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Construction AI News: What's New for Contractors
Dated news briefs and Monday weekly roundups on AI for construction. Every item links its sources and shows when it was announced, and when we published and updated it (Pacific Time). Vendor claims are attributed to their source. Editorial standards · RSS feed
- ServiceTitan opens Max AI package to all residential contractors and pilots it for commercial and roofingAt Pantheon 2026, ServiceTitan made its AI-powered Max package available to every residential in-home contractor. It also started a limited pilot for commercial and roofing contractors and launched the Atlas mobile app and Homh, a consumer demand platform.
- Togal.AI launches 'Construction's Last Exam' benchmark; general AI models score 2% to 34% on takeoffTogal.AI released Construction's Last Exam, a 33-task benchmark that tests AI models on reading construction drawings and producing takeoff quantities. Construction Briefing reported general-purpose models scored between 2% and 34%. Togal sells takeoff software, so it is not a neutral party.
- Weekly roundup: week of Oct 5, 20262 verified construction AI stories announced Oct 5 to Oct 11, 2026: ServiceTitan opens Max AI package to all residential contractors and pilots it for commercial and roofing; Togal.AI launches 'Construction's Last Exam' benchmark; general AI models score 2% to 34% on takeoff.
- Miter raises $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures for construction payroll and back-office AIMiter, a workforce and back-office platform for contractors covering payroll, HR, field operations and expenses, announced a $40 million Series B led by Battery Ventures, with Bessemer and Coatue participating. Total funding is now $78 million. Miter says most of the money will go to building AI products.
- Quotr raises $4M seed round for AI construction estimating and procurementQuotr, a Berkeley-based AI estimating and procurement platform, raised a $4 million seed round led by Llama Ventures with strategic angel investors. The company says it will use the money to expand enterprise deployments, grow its supplier network and push into data center, heavy industrial and mission-critical work.
- Weekly roundup: week of Sep 28, 20262 verified construction AI stories announced Sep 28 to Oct 4, 2026: Quotr raises $4M seed round for AI construction estimating and procurement; Miter raises $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures for construction payroll and back-office AI.
- Adaptive raises $30M Series B led by Tidemark for construction accounting agentsAdaptive, which builds AI agents for construction job costing, AP, billing and WIP, raised a $30 million Series B led by Tidemark, bringing total funding to $57 million. The company claims more than 750 construction companies use it. It says a person reviews every agent action before posting.
- Autodesk shows construction agents and a Daily Log Agent at AU 2026, with its next-gen Assistant due in 2027At Autodesk University 2026, Autodesk announced a mobile Daily Log Agent that turns a superintendent's spoken update into a daily log, plus agents for document search, submittal review and bid proposals. Its next-generation Autodesk Assistant was only previewed, with rollout planned to begin in 2027.
- Buildots raises $130M led by O.G. Venture Partners, bringing total funding to $297MBuildots, which uses AI and site capture to track progress on large projects, announced $130 million in new funding led by O.G. Venture Partners, with Lightspeed, Intel Capital and others. Its total raised is now $297 million. CTech reported a valuation of nearly $1 billion.
- Weekly roundup: week of Sep 14, 20263 verified construction AI stories announced Sep 14 to Sep 20, 2026. Each item links to our full brief, with a primary source and independent coverage.
- OpenSpace unveils live indoor location, Site Mode and an AI agent platform at Waypoint 2026At its Waypoint 2026 event, OpenSpace announced AI Autolocation 2.0 with Live Location for real-time indoor positioning, a Site Mode that shows your location on drawings and BIM even offline, and an early-access Agent Ecosystem that gives AI agents jobsite visual data, including through MCP.
- Buildcheck raises $12M Series A for AI drawing review, with DPR's venture arm participatingBuildcheck, which uses computer vision to check construction drawings for errors, omissions and coordination conflicts, raised a $12 million Series A led by Telescope Partners. DPR Construction's venture arm, WND Ventures, also invested. The company says it has 110+ paying customers.
