Leeds startup makes multi-million-pound investment in ‘game-changing’ new app

A multi-million-pound investment by Yepic has seen the Leeds based startup launch a ‘game-changing’ photo-based app for UK tradespeople.

Now available in app stores, Yepic gives electricians, plumbers, builders, decorators and joiners a unique new way to record and manage their jobs using photos taken on their smartphones.

Yepic is the brainchild of its CEO and former electrical contractor, Sam Overment, plus a tech and design team he has brought together with investment backing from Labora, the parent company of City Electrical Factors’ (CEF).

Rapidly gaining momentum within the construction trades sector since its full launch in May this year on mobile and desktop, Yepic’s user-friendly interface has been designed to empower the country’s tradespeople.

Sam commented: “Yepic is so easy to get started; all you need is a phone number and the app downloaded. When you take a photo on your phone, the app captures the exact location and creates a ‘job’ in the app.

“You can add a caption like a customer’s name and include notes and tasks to help manage the job, while choosing to have every visit you make and every photo you take automatically added using GPS, accurately recording addresses, eliminating time-consuming manual data entry.”

Automatically finding all job photos on your phone, Yepic allows users to quickly sort and categorise thousands of images into job albums, tracking hours spent at each job, capturing precise arrival and departure times.

Sam continued: “Every tradesperson has the problem of needing to record their work movements and jobs with many relying on their memory alone, adding stress to their workday.

“Customers, employers, tutors can challenge how long you are at a job, so having a detailed log of every visit, every hour and a visual record is really helpful; especially when you don’t have to do anything to create it other than take a photo.”

The Yepic app is free and has so far been downloaded by more than 13,000 tradespeople with a target of 50,000 downloads by the end of the year in what is one of the UK’s largest sectors by employment, including 800,000 self-employed tradespeople among the 2.5 million people employed across the country’s construction trades industry.

By Matthew Neville – Senior Correspondent, Bdaily

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