Our vision
The future of AI needs what the trades know.
Years of practice become judgment. What to notice. What to question. What makes a job right. That experience belongs in the future of AI.
Open Field — FreeFour goals
Goal 1
Make AI useful in your business.
Start with the things that take time, create friction, and make good work harder than it should be. Help a contractor prepare a clearer estimate. Help a technician organize the details of a job. Help an owner capture a lesson worth keeping.
Our first goal is practical: build tools that tradespeople choose because they make the working day better.
Goal 2
Build the world’s best AI for the Trades.
That is the ambition — across electrical, plumbing, mechanical, carpentry, steel, concrete, roofing, building envelope, finishes, controls, life safety, sitework, specialty systems, exterior trades, and the many specialties within them.
Reaching it means learning from verified expertise and testing the results against the work itself. The reasoning behind a repair matters. So does knowing when the evidence is incomplete. We want to build AI with that depth of understanding, improved through knowledge tradespeople choose to contribute and careful review of what it learns.
The measure is whether it becomes more useful, accurate, and dependable on the problems the Trades actually face — wherever that work is done.
Goal 3
Make the Trades partners in its growth.
Tradespeople should have a meaningful role in the growth of the AI they help create. We want their expertise to be recognized, their experience to influence development, and their contribution to create opportunities as TradesKnow grows.
Today, accepted expert contributions receive a lasting record of credit. We are developing the partnership model with the goal of sharing the value created together. Financial terms are not yet established.
Goal 4
Inspire a generation of AI entrepreneurs.
A young person choosing electrical work, plumbing, welding, carpentry, HVAC, or another skilled trade should be able to imagine mastering the craft, building a respected business, and creating something new with AI.
An apprentice learning from an experienced tradesperson is learning knowledge that could help shape future technology. We want to make that connection visible and help the next generation see how far a trade can take them.
Become excellent at your trade. Bring that expertise into the future of AI.
Every trade. Every specialty.
TradesKnow is not limited to a fixed list of occupations. We organize the building trades into broad families while recognizing the specialties people actually practice — from electricians, plumbers and HVAC technicians to ironworkers, fire-protection professionals, glaziers, tile setters, excavation crews, controls technicians, elevator mechanics and many more.
As TradesKnow expands across regions and countries, the language and taxonomy should expand with the people doing the work. The goal is an intelligence layer for the skilled building trades, globally.
Easy from the first question.
Open Field. Ask Nico. Get on with the job. No training sessions. No complicated setup. Start with a question in your own words, then add a photo or voice note when it helps. Name the job and add details as you go. Field is free to start, and there will always be a free way to use it. Field Paid adds more for $19 a month.
A clear message box, readable type and a calm layout keep attention on the work. English and Spanish deserve the same care. Permissions and sharing choices should be easy to understand, with useful tools there when you need them.
Show the job. Work through it together.
Use Video Call to show a coworker the job. In Crew chats, invite your team, share the details and photos they need, and ask Nico to help with a question or recap the conversation. People bring their experience; Nico helps organize the shared information and the next steps to review.
Video calls connect people. Nico helps in Crew chats with the information shared there. Calls require an available video service, device permissions and recording consent. You choose what to share with the group.
Better knowledge comes from permitted sources and separately consented, reviewed expert contributions. Better models must pass evaluation before release. Private jobs, call content and crew conversations never become shared training, shared knowledge or evaluation material.
From knowing the work to shaping what comes next.
As AI moves into machines that interact with buildings, the judgment of the Trades will matter in new ways. Our longer-term ambition is to help build that intelligence with the people who understand the work.
The future will change some tasks and create new responsibilities. We want tradespeople involved in shaping that change. Permission to train robotics is separate and optional.
The next chapter can have your name in it.
Bring your questions, your hard-earned experience, and your ideas for what this could become. Help us build a future that opens more possibilities for the Trades.
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