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The AI home contractor · Bay Area

Remodel your home without the big contractor.

Nivo is an AI contractor. Design your remodel in the app, pick materials, and watch the price update live. Then our AI agents file the permits, coordinate your architect, designer, and trades — in any language — and run the build. The savings go to you and the crews.

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Now accepting founding Bay Area homeowners — early-access pricing, direct line to the team.
nivo.app/designLIVE PRICING
CabinetsShaker white
CountertopQuartz
Cabinets$6,800
Countertop$3,200
Install & coordination$3,900
Permits AI-FILED$650
All-in, itemized
$14,550
ready in
~17 days
Sample configuration — your real quote is built to your home · itemized · locked before you commit
Now
booking founding builds
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trade languages handled
minutes
to a full itemized quote
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general contractors
One AI, every trade

It coordinates everyone — in any language.

A general contractor is mostly an office relaying messages between people who don't share a language. Nivo's AI sits in the middle instead — keeping your architect, designer, and every subcontractor in sync.

The architect writes a change in English; the framer reads it in Spanish, the electrician in Mandarin, the plumber in Polish — translated in real time, with nothing lost between trades.

translating & dispatching
Architect → Move the panel to the north wall.Electrical (中文) → confirmed, rescheduled Tue
Architectplans · EN Designerspecs · EN Electrical中文 FramingEspañol PlumbingPolski Tile / HVACTiếng Việt NivoAI CONTRACTOR
AI permits

Permits stop being the thing that stalls your build.

Permitting is where most remodels lose weeks. Nivo's agents read your plans, match them to local code, assemble the full application, and e-file it with your city.

When a reviewer sends corrections, the AI drafts the response and revised sheets the same day — then books inspections the moment it's issued. You don't chase city hall. The system does.

PERMIT PIPELINE · LOT 1428 · FREMONTAUTO-FILED
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Plans parsed & code-matchedlocal amendments loaded
DONE
2
Application assembledstructural · electrical · plumbing sets
DONE
3
Submitted to citye-filed · fees paid · #BLD-2241
DONE
4
Reviewer corrections2 comments · auto-responded w/ revised sheet
IN REVIEW
5
Issued & inspections bookedest. 3 business days
QUEUED
Drones + vision

Every job, watched from the air.

A great contractor walks the site once a day. Nivo watches it continuously — scheduled drone flights and computer vision track progress per trade and flag problems before they cost you a week.

✓Verified progress. Each milestone is confirmed by what the camera sees — not a phone call — before payment releases.
⚑Early warnings. If framing slips or a crew no-shows, the AI reschedules the chain and tells everyone before it cascades.
◎You can see it too. Time-stamped photos and a live status, so you always know what's done.
DRONE-07 · LOT 1428VISION · 30 FPS
crew · PPE ✓
framing · 64%
material stack
LAT 37.5485 · LON -121.988 · ALT 58m · CV-CONF 0.94
Trained crews

Our people learn on simulations — not on your house.

Best practices from thousands of builds become scenarios our coordinators rehearse until the right call is second nature — a failed inspection, a no-show crew, a code change mid-pour.

Every good decision becomes a reusable play the team and the AI follow on the next job. That's how the quality stays identical whether it's build #5 or build #5,000.

And before anyone sets foot in your home, they're properly vetted — licensed in their trade, background-checked, and authorized to work here. The crews on your project are people we'd trust on ours.

SIM · SCENARIO 14● LIVE DRILL
Curveball

Rain delays the foundation pour. Electrical is booked for tomorrow and the inspector slot is locked. What ships first?

Push electrical, keep the inspector slot—
Re-sequence: move underground rough-in up✓ BEST
Hold the whole chain a day—
The economics

We keep a thin slice of each job — and make it up in scale.

A general contractor needs to capture ~40% of what you pay because they run a handful of jobs by hand. Nivo keeps a fair ~15% and lets the AI, the drones, and trained crews run hundreds of builds at once. Smaller cut per job, far more jobs — a real business, and a better deal on every single one.

