Togal.AI
AI tool that reads construction blueprints and automatically measures and counts everything on them — walls, doors, square footage — for building a cost estimate.
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Description
Before a construction company can bid on a project, someone has to go through the blueprints and manually count and measure everything — every door, every wall, every square foot of flooring — a slow, error-prone process called a "takeoff" that can take an estimator days on a large project. Togal.AI reads the same drawings a person would and does that counting and measuring automatically, turning a multi-day manual task into something closer to a same-day job. Togal.AI detects and measures building elements directly from uploaded construction drawings, supports cloud-based collaboration so a team can work on the same takeoff together in real time, compares revised drawings to flag exactly what changed between design versions, and includes "Togal.CHAT" for asking questions about a set of plans in plain language. It's priced per user rather than per project, with a Business tier adding SSO and dedicated support for larger estimating teams.
💬 Our review
The short version: Togal.AI's core value is compressing the slowest, most tedious part of construction bidding — manually counting and measuring blueprint elements — from days down to hours, which directly affects how many bids an estimating team can turn around in a week.
The drawing-comparison feature is a genuinely underrated part of the product: construction projects go through many design revisions, and manually re-checking what changed between two versions of a drawing set is its own significant time sink that a straightforward takeoff tool doesn't solve — automatically flagging the differences is real, additional value beyond the initial estimate. Being built by someone from a multi-generational construction family (not a generic software founder) shows in the product's focus on the actual estimating workflow rather than a more abstract "AI for construction" pitch. The honest caveat: at $299/month per user with no free trial, it's a real commitment to test, and its accuracy claims (98% on floor plans) and speed claims (5x faster) are the kind of numbers worth validating on your own drawing sets before betting an estimating team's workflow on them, same caution that applies to any vendor's own benchmark. Against traditional takeoff tools like PlanSwift or Bluebeam (manual, ruler-and-click takeoff on a screen), Togal.AI's pitch is replacing manual measurement with automatic detection — a bigger workflow change, and worth a real trial period to confirm it holds up on your specific drawing types before committing a whole estimating team to it.
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Pros
Automatic detection and measurement from blueprints, replacing manual takeoff
Drawing comparison flags exactly what changed between design revisions
Cloud-based real-time collaboration for estimating teams
Built by an actual construction-industry founder, focused on estimator workflow
Cons
$299/month per user with no free trial is a real commitment to validate first
Accuracy and speed claims (98%, 5x faster) should be tested on your own drawings before committing
❓ Frequently asked questions
- What does Togal.AI actually automate?
- It reads uploaded construction drawings and automatically detects and measures building elements — walls, doors, square footage — replacing the manual "takeoff" process an estimator would otherwise do by hand.
- Can it help when drawings get revised mid-project?
- Yes — its drawing-comparison feature automatically flags exactly what changed between two versions of a plan set, rather than requiring a manual re-check.
- Is there a free trial?
- No — Togal.AI is a direct paid commitment at $299/month per user (Growth tier), with custom Business pricing for larger teams.
- Is it worth the money compared to alternatives?
- If automatic detection genuinely replaces hours of manual measurement for your estimating team, yes — but validate the accuracy claims (98% on floor plans) on your own drawing types during onboarding, since there's no free trial to test first.
- Which tool should you pick for your case?
- Want automatic detection/measurement from drawings: Togal.AI. Prefer manual, click-based takeoff you control directly: PlanSwift or Bluebeam.