Top AI Companies Building for Contractors in 2026

The AI companies doing the most contractor-specific work in 2026 are Rilla and Siro for in-home sales coaching, Avoca and Goodcall for AI call handling, Hatch (now owned by Yelp) for lead follow-up, Togal.AI for takeoffs, and JobNimbus for CRM with an AI layer. Between them they raised well over $250 million in the last 18 months, and one of them, Avoca, hit a $1 billion valuation in April 2026. Here is what each company actually ships, what it costs, and which one fits your problem.

The 2026 contractor AI market at a glance

How we chose these companies

The bar for this list was simple: the company must build for contractors or field service specifically (not construction megaprojects), must have shipped a product you can buy today, and must show verifiable 2026 traction in funding, revenue, or published pricing. We pulled funding and revenue figures from Sacra, PR Newswire announcements, and Yelp's investor relations releases, and pricing from each vendor's own pricing page as of July 2026. General construction AI (Buildots, ALICE, Dusty Robotics) serves commercial GCs, so it is out of scope here.

Rilla: the sales coaching leader

Rilla is the biggest pure-play contractor AI company on this list, and the numbers back that up. The platform records, transcribes, and analyzes in-home sales conversations, so a sales manager gets a virtual ride-along on every appointment. According to Sacra, Rilla hit $70 million in annual recurring revenue by April 2026, up from $51 million in 2025, and raised a $68.5 million Series B led by Google Ventures in June 2025 at a roughly $757 million valuation.

Best for: HVAC, roofing, and remodeling companies with five or more reps running in-home appointments.

• Pro: Speech models tuned for face-to-face audio, not call-center recordings.
• Pro: Coaching output is specific: talk ratios, script compliance, comparisons against your top closer.
• Pro: Deep customer base in the trades, with more than 2,000 accounts reported by Sacra.
• Con: Cost adds up fast at $199 to $349 per rep per month, with contract minimums around $20,000 per year.
• Con: Overkill for owner-operators who run their own sales calls.

We covered the close-rate math in detail in our Rilla sales coaching breakdown.

Siro: the funded challenger in field sales AI

Siro does the same core job as Rilla, recording and coaching in-person sales conversations through a mobile app, and it is now well funded enough to be a real alternative. Siro raised a $50 million Series B led by SignalFire in May 2025, with 01 Advisors, StepStone Group, CRV, Fika Ventures, and Index Ventures participating, per PR Newswire. Founder Jake Cronin is a former top Cutco rep, and the product carries that door-to-door DNA.

Best for: home improvement teams that want conversation coaching without Rilla's contract minimums.

• Pro: Mobile-first design built around a rep's phone in the driveway.
• Pro: Company-published results claim 36% higher close rates for teams using it.
• Pro: Serious investor backing means the product will keep improving.
• Con: Pricing is quote-based, so budgeting requires a sales call.
• Con: Smaller trades footprint than Rilla, which means fewer peer benchmarks.

Avoca: the first contractor AI unicorn

Avoca is the company that changed what investors think the home services AI market is worth. In April 2026, Avoca announced it had raised more than $125 million across seed, Series A, and Series B at a $1 billion valuation, with the Series A led by Kleiner Perkins and the Series B led by Meritech and General Catalyst, per PR Newswire. The platform handles inbound calls with voice AI, books jobs, chases estimate follow-ups, and runs outbound campaigns, and the company said it was on track to book $1 billion in jobs during 2025.

Best for: established HVAC, plumbing, and electrical companies with real call volume, including multi-location operators.

• Pro: Covers the whole front office: answering, booking, follow-up, and outbound in one platform.
• Pro: Built specifically for home services, with large operators like Sila Services as customers.
• Pro: The war chest means aggressive product development through 2026 and 2027.
• Con: Aimed at scaled businesses; a two-truck shop is not the target customer.
• Con: No published pricing, and enterprise-style onboarding takes time.

For how AI answering compares to a human service, see our AI receptionist vs live answering math.

Hatch: lead follow-up, now inside Yelp

Hatch remains the reference product for AI lead follow-up, but it is no longer a standalone company. Yelp announced in January 2026 that it would acquire Hatch for roughly $270 million in cash plus about $30 million in retention payouts, and the deal closed in early February, per Yelp's investor relations release. At the time, Hatch was doing about $25 million in ARR and growing 70% year over year, which makes the price a roughly 12x revenue multiple. That multiple is the clearest signal in this article of how much the market values turning contractor leads into booked appointments.

Best for: remodelers, roofers, and window companies drowning in unworked leads, especially ones already buying Yelp demand.

• Pro: Automated multi-touch follow-up across SMS, email, and voice that fires within seconds of a new lead.
• Pro: Yelp's demand side plus Hatch's conversion side is a logical pairing.
• Pro: Proven revenue engine, not an experiment.
• Con: Standalone pricing is gone; expect packaging inside Yelp's advertiser products.
• Con: Integration roadmaps after acquisitions often slow feature releases for a year.

Speed matters more than polish in follow-up; our speed-to-lead guide shows why the first minute decides the job.

Goodcall: the budget AI receptionist

Goodcall stays on this list because it solves the missed-call problem at a price a solo contractor can justify. The AI answers calls, handles FAQs through logic flows you configure, and books appointments. Pricing rose in the past year: Goodcall's own pricing page now lists Starter at $79 per month, Growth at $129, and Scale at $249, with annual billing dropping those to $66, $108, and $208. Billing is per unique caller per month (100 on Starter), with $0.50 per extra customer, and minutes are unlimited on every plan.

Best for: owner-operators and small crews who miss calls because they are on ladders, in crawl spaces, or running saws.

