outreach** to landlords.\n\n## 👋 About Us\n\nWe’re repeat founders with consumer data and finance experience across Experian, Citigroup, and Amazon.\n\nTrigo began when Sam pulled his own credit report and realized not one of his landlords over the past decade had reported a single month’s rent payment to the credit bureaus. With a little research, we discovered that **this data has only 3% coverage in the market today**.\n\nSam met Abe through [YC cofounder matching](https://www.ycombinator.com/cofounder-matching) (amazing product - 🤝 YC!), and the rest is history.\n\n## 🙏 Our Ask\n\nThanks for reading about us. If you or someone you know is interested in our data, you can reach us at [**contact@trigodata.com**](mailto:contact@trigodata.com). 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Propify's API allows companies to integrate with these systems in weeks, not years.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69838&key=user_uploads/997737/fbfa8b9c-aac6-449d-af99-d9696611c11e)\n\nHey everyone! We're Remen, Nick, and Ben from [Propify](http://www.getpropify.com). We entered the proptech world in 2020 and quickly realized the single biggest problem was accessing the data from the major systems of record.\n\n# ⚠️ **The Problem: Fragmentation and Legacy Software** \n\nThe managed real estate market includes 290k companies, 80M tenants, and $300B in rent payments. This market is not only for \"proptechs.\" Amazon, Lowes, and Progressive Insurance actively sell into the space. \n\nThe most significant headwind to innovation has been the effort to integrate with the systems of record: Property management software. \n\nIt is a fragmented market where SOAP APIs are the norm and documentation is rarely available. In addition, companies like Zuma (S21) have entire teams managing these integrations - they often take years to build the complete list.\n\n  \n\n# 👨‍🔬 **The Solution: A unified API**\n\nPropify's API and unified data model allow a company to integrate with the six most prominent players in weeks.\n\nAdditionally, we provide modern developer tooling like Webhooks, which is largely missing from the native integrations.\n\n# 👨‍🔬 **How it works:**\n\nWith Propify, you integrate once to access all of our supported integrations. In addition, our REST API is well documented, and we simplify integrating and scaling your company with additional tooling that your engineers will love!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69838&key=user_uploads/997737/49132478-7f99-47d2-985d-562b77f4f415)\n\nA company can manage the systems and integrated buildings through its Propify Portal. 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Rather than having policies spread out between multiple agents/brokers, real estate managers can use Homeflow to view their policies, change coverages, and get quotes for upcoming acquisitions.\n\nHi everyone, we’re Perry and Christian, co-founders of Homeflow.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70501&key=user_uploads/437987/6f1b3243-2701-4977-80af-bd2a8ae8254b)\n\n### **🤔 Why are we the right ones to work on this?**\n\n[Perry](https://www.linkedin.com/in/perryha95/) was the 5th business hire at Hippo Insurance and was there through the IPO, building and leading the sales operations team. \n\n[Christian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmgreen/) was the youngest staff engineer at Mosaic, a unicorn proptech company, where he led engineering for a new business line that grew to $10M ARR in 6 months. \n\n### **❌ What’s the problem?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70501&key=user_uploads/437987/48a1f68f-5a21-48cc-9fb3-01549b851641)\n\nLarger real estate investors deal with inefficiencies when managing their insurance. For example, one of our partners has 200 units, and their insurance was placed with 5 different brokers across 6 insurance companies (carriers). This occurs because 1) insurance brokers are often state-specific since insurance is regulated and licensed on a state-by-state basis and 2) the insurance carriers that sell 1-4 family unit properties are frequently different from the ones that sell 5+ family unit properties. \n\nAlso, real estate investors with a traditional broker still need to call or email if they want to get an updated policy document or file a claim. As a result, the insurance experience has been highly service-dependent, only as good as the broker. \n\n### **👨🏼‍💻 What have we built?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70501&key=user_uploads/437987/25f86ff3-7933-4817-a28d-95f00690b83e)\n\nHomeflow is the first digital platform that gives real estate investors a single place to purchase and manage insurance for their portfolio. Homeflow’s nationwide footprint and 50+ carriers provide real estate investors with a single platform for all of their insurance needs. Real estate investors can also use Homeflow’s self-service platform to view all policy documents, manage their claims, or request changes to their policy. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70501&key=user_uploads/437987/90d4c705-24af-4724-bec9-541202333dad)\n\n### **👋 Asks:**\n\nAre you (or someone you know) a real estate investor looking to simplify and save on your insurance? Feel free to reach out to [founders@homeflow.me](mailto:founders@homeflow.me) or book a [meeting with us here](https://calendly.com/perry-rentr/30min). We would love to connect and hear if we can help you more effectively manage your insurance coverage.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IL7-homeflow-simplifying-insurance-for-large-real-estate-investors", "votes": 99, "created_at": "2023-03-23T18:23:37.359Z" } ] }, { "id": 28019, "name": "inBuild", "slug": "inbuild", "former_names": [ "inBuild, Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/565db1f58d2ff6409bb5c8eb3aefcdbc3f515329.png", "website": "https://www.inbuild.ai/", "all_locations": "Wilmington, DE, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Aspen, CO, USA", "long_description": "inBuild boosts revenue for home builders by automating the thousands of invoices they receive for every project. 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[Ty](https://twitter.com/tysharp_ib) and [Ian Sharp](https://twitter.com/iansharp_iB) here from [inBuild](https://www.inbuild.ai/).\n\nOur team is building a platform that automates the workflow of financial documents by plugging into email accounts, extracting incoming documents, and processing them all the way into existing accounting systems.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70189&key=user_uploads/1115776/47d121da-2a70-4dfb-b36e-9af7ab09ab36)\n\nOver the last 12 months, inBuild has processed over $450M of invoice volume with over $8M flowing through the platform daily.\n\nCustomers rave about inBuild saying:\n\n“You often hear 'under promise and over deliver'. I don't believe that is the business model of inBuild, but they continually over-deliver.“ - Joey Zikor, CFO at [Finbro Construction](https://www.finbroconstruction.com/)\n\n### Problem\n\nFinancial management should be seamless, but construction companies are faced with…\n\n* high document volumes.\n* no industry standardizations.\n* complicated approval workflows.\n* outdated legacy software (yuck 🤮)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70189&key=user_uploads/1115776/b71952c8-eb4d-4d6c-bc97-8c2b92c153df)\n\n### Solution\n\nA simple interface that works for you not against you, by…\n\n* ingesting incoming emails.\n* customizing account details.\n* learning from interaction.