Rudus
Rudus is a YC Spring 2026 (P26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About Rudus
Summary
Rudus builds an AI-powered takeoff and estimation platform for concrete contractors. It reads construction drawings and automatically identifies footings, walls, columns, and slabs, replacing the manual measurement work that estimators do today. Contractors use the output to price bids and export quantities directly into tools like HCSS HeavyBid, Sage, and Excel.
Business model
Priced per estimator seat, enabling teams to carry more bids without adding headcount.
Go-to-market
Concrete estimating teams at contracting firms are the buyers; onboarding starts with a single drawing set from an active job, calibrating to each firm's conventions before rolling out to the full estimating team.
From the Y Combinator listing
AI Takeoffs for Concrete
Rudus is an AI-powered takeoff and estimation platform enabling concrete contractors to win 3x more projects yearly. It automatically identifies every concrete structure like footings, walls, columns, and slabs on plans, eliminating the manual work and reducing estimation time by 70%. Concrete is the most-used material on earth after water, and demand is surging with the AI infrastructure boom.
Facts
- Real Estate and Construction / Real Estate and Construction -> Construction
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Rishi Pankhaniya
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