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Kaya AI

Kaya AI

Software Development

Columbus, Ohio 6,782 followers

First AI-Native Supply Chain Solution for Construction, revolutionizing efficiency with smarter, faster project delivery

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At Kaya, we’re transforming the construction industry with smarter, faster, and more efficient solutions. Founded in 2022, Kaya is a supply chain intelligence platform powered by advanced AI and automation. Our mission is simple: help construction teams deliver projects on time, on budget, and with less hassle. With Kaya, teams gain real-time insights, improved collaboration, and streamlined workflows, reducing delays and making every project a success. We’re not just solving today’s challenges – we’re building a future where construction works seamlessly and sustainably, in harmony with humanity and the planet. Join us as we lead the way in smarter construction. Together, we can build a better future.

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Software Development
Company size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Columbus, Ohio
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2022

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  • Kaya AI reposted this

    On most job sites, the day starts before you arrive. Every extra hour spent coordinating, the early mornings and late nights, is time away from family. At the foremost, this business is about people. We built Amber for the people on the front lines who miss soccer games and dinner because they're still chasing down a delivery at 7pm. I've seen this firsthand. I've worked on a construction site where the crew arrives and there are no materials onsite, and you lose a full day of productivity. That day was lost not because anyone failed, but because no one had the visibility to see it coming. That's the idea behind Amber. A 60 second recap of your day ahead, like a podcast briefing, can save you two hours. Amber confirms deliveries, readjusts schedules, moves things around and chases people down, so you don't have to. On mission critical work like airports, hospitals and data centers, a delay isn't just a lost day. It can cost millions and put entire timelines at risk. Amber has been piloted and delivered value on over $1 billion worth of projects across these environments. As Erik Dahlen at Harkins shared: "It has become an essential tool for us in coordinating deliveries... I would recommend it to any of my colleagues." On Turner's $300M+ Peter Paulsen Pavilion for PeaceHealth, Amber identified at risk deliveries two to four weeks earlier and reduced manual coordination by more than 50%. None of this happens without the people closest to the work. A huge thank you to the site supers from five different GCs who spent time with us, challenged our thinking and shaped this product into what it is today. This is as much yours as it is ours. This week, as Nicholas joins #BuiltWorlds2026 in Chicago, we're launching Kaya AI's Last Mile platform. Built alongside project teams. Proven on live projects. Ready to give people their time back. This is the promise of AI that's finally possible. Let Amber do the grunt work so you can focus on what matters. See Amber in action. Link in the comments. #ConstructionAI

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    I’m heading to Chicago this week for the #BuiltWorlds2026 Global Summit. A lot is changing quickly across construction, but the most useful conversations are still the practical ones: where teams are losing time, what is creating unnecessary complexity, and where AI can genuinely make the day easier. At Kaya AI, we spend a lot of time obsessing over the supply chain and talking to the people in the field whose complex projects get turned upside-down by the constantly changing issues it poses. The reality is dynamic lead times, reduced capacity, and transit delays don’t need to cost your projects millions of dollars, and we’ve proven that out time-and-again through our collaborations with some of the top GCs and developers in the industry. I’m looking forward to meeting more of those people in Chicago, hearing what their teams are working through and sharing what we have been building. If you’re attending, let’s find time to connect. See you in Chicago! #KayaAI

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  • We have turned project managers into detectives. Across large commercial projects, data centers and mission critical builds, teams are still forced to investigate the status of critical assets across spreadsheets, procurement logs, email threads, vendor updates and outdated trackers. A delivery date moves. A vendor update sits in one inbox. A procurement tracker still shows green. The schedule assumes everything is fine. By the time the risk becomes visible, the project is already reacting. For the people building the most important infrastructure in the world, this is not good enough. Project teams should not have to piece together fragmented information just to answer one essential question: Is this asset actually on track? That visibility should be live. That risk should be surfaced early. That coordination should not depend on another spreadsheet, another meeting, or another round of manual follow-ups. We built something to change that. We’re introducing a new way for teams to see, track and manage the critical assets that determine whether major projects stay on schedule. The old way of building ends next week. Stay tuned. #ConstructionTechnology

