Skillit is expanding nationwide
Scaling AI-first access to America's largest network of vetted craft workers
We started Skillit in 2021 with a single customer looking to solve their carpenter hiring challenges in Nashville. By the end of that first year, we had over 1,000 carpenters on the platform. At the time, that felt like a huge milestone.
It’s pretty incredible to step back now and realize how far that’s grown. Today, Skillit supports more than 200,000 craft workers across dozens of U.S. markets, and I’m thrilled to announce that in 2026, we’re expanding nationally!
Our mission has always been to scale the world’s craft so that anything can be built, anywhere. We believe that starts by making it easy for America’s top contractors to find, connect with, and hire the skilled workers who already exist — while building the AI hiring infrastructure needed to grow the workforce over time and remove the structural frictions that create labor shortages.
The early success we’ve seen in our beachhead markets, combined with rapidly accelerating customer demand, is what’s driving this next phase and as we expand across hundreds of U.S. markets, our goal is to support more than 1,000,000 craft workers by the end of 2026.
Customer-driven expansion
We are expanding quickly, but intentionally, in three phases:
Phase 1: Live markets (deepening coverage)
These are markets where Skillit is already live and focused on aggressively increasing supply depth, density, and responsiveness:
Southeast
Southwest
Colorado
Phase 2: Expansion markets (customer-requested, underway)
These markets are where Skillit is actively expanding coverage in response to customer demand:
New England (including New Hampshire)
DC metro area, including Maryland and Virginia
Midwest
Mountain West
Phase 3: Planned markets (demand-led)
These markets are planned for entry as customer demand reaches the necessary thresholds:
West Coast
Pacific Northwest
Mid-Atlantic
What this means for America’s builders
For Skillit customers, this expansion delivers radically faster access to vetted craft workers with both better economics as you scale, and the ability to enter new markets with confidence.
Very importantly, it expands not only scale, but coverage. Whether you’re hiring union carpenters or open-shop electricians, staffing locally or deploying per-diem crews across states, or executing civil, commercial, or industrial projects, Skillit is built to support the full range of trades, labor types, and geographies required to execute complex work at scale.
If you’re a Skillit customer (or planning to be one this year) and a region on this list is a priority, let us know as soon as possible and we’ll endeavor to align our scale and coverage to meet your needs.
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