Klutch AI
London, GB · 8 known investors
Klutch AI is a construction management platform that deploys field-trained AI agents to automate workflows such as document search, permit review, jobsite oversight, procurement, warranty support, and financial tracking. It serves general contractors, homebuilders, project managers, architects, and office managers, integrating through SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, and QR codes.
Also known as Klutch · Klutch AI, LLC · Klutch Labs
Founders & leadership
Investors · 8
Also in the syndicate · 4
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$8M disclosed across 1 of 3 rounds · 2025
- $8MSeedJun 2025 · 3 sourcesSource ↗
Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Klutch AI is a Seattle-based construction technology company that builds AI agents for construction management. The platform assigns named, task-specific agents to distinct phases of a build: Atlas AI indexes and answers questions across a unified document vault (plans, specs, reports, SOPs) and supports field sharing via printable QR codes; Archie AI handles permit and zoning review, extracting municipal corrections, indexing past city comments and flagging missing items before submission; Bob AI captures jobsite data — punch items, safety forms, daily updates and photos — through SMS, WhatsApp and Telegram; Petra AI generates bid requests from project specs, surfaces qualified regional vendors and performs bid leveling with scope-discrepancy highlighting; Hailey AI provides warranty support to homeowners over text or chat, including guided photo/video intake and self-help content; and Francis AI automates receipt and invoice capture, expense categorization by project and budget anomaly detection. Additional composite agents combine these components for tasks such as contract analysis and build-quality reporting.
The feature set also includes scheduling and punch lists, AI spec-to-RFP, a nationwide vendor directory and vendor portal, work orders, automated ticket filing, proactive reminders and auto-check-ins, and tracking and analytics. Positioning emphasizes end-to-end workflow execution rather than document search or chatbot functionality alone, and data capture that requires no manual entry, with the resulting dataset used for predictive insights, vendor performance analysis and pattern detection. The company states the platform can be used either as a standalone construction management system or integrated with existing tools, including Procore and Salesforce.
The website identifies Klutch AI as built by Klutch Labs; app store listings identify the publisher as Klutch AI, LLC, with an address in Clyde Hill, Washington. The mobile apps are described as helping companies manage job sites with schedules that track schedule slips, site walkthrough notes, to-dos and task assignments to vendors with notifications, messaging, and photo uploads.
Founding story
Co-founder and CEO Xu Rui grew up in Singapore watching her father run a small steel-framing and foundations subcontracting business, including the administrative paperwork her parents completed at night. She studied computer science and economics at Duke University and worked at Microsoft on Azure Event Hubs, then at Stripe building financial machine-learning analytics and accounting products that she grew to double-digit millions in ARR over two years. In parallel she built a Seattle real estate business, Urban Nooks, starting from a $72,000 foreclosure and later managing a $65 million portfolio of personal and client assets. Managing renovations and property operations exposed gaps between field workers and back-office staff — updates scattered across WhatsApp and text threads then re-keyed into Asana, QuickBooks and other systems — which became the impetus for Klutch AI. Co-founder and CTO Tanin Na Nakorn also worked at Stripe.
Business model
B2B software. Klutch sells an AI-agent-based construction management platform that teams can adopt either as a full construction management system or as agents layered onto existing tools, with integrations to software such as Procore and Salesforce. Delivery spans a web platform and iOS/Android apps, plus messaging channels (SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram) and printable QR codes for document access in the field.
The sources do not state pricing or contract structure. The mobile apps are listed as free downloads, indicating the paid relationship sits with the company account rather than individual app users; a third-party database estimates annual revenue between $5 million and $12 million, but labels this an estimate rather than a reported figure.
Traction
Klutch describes early customers capturing 10x more jobsite data and saving more than 10 hours per week, with reported reductions in site visits and manual work on multimillion-dollar projects; these figures are company- and investor-reported. Public adoption signals are limited: the Google Play listing shows 50+ downloads and the App Store listing shows a 5.0 rating from five ratings, with reviews from spec-home builders. A third-party database estimated 31 employees and $5M–$12M revenue as of July 2026 and listed the company as active.
Latest developments
Seed funding of $8 million was announced in late June 2025, with proceeds directed at deepening workflow automation and building integrations with standard construction tools. Subsequent coverage from lead investor Bain Capital Ventures in October 2025 described an expanded agent roster (including Elliott for takeoffs and estimating) and integrations with Procore and Salesforce. Mobile apps continued to ship frequent releases, with the iOS listing showing version 1.63.2 in August 2026 and the Google Play listing updated August 2026. A third-party database listed the company as active with roughly 31 employees as of July 2026.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Klutch is an early-stage, seed-funded entrant in construction technology, characterized by investors as targeting one of the largest and least-digitized sectors of the economy; Bling Capital's Ben Ling described the opportunity as building a "compound startup" across legacy point solutions in a $2 trillion construction market. A third-party startup database ranked it #2 among 34 Seattle real estate and construction startups and #45 of 822 Seattle startups as of July 2026, with a Seedtable Score of 62.
