Artificial intelligence is reshaping the AEC industry at an unprecedented pace, with AI-driven solutions delivering intelligent insights, predictive analytics, and automation across nearly every stage of the project lifecycle. From design and planning to procurement, field management, and equipment, AI can help teams work faster, smarter, and more efficiently. This curated list highlights 40 AI solutions to watch in 2026, spanning from well-funded global startups to emerging platforms just coming out of stealth, reflecting the diverse range of innovations moving the industry forward.
Solutions are listed alphabetically by category. Companies denoted with a star beneath their logo will be in attendance at BuiltWorlds’ upcoming AI/ML Conference, Feb. 17-18 in Austin TX.
Company/Solution
Description
Quick Facts
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Articulate is an AI-powered drawing analysis tool for construction and solar contractors. The platform audits designs for code compliance prior to construction, detects clashes early, and automatically generates RFIs. Articulate also accelerates takeoff and estimating, helping preconstruction teams move faster. The company participated in Y Combinator’s Fall 2025 batch.
Year Founded: 2025
Headquarters: Chicago, IL
Beam AI is a cloud-based, AI-driven construction takeoff and bid support platform that automates quantity takeoffs from plans to help estimators save time and reduce errors. Its AI reads and extracts material and scope data from uploaded drawings, with human-reviewed QA, enabling faster bid preparation and higher bid volume without adding staff. Beam AI also includes tools for bid tracking and collaboration across teams.
Year Founded: 2023
Headquarters: Wilmington, DE
Total Raised: $48M (Attentive AI)
Boon is an AI platform that automates manual, repetitive workflows for construction companies. Boon’s AI agents embed directly into existing workflows, from preconstruction estimating to bid management. They automate the repetitive tasks that drain time and margins while surfacing the insights leaders need to make faster and more confident decisions.
Year Founded: 2023
Headquarters: San Mateo, CA
Total Raised: $25.5M
Document Crunch is an AI-powered risk reduction and document compliance platform for the construction industry that quickly reviews contracts, specifications, and other project documents to identify risks and obligations. It delivers actionable insights, best-practice guidance, and on-demand answers to help teams make informed decisions from bid pursuit through project execution, improving clarity and reducing risk exposure.
Year Founded: 2019
Headquarters: Atlanta, GA
Total Raised: $37.1M
Drawer AI is a software platform focused on electrical preconstruction, automating quantity takeoffs and estimating by analyzing PDFs of electrical drawings to detect and quantify devices, route circuits, size wires, and generate material lists much faster than traditional manual methods. It aims to help electrical estimators produce more accurate, efficient bids by reducing time spent on repetitive plan analysis and automating key estimating tasks.
Year Founded: 2021
Headquarters: Austin, TX
Total Raised: $5M
Firmus is a cloud-based AI platform that analyzes PDFs of 2D construction drawings during preconstruction to detect design risks, missing information, scope gaps, inconsistencies, and errors. Using proprietary tools AI-REVIEW and AI-MATCH, it provides actionable insights, comprehensive reports, and prioritized issue tracking. This helps general contractors, architects, and developers mitigate risk, improve bid accuracy, streamline reviews, and support better decision-making. The platform also features dashboards and collaboration tools for managing issues across design iterations.
Year Founded: 2019
Headquarters: Miami, FL
LeanCon is an AI-powered preconstruction platform that automates planning for vertical construction projects, including hospitality, civic, mission critical, residential, and life science projects. The platform works by generating schedules, cost plans, logistics, and execution strategies from building models. The platform aims to reduce manual effort, speed up bidding and planning, and improve accuracy through data-driven construction logic.
Year Founded: 2025
Headquarters: New York, NY
Total Raised: $6M
Mercator is an AI-powered platform designed to accelerate business development for the construction industry. It enables contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers to identify and qualify new private and public construction projects early. The platform achieves this by analyzing real-time data signals, such as rezoning, land transactions, and permit filings and mapping the complex relationships among key project stakeholders. It delivers early project insights, contact intelligence, and alerts so teams can pursue opportunities and build relationships before competitors. Mercator is currently live in Texas and Florida.
Year Founded: 2020
Headquarters: Calgary, AB
Total Raised: $4.53M
Togal AI is a cloud-based, AI-powered preconstruction takeoff platform designed for construction estimators. The software uses AI and machine learning to automatically detect, measure, label, and compare spaces and features within construction drawings, significantly reducing manual takeoff work. It supports real-time collaboration across teams, enables quick analysis and comparison of drawing sets, and includes Togal.CHAT, a proprietary AI feature that allows users to interact with and query their plans directly.
