Sledge™ today announced the launch of its AI-native construction operating system, which runs a contractor’s entire company from bid to build to paid. While still in private beta, Sledge is approaching $20 million in project volume under management (PVUM), the combined contract value of the jobs its beta users run through the system. That volume spans commercial construction, from structural concrete to ground-up developments and million-dollar custom homes.
Construction is a $13 trillion global industry and the second least digitized industry in the world. It is one of the only major sectors where productivity has fallen since the 1970s, and the average builder loses 35% of the workweek to non-productive work rather than building. Sledge was built to close that gap. Traditional construction software is a system of record: it stores your work and hands it back. Sledge is a system of execution: its agentic AI does the work, writing bids, running jobs, sending invoices, chasing payments, and keeping the company running autonomously. Contractors approve; Sledge executes.
“My grandpa was a contractor. My dad was a contractor. I am a contractor,” said Raz Danoukh, CEO and co-founder of Sledge, who continues to operate Ferrocrete Builders, a $100M+ concrete construction company in Los Angeles. “For 20 years I lived the pain of running a construction business on software that stores your work and hands it right back. We built Sledge so builders can build while the software finally does the work.”
Sledge’s beta cohort, spanning general contractors, engineering firms, developers, and residential builders, is running real projects through the system today, with commercial construction representing the majority of volume.
“I’m a builder, not a paper pusher. Every system I’ve tried just piled on more office work. Sledge actually does the work. It writes my bids, sends my invoices, and chases the money while I’m out on site with my crew. Nothing else in construction comes close,” said Richard [Last Name], [Title] at Rascom Construction & Engineering Co.
Ahead of its public launch, Sledge has grown its waitlist entirely organically through word of mouth and referrals, with zero ad spend.
Sledge was founded by Danoukh; Matteo Miralaie, COO, an engineer who did NASA data pipeline work and built Sledge’s original prototype; and Davis Cannon, CPO, a product leader with ten years building AI and SaaS products, most recently at Seekr Technologies, which reached a $1.2 billion valuation.
To learn more or join the beta waitlist, visit getsledge.com.
Note to editors (sources)
- Construction productivity has fallen since the 1970s: Goolsbee and Syverson, “The Strange and Awful Path of Productivity in the U.S. Construction Sector” (NBER, 2023); “Five Decades of Decline: U.S. Construction Sector Productivity” (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, 2025).
- Builders lose 35% of working hours to non-productive activities (over 14 hours per week): PlanGrid and FMI, “Construction Disconnected” (2018).