Piper-ai
Piper-ai is in a16z speedrun SR006. Based in SF, California, United States of America. Team of 7, founded in 2025.
Facts
- SF, California, United States of America
- 7
- 2025
About Piper-ai
Summary
Piper is a San Francisco-based construction technology company, founded in 2025, that builds an AI-powered operating system for preconstruction teams at general contractors. The platform ingests and connects project documents — drawings, specifications, addenda, subcontractor quotes, estimates, and schedules — into a single, continuously updated project understanding. It layers that live project context with a firm's own historical cost data, templates, and standards to automatically generate scope documents, bid leveling sheets, estimates, and project reviews, with every output traceable back to its source document. The goal is to shift preconstruction teams away from manual information assembly and toward higher-value decision-making work, giving senior staff broader visibility across more projects than they could personally review on their own.
Business model
Piper appears to operate on a software-as-a-service model, charging general contractor firms for platform access. Pricing likely scales with usage, team size, or project volume, given that the product is designed to support multiple concurrent preconstruction workflows.
Go-to-market
Piper's primary customer appears to be general contractors, specifically their preconstruction and estimating teams. The buying motion likely involves a direct sales or demo-led approach, given the technical and workflow-specific nature of the product, targeting estimators and preconstruction managers who feel the pain of fragmented document workflows. Customer acquisition likely relies on outbound outreach and word-of-mouth within the construction industry, where project-based results and peer referrals carry significant weight.
Founders (3)
- Erez Tepper
- Ido Gedanken
- Roi Menzin
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