{"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and overworked:\n\n* 40% of their time goes to paperwork instead of building.\n* They rely on pen \u0026 paper or outdated software.\n* The US needs 4.7 million new homes (and contractors need to keep up with that demand).\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd85wN1hhBo\n\n### **The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. Admin assistant\n\nThis reduces the operational burden of scaling a construction business by $500k+/year, at a price point of just $149/month.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=93974\u0026key=user_uploads/428748/c2abd311-42d3-4f56-aed6-87253717f18e)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=93974\u0026key=user_uploads/428748/69f03428-53c5-4f46-9def-875366b532d9)\n\n### **The Secret Sauce**\n\nHow did we build Handoff? In short, we became obsessed with creating the world’s most accurate API for construction costs and a knowledge base of construction logic.\n\nWe work directly with top suppliers like Home Depot and Lowe’s to integrate their catalogs into Handoff, giving our customers real-time pricing and inventory.\n\nWe’ve also trained Handoff on 10,000+ construction cost estimates we completed by hand while running a manual cost estimating service in our early days.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=93974\u0026key=user_uploads/428748/9349123e-4a79-47c3-a7b6-7cb7d0575a47)\n\n### **Send This to Your Contractor**\n\nAre you getting some remodeling work done?\n\nGet a free account on [Handoff](https://handoff.ai/) and generate an estimate for your project. Share it with remodelers bidding on your job and ask them to explain any cost variance versus Handoff’s numbers.\n\nYou might be able to save yourself some money and help us generate more leads!","slug":"ORi-handoff-ai-agent-for-residential-contractors","created_at":"2025-09-19T20:14:46.930Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T00:42:49.586Z","total_vote_count":14,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ORi-handoff-ai-agent-for-residential-contractors","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":13121,"name":"Handoff","slug":"handoff","url":"https://www.handoff.ai/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7c28f259776f3ae753c7e797a8482d385f032fef.png","batch":"Winter 2020","industry":"Real Estate and Construction","tags":["Machine Learning","Construction","B2B","Proptech","API"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/13121"}}