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Cuadrilla

AI-powered home remodeling platform connecting Houston homeowners with vetted contractors

Houston, United States

Cuadrilla
A.I
Seed
Revenue: $100K or Less
Profile Image Yutong Xue
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https://www.cuadrilla.pro/
$ 1,500,000
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$ 500,000
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Summary

Cuadrilla is an AI-powered operating system for residential remodeling — the "Uber for remodeling." Our AI contractor estimates any project by text, voice, or live video in minutes, then we match a vetted crew and run the job end-to-end. We're attacking a ~$500B, deeply fragmented market with no trusted brand or software. Live MVP today, first paying customer confirmed ($2.7K) with a ~$72K project in negotiation, built by a team that pairs a remodeling operator (CEO) with an AI engineer (CTO). Raising a ~$1.5M pre-seed.

Notable Achievements

Signed our first paying customer — a $2.7K project, confirmed (first revenue).

A larger ~$72K project in active negotiation (pipeline).

Built and launched a live MVP: real-time voice + video AI estimating with integrated regional pricing.

First pilot generated ~$100K in quoted project volume in a single month; one project produced ~$10K profit for the remodeler, validating AI pricing accuracy.

Founding team has shipped before: CTO built uLegal (multi-agent legal AI) and LINGXI (consumer AI at ~$700 MRR); CEO founded and scaled his own residential remodeling company.

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The Business

A homeowner describes a remodeling project by text, voice, or live video. Our AI contractor runs a real consultation — it sees the space through the phone camera, assesses materials and condition, scopes the work, and produces an accurate, regionally-priced estimate in minutes, replacing the slow, expensive in-person site visit. We then match the homeowner with a vetted, insured crew and run the project end-to-end: contracts, procurement, scheduling, and milestone payments. Crews just build.

We monetize two ways: small remodeling crews pay a ~$500/month subscription for pre-sold, scoped jobs with the admin handled (recurring revenue), and we take a ~20% fee on project value (coordination + procurement) inside one transparent, all-inclusive price. On a typical $15K project that's ~$3,000 revenue at ~83% gross margin. Per-crew economics compound — each crew running ~3–4 projects/month drives subscription plus project-fee revenue.

The Market

US residential remodeling is a ~$500B/year market — large, recurring, and almost entirely offline. It's served by ~1.2M contractors, ~80% of them 1–5 person crews operating as disconnected micro-businesses with no brand, no software, and no pricing data. There is no dominant operating system and no trusted national brand, making it ripe for aggregation — the same shape as what ride-sharing did to taxis.

It's bigger than it looks: AI collapses the cost of the estimate to near zero, letting us profitably serve the long tail of smaller jobs and convert remodels that never happen today because the process feels too opaque to trust — growing the market, not just splitting it. The opportunity expands along three vectors: adjacent trades using the same estimating engine; unit turns and value-add rehabs for institutional rental operators (a large recurring B2B market); and international, where the same pain is even sharper. Underneath, we're building an AI that can see, scope, and price physical-world work — a platform well beyond remodeling.

Objective/Future (Use of funds)

The $1.5M raise will be deployed across four areas to execute our Houston market entry and prove the model at scale:
45% — AI Development & Training ($675K): Continued development of our voice + vision scoping engine, real-time material pricing integrations, automated contract and PO generation, and AI model training on live project data to improve pricing accuracy across Houston zip codes.
35% — Operations & Expansion ($525K): Onboarding and supporting contractor crews through the platform, field operations coordination, and expansion from our initial pilot contractor to 10 crews within 12 months and 100 crews by month 18.
15% — Sales & Customer Acquisition ($225K): Direct outreach to remodeling crews in the Houston metro, partnership development, and homeowner-side growth once supply is established.
5% — Compliance & Legal ($75K): Delaware C-Corp maintenance, contractor agreement frameworks, payment processing compliance, and IP protection.
Milestones this round unlocks: First closed GMV transaction within 60 days → 10 contractor partners by month 12 running 180 projects ($220K revenue) → 100 contractors by month 18 running 1,800 projects ($2.2M revenue).

The Team

Angel Perez - Co-founder & CEO

Founded and scaled his own residential remodeling company, running estimating, procurement, scheduling, and crew coordination firsthand — so he knows exactly how jobs are priced and where the industry breaks. Leads sales, operations, and crew/customer relationships. BBA in Finance (Real Estate) and Entrepreneurship, University of Houston (Bauer).

Yutong Xue - Co-founder & CTO

AI/ML engineer (Rice). Founding engineer on production voice-AI systems and AI lead at a legal-tech company; independently shipped uLegal (multi-agent legal AI) and LINGXI (consumer AI at ~$700 MRR). Architected Cuadrilla's full real-time voice + video estimating engine. Leads product and engineering.

Growth Roadmap

- Now: live MVP, first paying customer confirmed ($2.7K), ~$72K project in negotiation — validating estimate accuracy and crew workflow.
- Next 6 months: deepen Houston — grow from pilot to a tight cohort of vetted crews, prove repeatable per-crew economics (~3–4 projects/month at ~$15K each), and turn on subscription + project-fee revenue.
- 6–18 months: expand across the Texas Triangle (Austin, Dallas); use traction to raise our seed.
- Beyond: extend the estimating engine to adjacent trades and to unit turns / value-add rehabs for institutional operators, then international.

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Deepen the estimating engine and ship fast alongside the CTO. Ideal: strong in real-time/agentic AI and full-stack product; comfortable owning systems end-to-end with little oversight.

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