Cohesive Blog · Jan 2026
Blog post on how Cohesive personalizes outreach for local service businesses using location, reviews, and behavior data, and reiterates the platform’s local-services positioning.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Cohesive is a New York-based, YC-backed AI growth engine / agentic CRM for blue-collar and local service businesses. It automates prospecting, outreach, follow-up, and lead management across email, SMS, and phone, with a strong focus on service businesses selling into local markets.
Primary product
Agentic CRM / AI growth engine for local service businesses
Founded
2024
Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Team size
5-10
Work style
Remote
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI sales automation / CRM for local service businesses
Offices
New York, New York, United States
United States
Philippines
Guatemala
Business model
subscription SaaS
managed lead-generation services
white-label outreach platform
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed · Jun 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Jun 2025 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Work & culture
Remote-first, small-team, mission-driven culture focused on helping field-service businesses bring growth in-house. Public pages emphasize dogfooding, fast experimentation, and building a future-of-CRM product for skilled trades.
Work style
Remote
Product & market
Pricing
Monthly subscription / month-to-month pricing; public pages also reference setup fees and performance guarantees for some packages.
Differentiators
- —Agentic CRM / AI growth engine
- —Built specifically for blue-collar and local service businesses
- —Multi-channel outreach across email, SMS, and phone
- —Automated follow-up and missed-call handling
- —Hyper-local prospecting using public/local data sources
- —Self-updating CRM and trigger-based outreach
- —White-label options for agencies
- —Focus on field-service operators rather than office-based B2B buyers
- —Dogfoods its own product for growth
Technology
Google Workspace
Slack
Loom
Google Calendar
Google Docs
Google Sheets
LinkedIn
AWS
OpenPhone API
x-api-key authenticated API
Customers
commercial cleaning businesses
landscaping businesses
HVAC companies
pest control companies
painting/coatings businesses
roofing and exteriors businesses
facility/property services businesses
commercial service businesses selling to local businesses and property owners
Corporate Cleaning Group
Competitors
Apollo
Clay
Cognism
Resquared
Openmart
GoHighLevel
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$500K-$1M estimated ARR (Latka estimated $880K as of 2025-09-14)
Estimated monthly visits
6.1K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Cohesive Blog · Jan 2026
Cohesive’s blog argues that its AI CRM helps local service businesses automate lead generation and campaign management, and cites a $500/month price point and performance guarantee in the article.
LinkedIn · Jul 2025
Kevin Zhang says Cohesive surpassed $75K MRR in its first six months and describes the company’s GTM motion, including heavy use of its own product and LinkedIn outreach.
HireTop · Jun 2025
Startup profile recaps the founders, the blue-collar CRM positioning, and early traction serving commercial cleaning, landscaping, HVAC, and pest control companies.
Y Combinator · May 2025
Official YC launch announcing Cohesive as an agentic CRM for blue-collar businesses, co-founded by Kevin and Nam in late 2024, and describing the product’s market-research, outreach, and monitoring workflows.
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