BuildSavr

Renovators and contractors in Quebec need to buy long, varied materials lists (lumber, drywall, plumbing, electrical, and more) and today must manually check prices across many different hardware stores and building centres to find the best deal. This is slow and makes it hard to know if they are overpaying. The site frames this as something that has made hardware stores nervous, with press coverage describing it as an app that lets people pay the lowest price in hardware stores.

BuildSavr is an AI agent that takes a pasted materials list, for example 50 2x4x8 spruce studs, 30 sheets of drywall, and 15 sheets of plywood, and compares prices across retailers to find where the full list is cheapest. It currently compares 44 retailers in Quebec across 27 product aisles covering categories like lumber, drywall, insulation, siding, plumbing, electrical, roofing, windows, flooring, and lighting, with thousands of individual products catalogued per category. The product is presented as a chat-style interface where a user pastes a materials list and gets a price comparison back.