- Weekly roundup: week of Sep 7, 20262 verified construction AI stories announced Sep 7 to Sep 13, 2026: Buildcheck raises $12M Series A for AI drawing review, with DPR's venture arm participating; OpenSpace unveils live indoor location, Site Mode and an AI agent platform at Waypoint 2026.
- Homebuilding AI startup Digs raises $25.3M Series A led by Builders FirstSourceDigs, a Vancouver, Washington startup building AI software for home construction, raised a $25.3 million Series A with Builders FirstSource as the only lead investor. The two companies also signed a five-year commercial agreement to build Digs into Builders FirstSource's digital tools for builders and homeowners.
- Weekly roundup: week of Aug 24, 20261 verified construction AI story announced Aug 24 to Aug 30, 2026: Homebuilding AI startup Digs raises $25.3M Series A led by Builders FirstSource.
- Gravis Robotics raises $200M from SoftBank to retrofit heavy equipment for autonomyZurich-based Gravis Robotics, which retrofits excavators and other heavy machines with sensors and AI for assisted or autonomous work, announced a $200 million Series A from SoftBank. Sifted reported the round values the company at $1 billion. Gravis calls it the largest Series A in construction robotics.
- Weekly roundup: week of Aug 17, 20261 verified construction AI story announced Aug 17 to Aug 23, 2026: Gravis Robotics raises $200M from SoftBank to retrofit heavy equipment for autonomy.
- NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B model with 3B active parameters for agentsNVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open mixture-of-experts model with 30B total and 3B active parameters, aimed at fast, repetitive agent steps like tool calls. CNBC reported NVIDIA says it can run on a single GPU in a laptop or desktop. It is available in Ollama.
- Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight model for local AI agents, under Apache 2.0Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model it says is built for local agent work and small enough to run on a Mac or PC with one consumer GPU. The weights are under the Apache 2.0 license. Ollama added it the same day.
- Weekly roundup: week of Aug 10, 20262 verified construction AI stories announced Aug 10 to Aug 16, 2026: Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight model for local AI agents, under Apache 2.0; NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B model with 3B active parameters for agents.
- Procore agrees to buy DroneDeploy for about $845 million in cash, and closes the deal in SeptemberProcore announced a definitive agreement to buy DroneDeploy, the drone and robotics reality-capture platform, for about $845 million in cash. Procore says the deal will feed jobsite imagery into its AI agents. Construction Dive reported the deal closed on September 9.
- EU AI Omnibus takes effect, pushing back high-risk AI Act rules to December 2027 and August 2028The EU's AI Omnibus (Regulation 2026/1744) took effect July 27, 2026. It delays the AI Act's high-risk rules to December 2, 2027 for Annex III uses such as employment, and to August 2, 2028 for AI built into regulated products like machinery.
- Weekly roundup: week of Jul 27, 20262 verified construction AI stories announced Jul 27 to Aug 2, 2026: EU AI Omnibus takes effect, pushing back high-risk AI Act rules to December 2027 and August 2028; Procore agrees to buy DroneDeploy for about $845 million in cash, and closes the deal in September.
- Buildots launches Buildots Field for workforce, safety and logistics, with integrated app targeted for Q4Buildots announced Buildots Field, which sells the workforce, safety and logistics tools from its Genda acquisition under the Buildots name alongside its progress tracking. The company says a fully integrated Buildots Field app is on track for general availability in Q4 2026, with pre-sales open now.
- Weekly roundup: week of Jul 13, 20261 verified construction AI story announced Jul 13 to Jul 19, 2026: Buildots launches Buildots Field for workforce, safety and logistics, with integrated app targeted for Q4.
- Trimble adds AI takeoff and an AI assistant to its MEP estimating softwareTrimble announced AI features across its mechanical, electrical and plumbing estimating tools, including automated pre-takeoff setup, symbol recognition from drawings and an AI Smart Assistant in Accubid Anywhere. Trimble claims contractors using the features cut time on those tasks by as much as 60%.
- Weekly roundup: week of Jun 29, 20261 verified construction AI story announced Jun 29 to Jul 5, 2026: Trimble adds AI takeoff and an AI assistant to its MEP estimating software.
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