\n* automating document lifecycles.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70189&key=user_uploads/1115776/c39a25f3-9256-4a43-8e2d-ce0546f5c823)\n\n### Team\n\nTy was the CFO of a large luxury home builder and was working with real estate developers that collectively process over $250M in construction volume each year. His brother Ian was the Director of Growth at Gainfully, a Series A startup based in the Bay Area, and assisted in the company's successful acquisition.\n\nThe brothers teamed up to tackle this challenge after cold-calling over 2,000 home builders. What they learned was that a custom home takes 18-24 months to build and during that time the contractor will receive more than 18,000 invoices from vendors and subs, each with as many as 100 line items that all need to be verified and cross-checked to budgets and contracts. The process desperately needs to be automated and we have the backgrounds to make that happen.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70189&key=user_uploads/1115776/441f1209-cad6-4c31-a995-f7b161c267c0)\n\n### Asks\n\nPlease reach out if you know any…\n\n* [referrals to home builders](mailto:sales@inbuild.ai).\n* [talented individuals looking for work](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/inbuild/jobs).\n* [connections to investors](mailto:founders@inbuild.ai).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IG5-inbuild-financial-automation-for-home-builders", "votes": 200, "created_at": "2023-03-11T19:49:23.880Z" } ] }, { "id": 28823, "name": "Craftwork", "slug": "craftwork", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a808b8722de9d2ecbb9fc19cae6ba864f6358f23.png", "website": "https://craftwork.com/", "all_locations": "Charlotte, NC, USA", "long_description": "Craftwork is a full-service home painting company that uses software to dramatically improve the homeowner and operator experience.", "one_liner": "Digital-native home painting franchise", "team_size": 50, "industry": "Real Estate and Construction", "subindustry": "Real Estate and Construction -> Construction", "launched_at": 1689608644, "tags": [ "Proptech", "Home Services", "Home Automation" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Real Estate and Construction", "Construction" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/craftwork", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/craftwork.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Charlotte", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/craftworkhome", "x_url": "", "fb_url": "https://www.instagram.com/craftworkpaint/", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/craftwork-be22", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a808b8722de9d2ecbb9fc19cae6ba864f6358f23.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/bb1fa629a28388bfe2035c893893fca712a7f883.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/83c2ef93e35eed99498b6f87c14976dadf6be198.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 193855, "full_name": "Tim Griffin", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Tim is an active angel investor and two-time YC founder. 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Co-founder of smpl (acquired 2020). \n\nPast work includes DevRel at Stripe, DevRel manager and TL for Google Assistant, UX at Microsoft, and Technical Director at Gymnasium \n\n💌 Tiny Improvements: https://mikebifulco.com/newsletter", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/mbifulco", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/irreverentmike", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7b68fcd10d8bf93f862ebefe44eb804695d29f1e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 578635, "full_name": "Suzanne Griffin", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I've been an early stage employee at two YC startups (CareRev S16, and Plato W16) and I'm the Co-founder of Craftwork (YC S23).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/suzannelevygriffin", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/suzannerenee6", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/78a4bba4d80ac5f6ea3552918a35242b9edad69b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1437957, "full_name": "Joey Skavroneck", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Joey scaled Zoomo from a seed stage company to the global leader in their category, leading their North American business and largest global partnerships. 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We then deploy trained, full-time employees to paint our customers’ homes.\n\n**The Problem**\\\nToday, it’s hard for homeowners to locate and hire home service providers, because contractors don’t use technology and rely on outdated employment models to operate their businesses.\n\nAs a result, the process for homeowners to complete any home project is riddled with challenges - from tediously searching for a reputable contractor, to coordinating multiple walkthroughs of their home, reviewing quotes, selecting a provider, agreeing to terms, scheduling the work, and enduring price and timeline changes before the work is finally completed - each step is frustratingly manual, unpredictable, and outdated.\n\n**The Solution**\\\nAt Craftwork, our coupling of a vertically integrated business model with best-in-class software allows us to deliver an unparalleled experience to homeowners.\n\nOur unique approach puts homeowners in control - from getting an estimate online with transparent pricing, to scheduling their projects and exploring our color selection tools, to meeting the team that will paint their homes and understanding what to expect when we arrive - we’re establishing a standard of transparency, accountability, and trust that simply can’t be matched.\n\nAs homeowners we’ve experienced first-hand just how difficult it can be to hire quality contractors. We believe that by building software to simplify the homeowner experience and streamline internal operations, we’ll disrupt the $500B+ home services market and grow to become the largest residential general contractor in the country.\n\n**The Team**\\\nWe’re all former founders and early-stage team members with experience successfully scaling operations-heavy technology startups.\n\n* Tim is a two-time YC founder whose last startup [Odeko](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/12565) (S19) is currently #115 on Y Combinator’s list of [top companies](https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/valuation).\n* Mike was the founder of [Smpl](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/smpl-llc), a co-working management app that was acquired in 2020.\n* Suzanne led people operations at two YC startups - [Plato](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/1048) (W16) and [CareRev](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/1188) (S16) - where she managed large scale team growth.\n* Joey built and sold his OOH advertising company before scaling [Zoomo](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bolt-bikes) from a seed-stage company to the global leader in their category.\n\n**The Ask**\\\nIf you have friends or family in the Charlotte, NC area we would really appreciate you sharing Craftwork with them. We’re offering $100 off when homeowners book a project with us by August 31st - they can go to [craftwork.com/summer](http://craftwork.com/summer) to get an estimate for their projects!