{"id":110395,"title":"Feldy: Field-first AI for home services and contractors.","tagline":"Jobsite capture, 3D building scans, estimates and field documentation in one simple app. ","body":"**TL;DR** 👋\n\nFeldy is field-first AI for home service companies. It unifies jobsite capture, 3D building scans, estimates, and field documentation in one simple app.\n\nWe’ve grown to over 200 paying customers on the web over the last few months, and are now launching the mobile app so field teams can use the full product on site.\n\nZayne and Shelby are construction software veterans with a combined 10+ years building computer vision and spatial AI tools.\n\n**Meet Feldy:**\n\n\u003chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0lEF7isKg4\u003e\n\n**The Problem:**\n\nThe biggest problem in residential home services in 2026 is still remarkably simple: estimates do not go out fast enough to homeowners.\n\nAn estimate is the quote a homeowner receives explaining what work will be done and how much it will cost. Yet, if you call a window contractor, or painter, it can still take two or three days, often longer, to receive one. Over the last 8 months, my home became a test bed for remodeling projects, and this is one of the few truths that persisted. This problem appears in nearly every trade we encountered.\n\n_So why so long?_\n\nThe surprising part is that many of these estimates are not inherently complicated.\n\nConsider a typical window and door contractor. A sales representative drives to the property, walks through the home, identifies every window and door, photographs existing conditions, and asks discovery questions:\n\n* Do you want to replace the trim?\n* Should the opening change?\n\nCapturing this information can easily consume most of a one- or two-hour appointment. By the time the rep understands the property and records everything the office needs, there is _very little time left_ to actually sell the project. This is the primary reason quotes arrive days later, or require a second visit.\n\nFurthermore, existing software makes the problem worse.\n\nMost contractor tools have always been structured like digital forms. The software records what the estimator has already figured out, but it does very little to help figure out the job.\n\nThis is what led us to ask: what does this contractor world look like if the software recorded and figured out the job at once? Well, that’s Feldy.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=110395\u0026key=user_uploads/1494934/6bdd00aa-4517-41c6-897e-517110044d2b)\n\n**So how do we solve this?**\n\nInstead of requiring the person in the field to manually observe and organize everything, Feldy uses in-house computer vision and vision-language models to perform much of this _low-value work_: necessary technical work that consumes the majority of the job visit time, but creates little visible value for the homeowner.\n\nThe contractor _captures_ the property via photos/videos, lidar scans, or job walkthroughs (video and audio are combined). Feldy then interprets the capture and helps turn it into an estimate amongst a host of other workflow items such as inspection reports, proposals, materials lists, etc.\n\nThe entire thesis behind Feldy can be summed up as:\n\n_How do we remove the time-consuming thinking required from the estimator that creates little visible value for the homeowner?_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=110395\u0026key=user_uploads/1494934/060ca1ad-5038-40a5-868f-fb14eb04b164)\n\n**The Scale of the bottleneck**\n\nAngi’s list has estimated that American households undertake more than 700 million home projects annually.\n\nUsing 600 million estimates (aggressive case):\n\n* 600M estimates \\* 3.5 hours = 2.1 billion total labor hours\n* 50% spent on measuring, documenting, takeoff, and estimate construction = 1.05 billion hours\n* At $45–50 fully loaded cost = $47–53 billion in annual labor capacity tied up in that work\n\nIf Feldy reclaims 1–1.25 hours per estimate:\n\n* 750 million hours returned\n* Roughly $27–37 billion in productive capacity per year.\n\nFor the average home-services company, this is equivalent to reclaiming $50,000–$100,000+ in capacity each year, capacity that can be converted directly into more estimates, lower overhead, and higher revenue.\n\n**The Team**\n\nZayne and Shelby met at UC Berkeley’s engineering school nearly 10 years ago. For the last three years, they have worked side by side building technology for the construction and home-services industries.\n\nTogether, they previously took a construction-software company from zero to $500k ARR in months. \n\nThe pair is more excited than ever to build the next generation of software for home-service businesses.\n\n**The ask**\n\nIf you know anyone who works in home services, tell them about Feldy and ask them to download the app!\n\nSearch Feldy AI on [IOS ](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/feldy-ai/id6780327228)and [Android ](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.feldy.app)app stores.\n\n* You can reach us directly at [**zayne@feldy.ai**](mailto:zayne@feldy.ai)\n* To learn more about Feldy visit us at our [feldy ai](https://feldy.ai/?utm_source=yc\u0026utm_medium=launch\u0026utm_campaign=feldy_launch_campaign_2026\u0026utm_content=first_launch_post) website","slug":"SiZ-feldy-field-first-ai-for-home-services-and-contractors","created_at":"2026-08-13T14:55:04.664Z","updated_at":"2026-09-19T07:57:48.279Z","total_vote_count":22,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SiZ-feldy-field-first-ai-for-home-services-and-contractors","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=110395\u0026key=user_uploads/1494934/060ca1ad-5038-40a5-868f-fb14eb04b164","company":{"id":29350,"name":"Feldy","slug":"feldy","url":"https://feldy.ai","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7175120ae6ae4f3d25e96905fcb4e3ce5d125052.png","batch":"Winter 2024","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Construction","Home Services","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29350"}}