美国初创公司Trunk Tools成功完成4000万美元B轮融资，该公司专注于为建筑行业开发AI助手。这些AI助手能够处理调度和项目跟踪等行政任务，通过将非结构化的建筑数据（如文件、图纸、蓝图和日程表）转化为结构化数据集，并在此基础上训练定制化的大型语言模型，使建筑工人能够以通俗易懂的语言向AI提问，并获得精准的答案及来源信息。Trunk Tools的CEO Sarah Buchner将其比作“工地ChatGPT”，其AI代理能够自主处理工作流程。公司主要通过订阅模式销售软件，并已获得Suffolk Construction、Gilbane和DPR Construction等知名客户的认可。

🏗️ Trunk Tools是一家专注于建筑行业的AI技术公司，已成功融资4000万美元，用于开发和推广其AI助手。这些AI助手旨在自动化处理建筑项目的行政管理任务，如项目进度跟踪和工作调度，从而提高效率。

🧠 公司核心技术是将建筑行业中分散、非结构化的数据（包括文档、图纸、蓝图和日程安排等）进行整合、处理，并转化为结构化的数据集。这些数据集随后被用于训练专门针对建筑行业特点的定制化大型语言模型（LLMs），以应对通用AI在处理此类数据时遇到的挑战。

💬 建筑工人可以通过简单的自然语言向Trunk Tools的AI助手提问，例如“这扇门需要电力吗？”，AI能够快速给出准确的答案，并提供相关信息来源的依据。这种交互方式极大地降低了信息获取的门槛，提高了现场工作的便利性。

🚀 Trunk Tools已成功部署了能够自主处理整个工作流程的AI代理，并将其CEO Sarah Buchner称为“工地ChatGPT”。公司采用与Palantir类似的“前线部署工程”模式，将AI专家嵌入客户组织内部，以推动行为改变和技术采纳。

💰 本轮融资由Insight Partners领投，Redpoint Ventures、Innovation Endeavors等参投，使得Trunk Tools的总融资额达到7000万美元。公司计划将新资金的一半用于产品研发，另一半用于市场拓展和销售策略的实施。

Trunk Tools has closed a $40 million funding round for its construction industry AI agents.The agents can handle admin tasks like scheduling and project tracking.BI got an exclusive look at the 19-page pitch deck the New York startup used to raise its Series B.

A New York startup that has built an AI agent for handling admin tasks in the construction industry has raised $40 million in funding.

Trunk Tools takes unstructured construction industry data — such as documents, drawings, blueprints, and schedules — and turns it into structured datasets to feed into its AI.

Construction workers can then ask the AI a question in layperson's language, such as, "Does this door require electricity?" and the AI provides an answer, along with the source material.

"So it's a ChatGPT for your job site," Trunk Tools' CEO, Sarah Buchner, told Business Insider.

In the last 18 months, Trunk Tools has rolled out AI agents that can autonomously handle entire workflows, such as scheduling and project tracking.

Buchner told BI that the startup has built custom large language models because general-purpose AI struggles with construction data.

"We trained multiple models completely from scratch from construction drawings, construction objects, room boundaries, and so on," Buchner said.

The company mostly sells its software as a subscription service, but some of its newer AI agents are charged per business outcome. Its customers include Suffolk Construction, Gilbane, and DPR Construction. The 60-person company operates in the US and Canada.

Buchner started her career as a carpenter with her dad at age 12 in a small village in Austria.

She worked her way up in the construction industry to a group leader, then built a construction safety app and completed a Ph.D. in civil engineering and data science.

Buchner compared Trunk Tools' placement of its AI specialists into its customers' organizations to manage behavioral change and adoption from the inside to what "Palantir does with forward-deployed engineering."

Insight Partners led the startup's $40 million Series B round, which included participation from Redpoint Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Stepstone, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, and Prudence.

It brings Trunk Tools' total funding to $70 million, which includes a $20 million Series A round in 2024.

Buchner told BI that the startup plans to allocate about half of its fresh capital to product development and the other half to its go-to-market strategy.

Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck Trunk Tools used to raise its $40 million Series B.