\n\n**Read more on** [**Axios**](https://charlotte.axios.com/334157/charlotte-tech-startup-at-y-combinator-raises-4-million/?fbclid=IwAR0Y850wsC9Weyxi1vKuQ4P3No9Wutt0bHxvZ8CiN9jct_ir9rs72o59144_aem_AVkl16No6389ZDQC1Dxg81tOtEZknW5_9D3uqrNuctS7ZyWOxUVX0Hic-xuW1qk3l2I&mibextid=Zxz2cZ)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J1U-craftwork-the-easy-way-to-paint-your-home", "votes": 68, "created_at": "2023-07-17T12:01:29.342Z" } ] }, { "id": 29090, "name": "Trayd", "slug": "trayd", "former_names": [ "Trayd", "TRAYD" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b0a9f2865966789c4edf9a5fb78aced71bf8c4d9.png", "website": "https://www.buildtrayd.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Trayd is building the operating system for commercial construction: payroll, compliance, and back office workflows that actually work in the real world.\r\n\r\nConstruction is one of the biggest industries in North America (valued at $2T+), and it still runs on a messy mix of spreadsheets, legacy payroll providers, and manual processes that break the moment things get even slightly complex. 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For commercial real estate subcontractors, Trayd generates back office efficiencies with a platform that manages workforce attendance and payroll. For workers, Trayd offers instant access to their earned wages. Win-Win.\n\nWe are Anna Berger and Cara Kessler, the team behind @Trayd and we are on a mission to digitize construction payroll in order to power a better financial future for subcontractors and their workers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73344&key=user_uploads/1435469/811e72a1-0fc1-4b73-ab24-27b7ed95567f)\n\n### 🚨**Problem**🚨\n\nWithin commercial real estate, demand for work is at an all-time high. In the last year, total construction spend in New York City reached $86BN and it keeps on climbing. That said, construction subcontractors are ill-equipped to handle the influx of work, with only 17% of them using digital tools to manage their back office. This lack of tech adoption is leading to work stoppages and high attrition, resulting in major revenue loss.\n\nTo make matters worse, construction employment still lags behind pre-covid levels. Of those that remain, highly skilled workers are choosing to leave the trades in search of more control over their cash flow, for example, gig economy jobs that allow them to work when they want and get paid instantly.\n\n### **🏗️ Our Solution** 🏗️\n\nTrayd is new type of construction payroll platform, designed to incentivize all key players. Through a closed loop system, Trayd tracks workers’ daily attendance in order to power real-time payroll automation. By merging time and payroll data into one system, subcontractors save tens of hours a week on manual back office work. As an added bonus, because Trayd authenticates attendance in real-time, Trayd can offer instant payment options to the workforce.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73344&key=user_uploads/1435469/5ed2d168-f70d-4752-b949-09d093ba8d81)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73344&key=user_uploads/1435469/92cdb561-b705-4aca-9ce1-c33f875435b9)\n\n### 📖 **The Backstory** 📖\n\nBorn into a construction family and close to the problems that plague subcontractors and workers on a daily basis, our team is excited to modernize construction back office operations while simultaneously offering financial tools and opportunities to subcontractors and workers.\n\n### **Asks 🙏**\n\n* Know anyone in the construction industry? We’d love to speak to any general contractors, subcontractors, construction workers, or developers about their day-to-day experiences. Send any leads to [anna@buildtrayd.com](mailto:anna@buildtrayd.com)\n* Follow along on our journey! → \n\nIf you have any questions, reach out! We’d love to hear from you.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J4y-trayd-construction-payroll-designed-for-same-day-pay", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2023-07-24T15:14:09.940Z" } ] }, { "id": 29112, "name": "Foundation", "slug": "foundation-2", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9dd20033ab143f980f73115add9045604e7e9b6b.png", "website": "https://buildwithfoundation.com/", "all_locations": "Boulder, CO, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Foundation is the buyer experience platform for homebuilders. By bringing the new home shopping, purchase, and ownership experience online, Foundation helps homebuilders sell more homes, more profitably, to happier customers.", "one_liner": "Shopify for Homebuilders", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Real Estate and Construction", "subindustry": "Real Estate and Construction -> Housing and Real Estate", "launched_at": 1693591286, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Real Estate", "B2B", "Proptech", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Real Estate and Construction", "Housing and Real Estate" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? 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Our buyer experience platform brings homebuilders online to help them sell more homes, at higher margins, to happier home buyers. One way to think about this is to ask a question: why do you have a better app for tracking your pizza delivery than you do for the biggest purchase of your life? Almost nobody in Silicon Valley understands homebuilding in the U.S. Just the Top 300 U.S. homebuilders — what some folks call “production builders” — build and sell >$250 BILLION (with a B) worth of homes a year, and spend $10B+ on technology, customer acquisition, and commissions. These builders don’t build homes on Sand Hill Road. But once you get outside of the Silicon Valley bubble, you learn how important homebuilding is in the U.S. Yes, it’s economically important — this is a massive corner of the American economy — but homebuilding also has huge cultural significance. Go talk to someone from Texas, or Florida, or a normal midwestern city: either they’ve thought about buying a new construction home, or their friends & family have, or they know someone who works in homebuilding." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "The U.S. is underbuilt by anywhere from 2M-6M+ homes. By helping bring homebuilding online, we help builders run better businesses — and do our small part to help get more homes built for American families. Beyond the new construction industry, we believe more broadly that the entire economy is still coming online. Parts of residential real estate have resisted this, but it’s happening. 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In most American cities, most homeowners have either considered buying a new construction home, have already bought one, or know someone who works in or around the new construction industry.\n\nThe U.S. is also significantly underbuilt from a housing perspective — estimates suggest that we’re anywhere from 2M-6M homes short of the inventory needed to house American families. To bridge this gap, it’s going to be the big “production” builders who do much of the heavy lifting.\n\n### The opportunity: bring a massive industry online\n\nDespite how central homebuilding is to the U.S. economy & culture, large parts of the industry run almost entirely offline. After working closely with homebuilder partners for years at Opendoor, Foundation’s [founding team](https://www.linkedin.com/company/foundation-tech/) realized how big of an opportunity this is.