Digs, a Vancouver, Washington-based startup promising to bring artificial intelligence to the chaotic world of residential construction, announced Monday it has raised $25.3 million in Series A funding from Builders FirstSource, the country's largest building-materials distributor. The deal includes a five-year commercial agreement to weave Digs' software throughout Builders FirstSource's digital operations.
The company declined to share its valuation. Since its 2022 launch, Digs has now pulled in more than $47 million, a figure that reflects both the urgency of the construction industry's digital transformation and the challenge of selling software to a sector known for thin margins and resistance to change.
What Digs sells is what it calls "digital twins" for homes: AI-powered models that track a building from blueprint to warranty claim, organizing the messy pile of PDFs, change orders and handwritten notes that typically define a construction project. The platform converts that chaos into structured data, accessible to everyone from subcontractors to homeowners. Thousands of homes now sit on the platform across all 50 states, the company says, though it did not break out specific user numbers.
A Supplier's Gambit
Builders FirstSource plans to embed Digs into myBLDR, its digital ecosystem serving roughly 140,000 builder customers spread across 565 locations in 43 states. The integration aims to consolidate plans, specifications, selections, approvals and project histories into a single system that multiple stakeholders can access simultaneously.
Peter Jackson, president and CEO of Builders FirstSource, positioned the partnership as a response to builder demands. "Our customers are looking for seamless technology that helps them operate more efficiently and deliver a better homeowner experience," he said in the announcement. The company is betting that by pairing its distribution scale with Digs' AI capabilities, it can simplify workflows and strengthen its relationships with builders facing margin pressure.
The collaboration will introduce AI chat functions, electronic signatures, QR codes for job-site access, comments, tasks, AI-powered diagramming and finish-selection tools. It's a significant expansion of Builders FirstSource's technology footprint, moving the distributor deeper into the software layer that governs how homes get built.
The Technology Beneath
Digs processes blueprints and floor plans into 3D models that evolve as construction progresses. Those models persist after completion, feeding into homeowner aftercare and warranty management. The startup offers DigsCloud for file organization, DigsCanvas for AI-assisted takeoffs and diagramming, and DigsCare for warranty tracking. AskDigs, an AI assistant trained on project-specific information, sits at the center.
"Think ChatGPT, but specifically trained on build data and it has access to your specific project," CEO Ryan Fink told HousingWire. Digs claims its AI can execute roughly 700 takeoffs in the time a single estimator completes one, though no independent verification of that speed was provided.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Digs Patent 12,608,521 in April for its method of generating digital twins from construction information.
Founders With History
Fink and co-founder Ty Frackiewicz previously worked together at Streem, an augmented-reality startup for home services that Frontdoor acquired in 2019. Fink also founded ONtheGO Platforms, a gesture-recognition company purchased by Atheer in 2015. Frackiewicz spent time at Amazon Pay as a principal product manager and earlier worked as a project manager at luxury homebuilder Highline Partners, giving the duo complementary experience in technology and construction.
The company currently employs 37 people and expects to grow beyond 60 by the end of 2026, a measured expansion that suggests careful burn-rate management despite the fresh capital.
Funding Trail
Digs raised $7 million in seed funding in February 2023 from Fuse, Flying Fish, Betaworks, Legacy Capital Ventures and Portland Seed Fund, among others. A seed extension of another $7 million arrived in January 2024, led by Oregon Venture Fund and Legacy Capital Ventures. SPLY Capital led a pre-Series A top-up of roughly $5 million in November 2025, bringing the total pre-Series A haul to nearly $20 million.
Builders FirstSource led the Series A alone. The company did not disclose whether other investors participated.
Industry Context
The partnership echoes a similar move by U.S. LBM, the largest private building-materials distributor, which aligned with Higharc, another AI homebuilding platform. Higharc raised a $95 million Series C in June to extend AI estimating into distributor supply chains. Both deals signal that suppliers see technology integration as a competitive edge, not just a value-add.
HousingWire's coverage framed the investment as Builders FirstSource's attempt to control more of the technology stack from procurement to handoff, capturing margin and relationships in an industry where workflows remain fragmented. "If you look at a builder's workflow, it's pretty disjointed and broken," Fink told the publication.
Next Moves
Digs will direct the new capital toward product development, deeper integration with myBLDR and expanded AI capabilities across the construction lifecycle. The company is hiring for engineering, product and go-to-market roles to support the Builders FirstSource rollout.
"We're building the AI platform that understands every home," Fink said in the announcement. "Together, we're creating the first scalable true digital twin of the home for homeowners to power new experiences for the life of their home."
Whether the platform can scale across Builders FirstSource's vast customer base while maintaining performance remains an open question, but the distributor's willingness to anchor the round suggests confidence that the technology can deliver. The real test will come as Digs moves from thousands of homes to potentially tens of thousands under the partnership's umbrella.
