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Procore AI vs Trunk Tools

Two AI agent offerings that read project documents and draft RFIs and submittal reviews for human sign-off. Procore AI runs inside the Procore construction management platform, with agents that create or update Procore records. Trunk Tools is an AI-first platform whose Cortex knowledge graph reads every document and drawing on a project and runs task tools on top, connecting to Procore, Autodesk and file stores. Close but not identical: Procore AI is tied to Procore, Trunk Tools sits across your stack and adds bid scoping, bulletin review and SMS Q&A. Neither publishes prices; both say they do not charge per seat. Desk research from vendor pages read Oct 27, 2026; not tested, no winner.

DESK RESEARCH, NOT TESTED. Compiled from vendors' public websites (accessed Oct 27, 2026). Vendor claims are not verified by Means & Methods Lab. No scores or rankings.

In short: Procore AI (Construction management AI; no public prices (quote / sales)) vs Trunk Tools (Document intelligence; no public prices (quote / sales)). Facts last checked Oct 27, 2026. No winner declared; not tested.

Side by side

Procore AI vs Trunk Tools: vendor-published facts side by side
Sheet rowProcore AITrunk Tools
CategoryConstruction management AIDocument intelligence
AI role (our label)AI features added to established productAI-first
What it doesAI layer and agents inside Procore that create or update records such as RFIs and daily logs, with citations and sign-off before acting. It sits inside the Procore construction management platform. Vendor says agents execute workflows in Procore through over 150 built-in actions that create or update records such as RFIs, change events, daily logs, and action plans; agents can be triggered by project events or run on a recurring schedule; answers carry numbered citations to source files; permissions follow existing Procore roles; and agents never take action without sign-off. Procore describes a proprietary reasoning model, Magpie, trained on industry data, and says customer data is never used to train models like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Starter Pack agents listed: Deep Search, RFI (drafts RFIs from project context), Submittal Review (cross-checks submittals against the spec book), Daily Log, and Contract Review (flags scope gaps or risk). Plans page lists large language models from Anthropic and Google on Starter, and Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI on Pro and Enterprise. Customer figures on its AI page (e.g. Haskell cutting submittal review cycles from one week to 10 minutes) are vendor claims, not verified. Re-checked Oct 20, 2026: AI page and plans page unchanged in substance (Magpie reasoning model, over 150 built-in actions, numbered citations, sign-off before agents act, no third-party model training on customer data; the same five Starter Pack agents). Re-checked Oct 21, 2026: unchanged in substance (agents that draft RFIs, review submittals and fill daily logs for human review, agentic actions that create or update records in Procore, agents triggered by events or on a schedule, multimodal media in agent memory). Re-checked Oct 22, 2026: the Pro tier description now also mentions video intelligence and scheduled automations; tier structure unchanged. Re-checked Oct 23, 2026: the AI page is unchanged in substance (over 150 built-in actions that create or update records such as RFIs, change events, daily logs and action plans; event-triggered and scheduled agents; the Magpie reasoning model; citations and existing Procore permissions). Data-volume figures and customer quotes are vendor content and not used. Re-checked Oct 25, 2026: the AI page is unchanged in substance (agents that draft RFIs, review submittals and fill daily logs for human approval; agentic actions inside Procore; the Magpie reasoning model; citations and existing permissions). Data-volume figures and customer quotes are not used. Re-checked Oct 27, 2026 (also read for a compare): the AI page is unchanged in substance (Magpie reasoning model; agentic actions inside Procore that create or update RFIs, change events, daily logs and action plans; event-triggered or scheduled agents; numbered citations; existing permissions; no action without sign-off). Data-volume figures and customer quotes are not used.AI platform that reads project documents and drawings into a knowledge graph and runs tools for bids, RFIs, submittals, bulletins and SMS Q&A. The platform ("Cortex") plugs into a project's tech stack, reads documents and drawings into a living knowledge graph, and runs tools on top: TrunkBid (maps subcontractor bids against scope and highlights gaps), TrunkRFI (catches RFIs documents already answer and drafts the rest), TrunkRegister (reads a spec book and builds the submittal register), TrunkSubmittal (reviews submittals against