\n\nA simple question we ask: “Why do you have an app for tracking your pizza delivery, but not one for the biggest purchase of your life?” With [the launch of Foundation’s buyer experience platform](https://buildwithfoundation.com/), this finally changes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78242&key=user_uploads/17250/224f88b6-3d32-435a-b9c9-90fd77e1ef64)\n\nBy bringing the home purchase and ownership experience online, Foundation’s buyer experience platform helps homebuilders sell more homes, at higher margins, to happier buyers.\n\nOur first customers go live in Q1 2024, and the early response we’ve gotten — everyone from leading national builders who sell tens of thousands of homes a year, to forward-thinking, fast-growing regional and local builders — shows the tide is finally turning.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KLy-foundation-the-buyer-experience-platform-for-new-homes", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2024-02-07T19:21:11.036Z" } ] }, { "id": 29161, "name": "Goldbridge", "slug": "goldbridge", "former_names": [ "Player One", "Story Quest", "StoryQuest", "Goldbridge", "StoryQuest" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4d6bc2a399aaabb43bac34995b9a37125e0e1426.png", "website": "https://www.goldbridgebanking.com/", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "Goldbridge is building the financial operating system for the largest asset class in the world – real estate. More than $1T in rent flows through landlord bank accounts annually, with roughly a quarter locked in idle reserves and security deposits – and billions more leaking from unnecessary property expenses. And with $2.5T in real estate loans about to mature in 2027/28, property owners are desperate to boost their income ASAP. \r\n\r\nGoldbridge solves this problem by creating the first AI-powered banking platform for real estate owners. We are backed by Y Combinator and other world-class investors, and our founding team includes a 2x YC founder, former White House advisor, and 100-unit real estate owner/operator with deep industry expertise. 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He's also the co-founder of Shef, a Series B marketplace that enables anyone to cook and sell food from home. Salehi previously served as Senior Technology Advisor at the White House, where he authored the country’s first federal open source software policy and spearheaded its regulatory enforcement. Salehi also co-founded Code.gov and is a Venture Partner at NextGen VP.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/alvandsalehi", "x_url": "https://x.com/alvinsalehi_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/88f4952ce02c85916f2d3f52626af96bc7a6209b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1476984, "full_name": "Greg Rami", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Greg Rami is the Co-Founder of Goldbridge, the all-in-one financial platform built for real estate owners. With a broad engineering background spanning Android and iOS native development, web and backend systems, while leading teams at high-growth companies. He also brings training and practical experience in machine learning and data visualization from work at the NIST and NIH. Greg holds dual master's degrees in Computer Science and Business Management.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/gregrami", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/63e203577934eb66e97525d7594dba8380397c26.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 95598, "title": "Goldbridge – Ramp for Real Estate 🏠", "tagline": "The all-in-one financial platform for real estate owners. Banking + intelligence + automation, custom-built for property owners & operators.", "body": "**Tl;dr:** We can increase a real estate owner’s property values by 20 percent in less than three months. We already have thousands of units on board and just signed a strategic partnership deal with a company that puts us in front of 8M units in 2026.\n\nWe’re [Alvin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvinsalehi/) & [Greg](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregrami/) and we’re the founders of [Goldbridge](https://www.goldbridgebanking.com/). Alvin’s first YC company, Shef (W19), is a homemade food marketplace that helped change state laws across the country so that people could legally cook and sell food from home. They raised over $100M, scaled Shef nationally, and built it into a Series B company that continues to grow rapidly across the country.\n\nNow we’re building Goldbridge, the financial operating system for real estate – and we built it from the ground up based on our personal experience owning and operating residential properties.\n\n**THE PROBLEM**\n\nOver **$1 trillion** **of rent** flows through landlords’ bank accounts every year, and nearly 25% of it sits idle in reserves and deposits. In other words, **real estate banking is fundamentally broken**:\n\n* Traditional banks don’t understand real estate cashflows\n* Property management systems don’t handle money movement, treasury, or yield\n* Operators juggle multiple bank accounts, spreadsheets, and manual reconciliations\n* Billions are lost every year in missed yield, overpayments, and operational inefficiencies\n\nThis is one of the largest underserved financial categories in the country.\n\n**WHY WE BUILT GOLDBRIDGE**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95598&key=user_uploads/95578/286eb9a4-254e-43a5-b09c-1e451fbb85ce)\n\nAs the son of immigrants, Alvin grew up in a motel and helped his parents manage properties growing up. Now he owns 81 units in the Bay Area, and he’s personally experienced how painful it is to manage property finances once you hit mid-market scale (50+ units).\n\nBy modernizing his banking stack, renegotiating contracts, appealing his property tax bills, applying for government rebates, optimizing maintenance spend, and restructuring rent collections, Alvin took his 81-unit portfolio from **–2% burn → +36% cashflow in just a few months.**\n\nWe’ve now replicated this for other property owners, and the patterns are universal.\n\n**OUR SOLUTION**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95598&key=user_uploads/95578/de43ac4b-4268-4af9-8522-7410002f340c)\n\n**1. Banking Built for Real Estate**\n\nHigh yield operating accounts, reserve accounts, and automated reconciliations across your entire portfolio of properties -- all under one FDIC-backed infrastructure.\n\n**2. Automated Savings & Earnings Optimization**\n\nGoldbridge automatically surfaces:\n\n* Property-tax reassessment opportunities\n* Vendor contract renegotiation opportunities\n* Government rebate and incentive programs\n* Utility bill errors\n* Idle cash yield optimization\n* Reserve allocation improvements\n\nBecause Goldbridge sits at the **banking + transaction layer**, we have access to data that is cleaner, richer, and more accurate than generic financial platforms. On top of that, we can actually move money for owners intelligently and safely rather than just highlighting the issues that need to be resolved and throwing the manual work back onto their plates.\n\n**WHY NOW**\n\n**1. A $2.5T Refi Wall Is Coming (2027–2028)**\n\nAn estimated $2.5 trillion in real estate loans will mature soon, which is making owners desperate to improve their property finances. They will need pristine financials, liquidity discipline, and real-time visibility into how their money moves.\n\n**2. LLMs Unlock Automation in a Data-Dense Industry**\n\nNeedless to say, real estate produces massive amounts of invoices, leases, utility bills, tax docs, contracts, rent rolls, and loan agreements. What previously took days to review and reconcile can now be done in minutes.