Builders run their business in pieces.
Because they just want to build houses. A website with one vendor. A project tool with another. The books in a third place. The pieces never quite meet, and work falls through the gaps between them.
Yglu unifies the whole business with a proven process, fitted to how the firm already runs, and the builder owns everything that gets built.
Kol Dorney, Founder.
Founded Yglu to build the platform he wished existed when a friend tried to run a custom home firm from a spreadsheet, an inbox, and a phone number.
Based in Knoxville, TN. Every install starts with a fit visit on your site with Kol on the truck, and Joseph runs the live sessions that fit the platform to how the firm already works.
Joseph, install lead.
Runs the roughly eight hours of live sessions that shape the platform to how a firm already works, then stays available after go-live for the small changes every install turns up in the first ninety days.
Every applicant hears back after the fit visit. Questions before then? Email Kol at kol@yglu.com.
A few principles, held on every install.
We learn how you already work
On site, in person, before anything is built. The system is shaped to your model so it makes the decisions you would make.
You own everything
The platform, the site, and the data are yours, built on your own accounts and handed to you. No lock in.
It keeps improving
Small, continuous improvement over time. The platform keeps getting better as your firm grows, which is why builders stay.
Reliability over novelty
A proven, repeatable process is the product. AI is the engine that makes it fit fast, never novelty for its own sake.
It started because great builders were running on four vendors that never spoke.
Yglu started because the builders we respected most were still gluing their business together from a website vendor, a project tool, and a bookkeeper who never spoke to either. Great work, run in pieces. The Why Yglu page is short for a reason: we thought the builders themselves should own the whole thing.
The first install was Matt Noss Construction in Knoxville, a custom home builder featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, with a five-pillar spine he had been selling with for years. The Matt Noss Way came first; the site and the install process got built around his shape, not the other way around.
Founded by Kol Dorney
Founded Yglu to build the platform he wished existed when a friend tried to run a custom home firm from a spreadsheet, an inbox, and a phone number.
Founder · Knoxville, TN
The same values a good build is judged by.
Transparency, organization, communication, on schedule, accountability. The platform makes them real on every job, and the Yglu Standard names them.
See the Yglu Standard →See if your firm is a fit.
Apply for an install. It starts with a free on site visit, no pressure and no obligation.
Free discovery visit. Month to month. No setup fee.