This startup says it's made ChatGPT for construction sites. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $40 million.

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Abstraction: Trunk Tools construction-specific AI agent raises $40M Series B

Key points:

Trunk Tools converts unstructured construction data (drawings, blueprints, schedules) into structured datasets for AI-powered Q&A on job sites
CEO Sarah Buchner describes it as "ChatGPT for your job site" — workers query in plain language and get sourced answers
Company trained custom LLMs from scratch on construction drawings and objects because general-purpose AI fails on domain-specific data
Pricing: subscription for software, outcome-based pricing for newer AI agents; customers include Suffolk Construction, Gilbane, DPR Construction
Raised $40M Series B led by Insight Partners (total funding $70M); 60-person team operating in US and Canada
Buchner embeds AI specialists inside customer organizations to manage adoption, analogous to Palantir's forward-deployed engineering model

Connections: Trunk Tools · AI Agents · Vertical AI · Large Language Models