Year Founded: 2019
Headquarters: Miami, FL
Total Raised: $10.5M
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Briq is an AI-driven automation platform that uses digital workers to perform and manage complex, routine business workflows across finance, operations, and other departments, helping companies streamline tasks and improve efficiency. It powers autonomous task execution, reporting, and decision support by integrating with existing systems and turning data into actionable insights.
Year Founded: 2018
Headquarters: Santa Barbara, CA
Total Raised: $54M
Bynaus is an AI-powered construction platform that automates documentation and workflow execution by capturing field activity such as voice input, photos, movement, schedules, and time tracking, and converting it into structured project records. Using field interactions rather than manual data entry, it automatically generates reports, tasks, RFIs, timecards, safety logs, and compliance documentation through a suite of connected AI micro-applications.
Year Founded: 2025
Headquarters: Austin, TX
Constructable is an all-in-one AI-enhanced construction management platform that helps commercial construction teams manage projects from bidding through closeout with tools for RFIs, submittals, drawings, daily logs, punch lists, takeoffs, and financials in a single system. It combines project, field, and financial workflows with AI-powered search and productivity features to centralize documentation, improve collaboration, and speed up decision-making across the jobsite and office.
Year Founded: 2023
Headquarters: Santa Barbara, CA
Total Raised: $500K
Datagrid is an AI agent platform that automates end-to-end workflows by taking actions across connected tools, files, and systems rather than simply answering questions. It integrates with a broad range of platforms and APIs to analyze structured and unstructured data, execute tasks such as research, data validation, and financial analysis, and deliver results with source attribution and enterprise-grade controls. Datagrid was recently acquired by Procore.
Year Founded: 2019
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Egnyte's AEC content cloud provides collabroation, governance, and AI-powered insights for AEC stakehodlers and owners. It centralizes and secures project documents, large BIM/CAD files, RFIs, submittals, and related content while enabling seamless collaboration and version control across teams and tools like Procore and Autodesk. The AEC solution also includes industry‑specific capabilities such as automated project folder structures, AI‑driven insights, and document governance to improve productivity, reduce risk, and streamline workflows throughout the project lifecycle.
Year Founded: 2008
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Total Raised: $136M
Hardline is a voice‑first AI‑powered communication and documentation app designed for the field. It captures spoken jobsite conversations and phone calls and converts them into organized, timestamped, actionable project updates such as daily logs, punch lists, and tasks. It’s designed to work the way field teams naturally communicate, by talking rather than typing, so important details aren’t lost, disputes are reduced, and teams stay aligned in real time. Hardline offers bilingual support within its application and integrates with existing project management platforms, including Procore.
Year Founded: 2025
Headquarters: Los Angeles, CA
Karmen is an AI-powered scheduling assistant for construction that uses artificial intelligence to create and maintain project schedules. Users can upload project documents and Karmen will automatically generate a baseline work breakdown structure, activities, logic links, and durations, which can be edited via natural language and exported to Microsoft Project or Primavera P6. As projects evolve, Karmen can auto-propose updates to keep the master schedule current with change events and can draft associated time-impact narratives.
Year Founded: 2025
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Kroo is a data management and infrastructure platform for the construction industry that connects, centralizes, and syncs data from disparate project software (like PM, ERP, and scheduling systems) into a unified database to enable real‑time analytics, dashboards, and automated workflows. It helps construction teams reduce manual data entry, improve visibility across projects, and support data‑driven decision‑making and AI‑ready insights.
Year Founded: 2024
Headquarters: New York, NY
Kyro AI is an AI‑powered field and project management platform for construction, vegetation management, utilities, and related field services that digitizes workflows, centralizes project data, automates reporting, and improves collaboration between jobsite and office teams. It provides tools for timesheets, digital forms, document management, task tracking, and real‑time insights to reduce manual paperwork and boost operational efficiency across field operations.
Year Founded: 2021
Headquarters: Plano, TX
Macadamia Labs develops AI‑driven agent software that automates data‑intensive engineering and back‑office workflows by ingesting and interpreting diverse technical documentation (such as PDFs, spreadsheets, CAD files, and P&IDs) and integrating with existing enterprise tools to reduce manual work and surface insights across engineering and manufacturing projects. Its AI agents aim to free engineers from repetitive tasks and improve efficiency in complex engineering contexts including mechanical, industrial, and construction sectors.
Year Founded: 2025
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Total Raised: $500K
Nomic provides AI tools and a developer platform for organizing and analyzing large, unstructured data sets, particularly in industries like architecture, engineering, and construction. Its technology enables organizations to build custom AI models and knowledge agents that improve search, reasoning, and workflow automation over internal documents and project files. Nomic emphasizes secure data handling and integration with existing systems, helping companies extract actionable insights from their own data.