\n\n**TRACTION**\n\nWe’re moving extremely fast. We already have **thousands of units** on board and just signed a strategic partnership deal with a company that puts us in front of **8M units** in 2026.\n\n**FOUNDERS**\n\n**Alvin Salehi (Co-Founder/CEO)**\n\n* 2x YC founder\n* Multifamily owner/operator (100+ units)\n* Co-founder of [Shef](https://shef.com/) (Series B)\n* Fmr Senior Tech Advisor @ White House\n\n**Greg Rami (Co-Founder/CTO)**\n\n* 15+ yrs eng experience with Data/ML/SWE; full stack + mobile native\n* Built parallel data processing for physics models @ NIST\n* Led engineering teams at high-growth companies\n\n**GET IN TOUCH**\n\nGoldbridge is building the financial OS for a trillion-dollar vertical. Drop us a line anytime if you’d like to chat – [**founders@goldbridgebanking.com**](mailto:founders@goldbridgebanking.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oru-goldbridge-ramp-for-real-estate", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2025-11-18T14:39:13.062Z" } ] }, { "id": 29284, "name": "AveryIQ", "slug": "averyiq", "former_names": [ "Starlight Charging", "Avery HQ", "Avery" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e9858815bbd831276cdcb1d662f0a88316f786e6.png", "website": "https://averyiq.com", "all_locations": "Austin, TX, USA", "long_description": "Avery helps property managers fill vacancies faster and resolve maintenance requests automatically. Our AI property manager and leasing agents can be assigned to complete many common tasks, from getting tours scheduled to following up with vendors. \r\n\r\nThere are nearly 300,000 third party property management companies across the US, many of whom are overwhelmed by dozens of repetitive tenant requests streaming in through antiquated software every day. 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Focused on Energy, Dense Cities, Micromobility, Autonomous Vehicles, and EVs.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/andrewkouri", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/andrewkouri", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4018e94b6b25533397b6dabe0be6554f7c743faa.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 87003, "title": "Starlight Partner Program: Build Your Own EV Charging Network", "tagline": "All-in-one program to run your EV charging enterprise and generate passive income.", "body": "\n\nHey everyone - this is Andrew with [Starlight Charging](http://partner.starlightcharging.com/).\n\n**tl;dr** EV charging stations are a great opportunity for generating passive income, once the stations are installed. We [built tools](https://partner.starlightcharging.com) to help you launch and scale your EV charging business – everything from site analysis and installation management (through our national network of certified electrical contractors) to payment collection.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87003&key=user_uploads/157923/54fdff9a-ce05-4576-aa6f-2e7f72d01086)\n\n\n\n### **Problem:**\n\nThe US needs 100x more EV charging stations to be installed in the next 10 years if gasoline cars will be replaced by EVs. Rather than leaving this work up to the oil companies, who will drag their feet, we think blitzscaling charging needs to be done right, and done soon. \n\nAs with most real estate, not all locations are created equal. It’s hard to predict which potential installation sites will see high utilization and profitability. What’s more, running an installation process in commercial environments (like multifamily apartment buildings or condos) is complicated and overwhelming.\n\n### **Our Solution:**\n\n We are empowering the hard-working electricians of the world to not only solve the charging gap, but also be financially rewarded for doing so. We built magical software that can help analyze millions of candidate charging station locations for profitability, and manage the installation process – everything from permitting and contracts to material and labor management. We built integrations with over 30 different EVSE manufacturers, so that you can operate different charging station models all from one dashboard.  \n\nAfter installation, operating a charging station business does require some ongoing work – stations need to be regularly inspected, updated, and retail prices need to be adjusted for fluctuations in energy prices.  Starlight’s all-in-one platform streamlines this part of the business for you.  Just like a vending machine, as people use your charging stations, you’ll collect small amounts of revenue day-after-day.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87003&key=user_uploads/157923/0f3aa3f4-742c-4b3c-ba9c-92a4882d5d23)\n\n**How did we get here?**\\\nWe have spent several years honing our own EV charging station operation through [Starlight Charging](http://www.starlightcharging.com/) – we have installed and operate ports all across the country. Through this process, we not only built custom software, but we discovered that electricians are in a unique position to profitably install and run the charging stations themselves.\n\n**Why Electricians?**\n\nFirst, a large majority of the installation cost is labor. Electricians can install stations during off-peak times, meaning they’ll keep their team busy now, investing in recurring revenue for later. Next, unlike nontechnical folk, electricians understand how these systems operate – it’s their bread and butter. Finally, if a charging station goes offline and needs maintenance, a locally-based station owner can get them repaired sooner – the incentives to keep the stations operating reliably are aligned!\n\n**Our Ask:**\n\n[CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP](http://partner.starlightcharging.com/)  for our Pro plan to get started immediately on building your own EVSE network. We’re giving the first 15 electricians who sign up an extra 15 charging stations under management for free with the purchase of our “Pro” plan. \n\n_P.S. If you’d like to start operating your own EV charging station network, please _[_get in touch_](https://mailto:info@starlightcharging.com)_ with us! Even if you are not an electrician, we’d be interested in hearing how we might be able to tailor the partner program to you._", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MdH-starlight-partner-program-build-your-own-ev-charging-network", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2025-01-21T14:30:38.535Z" } ] }, { "id": 29460, "name": "Ryse", "slug": "ryse", "former_names": [ "RYSE" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b3127fdf5e5c4be37c6ea79ff2812b08ce513d40.png", "website": "https://www.rysemarket.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Ryse is the only marketplace where investors who want to buy leases can trade with real estate operators who want to sell leases.", "one_liner": "The secondary market for real estate leases", "team_size": 13, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1711502260, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Machine Learning", "Marketplace", "B2B", "Proptech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ryse", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/ryse.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ryse-market/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b3127fdf5e5c4be37c6ea79ff2812b08ce513d40.