He built Jones around a chore that kept buildings waiting. Nine years later, Omri Stern faced a more personal problem: how to hand over a company that had learned to think with him.
A renters insurance requirement is only useful while someone is watching it. Foxen turned that overlooked chore into a business spanning damage waivers, credit building, and pet management.
The construction fintech pairs contracts and insurance checks with cash for approved invoices. Its wager: a better back office can keep a building site moving.

A compliance crisis taught Niji Sabharwal where insurance software breaks. He and Jenn Knight spent seven years turning that lesson into AgentSync - then he chose to hand the CEO job to a different kind of operator.
A licensing cleanup taught Niji Sabharwal that insurance's dullest back-office chore could become a dangerous growth bottleneck. AgentSync's answer is a live data and workflow layer built to get producers ready to sell before the paperwork eats the deal.
Jones is a New York-based vertical AI software company that automates insurance compliance for commercial real estate and construction. Its platform collects Certificates of Insurance (COIs), endorsements and policies, verifies coverage against requirements using AI agents, chases down gaps with vendors and tenants, and integrates bi-directionally with property and construction ERP systems. Founded in 2017 by Omri Stern and Michael Rudman, Jones manages insurance risk across roughly 2.7 billion square feet of properties and construction projects.