The contractor technology market has attracted serious venture capital in the last two years. That’s worth paying attention to, because funding signals which companies have the runway to keep building. Here’s a profile of the six AI-focused companies doing the most contractor-specific work in 2026, what they’ve shipped, and what they’re building next.
Rilla: AI Sales Coaching for In-Home Reps
Founded: 2019, New York City. ~132 employees as of early 2026.
What they build: Rilla records, transcribes, and analyzes in-person sales conversations between contractor reps and homeowners. Sales managers get a “virtual ride-along” on every appointment without being in the room. The AI flags coaching opportunities, tracks script compliance, and measures performance against top producers on the team.
The core insight is that in-home sales is fundamentally different from call-center sales. Most conversation intelligence tools were built for phone or video calls. Rilla’s speech recognition is fine-tuned specifically for face-to-face audio, which includes background noise, natural pauses, and the spatial dynamics of an in-home estimate conversation.
Funding: Total reported funding ranges from $3.8M to $78.9M depending on the source (Crunchbase vs. PitchBook). The most recent confirmed round was a $3.7M seed in December 2022.
Pricing: $199 to $349 per sales rep per month. Minimum contract typically starts around $10,000 to $20,000 per year.
Published results: Total Comfort went from a 23% close rate to 42% in 4 months. Cardinal HVAC went from 10% to 40% case acceptance, with one comfort advisor going from $50,000 to $400,000 per month in booked revenue. Ridge Top Exteriors reported 5 to 10% close rate improvement in the first few months of 2024, projecting $15M in additional annual sales from 1,500 more closes. Kitchen Saver saw a 10% net close rate increase and 30% average ticket boost.
What they’re building next: Deeper AI coaching recommendations, automated role-play simulations, and expansion into adjacent home services verticals beyond roofing and HVAC.
Hatch: AI Lead Management (Now Part of Yelp)
Founded: 2018, New York City. Acquired by Yelp in January 2026 for approximately $300 million.
What they build: Hatch automates follow-up conversations across voice, SMS, and email for contractors. The platform scores leads by conversion likelihood, manages multi-touch sequences automatically, and books appointments without a human touching the keyboard. Before the acquisition, Hatch was growing at 70% year-over-year with approximately $25M in ARR.
The Yelp acquisition is strategically interesting: Yelp becomes the demand side (homeowners searching for contractors), and Hatch handles the conversion side (turning those inquiries into booked appointments). The combined product is still being integrated as of early 2026.
Why it matters: The $300M acquisition price for a company at $25M ARR is a 12x revenue multiple. That’s the market telling you how much it values AI-powered contractor lead conversion.
Current pricing: Integrated into Yelp platform; standalone pricing from the pre-acquisition era is no longer publicly listed.
Goodcall: AI Phone Receptionist
Founded: 2021. Total funding: $8M across two rounds, led by Neo, Foothill Ventures, and Merus Capital. Notable angel investors include Harry Hurst and Spencer Rascoff.
What they build: AI voice agents for inbound call handling. Goodcall answers calls, handles FAQs via customizable logic flows, and books appointments. Unlike per-minute billing models, Goodcall charges per unique customer per month, which makes costs predictable for contractors with variable call volumes.
The product was built with field service contractors in mind: contractors who are on ladders, in crawl spaces, or running saws when the phone rings. Missing those calls means missing jobs.
Pricing: $59/month (Starter, 100 customers), $99/month (Growth, 250 customers), $199/month (Scale). Annual billing at 30% discount. Overage at $0.50 per customer beyond plan limits.
Published ROI claim: 50x+ ROI for contractors previously missing 60 to 80% of calls. The math holds: if your average job is worth $5,000 and you’re recovering one additional job per month, the annual return is roughly 50x the annual subscription cost.
Synthflow: Enterprise Voice AI
Founded: 2023. Total funding: $30M, including a $20M Series A led by Accel in 2025 and a $1.7M pre-seed from Atlantic Labs.
What they build: End-to-end voice AI platform for automating phone-based interactions at scale. As of early 2026, Synthflow has handled 45+ million calls with 99.9% uptime. Features include a no-code visual workflow builder, Salesforce CRM integration, and white-label capabilities for agencies building on top of the platform.
Where Goodcall is purpose-built for contractors, Synthflow is a horizontal platform that contractors can configure for their use case. It’s better for teams with technical resources who want to build customized call flows beyond what a prebuilt product offers.
Pricing: Starter at $29/month (50 minutes), Pro at $375/month (2,000 minutes), Growth at $750/month (4,000 minutes). All-in per-minute cost with LLM and telephony overhead runs $0.11 to $0.24/minute.
What Accel’s investment means: Accel backed Dropbox, Slack, and Squarespace in early rounds. A $20M Series A from them in 2025 is a meaningful signal about where voice AI is heading.
Togal.AI: AI Takeoffs and Estimating
Founded: 2019, Miami. ~27 employees. Total funding: $22.65M. Notable: co-founded by former U.S. Congressman Patrick Murphy; seed funding from Coastal Construction.
What they build: Togal.AI automates construction takeoffs from architectural plans. You upload a PDF or image of the plans; the AI detects, labels, and measures every space, wall, and object and outputs an itemized takeoff. Includes “Togal.CHAT” for querying plans with natural language (“what’s the total square footage of all bathrooms on floor 2?”).
Performance: A 2025 peer-reviewed University of Kansas study found Togal.AI completes takeoffs 76% faster than traditional takeoff software. A 6-hour manual roof takeoff takes about 45 minutes with Togal. Accuracy within 5% of manual methods, with AI handling 80% of the work and the estimator reviewing the remainder.
Pricing: $299/month per user, billed annually ($3,588/year). Enterprise (3+ users) requires custom quote.
Customer examples: NC Painting went from 19 bids per month to 60 in 60 days after implementing Togal. UrbanCore Construction reduced conceptual estimates from over a week to hours.
JobNimbus: Contractor CRM with Growing AI Layer
Founded: 2011. ~270 employees. Total funding: $383M, anchored by a $330M investment from Sumeru Equity Partners. 2024 revenue estimated around $25M with a revenue range of $100M to $250M by employee-scaling models.
What they build: JobNimbus is the dominant CRM for roofing contractors, combining project management, payments, and workflow automation. Their AI additions are newer than the others on this list but worth watching given the funding and market position.
AssistAI: AI phone receptionist, books appointments, captures leads. Reports show contractors recovering around $30,000 in revenue per 30 days from missed calls.
Scout AI (Beta): Mobile AI assistant for field work. Reps can create jobs, contacts, estimates, and invoices by talking to their phone. Built for the contractor who hates coming back to the office to do paperwork.
Why the $330M investment matters: JobNimbus is not the most AI-forward platform on this list yet. But a $330M growth investment with a private equity firm behind it means they have the capital to close the gap fast. Watch what they ship in 2026 and 2027.
The common thread
Every company on this list is solving a version of the same problem: contractors are losing money in the gaps between field work and office work. Calls missed. Estimates not followed up. Takeoffs taking three days when they should take three hours. Coaching that never happens because managers can’t ride along with every rep.
The investment levels flowing into these companies confirm the problem is large enough and the solutions are ready enough to build real businesses around. For contractors, that means real, tested products available now, not vaporware.
For the specific tools in action, see our complete guide to running the contractor office with AI.