move fast and break nothing engineering @broccolicom • previously amazon • bits pilani
San Francisco, CA
Joined August 2012
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Somil Gupta retweeted
Broccoli (W22) is building an AI front office for home services businesses, answering calls, following up with leads, and booking appointments across voice and text.
Today, they serve more than 500 customers, are booking jobs at a run rate of over $1 billion a year, and expect to end the year at more than $60 million in ARR, up from zero just two years ago, after recently raising a $30 million Series B.
In this fireside, @call_broccoli's founders @abhishekjain25 and @adityaketkar join YC's @gustaf to share the long path to finding that business, from an earlier EV startup that never found product-market fit to visiting 140 contractors across the Bay Area to understand their biggest problems firsthand. They explain how embedding inside a plumbing company led to the first version of Broccoli, why answering missed calls became the wedge, and how AI could eventually reshape the work of technicians themselves.
00:00 — What Broccoli Does
01:30 — The Long Road to YC
04:22 — Building Telematica in the Wrong Market
07:11 — Why the First Idea Didn’t Work
09:27 — Finding the Right Customer
11:13 — Going Door to Door
14:49 — Discovering the Real Problem
17:53 — Getting the First Customers
19:11 — The First Version of Broccoli
20:50 — What Product-Market Fit Felt Like
23:09 — Scaling to $60M ARR
26:19 — How AI Will Change the Trades
Somil Gupta retweeted
Congrats to @call_broccoli (W22) on raising $52M across their Series A and Series B!
Broccoli’s AI agents answer calls for plumbing, HVAC, and electrical companies around the clock, booking jobs directly into the scheduling software contractors already use and following up on open estimates.
After their EV startup stalled, @abhishekjain25 and @adityaketkar knocked on 140 contractor doors until a Sacramento plumbing owner gave them five minutes. They built the first product from her office in three weeks, and today she’s Broccoli’s COO.
More than 1,500 home service businesses now run on Broccoli, with over 10 million customer conversations handled and 2.5 million appointments booked.
fortune.com/2026/10/28/brocc…
Grateful to be building Broccoli with this team. Today’s announcement is a big milestone, but what excites me most is how much we still get to build for the people who keep our homes running.
We’re just getting started 🥦
Broccoli has raised our Series A and Series B, both led by @khoslaventures with @ycombinator
Home services deserves tech that works as hard as its people. We're just getting started 🥦🥦🥦
fortune.com/2026/10/28/brocc…
Somil Gupta retweeted
We were thrilled to host Samir Kaul, Founding Partner and Managing Director of Khosla Ventures, for a fireside chat in our San Francisco HQ!
As a member of our board and a key investor, Samir has been an invaluable resource to me and our team here at Broccoli.
#startup #tech #ai
What design choices would you make differently? 🤔
PS: Exploring different layouts in my testimonials component - horizontal, vertical & written formats 🙂
Somil Gupta retweeted
Voice is one of the most frequent and information-rich form of human communication — and for the first time, AI is making it programmable at scale.
From enterprise automation to personal AI companions, voice agents are transforming how businesses operate and how consumers interact with technology.
Where is AI voice gaining traction?
As AI voice models improve, we’re seeing a shift from voice as a feature to voice as the core product, driving adoption across industries.
For more on what’s next for AI Voice Agents, check out @omooretweets full thesis: bit.ly/4aYGNIf
Somil Gupta retweeted
🔥 Hear it from the best! Mario Lopez, owner of Atticman HVAC. one of Sacramento’s top HVAC companies, shares how Broccoli AI is transforming their business. 💡🚀
More booked jobs. Fewer missed calls. Happier customers. 💰
Somil Gupta retweeted
Vertical voice agents are some of the fastest growing companies our team @a16z is seeing in the AI era.
But how do you sell a voice agent into businesses? Most customers won't go from fully human call center -> 100% AI overnight.
Four powerful wedges (+ examples of each!) 👇
Somil Gupta retweeted
It’s amazing that no model has caught up with Claude on coding. Even if they look good on benchmark they’re still not as good at generating working good looking modern web apps.
Whatever magic Anthropic did seems very durable.
Somil Gupta retweeted
One of the best indicators of a hot market is YC founders building there.
And these founders are increasingly choosing (or pivoting to) one space...AI voice agents!
There are 90 voice agent startups from recent YC batches. Full list + a breakdown of the verticals of focus 👇
Our very first customer who took a chance on us, visited our office today. The energy hits different when someone who believed in your vision from day one walks through your doors.
Targeting 50 stories on @Medium by the end of this year. I am currently at 44, let's see how it goes 💪
Today, I had a weird @momentjs moment. Many of Moment.js's methods mutate the original object instead of returning a new one.
Always use .clone() to perform operations that might modify the original moment.
Somil Gupta retweeted
GPT-4o got an update 🎉
The model’s creative writing ability has leveled up–more natural, engaging, and tailored writing to improve relevance & readability.
It’s also better at working with uploaded files, providing deeper insights & more thorough responses.