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 159369, "full_name": "Sean Mitchell", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Sean Mitchell went to Florida A&M University where he received a bachelor's in Business Administration and minor in math and computer programming. He started his career in 2009 at JP Morgan's Chief Investment Office, where he was part of a 5-person team that managed a $30B structured mortgage backed security portfolio. Sean began working for Corbin Capital Partners in 2012, where he managed a $300M in a structured credit portfolio. Sean co-founded REZI (YC W17), a tech-enabled property manager.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/seanfmitchell", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/453fa43391e3a5ecef0592c14d8faff4c7e00562.jpg" }, { "user_id": 166772, "full_name": "Harsh Yadav", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Harsh earned his MS, Computer Engineering from Rutgers, New Brunswick, New Jersey in 2010. He also has a Bachelor of Technology degree from the National Institute of Technology in Allahabad, India. Harsh began his career at Consumer Reports in 2010; helping transitioning Consumer Reports print media to web first world. In 2013, Harsh joined Torrential Inc., a digital media company as their VP, Engineering. Harsh co-founded REZI (YC W17), a tech-enabled property manager.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/harsh-yadav-a382b911", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b2c98e5368dbb11722190484334e7e3ea3e8d97c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 79735, "title": "Ryse: The secondary market for real estate leases", "tagline": "Ryse enables the trading of $1.5T in leases between banks/asset managers and real estate operators", "body": "Hello everyone! We’re [Harsh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yadav-harsh/), [Sean](https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanfmitchell/), [Tom](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasleonardsmith/) and [Seva](https://www.linkedin.com/in/seva-levitski-4107053/). We’re building Ryse: the secondary market for real estate leases.\n\nSee it here: [Ryse | Innovative Growth Capital For Modern Real Estate Operators (rysemarket.com)](https://www.rysemarket.com/)\n\n**_TL;DR_**\\\nRyse _is the only marketplace where investors who want to buy leases can trade with real estate operators who want to sell leases._\n\n**The Problem**\\\nFinancial institutions like banks, asset managers and insurance companies want to invest directly into the $1.5T in real estate leases originated in the US each year, but they can’t.  Why?\n\n* There's no marketplace for buyers and sellers to meet\n* There's no access to or standardization of the data required to underwrite opportunities\n* There's no existing infrastructure to support trading, reporting, or payment processing\n\n**The Solution**\\\nRyse is the first marketplace where lease buyers and sellers can transact seamlessly. We're building a marketplace where:\n\n* Buyers have access to underwriting data sourced directly from custom API integrations with Sellers\n* We standardize that data into a format that makes it easy to understand and compare to other investments (loans, bonds, t-bills, etc.)\n* We automate trade execution, reporting, and payment processing\n* We enable real estate experience providers to innovate and scale without balance sheet risk.\n\n**See Who Our Customers Are:**\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/BZE6zMCgR0w_OqsVfyOkTsSPdlM6_QTiZhPdSUfJH9CxogpJusXtp6p-IweULkz7rnvuJ-5ttOEnn3D_D5TQhIq7w1vCtXCSXxUBR7r4ie8MD0orOyNRYqBj6UTuaEYEIcujpPkGVRLjgIRFye59xF8)\n\n**User Experience**\\\nSee how our customers interact with Ryse:\n\n* Buyers:\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79735&key=user_uploads/166772/de468896-0660-4dd1-a091-1ccce3044664)\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79735&key=user_uploads/166772/40bff86c-434f-4c2d-a473-6bfe9a8b018b)\n\n* Sellers:\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79735&key=user_uploads/166772/8f3f7f4f-50a9-47fe-a8a6-b48553daff75)\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79735&key=user_uploads/166772/69969c5e-ce23-4bb8-a0ed-472113fc0cbe)\n\n\n**Traction**\\\nSince launching 10 weeks ago, we've signed a $100M term sheet with our first buyer, a $3B+ AUM asset manager. 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When building REZI, we learned that financial institutions had an enormous appetite to buy leases as an asset class.\n\n**Our Ask**\\\nIf you’re a real estate operator or financial institution interested in using Ryse, please email us at [hello@rysemarket.com](mailto:hello@rysemarket.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kk3-ryse-the-secondary-market-for-real-estate-leases", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2024-03-27T13:56:19.649Z" } ] }, { "id": 29511, "name": "InspectMind AI", "slug": "inspectmind-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/380201f9cadb6a3d51cb0328080b2378d425269f.png", "website": "https://www.inspectmind.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "An AI agent that catches issues in construction drawings before they become costly rework and project delays", "one_liner": "AI agent for construction drawings review", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Real Estate and Construction", "subindustry": "Real Estate and Construction -> Construction", "launched_at": 1705128056, "tags": [ "Construction", "B2B", "Proptech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Real Estate and Construction", "Construction" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/inspectmind-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/inspectmind-ai.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/inspectmind-ai", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/inspectmind", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/380201f9cadb6a3d51cb0328080b2378d425269f.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Pete Koomen", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/pete-koomen" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1753502, "full_name": "Aakash Prasad", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "At 13, I founded a construction engineering business, scaling it to a $15MM run rate and completing over 10,000 inspections. My education in EECS at UC Berkeley and research at Google, combined with experiences in AEC and B2B SaaS startups, shaped my expertise. Motivated by my structural engineer father, I got the idea for InspectMind AI to streamline construction report writing.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/aakashprasad", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/36fdc6e0c47c619a74b7689c266af6d97db3e574.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 95694, "title": "InspectMind AI – The AI Checker Agent for Construction", "tagline": "Catch drawing & spec issues before they cost you money.", "body": "## We’re launching an **AI agent for Construction Drawings Review**. It automatically scans drawings, specs and building codes to catch issues _before_ they turn into rework, delays, lawsuits, and margin erosion.\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nEvery construction project is slowed down by drawings mistakes:\n\n* Building code violations\n* Dimensions that don’t match between structural, architectural, civil, MEP drawings\n* Materials mismatch for doors, windows, cabinets etc.\n* Ownership/responsibility confusion\n\nThese inconsistencies cause rework, schedule delays, and frustrated clients. They happen on **every project**, and can cost **6-7 figures per job**. \n\nHumans aren’t the best to check hundreds or thousands of pages.