A five-year agreement and a $25.3 million funding round: Digs’ tools are set to cover cost estimates, plans and post-occupancy maintenance for 140,000 builders.
Builders FirstSource, a U.S. heavyweight building materials company, formalized in early September 2026 a strategic partnership with Digs, a Vancouver-based start-up company ( Washington State), which develops AI software for residential construction. The industrialist also led the A-series round table of $25.3 million from the start-up.
The agreement runs for five years and provides for the integration of the Digs platform into the group's digital ecosystem, with a focus on its 140,000 customers. The functional perimeter ranges from pre-construction encryption and collaboration on plans to maintenance and guarantee after the occupants have moved in — well beyond the work phase.
Founded in 2022 by Ryan Fink and Ty Frackiewicz, Digs charges its customers for subscriptions and claims thousands of houses on its platform in the fifty states. The ambition of its co-founder is to be "the first digital twin of the house that is truly exploitable on a large scale", which would survive the delivery of the building.
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