  • Kaya AI reposted this

    Global supply chains are complex enough. Language should not be another barrier. Today, Kaya Supply Chain is now available in 40 languages. For global teams, this is not just a localisation update. Language shapes how work gets coordinated, how decisions move, and how quickly teams can turn signals into action. The folks managing supply chains today are operating across regions, vendors, jobsites, time zones, and working languages. The software they rely on has to feel native to that reality. The future of supply chain operations will be AI-native, distributed, and global by default. We’re building Kaya AI for that future.

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    After a week in Cannes surrounded by builders, operators, investors, suppliers, and industry leaders, I’m reminded that the most meaningful conversations rarely happen in conference halls. One of the highlights of the week was hosting a private tour of one of Europe’s only museums dedicated exclusively to female artists and female Impressionists. It was an opportunity to celebrate creativity, expression, and the remarkable contributions of women whose work has helped shape culture, design, and the way we experience the world around us. For me, it was especially meaningful. Growing up, I watched my sister build a career as a real estate developer. Through her work, I saw firsthand the creativity, resilience, and determination required to bring projects from vision to reality. I also saw the countless challenges that exist throughout the construction process: the coordination, inefficiencies, delays, and complexity that too often stand between great ideas and execution. Those experiences played a significant role in shaping my belief that the people building our physical world deserve better technology. They inspired my passion for construction, infrastructure, and ultimately the mission we’re pursuing at Kaya AI: helping the industry operate with greater visibility, coordination, and intelligence. Bringing together a group of friends, partners, and industry leaders to share this experience felt like a fitting way to celebrate Joseph Kava and his tremendous impact on the data center and infrastructure industry. Joe has spent years helping shape the physical foundation that powers the digital world, and it was a privilege to recognize that contribution among such an incredible group of people. The future of infrastructure won’t be built by any one company. It will be built through collaboration, trust, and the relationships formed between people willing to share ideas, challenge assumptions, and work together toward something bigger. Grateful for the conversations, the friendships, and the opportunity to spend time with some of the people shaping what’s next. See you next year, Cannes. #DataCloudGlobalCongress

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  • Kaya AI reposted this

    When Nicholas Selz and I started Kaya AI, we sat down to write the thing we wanted to be true about the work. The north star. The sentence we'd come back to when the quarter got hard or the decision got murky. It took about ten seconds. Construction in harmony with humanity and the planet. Kaya means home in Zulu. That was the first thing. Before the product, before the customers, before any of it, we knew we were building something about home. The collective one. The planet that holds the data centers and the research facilities and the housing and everyone who lives downstream of all of it. The built environment produces more carbon emissions than the airline industry. Concrete alone is staggering. The campuses going up right now to power the next decade of AI compute are some of the largest construction projects in human history. Someone is going to build all of this. The only real question is how. If we get it right, this infrastructure powers cancer research, drug discovery, breakthroughs that change lives none of us will ever meet. If we get it wrong, we build the largest, fastest, most expensive thing humans have ever built and leave the planet and the people on it worse than we found them. That's the work. Not the product. The work. I sat down with David McCall on The QTS Experience to get into all of it. Why the industry's caution is doing real work. Why the supply chain conversation needs to go further upstream than anyone is taking it. And what it actually means to build something in harmony with the place you're building it in. Full episode link in the comments. ⬇️ #DataCenterConstruction #MissionCritical #ConstructionTech #KayaAI