Klutch positions itself against both legacy construction point solutions and general-purpose AI copilots: rather than document search or chat alone, its agents are described as executing end-to-end workflows and as being "field-trained." A second stated differentiator is channel strategy — agents are reachable through SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram and QR codes that field crews already use, avoiding new-software adoption friction and manual data entry. The company frames the resulting data capture (a claimed 10x increase, versus an industry that it says loses 94% of construction data) as a compounding advantage feeding analytics and predictive insight.
Technology
A suite of specialized, pre-trained AI agents built on a shared document and knowledge vault that indexes files across formats. Agents perform document Q&A, extraction of city permit corrections, issue extraction from field messages and photos, spec-to-RFP generation, bid leveling with scope-discrepancy detection, receipt and invoice parsing from texted photos, and expense categorization and anomaly detection. Inputs are gathered from photos, texts, calls and emails; access channels include a web app, iOS and Android apps, SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram and QR codes. Data feeds a company-wide knowledge vault supporting analytics, pattern detection and vendor performance scoring, with integrations to tools such as Procore and Salesforce.
Go-to-market
Direct sales of a self-serve-feeling product emphasizing rapid onboarding ("no lengthy onboarding, no workflow disruption"), distributed through a web platform and iOS/Android apps and adopted via familiar messaging channels. Onboarding extends to customers' vendors, and the product can be sold as a standalone platform or as agents that integrate into a customer's existing stack. Investor-channel storytelling and press coverage of the seed round supplement awareness.
Residential and commercial construction teams: general contractors, homebuilders (including spec-home builders), project managers, superintendents, architects, office managers, vendors/subcontractors, and homeowners on the warranty-support side.
Geography
Headquartered in Seattle, Washington; the app-store developer address is listed as Clyde Hill, Washington, United States. The platform advertises a nationwide U.S. vendor directory. No other offices or markets are described in the sources.
History
The company was founded by Xu Rui (CEO) and Tanin Na Nakorn (CTO), who previously worked together at Stripe on machine-learning-driven analytics and revenue products. Klutch's first agent was Bob AI, a jobsite assistant that captures notes, photos and updates and generates reports and task lists; the agent lineup subsequently expanded to Archie (permit review and feasibility), Elliott (takeoffs and estimating), Petra (bid management and vendor scoring) and Hailey (post-build client support, warranty and maintenance). The company emerged from stealth in June 2025 alongside an $8 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures and Bling Capital. Mobile apps for iOS and Android are published under Klutch AI, LLC, with the iOS app shipping frequent releases through at least version 1.63.2 in August 2026.
Risks & controversies
No controversies, litigation or regulatory issues are reported in the sources. Notable diligence caveats: the company is early-stage with a single disclosed funding round; most performance figures (10x data capture, 50% shorter permit cycles, $50K+ in avoided mistakes, 10+ hours saved weekly) originate from the company or its investor rather than independent measurement; revenue and headcount figures come from a third-party estimate; and mobile adoption signals are small (50+ Google Play downloads, five App Store ratings). The Google Play listing indicates the app may share personal information and messages with third parties.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsLatest listed update to the iOS mobile app, described as improved construction project and to-do management, performance enhancements, and bug fixes.
Klutch AI publicly launched and announced an $8 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures and Bling Capital, with proceeds earmarked for workflow automation capabilities and integrations with industry-standard construction tools.
$8M source ↗
After launching Bob AI for jobsite data capture, Klutch added agents covering permit review and feasibility (Archie), takeoffs and estimating (Elliott), bid management and vendor scoring (Petra), and post-build warranty/maintenance support (Hailey).
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Klutch AIklutch.ai · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Klutch AI do?
- Seattle-based construction management platform whose AI agents automate permits, jobsite capture, bids, warranty and finance workflows.
- Who founded Klutch AI?
- Klutch AI was founded by Tanin Na Nakorn, Xu Rui.
- Who are Klutch AI's investors?
- Klutch AI's investors include Brick Mortar Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Bling Capital, Original Capital.
- How much funding has Klutch AI raised?
- Klutch AI has disclosed $8M raised across 1 of its 3 known rounds.
- Where is Klutch AI headquartered?
- Klutch AI is headquartered in London, GB.