the specs and drafts responses), TrunkReview (highlights clouded and unclouded changes from new bulletins), and TrunkText (SMS Q&A with source checks). Vendor says custom AI models are trained on 5+ years of jobsite data, live on 1,000 U.S. projects handling $50B in construction volume, and that teams get in-person jobsite training plus head-office change management (vendor claims). Re-checked Oct 19, 2026: (rendered in headless Chrome) the tool list now adds TrunkBrowse, which identifies and classifies objects on each sheet and links each one to its schedule row, spec section, RFIs, submittals and other sheets, and TrunkChange, which detects a change event when a bulletin or RFI response lands, traces affected trades and drafts the change event and potential change order with a rough-order-of-magnitude estimate by discipline, writing them back to the system of record. TrunkText now answers by text, web or Teams. Headline figures (1,000 U.S. projects, $50B volume) are unchanged vendor claims; the TrunkBrowse page's door-detection comparison against a generic AI model is a vendor claim, not verified. Re-checked Oct 21, 2026: homepage unchanged in substance (Cortex knowledge graph across project documents and drawings, with tools including TrunkText, TrunkSubmittal, TrunkRFI, TrunkReview, TrunkBid, TrunkBrowse, TrunkChange and TrunkRegister; the 1,000-project and $50B figures are unchanged vendor claims). A banner says it is at Groundbreak this week. Re-checked Oct 22, 2026: unchanged in substance; Cortex plus TrunkText, TrunkRFI, TrunkSubmittal, TrunkRegister, TrunkReview, TrunkBid, TrunkBrowse and TrunkChange are still listed, and the Groundbreak banner is still up. Re-read Oct 23, 2026 for a compare: the TrunkBrowse page says it is in beta with general availability in Q4 2026 and recognizes around 400 construction-specific object types; the TrunkChange page says it is planned to launch in Q4 2026; TrunkSubmittal lists Procore and Autodesk integrations plus support for SharePoint, Egnyte, Box or Dropbox, and TrunkRegister pushes to Autodesk via API or exports a Procore-ready CSV. Re-checked Oct 24, 2026: homepage unchanged in substance (Cortex knowledge graph with TrunkText, TrunkSubmittal, TrunkRegister, TrunkReview, TrunkRFI, TrunkBid, TrunkBrowse and TrunkChange in the menu). Customer quotes are vendor material not used here. Re-checked Oct 25, 2026: homepage unchanged in substance (Cortex knowledge graph that reads project documents and drawings, with TrunkText, TrunkSubmittal, TrunkRegister, TrunkReview, TrunkRFI, TrunkBid, TrunkBrowse and TrunkChange in the menu, plus AI Enablement). Project-count, construction-volume and data-history figures and customer quotes are vendor material not used here. Re-read Oct 26, 2026 for a compare: homepage unchanged in substance (Cortex knowledge graph with TrunkText, TrunkSubmittal, TrunkRegister, TrunkReview, TrunkRFI, TrunkBid, TrunkBrowse and TrunkChange; in-person site team training and head-office change management). TrunkRFI watches Procore and Autodesk for draft RFIs and you approve before anything is submitted; TrunkSubmittal publishes a PDF summary to the submittal record in Procore or Autodesk and supports teams on SharePoint, Egnyte, Box or Dropbox. The 1,000-project and $50B figures remain vendor claims.
Who it's forProcore customers (GCs, owners, specialty contractors).Superintendents, project managers, project engineers, project executives, subcontractors, and owners.
Pricing (as publicly stated)Not publicly listed. Plans page re-checked Oct 16 and Oct 19, 2026, unchanged in structure (all three plans also list agentic memory, a credit and activity dashboard and a voice agent): not charged per seat; Digital Coworker Starter Pack (6-month term, flat-rate pricing, up to 3 projects, 5 agents); Digital Coworker Pro (20 agents, video analysis, scheduled automations) and Enterprise (20+ agents, Agent Studio, deployment specialist support, BI connection) on 12-month terms with credit usage-based pricing. Large language models listed: Anthropic and Google on Starter; Anthropic, Google and OpenAI on Pro and Enterprise. Every plan routes to Request a demo; no prices shown. Earlier note (Oct 15, 2026): Not publicly listed. Not charged per seat. Digital Coworker Starter Pack: 6-month term, flat-rate pricing, up to 3 projects, 5 agents. Digital Coworker Pro (20 agents, video analysis, scheduled automations) and Enterprise (20+ agents, Agent Studio for custom agents, deployment specialist support, BI connection): 12-month terms with credit usage-based pricing; Procore says credits are consumed at data ingest and when agents perform tasks. No prices shown. Re-checked Oct 20, 2026: still no prices; same three plans and terms (Starter Pack on a 6-month flat-rate term with up to 3 projects and 5 agents; Pro and Enterprise on 12-month credit usage-based terms), and the Starter Pack column also lists