\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nAn AI agent analyzes all project documents, architectural / structural / civil / MEP drawings, project specifications, and building codes, and flag issues like dimension mismatches, materials mismatches, ownership/responsibility confusion, missing info, ADA/code red flags, and uncoordinated addenda.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95694&key=user_uploads/1753502/f4847fca-af87-4839-91bf-d3059e73674d)\n\nIt’s simple: you upload your project documents in PDF. DONE. AI will prepare the issues list that is easy to review in our web app.\n\nNo workflow change. No training. Just fewer errors and better margins.\n\nWe’re already running our agent on Tenant Improvement, K-12, civic, industrial, healthcare, affordable housing, and residential projects.\n\nIt recently saved a GC $2M in rework for a $100M project due to a material mismatch.\n\n### **Demo Video**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm24TApb8bg\n\n### **Call to Action**\n\n**General Contractors, developers, architects, engineers, and owners:** Want us to run Checker on your next project? Email me directly: [**aakash@inspectmind.ai**](mailto:aakash@inspectmind.ai)\n\nAakash & Shuangling\\\nInspectMind AI (YC W24)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OtS-inspectmind-ai-the-ai-checker-agent-for-construction", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2025-11-27T01:56:23.566Z" }, { "id": 88545, "title": "InspectMind: AI-Powered Field Inspections", "tagline": "AI-powered site inspections and automated field reports", "body": "Demo video \n\nHello YC Community! **We’re InspectMind,** and we’re revolutionizing field inspections and report generation with AI. Over the past six months, we’ve engaged with engineers, contractors, and field technicians to understand their reporting challenges. As a result, we’re excited to introduce our expanding library of templates—built with direct customer feedback—to help users streamline their reporting and reduce manual work.\n\n## **The Problem**\n\nField professionals—whether in **construction, engineering, insurance, real estate, or utilities**—spend too much time on **manual report writing**, slowing down projects and increasing costs. Traditional reporting is tedious, error-prone, and inefficient.\n\n## **Our Solution**\n\nInspectMind is an **AI-first** inspection tool that **automates report writing**, saving you **up to 80% of your time**. Our platform enables professionals to **quickly generate accurate, high-quality Word file reports** using pre-built templates tailored for various industries all in one app.\n\n### **Key Features:**\n\n* **AI-Generated Reports** – Automated field reporting, reducing manual work.\n* **Industry-Specific Templates** – Pre-built formats for field inspections, job site observations, structural evaluations, forensic assessments, home inspections, and more.\n* **Real-Time Collaboration** – Teams can work together seamlessly.\n* **Custom Report Formatting** – Tailored outputs for your specific workflow.\n* **Simple, Transparent Pricing** – Plans starting at $100/month.\n\n## **Why Now?**\n\nWith increased demand for **faster project delivery** and **more efficient inspections**, AI-driven solutions are becoming a necessity. InspectMind is here to **modernize field reporting**, making it **faster, smarter, and more accurate**.\n\n## **Join Us**\n\n* **Try InspectMind Today** → [InspectMind.ai](http://InspectMind.ai)\n* **Book a Demo** → [Schedule Here](https://calendly.com/aakash-prasad91/inspectmind-ai-demo)\n* **We’d love to hear from you**. If you’re an inspector, engineer, or contractor, drop us a comment or DM us.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88545&key=user_uploads/1753502/2eb9175b-0724-42be-aa11-085d00eb1fd4)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N29-inspectmind-ai-powered-field-inspections", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2025-03-13T23:53:50.085Z" }, { "id": 77502, "title": "InspectMind AI: Your AI Copilot for Inspections", "tagline": "Future of construction inspections", "body": "**tl;dr**: [InspectMind AI](https://www.inspectmind.ai/) is revolutionizing construction inspections by transforming on-site voice and visual data into detailed, accurate reports 10x faster. For inspectors, we’re cutting down tedious report-writing time, boosting accuracy, and enhancing overall workflow efficiency. Check out our [iOS app](https://apps.apple.com/app/inspectmind-ai/id6475725008) or [web app](https://app.inspectmind.ai) and step into the future of construction inspections!\\\n\\\nHi everyone, we're [Aakash](https://linkedin.com/in/aakashprasad) and [Shuangling](https://linkedin.com/in/shuangly), the founders of InspectMind AI!\n\nAakash (CEO), who founded a tech-enabled architecture and engineering firm as a teenager and scaled it to a $15M annual run rate, has teamed up with Shuangling (CTO), previously a software engineer at Airbnb and Google. Together, they are building InspectMind AI towards a future where AI-driven inspections are the norm.\n\n**The Problem**\\\nConstruction inspectors are burdened with time-consuming report writing after site visits, leading to delays and reduced work quality.\n\n**Our Broader Vision**\n\nWhile we are currently focusing on the AEC (architecture, engineering, construction) sector, our technology has the potential to revolutionize inspection workflows across multiple industries, including real estate, aerospace, manufacturing, and more. The core inspection workflow remains consistent across these fields, offering a vast opportunity for expansion, with an AI-first B2B SaaS business model.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\nInspectMind AI’s app efficiently processes voice and visual data from site visits to produce detailed and user-friendly inspection reports, cutting down report writing time by 10x and significantly enhancing accuracy.\n\nBelow is an example of a structural observation:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77502&key=user_uploads/325995/0332c3cc-baf1-4f65-a486-6a26f2257b56)\n\n**Our ask 🙏**\n\nIf you know inspectors or professionals who deal with site visits regularly, download our [iOS app](https://apps.apple.com/app/inspectmind-ai/id6475725008) or [web app](https://app.inspectmind.ai), and let’s get in touch! [admin@inspectmind.ai](mailto:admin@inspectmind.ai)\n\nHere's to a future where inspections are more about insights and less about paperwork.\n\nCheers,\n\nAakash and Shuangling", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KA2-inspectmind-ai-your-ai-copilot-for-inspections", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2024-01-16T15:26:24.381Z" } ] }, { "id": 29691, "name": "Tandem", "slug": "tandem-2", "former_names": [ "Tandem Space", "Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/088175fa9125ef3885f5ea688b7630e8021bece3.png", "website": "https://tandemspace.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Tandem is an AI-native office leasing platform. We’re using technology to unlock an easier leasing process. Our AI co-pilot provides a white-glove-quality B2B office search experience, with a fraction of the human labor typically required.\r\n\r\nToday we’re serving three primary markets — NY, SF and BOS. 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You get human support backed by the best real estate AI anywhere. And it’s all done at no cost to you. Start your search at [tandemspace.com](http://tandemspace.com)\n\n## Why office leasing is broken\n\n**There are thousands of office spaces in a city and no single view of them.