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Trunk Tools

trunktools.com

Trunk Tools provides construction-specific AI agents that organize project data, automate workflows, and surface actionable answers.

HQNew York, New York, United States
Employees51-200
Funding$70M
14 active roles
Profile 6mo agoJobs checked 1h ago
AI / MLAI ApplicationB2B SaaSSeries A$50M-$200M

About

Trunk Tools builds an AI-powered platform for construction teams that organizes project documents—drawings, specifications, RFIs, schedules, and submittals—and automates repetitive workflows. It sells to builders, including superintendents and project managers, differentiating through construction-specific AI that flags risks and surfaces actionable answers instead of merely storing files.

Market

Trunk Tools competes in construction technology, specifically AI-powered construction data management and workflow automation for the built environment. It differentiates itself from traditional construction-software repositories and general-purpose AI by applying vertically tailored agents to proprietary drawings, specifications, RFIs, schedules, and submittals, then connecting those data to workflows and schedules to surface risks and automate repetitive work.

Target Customers

Ideal customers appear to be construction firms and builders—especially teams running complex, document-heavy projects—whose superintendents, project managers, and operations leaders need to automate jobsite administration. The platform is positioned for both large-scale deployments and the broader long tail of the construction market, but the evidence does not establish a precise employee or revenue cutoff.

At a Glance

Problem

Construction projects generate enormous volumes of fragmented, unstructured documentation, including drawings, submittals, RFIs, and changing plans. The information can run into millions of pages on a single major project and changes continuously as construction proceeds, making it difficult for field teams to find authoritative answers quickly. The resulting pain is operational and economic: slow reviews, missed project risks, avoidable errors, delayed mobilization, and costly rework.

The clearest use case is accelerating document-intensive field and project workflows. Trunk Tools customer examples describe faster submittal reviews, less repetitive document digging, quicker answers to jobsite questions, and fewer delays and instances of rework—turning information retrieval from a bottleneck into a productivity and risk-control function.

Product / Service

Trunk Tools is a generative-AI platform built around real construction workflows. It ingests unstructured project documentation and uses AI and machine-learning tools to restructure the information, automate tedious tasks, identify project risks, and simplify access to relevant details. Its products include TrunkText, which helps field personnel search and interrogate project documents, and TrunkSubmittal, which supports submittal review by giving less-experienced staff the benefit of construction expertise embedded in the system.

The product is delivered as construction software sold through the company, with customer engagement supported by implementation and case-study-driven adoption rather than a purely generic AI offering. Its benefit is faster, more consistent decision-making in the field: teams can resolve questions without repeatedly reconvening meetings, catch issues that might otherwise be missed, and keep projects moving while reducing administrative effort and rework.

Market

Trunk Tools competes in construction technology, specifically AI-enabled construction management, jobsite management, document intelligence, and business/productivity software. It overlaps with established construction-management platforms such as Autodesk Forma/Autodesk Construction Cloud, Procore, Quickbase, Fieldwire by Hilti, Simpro, and InEight. Those products generally emphasize centralized project data, collaboration, project controls, and workflow management, while Trunk Tools differentiates around applying AI to the large body of construction documentation and workflows already produced by project teams.

The company is not presented as pre-revenue in the available evidence: its site names customer deployments or case studies involving Cleveland Construction, Suffolk, Gilbane Building Company, and Haskell, with reported benefits including faster reviews, saved time, and prevented rework. Third-party estimates indicate commercial traction but disagree on scale: Growjo estimates approximately $8.5 million in annual revenue and $30 million in total funding, while ZoomInfo lists approximately $5.3 million in revenue and 11–50 employees. These figures should therefore be treated as directional rather than audited company disclosures.

Founders & Leadership

Sarah BuchnerFounder
Founder & CEO
Alec ShahCFO
Chris BoydChief Product Officer

Funding History

2023-07
Seed$9.9M

Innovation Endeavors

2024-08
Series A$20M

Redpoint Ventures

2025-07
Series B$40M

Insight Partners

Recent News

2026-07-28
Trunk Tools’ Session Highlighted in Autodesk’s Digital Builder Blog for AU 2026

Autodesk’s Digital Builder blog recommended Trunk Tools’ session with Cleveland Construction among its AU 2026 construction-management sessions.

