Foreman YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Foreman went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 batch as a Real Estate and Construction company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2026
Industry: Real Estate and Construction
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Nolan RossiFounder

What Foreman does

Foreman is the all-in-one AI-powered project management platform built for construction contractors and the trade industry. Today, contractors run complex businesses on a patchwork of tools that were never designed for construction - estimates in spreadsheets, plans in email, proposals copy-pasted from old Word docs, photos scattered across phones. Nothing talks to anything else, and the admin work never stops. Foreman replaces that patchwork with a single platform that manages the full lifecycle of a construction job, from first estimate to final invoice. Contractors upload plans, photos, or a project description, and Foreman's AI instantly generates structured takeoffs, scoped estimates, and professional proposals - in minutes, not hours. From there, every customer record, document, permit, photo, change order, and conversation lives in one place, organized around the job. The result: contractors spend less time buried in admin and more time building. They bid faster, manage jobs with less chaos, and close projects cleanly - without duct-taping five tools together to do it.

Foreman's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Foreman, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Foreman

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Keeping contractors on the job site, not behind a desk.

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We're building an AI-powered project management platform tailored for construction contractors. Contractors upload plans, photos, or project descriptions, and Foreman's AI instantly generates takeoffs, scoped estimates, and proposals. Then all documents, permits, photos, change orders, and conversations live in one place organized by job. This lets contractors spend less time on admin and more on building.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, and Foreman is based here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where the construction tech ecosystem is active, making it easier to build our product and talk to early customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Foreman YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Foreman's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Foreman would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.