About
Foreman builds an all-in-one AI-powered project-management platform for construction contractors and the trade industry, managing jobs from estimate to final invoice. Its differentiator is replacing disconnected tools with a job-centered workflow that uses AI to turn plans and project descriptions into takeoffs, scoped estimates, and proposals while keeping records, documents, permits, photos, change orders, and conversations together.
Market
Foreman competes in construction-management software, with a particular focus on residential contractors and small-to-mid-sized construction businesses. It positions itself as an affordable all-in-one platform, with plans starting at $49 per month and access across tablet, phone, and computer. Its differentiation is the combination of broad construction workflows with AI plan reading, fast estimating, and integrations such as QuickBooks and Zapier, rather than a narrowly focused scheduling or field-service tool.
Foreman primarily serves residential contractors, especially small crews of roughly 1–10 people, while also targeting small-to-mid-sized construction companies. The likely buyers are contractor owners, project managers, and operations staff seeking integrated estimating, scheduling, project, and financial workflows.
At a Glance
Problem
Bitcoin mining operators manage fleets of power-intensive ASIC machines across multiple sites, where uptime, hash rate, energy consumption, equipment health, and configuration directly determine profitability. Even small performance dips can create significant cost increases, while idle miners, unexpected power spikes, equipment failures, and limited infrastructure visibility increase downtime and operational risk.
The killer use case is remote, fleet-wide intervention: operators can identify problems in real time, reboot idle miners, adjust power modes, reassign equipment for repair, and respond to power or pool issues before lost production and wasted energy compound across the operation.
Product / Service
Foreman is OBM's flagship bitcoin mine-management software, delivered as a centralized platform that lets miners remotely manage sites from anywhere. Its core package combines real-time monitoring and insights, miner management and configuration, issue detection and resolution, infrastructure monitoring, and power controls. Operators receive dashboards, automated alerts, earnings and power-use reporting, and tools to apply changes across dozens or thousands of miners.
The product is monetized as a packaged software offering with essential functionality included in the base plan and premium capabilities available as add-ons. Those capabilities include advanced power management, asset and inventory management, security and compliance, and Foreman Intelligence, an analytics layer that combines Foreman data with signals such as energy prices, hash price, network difficulty, weather, and equipment performance. Its dashboards, proactive alerts, and AI-powered analyst are designed to replace manual reporting with faster, portfolio-wide decisions about uptime, maintenance, costs, and efficiency.
Market
Foreman competes in bitcoin-mining operations software, specifically the market for miner monitoring, fleet management, automation, and energy optimization. The available source trail identifies the relevant product as OBM's Foreman: OBM consolidated its prior corporate and product websites under obm.io while keeping the Foreman brand and the foreman.mn dashboard. The clearest named specialist competitor in the available material is AntSentry, which OBM has compared directly with Foreman.
Foreman is an established commercial product rather than a pre-revenue concept: OBM advertises more than 10,000 customers, says it was founded in 2017 by former miners, and reports managing loads of up to 500 MW in demand-response programs. The evidence does not provide revenue or growth figures, but its customer base, active dashboard, ongoing release notes, and availability of Foreman Intelligence indicate a mature operating product. OBM is also expanding beyond bitcoin mining into flexible-load management for power suppliers, HPC data centers, and other energy-intensive industries, while Foreman remains its signature mine-management product.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
Y Combinator
Recent News
Foreman AI published an updated pricing page describing simple per-seat pricing for its construction-management software, with features including budgets, proposals, invoicing, and scheduling.
Y Combinator profiled Foreman as an all-in-one, AI-powered project-management platform for construction contractors and the trade industry.
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Foreman sells subscription SaaS through one plan: $249.99 per month or $199.99 per month when billed annually ($2,399.88 per year), plus $20 per team seat per month. It offers a free trial, no contracts or setup fees, unlimited projects, and free access for clients and subcontractors; revenue comes from contractor subscriptions and team-seat charges.