For Investors
The trades are consolidating around an AI operating layer.
I'm building it.
Home services is a trillion-dollar industry of hundreds of thousands of small companies, and AI just collapsed the cost of running them. The industry consolidates around whoever owns that operating layer — that's Sherpa.
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The bet
Within ten years, contracting businesses run themselves — AI handling everything between the customer and the crew, humans doing only the skilled work. When operating costs collapse in a trillion-dollar fragmented industry, it consolidates around whoever owns the operating layer. Sherpa is that layer.
Read the ten-year prospectus → - 02
The proof
This isn't a deck — the system is already running inside real contracting businesses. The near-term mission is 1,000 contractors modernized in 18 months: enough instrumented businesses that Sherpa stops being a service and becomes the data and operations layer for a slice of the industry.
The company →40+ Contractors served & actively using Sherpa24/7 Automated lead response1,000 Contractors in the next 18 months - 03
The founder
I've built, scaled, and exited a services business, and spent years inside contracting companies installing exactly these systems. I wrote the thesis in public where anyone can hold me to it, built the product, and sell it myself. Early-stage investing is founder investing — that's who you're meeting.
About Jacob →
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Meet the founderor email jragan@getsherpa.io
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