Problem

Roofing and exterior contractors need accurate property measurements to estimate jobs, prepare quotes, and sell work, but conventional measurement is slow, labor-intensive, and fragmented across specialized tools. Aether targets the resulting commercial pain: measurements that can take hours or days delay quotes and make it harder to win jobs, while the cost of incumbent reports and manual site visits adds to contractors’ soft costs. Its clearest use case is producing a job-ready roof report quickly enough for a contractor to quote a residential roofing or exterior project from an address or a phone-based site capture.

The company also appears to be extending this wedge beyond roofs into full-building measurement and a broader AI sales workflow for trades. The economics are designed to be transactional and accessible: the site offers a free first report and advertises paid reports at roughly $16 for a residential roof, compared with the time and operational cost of measuring properties manually or relying on more expensive tools.

Product / Service

Aether is a mobile-first measurement-report service for roofing and exterior contractors. Users can enter an address and order a report, receive an aerial-imagery-based 3D roof model, and use the resulting geometry, square footage, pitch, and structural details in their estimating workflow. The company says reports are reviewed by quality-assurance teams, with an initial 3D preview available in about 30 seconds and final reports delivered shortly afterward; its residential reports are priced at $15.99 and commercial reports at $55.

For properties requiring broader coverage, the Aether Field App lets contractors capture photos or a short video with a phone. Aether reconstructs the exterior into a full-house 3D model covering roofs, walls, openings, façades, overhangs, fascia, and soffits, with the company describing the output as accurate to within roughly 2% on its site and 1% to 3% in trade-press coverage. The benefit is faster, more standardized estimating and documentation without specialized field equipment, while the broader product positioning is an AI sales platform for trades.

Market

Aether competes in the roof-measurement, exterior-visualization, and contractor-sales-software markets, initially serving roofing and exterior companies and adjacent trades. Its competitive set includes EagleView, HOVER, Roofr, GAF QuickMeasure, and RoofSnap. Those products span aerial reports, mobile capture, full-property 3D modeling, estimating, proposals, and workflow integrations; Aether’s apparent angle is a low-friction, mobile and AI-assisted service that combines rapid roof reports with phone-generated full-house models and a broader contractor workflow.

The company is an active, San Francisco-based Y Combinator Winter 2024 startup, and trade coverage describes it as YC-backed when reporting the February 2026 launch of its Aether Reports mobile platform. The associated Aether Energy business was reported to have raised a $2.5 million seed round in October 2024 from noa, Y Combinator, Collaborative Fund, Amino Capital, and angels. Aether is therefore best characterized as an early commercial-stage company with publicly orderable products, a free trial, and disclosed seed funding; the available evidence does not provide a verified customer count, revenue figure, or proof of scale.