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Broccoli (YC W22) is building an AI front office for home services businesses, answering calls, following up with leads, and booking appointments across voice and text. Today, they serve more than 500 customers, are booking jobs at a run rate of over $1 billion a year, and expect to end the year at more than $60 million in ARR, up from zero just two years ago, after recently raising a $30 million Series B. In this Founder Fireside, Broccoli’s founders AJ Jain and Aditya Ketkar join YC's Gustaf Alstromer to share the long path to finding that business, from an earlier EV startup that never fo