The conviction
Built to back the field tech, not replace them.
Mentat is a revenue-recovery layer for residential-trades companies. The tech is the one in the home, reading the situation, spotting the work, earning the customer's trust. The job is not to automate that away. It is to make sure none of it gets lost.
The belief
AI should be the best partner a field tech can have. Not a replacement for one.
Everything Mentat does follows from that one line. The person stays at the center; the machine makes them better at the work they already do.
It is in the name.
The name is deliberate. A Mentat is a person whose own mind is trained to do what others would hand to a machine, sharpened, not replaced. That is the whole idea here. The person stays at the center, and the machine makes them better at the work they already do.
The conviction is the spec.
This is not a slogan we bolted on after. It shaped every call. The tech just talks for a few seconds, the way they already would, with no new app to learn and no behavior to change. Mentat does the part techs tend to hate, the writing-up, the pricing, the follow-through, and hands it back as a draft. A person decides what happens next, every time. And when work the tech spotted turns into real revenue, the record ties it back to them. The tool does the clerical work. The credit stays with the person who earned it.
Who is building it
Mentat is founded and run by Jeremiah Smith. He has spent twenty years building revenue inside early-stage, venture-backed companies, and was part of multiple exits, so he knows that world and speaks the language of the people who fund and buy them. He also grew up in a small family construction business, which is where he first saw the thing Mentat is built to fix: good work a tech spots in the field that quietly walks out the door.
Mentat is early. It is being built deliberately, one piece at a time, in public enough that you can follow along. No customers to point to yet, and no story we need to dress up. Just the work, and you are welcome to watch it take shape.
He has spent real time on both sides.
The investor side
Twenty years building revenue inside early-stage, venture-backed companies, and part of multiple exits. He knows how the people who fund and buy these businesses think, and talks to them in their language.
The field side
A small family construction business, where he first watched good work a tech spotted in the field walk quietly out the door. Mentat sits between those two worlds.
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If your techs see more than ever gets sold, or you run a platform and want to recover it across a fleet, we would like to hear from you.
Occasional updates as we build Mentat. No pitch.