Humance

Construction projects are chaotic by nature. You've got dozens of workstreams happening simultaneously—electrical, plumbing, structural, HVAC—and when one thing delays, everything else cascades. Today, project managers are tracing dependencies by hand like it's 1997, updating schedules manually, and notifying stakeholders one by one. It's slow, error-prone, and pulls focus away from the actual work. Enter Humance.

Humance is building AI-powered project management that keeps complex construction projects on schedule. Their system doesn't just track timelines—it understands how workstreams depend on each other and predicts where delays will cascade before they happen. Instead of spending hours manually updating Gantt charts, project managers get intelligent recommendations that let them focus on higher-order decisions. They're backed by Y Combinator and they've assembled a founding team that actually understands both construction and AI.

The founders—Soy Hwang, Sunny Kim, and Yon Soo Park—met through their work at R.care, where Sunny led Engineering & Innovation and Yon Soo led Product. Before that, Sunny was at Google building reliable, scalable systems. Soy came from BCG Digital Ventures where she learned to turn powerful tech into something people can actually use. Yon Soo worked on the Data Team at Amazon Web Services S3. That's Google, BCG, and Amazon—three founders who could have gone anywhere, and they chose to fix construction scheduling. Most AI startups are chasing sexy problems. Humance is going after an industry that literally builds the world and it's still running on spreadsheets. That's the move.