AI Revenue Engine for the Equipment Industry
TL;DR: Chasi deploys AI agents that work 24/7 to help equipment dealers respond faster, sell more, and maximize fleet utilization.
Hey all! We're @Akash Pavan and @Sarman Aulakh from Chasi.
We have built race cars, robots, tractors, and led AI deployments at F500 manufacturers like Tesla, Cummins, and Boeing. Now we're bringing AI to the $1T+ equipment distribution industry.
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Ask: If you work or know anyone in the equipment industry, introduce us! founders@chasi.co
⚙️Problem
One-third of the cost to build, move, and maintain the physical world goes to equipment (forklifts, cranes, excavators, etc), with trillions of dollars flowing through 100K+ dealers, distributors, and rental companies in the US alone. And that share is growing every year as machines get more capable and autonomous.
There are three core problems in the industry
- $300B value lost in idle equipment - Fleet utilization sits below 60%. One missed request or scheduling breakdown can leave a $200K asset earning nothing for weeks, wiping out months of margin.
- Software that creates work instead of eliminating it - Dealers spend millions on DMS, ERP, and CRM systems that don't talk to each other. 50% of staff spend 2+ hours every day on phone calls, emails, and data entry.
- Tribal knowledge is the operating system - Customer history, availability, who to call - it all lives in a few people's heads or offline notes. When they're off the clock, on vacation, or retired, the business stalls. New hires take months to ramp up, and after-hours demand goes unanswered.
🤖 Solution
Chasi plugs AI agents into a dealer's existing stack to work around the clock, maximizing revenue and margins:
- 24/7 AI Workforce - Chasi handles requests across sales, rentals, and service around the clock. Checks availability, generates quotes, and automates renewals, service follow-ups, and dispatch, so teams can focus on relationships, not busywork.
- Revenue Intelligence - Chasi pulls context from existing systems to build a complete picture of every asset, customer, and branch. Recommends what to add, remove, or reposition across locations to maximize utilization and profitability.
- Proactive Market Intelligence - Chasi also tracks which customers are spending more vs. less, scans permits and public filings, and pulls in hundreds of public data sources to surface opportunities before competitors do.
Our Mission
The true promise of AI is to create abundance. In the physical world, abundance translates to the capacity to build, move, and maintain the civilization around us. At the core of this capacity is equipment.
Chasi's mission is to build the agentic infrastructure layer for industrial commerce. History shows that when you remove friction and improve the flow of goods and information (roads, railways, the internet), everything gets cheaper and more productive. Chasi will enable the next AI leap for global abundance.
What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?
If we truly succeed, Chasi becomes the infrastructure layer for industrial commerce. AI agents, with human oversight, coordinate equipment, effectively match demand with supply, parts, payments, credit, and insurance across the industrial value chain. Chasi will be the clearing and coordination layer across OEMs, distributors, and marketplaces (Similar to Amadeus in the Travel Industry and Plaid in Financial Services)
History shows that when you remove friction and improve the flow of goods and information (roads, railways, the internet, etc.), everything gets cheaper and more productive. By giving businesses broader, easier access to equipment, with higher utilization, less downtime, and faster access to the latest machines across agriculture, construction, energy, logistics, and more, we can expand global productive capacity and further lower the real cost of everyday essentials: food, housing, transportation, and energy.
