OUR STORY

Your home knows
how it's doing.
Now you can too.

Cobnect turns the building science behind a home energy audit into something you can act on in minutes, not weeks. Clear answers, before a dollar is wasted. Built in Canada, for Canadian homes.


Every home every budget
Accurate by design
Engineered not generated
HOW WE GOT HERE

People have always cared about how their homes perform. They just never had anything that could actually show them.

Cobnect began with a simple question: Why don't homes tell us how they're really doing?

We track a car's fuel efficiency down to the litre. We worry about a vehicle that costs a few hundred dollars a month to run. Yet the largest, most energy-hungry asset most of us will ever own tells us almost nothing about how it's really performing. Utility bills rise and comfort drops, yet real insight into a home's performance remains out of reach.

Audits exist, and they are rigorous. They also cost hundreds of dollars, require a booking, and arrive weeks later. Most homeowners facing a real decision before winter cannot wait for that process. Most never start it at all.

Our founders, with backgrounds in environmental science and engineering, saw the gap clearly. A home operates as a dynamic system, where structure, energy, and climate interact to shape comfort and cost. What was missing was a way to put that insight within reach of the person standing in their kitchen, trying to decide what to do.

So Cobnect was built to turn hidden home data into clear insight. We model that system, and we hand you the answer.

Cob

From cob houses, among the first durable, efficient earthen homes, built to breathe with the planet.

Nect

Connection. The bridge between that natural wisdom and today's digital intelligence.

Why it matters now

11 million

To meet its climate commitments, Canada needs to retrofit roughly 11 million homes by 2050. At the pace we move today, that would take more than a century.

We decided not to wait that long.

OUR MISSION

Make every home in Canada clearly understood, confidently improved, and ready for what comes next.

What we stand on

i.

The details are the product

We design our models and reports the way building scientists think about a home, as a physical system. That rigour is what makes the answer reliable enough to act on.

ii.

Innovation to accelerate change

We use cutting-edge technology to remove the barriers that slowed climate action for decades; cost, time, and access. What was once out of reach is now available to everyone.

iii.

Clarity through simplicity

Energy performance data should not require a specialist to interpret. We do the hard work behind the scenes, so the insight feels effortless on your end.

iv.

Net Zero, one home at a time

The science is clear and the urgency is real. We exist to help people take practical, meaningful steps toward more efficient, lower-carbon homes, starting with theirs.

THE PEOPLE BEHIND IT

Two founders who knew the problem firsthand, and decided the answer should be built differently.

Saman Sakhaei, CEO of Cobnect

Saman Sakhaei

Chief Executive Officer


We started Cobnect because too many homeowners are making expensive energy decisions in the dark. Audits are costly, advice is confusing, and the typical retrofit plan quietly assumes you have $50,000 sitting ready. That never sat right with me. So we built Cobnect to turn complex building science into something you can actually act on, clearly, before a dollar is wasted.

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Yalda Fazli, CPO of Cobnect

Yalda Fazli

Chief Product Officer


The numbers are striking on their own. To meet its climate commitments, Canada needs to retrofit roughly 11 million homes by 2050. At the pace we're moving today, that would take more than a century. We didn't want to wait that long. So we built something different: practical, affordable, and made to scale, for the homeowner at the kitchen table, the city planning its next program, and the business trying to do right by both.

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Want to join our team?

We're turning building science into something every homeowner can actually use. If you're excited by what we're building and want to be part of it, we'd love to hear from you. Get in touch.