Trunk Tools
The AI platform built for construction, turning project documents into cited answers and automated workflows
By Trunk Tools · 4.3/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- General contractors and construction managers running document-heavy commercial projects
- Superintendents, project managers and project engineers who lose hours digging through specs, RFIs and submittals
- Teams that want cited, source-backed answers from project documents on jobsite devices or by SMS
- Mid-size to enterprise builders with digitised drawings, specs and project management systems
- Owners and subcontractors that need submittal review and bid-scope gap analysis without adding headcount
Ideal size: 50–1,000+ field and office users people · Mid-market or enterprise GC with standardised, digitised project documents
Not for
- Small residential remodelers or specialty trades that do not keep digitised project documents
- Buyers looking for a generic AI chatbot rather than construction-specific document reasoning
- Teams that need the system of record for project management — Trunk Tools sits on top of one
- Buyers requiring published list pricing or self-serve signup
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
~2 weeks on live projects
~14 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
On request
One annual price based on your construction volume (Core or Enterprise); unlimited seats and unlimited usage with no per-seat or token fees. Quote-based, no list price published.
Implementation Friction
2/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Unlimited seats on every plan; no per-seat fees
Add-on costs
- None
Company & support
Who is behind Trunk Tools, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- 2021 · 5 yrs in business
- Headquarters
- Not recorded
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailNot listed
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsNot listed
- Dedicated account managerAll plans
- In person / on-siteAll plans
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
- Not stated
Pricing page lists in-person site team training on your projects and a dedicated CS partner after go-live on both Core and Enterprise. Enterprise adds change-management training, a custom LMS and Forward Deployed Experts. No support phone line, email address or SLA is published.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Trunk Tools sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line. A dashed ring marks an outlier pinned to the edge; hover for its value.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Trunk Tools
- Propeller
- AccuLynx
- Jonas Construction Software
- Bridgit
- Revizto
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Trunk Tools. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Trunk Tools ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Vendor pages state Cortex reads every document and drawing on a project and maps how they connect into a living knowledge graph, with tools layered on top: TrunkText returns cited answers by SMS or web, TrunkSubmittal analyses submittals against specs, TrunkSubmittal builds registers from spec books, bulletin changes are highlighted, RFIs already answered are caught, and TrunkBid maps…
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Never trains on your data
- Runs on
- Its own models
- AI pricing
- Included in the plan
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Vendor's key
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Trunk Tools is an AI platform built for construction. Its Cortex layer ingests every document and drawing on a project, then purpose-built tools (TrunkText, TrunkRFI, TrunkSubmittal, TrunkReview, TrunkBid) answer questions with citations, draft RFIs, review submittals and map bid scope. Pricing is a single volume-based fee with unlimited seats and no token limits, plus in-person site training and a dedicated CS partner. The vendor reports deployment across roughly 1,000 U.S. projects and case studies claiming hundreds of hours saved.
Frequently asked questions
How is Trunk Tools priced?
Vendor pricing page describes one clear price based on your construction volume across two tiers, Core and Enterprise. Both include unlimited seats and unlimited usage with no token limits or per-seat fees, and the vendor states it absorbs the model cost. No list price is published; you request a quote.
How long until we see value?
Trunk Tools asks you to start on live projects with real documents and deadlines, and states that within two weeks you will see how it changes the way your team works. In-person site team training on your own projects is included from the start.
Does Trunk Tools train on our project data?
No. The pricing page states that your project data stays yours and 'we do not train on it.' The vendor also notes documents are preprocessed and models pretrained up front, which is how usage can remain unlimited.
Does it replace our project management system?
No. Trunk Tools positions itself as an intelligence layer that plugs into your existing tech stack and project and document management systems, reads the documents there, and layers workflow tools on top rather than acting as the system of record.
What support and adoption help is included?
Both plans include in-person site team training with your documents and a dedicated customer success partner after go-live. Enterprise adds full change-management training, a custom LMS with role certifications, and Forward Deployed Experts who build custom skills.
Who is it designed for?
Construction teams: general contractors, construction managers, superintendents, project managers and engineers, plus owners and subcontractors. The vendor says it was built by people from construction, with models trained on 5+ years of real jobsite data.