** **What exists instead is memory.** A few hundred people, each carrying their own map of the city, built by walking it.\n\nThose maps are good. Brokers who have been doing this for twenty years know their buildings cold, know the landlords, know what a deal should actually cost. **But it's one person's map of a market that changes every week, and there is no version of this job where one person keeps up with all of it.**\n\nSo the process runs on relays. You spend an hour explaining what you need. Your broker spends the week calling the brokers they know, who call the landlords they represent. Eight options come back. You like one. The calls start over. Nobody is doing anything wrong. It just takes days to move a question through a chain of people, and you are one of a dozen searches your broker is running at the same time.\n\nThe economics of this market were built for bigger deals. Commercial leasing grew up around full floors and ten year terms, and everything in it is sized for that. A 3,000 square foot suite on a two year term takes nearly the same work and returns a fraction of it, so smaller spaces get less attention across the board. It's why so many of them go unphotographed, unlisted, and unmentioned. That's most of the market by count.\n\nThe people in this industry are not the problem. This is just what a market looks like when it runs on memory:\n\n**You're seeing only what your broker chooses to show you, prioritized only as much as your deal size warrants, with no way to verify you're getting a fair shake.**\n\n## How Tandem works\n\nOn paper, Tandem is an office leasing brokerage like any other. Same license, same tenant rep fee, same person meeting you in the lobby. **The difference is what that person knows, and how quickly they can act on it.**\n\nEvery Tandem agent works with an agentic brain behind them\\*\\*. It's watching the market constantly: what came available this morning, what a similar unit actually leased for last month, which landlords are flexible on term, what's about to come back online.\\*\\* Knowing the market stops being one person's job, so it doesn't stop when they go home, and it isn't limited to the buildings they've personally walked.\n\nWhat that means for you:\n\n* **You see the whole market on day one**, not on the third callback. Your agent already knows what fits before you finish describing it.\n* **Answers in minutes**, over email, text, or phone, on anything from zoning to what the freight elevator situation is.\n* **You know what it should cost.** Your agent can see what comparable units actually went for, so you go into a negotiation knowing where the number should land.\n* **You don't have to talk to anyone if you don't want to.** The same market is browsable at [tandemspace.com](http://tandemspace.com). Compare asking rents, book a tour for tomorrow, bring your agent in whenever you want them.\n* **A 3,000 square foot requirement gets the same attention as a 30,000 one**, because your agent isn’t paid more for a bigger deal.\n\n**The result: clients who search with Tandem see 30%+ more spaces than in a traditional search, and finish about 6x faster. 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Traditional manual methods slow operations and increase the risk of errors, leading to financial losses, missed opportunities, and legal disputes.\n\n**The Numbers Tell the Story:**\n\n* **Time-Consuming Processes:** Manual lease reviews are labor-intensive, with automation capable of reducing review time by 90%.\n* **Prevalence of Errors:** 78% of companies have errors in their lease data due to outdated information, underscoring the critical need for regular data updates.\n* **Financial Impact:** On average, businesses lose $15 million each year due to hidden commercial lease costs like overlooked clauses and inaccuracies.\n\n**The Business Opportunity:** The lease abstraction service market is booming, valued at $4.48 billion in 2024 and projected to grow to $5.92 billion by 2028, at a CAGR of 7.2%. As leases become more complex, the demand for accurate, efficient, and automated lease management solutions is growing. AI-powered tools, like Propaya’s, are emerging as essential solutions for property managers, asset managers, and real estate professionals.\n\nAs leases become more complex, the demand for accurate, efficient, and automated lease management solutions is increasing. AI-powered tools, like Propaya’s, are emerging as essential solutions for property managers, asset managers, and real estate professionals.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86065&key=user_uploads/1991246/932b8123-c043-4c6f-b8da-23d9fad8a069)\n\n---\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nPropaya simplifies lease management with AI-powered tools:\n\n* **Lease Abstractions:** Quickly transform lengthy, complex lease agreements into concise, searchable summaries.\n* **Lease Reviews:** Ensure compliance and catch critical clauses with automated checks that reduce the risk of errors.\n* **Custom Output:** Propaya seamlessly adapts to your existing workflows by generating forms and reports that match your current style and format. 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Available now at [Propaya.com](http://Propaya.com)\n\n**Meet the founding team behind Propaya - Jake & Reader!**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83562&key=user_uploads/1991246/217611dd-ab8e-412e-8020-18621ae6643d)\n\n**From left to right:**\n\n🧠 [**Jake**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-golas/) is our analytical brain: CTO of Propaya, CS degree in 3½ years, former full stack software engineer at Epic Systems. Chat with him about #AI #Azure #dotnet\n\n**❤️** [**Reader**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/reader-wang-70bb31166/) keeps an eye on the bigger picture: CEO of Propaya, 7+ years in real estate management and tech innovation, former SpaceX Engineer, and an MS from Stanford. Chat with him about #propertymanagement #proptech #realestate #propertymanagement\n\n---\n\n**Why is smart property management essential?** 🧐\n\nProperty management is evolving rapidly, and staying ahead requires adopting tools that simplify operations and drive growth. 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But in reality, every Airbnb is a tiny hotel and a nightmare of operations. Every reservation restarts the operational clock: prices must be adjusted, guests screened, messages answered, cleaners scheduled, access coordinated, supplies restocked, and maintenance handled, often overnight or between back-to-back stays.\n\nAnd in traditional short-term property management companies, operational failures are common, and they can quickly become very costly:\n\n* A missed cleaning becomes a bad review\n* A poorly screened guest becomes property damage\n* A neglected maintenance issue becomes an issued refund or lost booking\n\nOn top of these operational failures, the average management company takes 15–30% of rental revenue, often alongside cleaning, maintenance, and other fees.\n\nWe’ve been property managers for the past year and ran into the same lose-lose choice every owner faces: manage a 24/7 hospitality business yourself, or hand over a quarter of your revenue to a management company whose costs increase with every property it adds.\n\n## The Solution\n\nWe are building a new type of property management company, with infrastructure built for agents and human-computer-interaction from the ground up. 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