~15%
OUR MARGIN — vs A GC's ~40% CAPTURE
100s
BUILDS RUN IN PARALLEL
2 ways
SAVINGS SPLIT — YOU + THE TRADES
How it works

Design it. We run it.

You make the choices in the app. Nivo's AI does the work a general contractor's whole office used to do.

01 — DESIGN

Design it in the app

Pick your layout and materials and watch the itemized price and timeline update live. Get a real quote in minutes, free.

02 — APPROVE

AI handles the rest

Agents file permits, line up your architect, designer, and vetted crews, order materials, and lock the schedule.

03 — BUILD

Watch it come together

Drone-verified milestones and daily photos. You pay as each part is finished — never everything up front.

Start small

Don't hand over your whole house on day one.

Configure something small in the app to see the quality and how it feels — then scale up to the big project when you trust us.

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Weekend refresh
Paint, fixtures, a vanity, new tile — one room, configured and priced in the app. The easiest way to try Nivo.
From around
$1,500
Done in a few days
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A room you love
A full kitchen or bathroom — configure layout, cabinets, counters, and finishes; see the price as you go.
From around
$15,000
A few weeks
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Remodel or rebuild
A whole-home remodel, addition, or new build — designed in-app, permitted and coordinated end to end by AI.
Custom quote
Let's talk
Planned around you
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Illustrative starting points. Your real, itemized price is configured to your home in the app — start small, scale up when you trust us.

Transparent pricing

You pay less. The crews earn more.

A big contractor is a sales office that captures ~40% of what you pay. Nivo's AI does that coordinating instead — and the freed-up margin goes both ways: to you, and to the people doing the work.

Example: a $120,000 remodel — the old way
$120,000
~$48,000 of that (40%) is the contractor's overhead and markup — not your actual remodel.
The same remodel — with Nivo
$92,000
Same crews, same scope. You keep about $28,000.
How the old $48,000 the GC captured gets redistributed$48,000
Homeowner saves$28k
Trades earn more+$6k
Nivo fee (~15%)$14k

The subcontractors and workers take home more than they do today — not less. Everybody wins except the middleman.

Illustrative example on a representative $120k remodel — not a quote or a guarantee. Your actual price and savings depend on scope, materials, and site conditions.

Founding homeowners

We're building our first Bay Area homes — with a small founding group.

Nivo is just getting started. We're taking on a limited number of founding projects so every build gets our full attention — and so early homeowners help shape how it works.

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Founding pricing, locked

Early-access rates, itemized and held for your project — no surprise change orders once you commit.

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A direct line to the team

You work with the people building Nivo, not a call center — and your feedback shapes the product.

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Hands-on from day one

A small cohort means closer attention on every permit, milestone, and inspection.

Good questions

The things people ask first.

How fast do I get a real quote?

Minutes. You configure your remodel in the app — layout, cabinets, counters, finishes — and Nivo shows a full itemized price and timeline as you go. No three-week wait for an estimate that changes later.

If there's no contractor, who runs the trades?

Nivo's AI does. It bids, schedules, and coordinates each subcontractor directly — translating between English, Spanish, Mandarin, Polish and more in real time — so the architect, designer, and every crew stay in sync without a middleman.

Do you really use AI for permits?

Yes. Nivo's agents assemble your permit set, match it to your city's code, file it, and follow up on corrections and approvals — so paperwork doesn't stall your build.

How do I know it's going well?

Scheduled drone flights and computer vision track progress per trade and verify each milestone by what the camera sees. You get time-stamped photos and a live status, and approve each stage before the next begins.

If it's cheaper, are the workers getting squeezed?

The opposite. The margin a contractor used to keep is split between you and the trades — the crews take home more than they do today, not less, and get paid faster on verified milestones.

Get started

Start with a conversation.

We're taking on a small group of founding Bay Area homeowners. Book a time to talk to a founder — we'll show you what we're building and how we'd approach your project. No obligation, no pushy sales.

Or email hello@nivo.ai · Bay Area