The AI revenue engine that sees the home, books the job, and grows your bottom line.
Home services companies still run B2C field jobs on generic B2B SaaS even though field work follows a completely different workflow from the desk bound sales model the software was built for.
The patchwork that results, trade specific tools of generally low quality bolted to legacy SaaS, costs millions in lost revenue. The biggest leak appears in revenue generation: for jobs worth 1,000 dollars and up, customer acquisition cost often climbs to 10 to 30 percent; SG&A soars as admins juggle endless logins, sales workflows for reps are disjointed, and close times stretch by days & months while thousands in pipeline go missing. The trades need world class software built for them, and Aether is building exactly that.
We tackle four root causes:
Field service workflows on desk bound software. Contractors still run jobs worth more than ten thousand dollars on SaaS designed for inside sales, not crews, trucks or homeowners.
Low grade vertical tools bleed revenue. Trade apps skimp on workflow automation and analytics, driving up CAC and delaying closes.
No single system links the house to the sale. Without a platform that merges the home's digital twin, complete with precise measurements and asset data, with CRM and sales automation, teams must reenter information across multiple apps and wait days for quotes that could be generated in minutes.
The industry is going multi trade but the software is not. Solar with roofing, HVAC with solar, landscaping with outdoor lighting, yet point solutions stay siloed and cannot support cross trade workflows.
Aether solves all four with one AI powered revenue engine purpose built for today's converging trades, from single shop SMBs to multi location private equity enterprises.
July 2023
Where it started
Zayne and Shelby first met at UC Berkeley's engineering school. Both founders worked at companies such as Spire Global, Dolby Labs, and Sunrun, in roles across Engineering, Product Management and Machine Learning prior to starting Aether.
Aether was founded in Colorado, coding out of a small bedroom!
April 2024
Raised $2.5M Seed
After completing the renowned Y Combinator accelerator in San Francisco, Aether raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The team explored several ideas before arriving at the current version of Aether—an AI-powered GTM platform purpose-built for the trades.
July 2025
Growth. We are hiring!
With officies soon to be in London and San francisco, we are always in the lookout for top talent in engineering, sales, marketing, customer support, and growth engineering.
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