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    $1 million per day. That's what one procurement delay costs in mission-critical construction, according to Benjamin Sack at 53 Stations — and it's the clearest articulation I've seen of why AI in construction is no longer a productivity story. It's a revenue story. Ben was featured in this month's Engineering News-Record "Tools of the Trade" spotlight on Chicago. Grateful to have Kaya AI mentioned alongside that framing. Three things from the piece worth sitting with: → "Time to compute" is the real metric. Every procurement decision in data center construction is upstream of an operator's revenue. A late switchgear delivery isn't a logistics problem it's a delayed quarter. → The ROI shows up in four places at once. Less manual work, faster decisions, better visibility, fewer disruptions. Procurement has been undervalued for years because the wins were diffuse. Autonomous agents make them measurable. → Frictionless UX is non-negotiable. The teams at Turner Construction Company, Suffolk Construction, ARCO/Murray, and The Haskell Company didn't adopt Kaya because we sold them on AI. They adopted it because it removed work they didn't want to do. The projects are getting bigger. The timelines are tighter. And the cost of a bad procurement decision is compounding. Full piece attached below worth the read. Thanks to Benjamin Sack, Mike Ragogna, and the Engineering News-Record team for the spotlight. #ConstructionAI #DataCenters #AEC #Procurement #ConTech

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    In an industry obsessed with compute, capital, and speed, the most valuable thing you can do is slow down and be a human being with another human being. We could not have built Kaya AI without the people who believed in us before there was much to believe in. Not because of what they knew about the technology or the market, but because of who they are. This industry moves fast. The deals, the announcements, the next big thing. But none of it means much without the people you get to build with. That was one of my biggest reflections coming out of NVIDIA GTC. Yes, the technology was remarkable. But the bigger takeaway for me was what it means for the future of enterprise AI and for companies like Kaya AI. Three things stood out: 1.⁠ ⁠AI is moving from demos to execution. The future belongs to platforms that embed intelligence directly into real workflows, not just interfaces that look impressive in a demo. 2.⁠ ⁠Agentic AI is becoming real infrastructure. The next wave of enterprise value will come from systems that can reason across complexity, coordinate work, and drive action across fragmented environments. 3.⁠ ⁠Physical AI is the next frontier. In industries like construction, supply chain, and last mile, the biggest opportunity is connecting digital intelligence to what actually happens in the real world. That is exactly why we are excited to share that Kaya AI is now part of the NVIDIA Inception program. And it is why we are building Amber. Amber is Kaya’s orchestration layer across 1,000+ agents. Our belief is simple: the future is not people managing agents. The future is agents becoming the abstraction layer so people can focus on the work that needs to get done. Instead of forcing teams to configure workflows, prompt systems, or manage dozens of tools, Amber spins up the right agents dynamically based on your context, your workflow, and the business outcome you are trying to achieve. You focus on the work. Amber handles the orchestration. The agents exist to deliver business value, not create more complexity. That is the future we believe in. Not AI as another dashboard. Not AI as another layer of software to manage. AI as an execution layer for the physical world. For Kaya, being part of NVIDIA Inception gives us earlier access to cutting-edge technology so we can innovate faster for our customers and continue building the intelligence layer that helps teams execute where delays, missed handoffs, and broken coordination have real consequences. Last week at NVIDIA GTC with Steve Robinson, Dean Nelson, Mukesh Jain, Joseph Kava, and Phill Lawson-Shanks. Grateful does not cover it. #NVIDIAGTC #KayaAI #Amber #NVIDIAInception #AgenticAI #PhysicalAI #ConstructionTech #SupplyChain

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  • Kaya AI reposted this

    I remember sitting at Ojonomi’s house, watching Amber (Kaya AI delivery coordination platform) in action and thinking, this solves a real operational problem. Now it’s live with Turner Construction Company •𝟓𝟎%+ 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 in manual delivery coordination • Full visibility into confirmed and at-risk deliveries •𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤𝐬 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝟐–𝟒 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐫 That’s not incremental improvement. That’s operational leverage. If you’re building at scale, this deserves your attention. There’s not much in the market today that combines this level of automation, visibility, and measurable impact. Proud of Ojonimi Bako and Nicholas Selz. Execution like this takes conviction, discipline, and a deep understanding of how work actually gets done. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬. The full case study is included below for anyone who wants to go deeper.. Kaya AI

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