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Airwork

Airwork is an on-demand labor marketplace for premium blue collar workers. You can get an Airworker the same way you get an Uber, except instead of a taxi, someone shows up at your work site to work for the day. Airwork fills 98% of shifts in 2 hours. We're currently live in 8 industries across Southern Ontario, Canada, and customers include Tesla, the Toronto Pearson Airport, and the CNE. We're funded by YCombinator, Expa, Village Global, and SHL Capital.

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Y Combinator
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last updated
2026-07-15
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #4874

Airwork is an on-demand labor marketplace for premium blue collar workers. You can get an Airworker the same way you get an Uber, except instead of a taxi, someone shows up at your work site to work for the day. Airwork fills 98% of shifts in 2 hours. We're currently live in 8 industries across Southern Ontario, Canada, and customers include Tesla, the Toronto Pearson Airport, and the CNE. We're funded by YCombinator, Expa, Village Global, and SHL Capital.

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High Signal interpretation

Airwork is classified as AI infrastructure from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Product facets
Airworkindustriespremium blue collar workersUber
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Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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AI infrastructure · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

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match 63

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shared extracted concept terms: blue, collar, worker; shared product terms: blue, collar, worker, up; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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match 59

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shared extracted concept terms: blue; shared product terms: blue, instead, up, day; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Kosh

match 58

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shared extracted concept terms: blue, collar, worker; shared product terms: blue, collar, worker; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Shyft

match 24

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shared product terms: uber; shared affiliation: Y Combinator