a 15-minute data sync, PDF, image and file support, and Procore Actions. Re-checked Oct 21, 2026: still no prices; same three plans and terms (Starter Pack 6-month flat-rate with up to 3 projects and 5 agents; Pro with 20 agents and Enterprise with 20+ agents on 12-month credit usage-based terms); Procore still says it does not charge by the seat. Re-checked Oct 22, 2026: no price changes or published figures: Starter Pack is a 6-month flat rate for up to 3 projects and 5 agents, Pro is a 12-month credit-usage term with up to 20 agents, Enterprise 20+ agents with Agent Studio; no per-seat pricing. Re-checked Oct 23, 2026: plans page unchanged (not charged per seat; Starter Pack 6-month flat rate for up to 3 projects and 5 agents with Anthropic and Google models; Pro 20 agents and Enterprise 20+ agents with Agent Studio on 12-month credit usage-based terms, adding OpenAI models; no dollar figures). Re-checked Oct 24, 2026 (rendered plans page): unchanged (not charged per seat; Starter Pack 6-month flat rate for up to 3 projects and 5 agents; Pro 20 agents and Enterprise 20+ agents on 12-month credit usage-based terms; no dollar figures). Re-checked Oct 25, 2026: plans page unchanged (not charged per seat; Digital Coworker Starter Pack 6-month flat rate for up to 3 projects and 5 agents; Pro 20 agents and Enterprise 20+ agents with Agent Studio on 12-month credit usage-based terms; no dollar figures). Re-checked Oct 26, 2026: still no prices; same three plans and terms (Starter Pack 6-month flat-rate with up to 3 projects and 5 agents; Pro with 20 agents and Enterprise with 20+ agents and Agent Studio on 12-month credit usage-based terms; not charged by the seat; every plan routes to Request a demo). Re-checked Oct 27, 2026: still no prices; same three plans and terms (Starter Pack 6-month flat-rate with up to 3 projects and 5 agents; Pro with 20 agents and Enterprise with 20+ agents and Agent Studio on 12-month credit usage-based terms; not charged by the seat; every plan routes to Request a demo).Not publicly listed. Pricing page lists Core and Enterprise, each "one clear price based off your construction volume" and each quoted on request. Both list unlimited seats, no token limits, site team training and dedicated customer success support; Enterprise adds change management training, a custom LMS, forward-deployed expert support for custom skills and tools, and early access to new products. The page says Trunk Tools avoids consumption pricing. No dollar amounts shown. (Checked Oct 16, 2026.) Earlier note (Oct 15, 2026): Not publicly listed. Pricing page lists Core and Enterprise plans, each described as "one clear price based off your construction volume," with unlimited seats and no token limits; both are quoted on request. Re-checked Oct 19, 2026: Core and Enterprise unchanged and still quoted by construction volume; the page now also says Trunk Tools does not train on your project data and that Enterprise includes an LMS with AI Foundations and role and product certifications. Re-checked Oct 21, 2026: the page is now headed Simple, transparent pricing but still shows no figures: Core and Enterprise are each one price based on construction volume, both Request a quote. Both list every user included, unlimited usage (the vendor absorbs model cost), site team training and dedicated customer success; Enterprise adds change management training, a custom LMS, forward deployed experts for custom skills and tools, and early access to new products. Re-checked Oct 22, 2026: unchanged (Core and Enterprise, one price based on construction volume, quote on request, unlimited users, no token limits); the page now invites starting on live projects and says results show within two weeks (vendor statement). Re-read Oct 23, 2026: unchanged (Core and Enterprise, each one price based on construction volume, Request a quote; unlimited seats, no token limits, does not train on your project data; SOC 2 Type II listed in the footer). Re-checked Oct 24, 2026: unchanged (Core and Enterprise, each Request a quote; unlimited seats, no token limits, site team training; does not train on your project data). Re-checked Oct 25, 2026: unchanged (Core and Enterprise, each Request a quote; Enterprise adds a custom LMS and forward deployed experts who build custom skills and tools). Re-checked Oct 26, 2026: unchanged (Core and Enterprise, each one price based on construction volume, Request a quote; unlimited seats, no token limits, does not train on your project data; the page says Trunk Tools avoids consumption pricing). Re-checked Oct 27, 2026: unchanged (Core and Enterprise, each one price based on construction volume, Request a quote; unlimited seats, no token limits; the page still says it avoids consumption pricing).
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Facts last checked: Oct 27, 2026. Prices change; check the vendor page before relying on them.

