Robby

Agentic revenue growth for home service businesses.

Winter 2026ActiveB2BProductivityB2BHome ServicesAISan Francisco, CA, USA

Company

Robby is an AI growth engine for home services businesses that uncovers revenue opportunities and collects additional data from every technician visit. Our AI combines customer and third party data to generate dozens of new leads every day, and then arms the technicians with talking points to increase close rates, giving GMs a single command center to manage and drive revenue. We have several paying customers that are each uncovering 6 figures in additional revenue opportunities every week. On our first day of launch, we helped close $40k in new business within an hour. Our team has spent the last few months riding along with dozens of technicians and shadowing every position in the office to best understand the industry. We're also studying for the EPA 608 exam to become certified technicians ourselves. Vineet and Feroze have both built critical products and infra at prominent startups (Ironclad, Porter, Affinity, Uber, Cloud Health Systems). Joe previously consulted PE firms on software acquisitions and led home services growth projects at Bain. We all met at Harvard Business School, and dropped out to work on Robby full-time.

Verdict

Medium Signal

Market Opportunity

US home services (HVAC, plumbing, pool) is a massive fragmented market — estimated $600B+ industry with hundreds of thousands of SMB operators. The ICP is clear: home service companies using field technicians and office management software like ServiceTitan. Monetization path is straightforward SaaS per-tech pricing. However, the market skews toward smaller SMBs which can limit deal size and create high churn risk.

High Signal

Founder Signal

Vineet is a strong technical founder: founding engineer at Cloud Health Systems (Apoorva Mehta's company, acquired by Dr. B), 3.5 years as Senior SWE at Affinity, Uber internship — solid engineering pedigree. Feroze was founding engineer at Porter (YC S20) and SWE at Ironclad (YC S15), both relevant B2B SaaS companies. Joe brings 3.5 years at Bain with direct home services strategy and PE software diligence experience — unusually domain-relevant consulting background that's not just generic MBA fluff. All three dropped out of HBS to go full-time, which is a commitment signal.

Medium Signal

Competition

ServiceTitan itself is the 800-pound gorilla in field service management and could build or acquire similar features. Other AI-for-trades competitors include Hatch (AI follow-up for home services), Laxis, and various CRM/FSM players adding AI layers. Robby's differentiation is the technician-side AI assistant plus revenue intelligence layer, which is a narrower wedge than full FSM. The ServiceTitan integration is smart but also creates platform dependency risk.

High Signal

Product

9 named customer logos displayed: Barrett Plumbing & Heating, Blue Knight Comfort Services, Lake Norman Pool Service, Minuteman International, MPD, Murphy's Plumbing, Premier Mechanical, Wilson, Abe. Interactive ROI calculator tool. Claims $135K additional revenue per technician per year. Detailed features. No pricing page or API docs.

OverallA Tier

Robby has genuinely exceptional product traction for a YC W26 company: 9 named customer logos (Barrett, Blue Knight, Lake Norman, Minuteman, MPD, Murphy's, Premier Mechanical, Wilson, Abe) and an interactive ROI calculator claiming $135K additional revenue per technician/year. Two technical co-founders with founding-engineer experience plus a domain expert. The home services AI space is competitive but this customer count demonstrates real product-market fit. One of the stronger traction stories in the batch.

Active Founders

Vineet Jammalamadaka

Founder

Founder at Robby. Previously a Senior Engineer at Affinity and Founding Engineer at Cloud Health Systems (founded by Apoorva Mehta, Instacart). Studied Computer Science at the University of Michigan and graduated with honors. Dropped out of the MS/MBA dual degree at Harvard Business School to work on Robby.

Feroze Mohideen

Founder

Founder at Robby. Previously founding engineer at Porter (S20) and SWE at Ironclad (S15).

Joseph Schwarzmann

Founder

Founder at Robby. Previously Consultant in PE software and home services transformation/strategy @ Bain & Company.

Robby

TierA Tier

BatchWinter 2026

Team Size3

StatusActive

LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA

Last Updated2 days ago

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