YC Spring 2026 (P26) company

Rudus

AI Takeoffs for Concrete

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About Rudus

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.

Public traction evidence

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  1. Hacker News

    Launch HN: Rudus (YC P26) – AI for concrete contractors

    Hi HN, we’re Rishi and Sahil. We’ve developed Rudus ( https: www.rudus.ai ), an AI-powered takeoff and estimation platform built for concrete subcontractors. Takeoff is the process of measuring and quantifying materials from concrete plan sheets. Rudus identifies every concrete...

  2. LinkedIn

    Learning the concrete estimating market in person

    For the past month, I've flown across the country to nine cities with boxes of donuts, met 50 estimators, held 20 contract discussions, and collected more than 200 business cards. Go learn the world of your ICP. That work is shaping Rudus.

  3. LinkedIn

    Rudus replaces concrete-estimating workarounds

    I've been going door to door across the country and keep seeing estimators run six monitors and a maze of workarounds. Rudus puts plans, schedules, Excel, and details in one place, and AI flags conflicts so estimators do not have to keep copying and pasting.

  4. LinkedIn

    Learning concrete estimating from Terry Roy

    Terry Roy beat every other estimator on the team and became our concrete-estimating advisor. We have spent more than 100 hours on Zoom learning from his expertise, and this retired estimator is helping teach Rudus how concrete work is really done.

  5. LinkedIn

    Rudus fits how concrete subcontractors estimate

    We built Rudus to fit how concrete subs actually estimate. Teams using it spend about 70 percent less time per takeoff. Thanks to the American Society of Concrete Contractors for the conversation.

  6. YouTube

    Rudus: Accelerating Takeoffs for Concrete

    https://www.rudus.ai/ Backed by Y Combinator