Where the vendor descriptions differ

  • What each sells (vendor wording): Procore says its agents draft RFIs, review submittals and fill out daily logs inside Procore, with your field and office teams reviewing and approving every output. Trunk Tools says Cortex plugs into your tech stack, reads every document and drawing on the project and maps how they connect into a living knowledge graph, with ready-to-deploy tools on top.
  • Agents and tools named: Procore lists five Starter Pack agents (Deep Search, RFI, Submittal Review, Daily Log and Contract Review), 20 agents on Pro and custom agents built in Agent Studio on Enterprise, with built-in actions that create or update RFIs, change events, daily logs and action plans, and agents that can run on project events or a schedule. Trunk Tools lists TrunkText (SMS questions with cited answers), TrunkSubmittal, TrunkRegister (builds the submittal register from a spec book), TrunkReview (bulletin changes), TrunkRFI, TrunkBid (maps sub bids against scope), TrunkBrowse and TrunkChange (change event detection).
  • Where it runs: Procore says agents run on information already in Procore, with no new logins, and honor existing Procore role permissions. Trunk Tools' tool pages describe TrunkRFI watching Procore and Autodesk for draft RFIs and TrunkSubmittal working with Procore and Autodesk plus SharePoint, Egnyte, Box or Dropbox (vendor statements; not tested).
  • Models and data: Procore describes a proprietary reasoning model, Magpie, and lists large language models from Anthropic and Google on Starter and Anthropic, Google and OpenAI on Pro and Enterprise; answers carry numbered citations to source files. Trunk Tools says it runs proprietary construction AI models and does not train on your project data.
  • Rollout support: Procore lists deployment specialist support and BI connection on Enterprise. Trunk Tools lists in-person site team training and dedicated customer success on both plans, and on Enterprise full change management training, a custom LMS and forward-deployed experts who build custom skills and tools.
  • Pricing (checked Oct 27, 2026): neither publishes dollar figures. Procore AI's plans page says it does not charge by the seat: Digital Coworker Starter Pack is a 6-month flat-rate term for up to 3 projects and 5 agents, and Pro and Enterprise are 12-month terms with credit usage-based pricing; every plan routes to Request a demo. Trunk Tools lists Core and Enterprise, each one price based on construction volume with unlimited seats and no token limits, and says it avoids consumption pricing; both are Request a quote. See each tool page for detail.
  • Not used here: Procore's customer and data-volume figures, and Trunk Tools' project-count and construction-volume figures, its comparison guide against project management system AI, and customer quotes (vendor material).

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  • Whether your project documents and records already live in Procore, or are spread across Procore, Autodesk and file stores
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