Show HN: Conkoa AI – Voice-First Slack for Construction(conkoa.ai)
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Show HN: Conkoa AI – Voice-First Slack for Construction
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Definitely still a need for this product. We built an "audio slack" app with some similarities to this a decade ago and it was too early at that time for various reasons. But there's definitely a need for it and now the AI capabilities are far better than what we were working with back then. Good timing.
At some point I suspect you'll want offline functionality / on-device for some aspects of it. Would be interested to chat if you do. Look us up at switchboard.audio -- we are now building dev tools for applications like yours.
At some point I suspect you'll want offline functionality / on-device for some aspects of it. Would be interested to chat if you do. Look us up at switchboard.audio -- we are now building dev tools for applications like yours.
One thing I noticed throughout that journey: internally, we lived in Slack. It became our hub for everything — team conversations, server alerts, support tickets. It was always the open tab. So naturally, we tried to get our construction clients to adopt it too.
None of them did. The reason was obvious in hindsight: Slack is built around typing. That doesn't work when you're on a roof, driving between jobs, or on a scaffold installing wall panels.
After some time off, I kept thinking about that gap. What if field teams had one unified interface where they could:
- Communicate with the rest of their team - Update their work orders, timekeeping, or other systems they already use - Ask questions answered by an AI trained on their company's own documents and data
All by voice. Any language. No typing. No learning multiple apps.
That's Conkoa. A foreman on a ladder can say "We had three workers on Level 3 for eight hours at the Green Cedar project" and that information gets properly entered into Procore or whatever their system of record is. Messages are automatically transcribed and translated, so a Spanish-speaking crew member and an English-speaking PM stay in sync without anyone doing extra work. Teams can upload photos and documents that feed into a RAG pipeline, so the built-in AI agent can summarize and surface that information on demand.
We integrate with tools like Procore today and are building out more integrations.
Conkoa is live and being used by dozens of companies across the construction trades. You can set up a free workspace at https://conkoa.ai — would love feedback from the HN community.