Year Founded: 2022
Headquarters: New York, NY
nPlan is an AI‑driven project forecasting and risk management platform for large construction and capital projects that uses machine learning trained on hundreds of thousands of historical schedules to help teams predict uncertainty, identify risks, and improve project delivery outcomes. Its tools enable more data‑driven schedule analysis, risk mitigation, and portfolio oversight to reduce delays and cost overruns in project planning and execution.
Year Founded: 2017
Headquarters: London, UK
Total Raised: $36.5M
SmartPM is a cloud‑based, AI-driven automated project controls and schedule analytics platform designed for the construction industry. The platform integrates with standard scheduling tools to transform raw schedule data into actionable insights on risks, delays, performance trends, and forecasted outcomes. Its Schedule Intelligence technology provides real‑time analytics, dashboards, and reporting to help contractors, owners, and developers improve predictability, mitigate risk, and optimize project delivery across portfolios. The platform supports portfolio‑level visibility, proactive risk identification, and data‑driven decision‑making throughout the project lifecycle.
Year Founded: 2016
Headquarters: Atlanta, GA
Total Raised: $11.9M
Trunk Tools is an AI‑driven construction technology platform that helps builders organize and interpret unstructured project data (like specs, RFIs, drawings, schedules, and contracts) and automate repetitive admin workflows so teams can get answers and insights faster on jobsites. Its suite of AI agents—including TrunkText for instant document Q&A, TrunkSubmittal for automated submittal checks, and TrunkReview for drawing revision analysis—is designed to boost productivity, reduce rework, and improve decision‑making for industry stakeholders. The platform integrates with common construction systems and is used by large contractors to streamline project documentation and field operations.
Year Founded: 2021
Headquarters: New York, NY
Total Raised: $70M
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Ailytics is an AI video analytics company that uses artificial intelligence to turn existing CCTV camera feeds into real‑time operational insights to improve workplace safety and productivity. Its solutions detect hazards, track efficiency metrics, and send alerts to help construction and industrial operations reduce risks and optimize performance.
Year Founded: 2021
Headquarters: Singapore
Total Raised: $2.7M
Certchain AI is a compliance platform for the built environment that combines generative AI with distributed ledger technology to support regulatory adherence, safety, and sustainability. Its platform simplifies complex compliance processes and uses a private, DLT-based trust network to enable ongoing verification of regulatory information for critical assets and construction products.
Year Founded: 2021
Headquarters: London, UK
Total Raised: $1M
Enlaye is an AI-native risk lifecycle management platform for the built world. It uses AI to help project stakeholders identify, assess, compare, and manage risk throughout a project's lifecycle. The platform integrates with existing workflows, ensures data privacy, and provides transparent, source-corroborated AI outputs. It offers tailored capabilities for builders, developers, and owners to improve efficiency, reduce costs, catch errors, manage exposures, and foster project collaboration.
Year Founded: 2023
Headquarters: Boston, MA
Total Raised: $1.7M
Structured AI is an AI-driven quality assurance and automation platform for construction design engineering that uses AI agents to review technical drawings and documentation for inconsistencies, code issues, and clashes across disciplines like mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and architectural. It aims to reduce manual QA/QC effort, catch errors earlier, and free engineers to focus on higher-value design tasks by automating repetitive checks and standards validation within existing workflows.
Year Founded: 2025
Headquarters: London, UK
Total Raised: $510K
xFigura is an AI‑powered design and collaboration platform aimed at architects, designers, and creative teams. It provides a web‑based workspace with generative AI tools for 2D/3D ideation, visualization, and real‑time collaboration to accelerate early design workflows and creative exploration. The platform integrates multiple AI models to help users quickly generate images, sketches, and simplified 3D concepts from text or visual inputs.
Year Founded: 2025
Headquarters: Boston, MA
Augmentir is an AI-powered connected worker platform that helps organizations improve safety, quality, and productivity for frontline teams. Companies use Augmentir’s AI-driven workflows and remote collaboration tools to optimize operations and support continuous improvement in training, performance support, and workforce development.
Year Founded: 2018
Headquarters: Horsham, PA
Total Raised: $10.5M
Eyrus is a worksite intelligence and workforce management platform for the construction industry. It provides real‑time visibility into who is on a jobsite, automates worker registration, onboarding, time and attendance tracking, and supports access control, safety monitoring, reporting, and communications for projects of all sizes. The platform combines automated data capture with dashboards and reporting tools so project teams can improve productivity, safety, security, and operational efficiency.
