Cohesive

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The agentic CRM for blue-collar services

Spring 2025Founded 20242 peopleNew York, NY, USA

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About

Cohesive is the agentic CRM for blue collar businesses like janitorial, pressure washing, landscaping, HVAC, and pest control businesses. Cohesive fully automates sales and marketing outreach to local businesses and property owners in the service area, helping local service businesses grow even while servicing clients in the field.

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Cohesive is an AI-driven growth engine designed for businesses that sell locally, automating prospecting, outreach, follow-up, and lead management for service-based companies targeting local clients. It emphasizes hyper-local, multi-channel engagement to turn local market clusters into repeatable growth.

Cohesive provides a platform to build targeted lists of local businesses and decision-makers, launch personalized multi-channel outreach across email, SMS, and phone, and uses AI agents to handle replies, missed calls, and stale leads. It offers a central command center to track conversations, interested leads, booked calls, and performance, enabling users to manage local growth as one integrated system rather than multiple disparate tools.

Who it’s for: Service businesses selling into local markets, including commercial cleaning, painting, roofing, HVAC, plumbing, facility and property services, and other local service providers targeting nearby companies, property managers, homeowners, and commercial facilities.

Features

Find thousands of local business buyers and decision-makers
Reach with multi-channel outreach (email, SMS, phone)
AI follow-up for replies and missed calls
Track leads, booked calls, and performance in one view
Campaign management and targeting of local markets
Centralized campaign status and AI follow-up
Hyper-local lead lists and real-time prospecting

mentions of 1,000+ service businesses, 220K+ conversations handled, 24/7 AI follow-up, and a demo/book-a-demo emphasis indicating market traction and interest; no explicit funding details.

Founders · 2

Kevin ZhangFounder

Building Cohesive, the agentic CRM for blue collar businesses

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Nam NguyenFounder

Microsoft

Former founding engineer at Starlight (South Park Commons fintech) and former ML engineer at Microsoft. Builder at heart, with a love for systems programming and math puzzles. Now on a mission to help blue-collar entrepreneurs scale with AI at Cohesive.

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Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · May 2025

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We automate sales and marketing for blue collar companies, helping them stay on top of new commercial opportunities in their service area

Cohesive offers an agentic CRM that automates growth for blue-collar service businesses, handling market research, outreach, and monitoring to in-house sales efforts for owners of commercial cleaning, landscaping, and pest-control companies. The post announces user traction (350+ customers) and invites follow-on actions, including demos and LinkedIn engagement.