• Pro: Predictable per-customer billing instead of per-minute metering.
• Pro: Self-serve setup with a 14-day free trial.
• Pro: Cheapest credible entry point in contractor voice AI.
• Con: Prices climbed roughly 25 to 34% versus 2025 plans.
• Con: Logic-flow answers are shallower than Avoca's full platform.

Synthflow: build-your-own voice agents

Synthflow is the horizontal option: a no-code platform for building custom phone AI rather than a prebuilt contractor product. The Berlin-founded company raised a $20 million Series A led by Accel in June 2025, bringing total funding to $30 million alongside Atlantic Labs and Singular. Entry pricing starts near $29 per month for a small minute bundle, then scales with usage into the hundreds per month for real call volume.

Best for: contractors with technical help who want call flows a packaged product cannot do, or agencies white-labeling voice AI.

• Pro: Full control over scripts, integrations, and call logic.
• Pro: Cheap to pilot before committing.
• Pro: White-label and CRM integration options.
• Con: You are the product manager; nothing is contractor-specific out of the box.
• Con: Per-minute economics need watching at scale.

We compared the packaged options in our roundup of AI voice agents for contractors.

Togal.AI: automated takeoffs from plans

Togal.AI applies AI to the most tedious job in estimating: the takeoff. Upload plans as a PDF and the software detects, labels, and measures spaces, walls, and objects, then outputs an itemized takeoff you can review. Pricing has held steady: Capterra and GetApp listings as of 2026 show $299 per user per month billed annually ($3,588 per year), with a custom plan for teams of four or more. Togal's published case studies report NC Painting going from 19 bids per month to 60 within 60 days of adopting it.

Best for: GCs, painters, roofers, and remodelers who bid from drawings and lose days to manual measurement.

• Pro: Cuts takeoff time from days to hours on typical plan sets.
• Pro: Natural-language plan queries through its chat feature.
• Pro: Flat per-seat pricing with no usage metering.
• Con: No free trial, per Capterra.
• Con: Irrelevant if your bids come from site visits rather than drawings.

Alternatives are ranked in our guide to digital takeoff software.

JobNimbus: the CRM adding an AI layer

JobNimbus is not an AI-first company, but its distribution makes its AI push matter. The dominant roofing CRM, backed by a $330 million growth investment from Sumeru Equity Partners announced in 2023, now ships two AI products: AssistAI, a live 24/7 AI phone receptionist that answers and books into the calendar, and Scout, a voice-controlled mobile assistant in closed beta that creates jobs, estimates, and invoices from spoken commands in the field. When AI arrives inside the CRM a roofer already uses, the switching cost of a separate tool disappears.

Best for: roofing and exterior contractors already on JobNimbus, or shopping for a CRM with AI built in.

• Pro: AI features live where your jobs, contacts, and invoices already are.
• Pro: AssistAI is answering calls today, not a roadmap slide.
• Pro: Private equity capital to keep building through 2027.
• Con: Scout is still beta, so treat it as a bonus rather than a buying reason.
• Con: The AI layer trails the specialists above on depth.

Read the full platform breakdown in our JobNimbus review, or compare options in our best AI-enabled CRMs roundup.

Which company fits your business

Pick by the problem, not the brand. Choose Rilla if you run five or more in-home sales reps and can absorb a $20,000 annual contract. Choose Siro if you want the same coaching outcome on a smaller team budget. Choose Avoca if you are a scaled HVAC or plumbing operation replacing a whole call center workflow. Choose Goodcall if you are a small crew that just needs the phone answered for under $100 a month. Choose Hatch through Yelp if unworked leads are your leak. Choose Togal.AI if estimating from plans eats your week, and choose JobNimbus if you are a roofer who wants one system instead of five. If you are starting from zero, our 90-day AI playbook sequences these decisions.

How we put this together

We verified every company on this list against July 2026 sources: funding and revenue figures from Sacra and official PR Newswire releases, the Hatch acquisition terms from Yelp's investor relations announcement, and pricing from vendor pricing pages plus Capterra and GetApp listings. Vendor-published case study numbers are labeled as such. Companies from our earlier version of this article were re-checked; all survived, two (Avoca and Siro) were added on 2026 traction, and stale prices were corrected.

Frequently asked questions

What is the biggest AI company for contractors in 2026?

Avoca holds the highest private valuation at $1 billion as of its April 2026 raise, while Rilla leads pure-play revenue at $70 million ARR per Sacra. ServiceTitan is larger overall but is a public software company with AI features, not an AI-first startup.

What happened to Hatch?

Yelp acquired Hatch for roughly $300 million in a deal announced in January 2026 and closed in early February 2026. The product continues to run, but standalone pricing has been withdrawn while Yelp integrates it into its advertiser offerings.

How much does AI sales coaching cost for a contractor?

Expect $199 to $349 per rep per month for Rilla, with annual minimums around $20,000, while Siro prices by custom quote. For a team of five reps, budget roughly $12,000 to $21,000 per year before onboarding.

What is the cheapest way to start with contractor AI?

An AI phone receptionist is the cheapest entry point: Goodcall starts at $79 per month with a 14-day trial, and Synthflow pilots start near $29 per month. Both cost less per month than one missed $5,000 job costs you in a year.

Are any of these companies at risk of shutting down?

Shutdown risk in this group is low as of mid-2026, since every company here raised significant capital in 2025 or 2026 or was acquired by a profitable buyer. The bigger practical risk is product change after acquisition, as with Hatch under Yelp.

Do these tools make sense for a one-person contracting business?

Only the call-answering tools do at solo scale: Goodcall or a Synthflow agent pays for itself if it recovers one job a quarter. Sales coaching, Avoca, and Togal.AI are built for teams and larger bid volume; see what else is realistic in our ready-vs-hype guide to AI for contractors.