Trunk Tools provides an AI platform that organizes and analyzes drawings, specs, RFIs, schedules, and submittals generated across a construction project's lifecycle. Users can ask natural-language questions and receive instant, accurate, actionable answers sourced from relevant project information. The company is founded and led by CEO Dr. Sarah Buchner and is headquartered in New York. Trunk Tools is already deployed on hundreds of construction projects. The company plans to scale its AI platform across more complex and diverse projects and expand its field enablement program. It will also grow its engineering, product, and go-to-market teams to support that expansion. Trunk Tools provides an AI platform that ingests PDFs, spreadsheets, drawings, blueprints and tables to structure construction documentation and answer questions via a chatbot-like interface. The product can link scheduled construction activities with supporting documents to surface potential issues and insights. The company competes with vendors like Briq, Join and PlanRadar in a construction software market projected to be sizable. Trunk Tools reports a double-digit number of construction-industry customers and thousands of users and is targeting a 4x revenue-to-burn-rate ratio. It operates with a 30-person, New York-based team. The company plans to use new funding to grow the team and develop new services, including a construction worker incentive program. Trunk Tools offers an all-in-one platform that lets construction employees access a portion of their wages daily at no extra cost while providing an incentive-based tool to drive engagement and productivity. The platform uses AI to help managers set productivity goals and safety rewards and delivers payments and rewards via SMS and dedicated debit cards, avoiding extra app downloads. Trunk Tools’ software integrates with existing payroll systems so companies can pay employees instantly and maintain workflow continuity. The company emphasizes AI-based project management combined with behavioral and economic psychology to improve project timelines, budgets, and workforce retention. Trunk Tools plans to use its new capital to expand its team, accelerate development of its output-focused incentives solution, and drive market adoption. The company announced a $9.9M seed raise and has been accepted into Stanford’s dy/dx program supported by top-tier venture firms.

Total raised

$70M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Jul 2025