Togal.AI is an award-winning cloud-based platform that uses custom computer vision AI models to automate takeoffs in construction. It can automatically detect, measure, compare, and label project spaces and features on architectural drawings with 97% accuracy.
By using Togal.AI, we allow construction professionals to focus on higher value jobs because we’re eliminating the mundane parts of estimating. And we’re seeing great results. At Coastal Construction, the largest general contractor in Florida, estimators used Togal to cut their workload by 40 percent — saving around $1 million per year and 10,000 hours of work.
As the AECOO industry faces historic challenges—from labor shortages to record-high material prices to higher interest rates—industry professionals will more actively seek out artificial intelligence and tools like Togal.AI to become more efficient, save money and stay competitive in today’s challenging market.
Togal.AI is on a mission to make preconstruction much more efficient by using artificial intelligence. We are proud to be one of the first to bring ChatGPT to the construction industry. With Togal.GPT, construction professionals now have the ability to talk to their plans and have their plans talk back to them. It’s making it easier to access information and verify the facts we need to make decisions and take action during the building process. This ultimately helps speed up the rate of construction.
For instance, workers on site can find answers in construction documents instantly on their cell phones with Togal.GPT, without having to thumb through hundreds of documents or go back to the office to verify information.
We are innovating to improve communication by boosting cloud-based sharing in construction takeoffs — aiming to close the costly communication gap among general contractors and subcontractors.
Togal.AI users can now share plans in the cloud with all relevant parties (architects, engineers, trade partners, general contractors, etc) — empowering teams to perform faster and more accurate construction takeoffs and estimates. The upgrade comes as the global construction estimating software market is expected to grow 8.5 percent, reaching $2.2 billion by 2028.
Before this new feature, Togal.AI users could share plans in the cloud internally, but not externally with subcontractors. This meant hours of work downloading and exporting hundreds of drawings to email to subcontractors. Now, all they have to do is send an email invite and permission to view the entire project in real-time. It’s like a Google doc, but for in-depth construction plans that can be hundreds of pages long.
Our next step is adding a comment feature, so workers can put a pin on a drawing and ask questions, which will help reduce mistakes even further. Not only does this help our Togal.AI users, but we’re also exposing more construction professionals to our platform so they can try it out and consider subscribing.
One of the greatest challenges is “change” itself and this mindset within the construction industry that we should just keep doing things the same old way. But due to market pressures, we are finally starting to see a rapid growth and interest in AI in construction.
In 2023, Togal.AI grew by 940 percent—going from 250 users in 2022 to more than 2,600 users in 2023—with some of the largest construction companies across the nation using its AI tools. To us, this is a great benchmark of success that we are seeing more and more companies buy in and support us because they see what Togal can do.
We believe that 2023 will be remembered as the year that AI in construction took off with widespread adoption.
