Austin-based construction technology company Scaffold has raised $15 million in seed funding to automate the coordination systems that power residential construction.

The round was led by Navitas Capital, with strategic participation from companies and investors across the homebuilding supply chain, including D.R. Horton, Pulte Homes, Builders FirstSource, Windsor America, Grid Capital, Home Technology Ventures, Stage2 Capital and housing analyst Ivy Zelman.

Founded in 2024 by Ben Johnson and Robert Eanes, Scaffold uses AI to coordinate the work of trade contractors across the highly fragmented systems used by homebuilders, contractors and suppliers.

The platform has already been deployed across more than 200,000 homes in 30 states and connects to the portals of 29 of the top 30 U.S. homebuilders.

Solving the Coordination Problem in Homebuilding

Trade contractors often begin their day by working across a dozen or more homebuilder systems. Purchase orders, schedule changes, scope updates and rescheduling information may need to be manually transferred between platforms because these systems do not share a common record.

That creates a significant operational burden.

A schedule change made in one system may not reach a crew until days later. On an individual home, hundreds of tasks can be edited multiple times throughout construction, with each update potentially requiring manual intervention.

Scaffold is designed to solve this problem without forcing contractors to replace the software they already use.

Instead of introducing another standalone application, the platform connects to existing homebuilder portals and systems and creates one continuously updated record for each job.

AI Connecting the Residential Construction Supply Chain

Scaffold's platform automates routine coordination work across homebuilders, trade contractors and suppliers.

Purchase orders can populate automatically, schedules can remain synchronized across different homebuilders and crews can receive updated information without employees manually transferring data between systems.

The platform also provides suppliers with visibility into demand while giving homebuilders a more current view of activity in the field.

According to Scaffold, contractors using the platform report approximately 50% fewer dry runs and an 89% reduction in errors during their first 60 days. The company also reports an 83% reduction in the time required to process purchase orders.

The company says its system can begin providing value within an hour or two of going live, while its models improve as they learn the operational patterns of individual trades.

Building a Translation Layer Between Construction Systems

The technical challenge goes beyond simply connecting different software platforms.

Different homebuilders can use different terminology and data structures for the same information, while requirements can even vary across regions within the same builder.

Scaffold's technology is designed to translate these different systems into a common operational record.

Robert Eanes, co-founder and CTO, described this translation layer as the core engineering challenge behind keeping information synchronized across hundreds of thousands of homes.

The result is intended to allow contractors to continue working with the tools they already know while Scaffold handles the coordination between systems in the background.

Strategic Investors From Across Homebuilding

The investor group reflects the broad supply chain that Scaffold is targeting.

D.R. Horton and Pulte Homes are among the homebuilders participating, while Builders FirstSource and Windsor America represent other parts of the construction and supply ecosystem.

Navitas Capital led the round, with Managing Partner Louis Schotsky highlighting Scaffold's focus on the fragmented systems used across homebuilding.

The participation of companies operating at different points in the construction supply chain also gives Scaffold potential access to the users and workflows its platform is designed to connect.

Founders With Construction Technology Experience

Scaffold was founded by Ben Johnson and Robert Eanes.

Johnson previously founded Spruce, a home services company serving the multifamily industry. During his leadership from 2015 to 2024, Spruce grew to serve 24 of the 25 largest apartment companies in the United States and more than one million apartment units.

Eanes was previously co-founder of Pingboard.

The founders are now applying that experience to residential construction, where coordination between builders, trades and suppliers remains heavily dependent on disconnected software systems.

$15M to Expand Construction Infrastructure

Scaffold plans to use the new $15 million seed funding to expand its engineering team and increase the platform's coverage across homebuilder, contractor and supplier systems.

The company is targeting a large U.S. homebuilding market valued at approximately $500 billion, where even small inefficiencies in scheduling, purchasing and coordination can accumulate across large numbers of homes.

With its platform already deployed across more than 200,000 homes and connected to 29 of the top 30 U.S. homebuilders, Scaffold is now expanding its AI infrastructure with the goal of creating a shared, continuously updated information layer for residential construction.