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AJ Jain Left the Dashboard and Knocked on 100 Doors
After an EV-software startup and a turn through Y Combinator, the Broccoli AI co-founder found his next company in Sacramento plumbing shops - listening first, building second, and turning missed calls into booked jobs.
Probook
Probook is a New York-based startup building an AI operating system for home services businesses, centered on dispatch. Its software overlays existing tools like ServiceTitan to automatically match the right technician to each job, re-optimize the dispatch board in real time, and handle customer intake and messaging. Founded in 2024 by George Eliadis, Lewis Zhang and Ben Cervantez, the company raised $40 million from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital and serves hundreds of HVAC, plumbing and electrical contractors across 35+ states.
Avoca
Avoca is a New York-based AI platform for America's services economy. It builds AI agents that answer calls, texts, chats and emails, book jobs, follow up on estimates and coach human reps for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, pest control and other trades. Founded in 2022 by Tyson Chen and Apurva Shrivastava after a chance encounter with a Dallas HVAC company, Avoca pivoted from restaurants to the trades when it realized a missed call could mean losing a $30,000 install. In April 2026 it raised $125M+ across Seed, Series A and Series B at a $1 billion valuation, and is on track to book $1 billion in jobs in a single year.