2026-07-22
Trunk Tools CEO Dr. Sarah Buchner Featured on Bricks, Buck$ & Bytes Podcast

Sarah Buchner discussed why many construction AI tools fail, focusing on trust, construction drawings, and building systems that drive action.

2026-06-17product
Trunk Tools Launches Cortex AI Platform to Interpret Construction Drawings

Trunk Tools launched Cortex, an AI platform designed to connect drawings, RFIs, specifications, and submittals across project documents. The company says Cortex powers multiple workflow agents and has delivered substantial reductions in submittal-review time.

2026-05-19partnership
Trunk Tools Enhances Jobsite AI Capabilities with New Autodesk Forma Integration

The Autodesk Forma Build integration helps construction and preconstruction teams automate document-heavy tasks including submittal reviews, drawing-change detection, bid analysis, and RFI management.

2026-03-26product
Trunk Tools Enters Preconstruction with the Launch of TrunkBid

TrunkBid expands Trunk Tools into preconstruction by analyzing trade-partner bids, surfacing scope gaps, and supporting Excel exports for estimators.

2026-03-12
Sarah Buchner, Trunk Tools CEO: A Fortt Knox Conversation

In this CNBC interview, Buchner described Trunk Tools’ construction-data knowledge graphs and proprietary models trained on construction drawings, alongside the company’s rapid development of new AI agents.

2026-03-04partnership
Suffolk Inks Enterprise Agreement with Trunk Tools, Cementing AI Partnership

Suffolk signed an enterprise agreement to deploy Trunk Tools’ AI agents to more than 1,500 field users nationwide, expanding the companies’ construction-AI partnership.

2026-02-25product
Trunk Tools Announces Launch of TrunkReview

TrunkReview automates drawing-bulletin review and uses Cortex to understand entire drawings, including relationships beyond title-block text and markups.

2026-01-29
Trunk Tools’ Founder and CEO, Dr. Sarah Buchner, on Turning Construction’s Data Overload into Actionable, AI-Driven Decisions

Construction Today interviewed Buchner about applying construction-specific AI models to fragmented project documentation, improving coordination, and helping firms make more confident jobsite decisions.

2025-08-01partnership
Trunk Tools Uses AI to Reduce Construction Errors and Waste

CNBC profiled Trunk Tools’ generative-AI platform, which processes construction documents, identifies project risks, and simplifies workflows. The coverage also reported that Trunk Tools was partnering with Microsoft to integrate its technology into Microsoft’s suite of options.

Active Roles

14
New York City HQ/Engineering/1d ago
New York City HQ/HR & Recruiting/2d ago
Technical Account ManagerRemote$96k – $120k
Remote - US Time Zone/Technical Account Manager/34d ago
New York City HQ/Product/34d ago
New York City HQ/HR & Recruiting/34d ago
New York City HQ/Forward-Deployed Engineer/34d ago
New York City HQ/Forward-Deployed Engineer/34d ago
Remote - US Time Zone/Sales/130d ago
Sr. II ML Engineer $204k – $246k
New York City HQ/Engineering/133d ago
Senior Full Stack Engineer Remote$185k – $215k
Remote - US Time Zone/Engineering/157d ago
Remote - US Time Zone/Customer Success Manager/197d ago
New York City HQ/Engineering/197d ago
Austin/Sales/197d ago
Remote - US Time Zone/Sales/197d ago

Business Model

Trunk Tools operates as a B2B SaaS company selling construction workflow and AI software to business customers. Public pricing is available upon request, indicating a quote-based, sales-led model rather than transparent self-serve pricing.

Products

Trunk Tools AI construction platformCortex construction AI platformAI workflow agents for document and project-process automationNatural-language project-data search and question answering

Customers

Cleveland ConstructionTorcon

Tech Stack

Advanced AI for construction-document intelligenceNatural-language question answeringAutonomous AI workflow agentsProject-data and schedule integrationReal-time risk and delay detection

Competitors

Autodesk Forma
Procore
Quickbase
Oracle
OpenSpace

Key Investors

Insight Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, StepStone Group, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, Prudence