Title: About Cercha Technologies and the name | Cercha Description: Meet Cercha Technologies and learn why its app takes its name from a truss. The iPhone beta starts with builders and trades in Raleigh-Durham. Canonical: https://cercha.pages.dev/about/ # Why we named it Cercha Cercha Technologies You need to know who is building a tool before you bring your business into it. Cercha Technologies builds technology for residential construction. The Cercha app is the first product from Cercha Technologies, a technology company. It brings builders, general contractors, remodelers, subs, crews, and building suppliers together through profiles, project photos, endorsements, and direct messages. In Spanish, *cercha* can mean a truss. The Real Academia Española’s dictionary gives this architectural definition in sense 2: > Armadura que sostiene la cubierta de un edificio. In English: the framework that holds up a building’s roof. [Read the RAE entry for cercha](https://dle.rae.es/cercha). The name gives the product its central image: different members supporting a shared structure. A house takes different businesses doing their part. Cercha helps those people find each other and start a conversation. [Read what a roof truss is](/guides/what-is-a-roof-truss/) or explore [trusses and engineered wood suppliers](/suppliers/trusses-and-engineered-wood/). A builder can review project photos before asking about a start. A sub can show the scope it handles. A supplier can list carried brands. The app gives each introduction work to discuss. The beta is open in the Raleigh-Durham Triangle first. Cercha opens other markets one at a time. If you work elsewhere, join the waitlist and tell us your market. Search, portfolios, endorsements, and Messages help you review a business and start a conversation. Confirm the scope, current credentials, and working agreement directly with that business. [Learn about the beta](/beta/) or [contact Cercha](/contact/). ## Build your connections [Join the beta]() ## Sources 1. Real Academia Española. (n.d.). *cercha*. Diccionario de la lengua española. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://dle.rae.es/cercha