{"id":90422,"title":"Cohesive - AI CRM for blue collar businesses 🧹🧤","tagline":"We automate sales and marketing for blue collar companies, helping them stay on top of new commercial opportunities in their service area","body":"Hey everyone, we’re[ Kevin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevindzhang/) and[ Nam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nam-nguyen96/) - cofounders of[ Cohesive](https://getcohesiveai.com/) 👋\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nCohesive helps service business owners take control of their own destiny - our agentic CRM fully manages growth today for over 350 commercial cleaning, landscaping, and pest control owners.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE3ZNisKZoQ\n\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nIf you run a commercial service company (e.g., janitorial, HVAC, landscaping, pest control), you’re probably out in the field quite often visiting clients.\n\nSince you’ll be constantly on the move, most of your growth is dependent on others - outsourced sales talent (like offshore VAs), paid ads (like LSA), or from marketing agencies (like for SEO or lead generation). \n\nThis is the reality for the 1+ million blue-collar businesses in the United States today.\n\n**👷 Our Solution**\n\nOur agentic CRM helps service businesses grow by in-housing growth:\n\n* **Market Research:** building out a list of potential business owners and property owners and their contact information in their service area\n* **Outreach:** automatically reaching out to potential targets to assess interest, and self-updating the CRM accordingly\n* **Monitoring:** constantly monitoring and triggering follow-ups based on active signals (e.g., new location opening or existing contract ending)\n\nIt’s helped our customers so much that one of early clients is buying us NBA floor tickets (albeit for the worst team in the league):\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXc1EFN9K8a4exd5YmdWDeo6af4PDp4M_GTp8eqIRZB0pf5nxrh7OWotK1VZQg3QYBjQ7QbclIsSJm5TkIyz6W50FTO_OD01zEGaFOOgM82Jy2nA2iA5Tg13zVXg6gP_FtTUJ2GSGg?key=HJjAgxbnHaeSWRuTHARDMw)\n\n🙏 **Our Ask**\n\n* Follow us on [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cohesive-ai)\n* Share this post - do you know anyone running a commercial service business (e.g., did you recently hire a janitor or landscaper? Let them know - they can book a demo [here](https://calendly.com/cohesiveapp/demo)!)\n* Learn more at [getcohesiveai.com](http://getcohesiveai.com)\n\n**👬 The Team**\n\nKevin and Nam have known each other for years (founded a 50K MRR+ service business together before) and co-founded Cohesive in late 2024. \n\nKevin (CEO): Previously led a product at Charthop (a16z-backed HR tech), and was a consultant at McKinsey, where he worked with national service franchises on GTM strategy. BS Econ at Duke\n\nNam (CTO): built LLM-powered recommendation systems at Microsoft, founding engineer at Starlight (South Park Common and General Catalyst backed fintech startup). CS and Math grad from Williams","slug":"NWQ-cohesive-ai-crm-for-blue-collar-businesses","created_at":"2025-05-15T20:54:37.401Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T05:51:41.946Z","total_vote_count":138,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NWQ-cohesive-ai-crm-for-blue-collar-businesses","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":30565,"name":"Cohesive","slug":"cohesive","url":"https://getcohesiveai.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/523af60648199cf36ae9d89c5bc46aa1a1dd11e5.png","batch":"Spring 2025","industry":"B2B","tags":["Generative AI","SaaS","B2B","Sales","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30565"}}