03/31/2026
A couple weeks ago, GNF founder Jason Bartz sat down with our latest micro-grant awardee, Abhishek Chandrakant Jadhav, founder of PMflow, for coffee to go deeper on the story behind the product and the team. 💖
We learned how he came up with the idea while working at a construction company in Houston, where he saw pre-construction teams overwhelmed by emails and spreadsheets, and only discovering schedule and cost issues once they were ALREADY impacting the project. 🏗️😬
PMflow is their answer to that problem. It connects to the tools teams already use and continuously captures key workflow signals such as quotes, revisions, approvals, and pending decisions.
The product then uses AI to flag what's stuck, what's missing, who owns it, and the next best action so leaders get a clear, daily view of risk instead of chasing threads. Abhishek's joined by his co-founder Pranav Kundaikar, the technical backbone of PMflow and the former CTO of Bolt IoT, who brings DEEP technical and product experience.
Both Abhishek and Pranav recently earned their master’s degrees from the University at Buffalo and now serve as venture coaches, supporting other student and early-stage founders while building PMflow full time. They have also been selected as one of 13 semifinalist teams in the Panasci Competition at UB, which highlights the university’s top student-led ventures each year.🧑🎓🙌
They are intentionally choosing to stay in Western New York. Their plan is to build PMflow, grow, and make this company their PRIMARY focus at a time when many recent graduates are searching for traditional roles elsewhere.
Right now, they already have a working product and early interest from the industry. They're spending their time talking to as many relevant people as possible, lining up conversations with potential customers, attending their first industry event to run structured customer discovery, and applying to programs such as UB Cultivator to plug into additional support and feedback.
Their current asks are clear:
🤝 Warm intros to construction companies, including general contractors, subcontractors, owners representatives, and construction-adjacent manufacturers, who are willing to walk them through how pre-construction handoffs and coordination actually work today.
💸 Connections to investors who are interested in construction technology and workflow tools that can be adopted by real teams.
💼 Introductions to potential sales or go-to-market leaders with construction experience who can help shape their early pilot and commercialization strategy.
If you or your organization fits any of these descriptions, or if you are simply curious about what they are building, you can learn more at https://pmflow.net or reach out so we can help make the connection.
This is EXACTLY the kind of early, Buffalo-built company GNF is proud to support, and we're excited to see where Abhishek, Pranav, and PMflow go from here! 🏗️