Year Founded: 2015
Headquarters: Washington, DC
Total Raised: $14.7M
As an infrastructure intelligence platform, Arbel’s mission is to bring clarity to the world’s most unwalkable outdoor, large-scale infrastructure projects. The platform uses AI to transform drone scans and project documentation into trustworthy insights. The team is based in Israel and is currently working with select partners.
Year Founded: 2024
Headquarters: Binyamina, Israel
Buildots is an AI-driven construction management platform that automates on-site progress tracking by consolidating real-time data, predictive analytics, and project schedules into a single dashboard to improve visibility and decision-making on construction projects. It uses AI tools, including an assistant called Dot, to help teams monitor performance against plans, anticipate potential delays, and make data-driven decisions to keep projects on schedule and reduce inefficiencies.
Year Founded: 2018
Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Israel
Total Raised: $166M
OpenSpace offers a Visual Intelligence Platform using AI and spatial computing to capture, document, and analyze jobsite conditions from images, 360° cameras, drones, and mobile devices. It automatically maps reality data to plans and BIM models to give builders and project teams real‑time, actionable insights on progress, quality, and issues throughout construction. The platform aims to improve visibility, reduce rework, and support faster decision‑making across field and office workflows.
Year Founded: 2017
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Total Raised: $199M
Track3D is an AI‑driven Reality Intelligence Platform that consolidates visual site data from drones, 360° cameras, laser scanners, and LiDAR devices into a single cloud system to deliver real‑time progress tracking, deviation detection, and actionable project insights. The platform automates jobsite monitoring, helps reduce rework and delays, and enhances collaboration and decision‑making for contractors and owners.
Year Founded: 2022
Headquarters: Milpitas, CA
Total Raised: $14.3M
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Pronto develops scalable autonomous haulage systems for off‑road industrial environments like mining, quarries, and construction sites, using AI and camera‑based navigation to improve safety and productivity. In July 2025, Pronto completed the acquisition of SafeAI, a safety‑focused autonomous solutions provider, integrating SafeAI’s multi‑sensor technology and high safety‑integrity framework to expand Pronto’s autonomous offerings and support a tiered portfolio for varied customer needs from small quarries to large mining operations.
Year Founded: 2018
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Xpanner develops automation solutions powered by physical AI to improve jobsite productivity, safety, and efficiency by retrofitting existing heavy machinery with intelligent control and task‑specific automation. Its flagship X1 Kit adds real‑time perception, control, and adaptive AI capabilities to conventional equipment. This turns equipment into software‑defined machinery that can autonomously perform precision tasks like pile driving, helping address labor shortages and reduce manual effort on construction sites
Year Founded: 2020
Headquarters: Santa Fe Springs, CA
Total Raised: $18.3M
Versatile provides an AI‑enabled sensor and analytics platform that attaches to cranes to automatically capture detailed pick data and crane activity on construction sites. By analyzing lift counts, locations, durations, and related metrics, it delivers real‑time insights on crane productivity, utilization, cycle times, and workflow bottlenecks, helping contractors optimize scheduling, improve safety, and make data‑driven decisions without manual tracking.
Year Founded: 2016
Headquarters: Los Altos, CA
Total Raised: $106M
Concrete AI is a data science company that uses generative artificial intelligence to optimize concrete mix designs for cost, performance, and embodied carbon reduction. Built on technology developed at the University of California, Los Angeles, its platform supports code compliance and performance certainty while helping concrete producers improve margins and streamline their supply chains.
Year Founded: 2021
Headquarters: Los Angeles, CA
Total Raised: $7.2M
Field Materials AI is a construction procurement and materials management platform that uses AI to automate and streamline material purchasing workflows. This includes reading vendor quotes, creating purchase orders, matching delivery slips, and validating invoices, while integrating with major construction ERPs to eliminate manual data entry and improve real‑time visibility across jobsites. Its tools help contractors reduce processing time, catch invoice errors to save on material costs, and centralize procurement, inventory, and prefab order management on web and mobile interfaces.
Year Founded: 2022
Headquarters: Charlotte, NC
Total Raised: $19M
Kaya AI is an AI‑powered supply chain and workflow intelligence platform for construction, using advanced automation and real‑time data to streamline procurement tracking, reduce manual work, and improve delivery timelines across complex builds. Its tools centralize project data, integrate with existing workflows, and offer predictive insights to help teams avoid delays and keep projects on schedule and within budget.
Year Founded: 2022
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Total Raised: $5.3M
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