Trunk Tools answers questions.
Ruh AI does the work.
Trunk Tools is an AI assistant that reads your project documents and answers questions. Ruh deploys AI employees that act, estimating, invoicing, marketing, selling, and anything you need built, inside your stack.
One AI workforce for estimating, accounts payable, marketing, and sales. Custom built, live in about a week.
| Item | Qty | Unit $ | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete C30/37 · m³ | 142 | 168 | $23,856 |
| Rebar T16 · t | 9.4 | 1,240 | $11,656 |
| Formwork · m² | 610 | 38 | $23,180 |
| Labor, place & finish · hr | 320 | 65 | $20,800 |
| Pump hire · day | 2 | 1,150 | $2,300 |
A point tool, or a workforce.
Both use AI. They solve very different sized problems. Here is the honest framing of each.
Trunk Tools
A vertical AI that reads your project documents and answers questions, reviews submittals, RFIs, and drawings, and links schedule to docs. By design it rejects general-purpose AI, so it stops at the construction-document boundary.
- •Scope: document Q&A, review, and schedule linking
- •It answers and flags, it does not execute the work
- •No estimating, AP, sales, or marketing
- •Pre-built agents only, no custom workers
Ruh AI
A digital workforce for construction. AI employees that estimate, invoice, market, and sell across your business, built around your exact workflows and run inside the tools you already use.
- Scope: estimating, AP, marketing, sales and more
- Custom AI employees and workflows built for you
- Works inside your own tools, with human approval
- One workforce, higher ROI than a stack of tools
Built with construction teams, running in their tenants.
Ruh runs inside each customer's own environment, against the tools their team already trusts. Several engagements are under NDA, so the work is shown without naming the firm. Every workstream below is ready to deploy in your business.
National AP, modernized
Replaced a five-stage manual invoice cleanup with an automated pipeline straight into VIM and JD Edwards E1.
Invoice cycle time cut ~70%
Paperless invoice ops
Egnyte-native document matching with automated Bluebeam stamping. No more manual routing across the district.
12+ hrs/week saved per district
An AI concierge
A voice and text assistant handling travel and calendar coordination for senior leadership.
~10 hrs/week reclaimed for leadership
Takeoff from drawings
Automated takeoff turns drawings into priced estimates the team reviews, instead of raw quantities to retype.
Bid turnaround ~50% faster
Change orders, vetted
Flags scope changes, quantifies the impact across trades, and routes them for approval.
Change-order review: days to hours
Pay apps and lien waivers
Assembles pay applications and lien waivers from project data, ready for a human to review.
Billing cycle: 2 weeks to ~3 days
What construction teams say about Ruh.
Operators across AP, estimating, project controls, and billing, in their own words, with the results they have seen.
“Our AP team used to spend the first half of every week untangling the same five-stage invoice cleanup before anything could touch JD Edwards. Ruh's pipeline cleans, codes, and pushes the invoice through VIM with the GL string already right. Month-end stopped being a fire drill.”
Invoice cycle time cut ~70%
“Every district had its own Egnyte folder logic and its own Bluebeam stamping habits. Ruh matched documents the way our PMs would have matched them by hand, then ran the Bluebeam stamps without anyone asking twice. I haven't routed a paper invoice in months.”
12+ hrs/week saved per district
“Our CEO is on the road to three job sites a week, and the fourth is usually somewhere with no usable signal. Having an assistant that handles the calendar holds, the rebooked flights, and the 'where am I tomorrow' over text, without a human in the loop on every move, has given the office back hours we didn't know we were losing.”
~10 hrs/week reclaimed for leadership
“Our estimators were spending more time retyping quantities than thinking about scope. Ruh reads our drawings the way a senior estimator does, it knows what's a connection, what's a stiffener, what's a field weld, and gives us a priced estimate we actually want to review instead of rebuild.”
Bid turnaround ~50% faster
“On a complex MEP job you can have forty change events in flight at once, and the cost of missing one is real. Ruh catches the scope shift the day it shows up in the RFI log, ties it back to the right trade, and gives us a quantified impact before the meeting. Our review backlog basically disappeared.”
Change-order review: days to hours
“Pay app season used to mean two weeks of our billing team chasing waivers across email, SharePoint, and three subcontractor portals. Ruh assembles the whole package, application, conditional and unconditional waivers, in the right order, ready for a human pass. We close billing cycles in days now.”
Billing cycle: 2 weeks to ~3 days
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Where each one starts and stops.
Trunk Tools is strong in its lane. Ruh covers that lane and the rest of the business around it.
| Capability | Trunk Tools | Ruh AI |
|---|---|---|
| AI question answering over project documents | Yes | Yes via shared Knowledge Hub |
| Cost estimating and takeoff from drawings | No analyzes bid docs, no takeoff |
Yes |
| Accounts payable, invoice capture and coding | No | Yes |
| Marketing, content and bid tracking | No | Yes |
| Sales and CRM, lead qualification and booking | No | Yes |
| Acts on the answer, not just retrieves it | No answers and flags only |
Yes |
| Autonomous AI employees across departments | No construction docs only |
Yes |
| Custom agents and workflows built for your business | No pre-built agents only |
Yes |
| Works inside your own systems | Partial Procore, P6, SharePoint |
Yes Procore, Sage, QuickBooks and more |
| Human approval in the loop | Assistant | Yes |
| Pricing model | Quote only | AI employees, custom |
| Scope of work covered | Document Q&A and schedule | Ten functions plus custom |
Comparison based on each product's public website and documentation, June 2026. Trunk Tools figures are Trunk Tools' own published claims.
- L3 slab pour complete, 142 m³ placed and finished
- Formwork strike, L2 east bay
- Rebar fixing started, L3 columns C4 to C9
- Concrete pump arrived 45 min late, logged against supplier
- Safety: 0 incidents, toolbox talk completed
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15:31Ten functions, one workforce.
Togal handles the takeoff. Ruh deploys AI employees across the work that surrounds it, sharing one knowledge base and one audit trail.
Takeoff and estimating
Automated takeoff turns plans into priced, reviewable estimates, not just raw quantities to retype.
AP invoice intelligence
Capture, code, and post supplier invoices into your accounting system.
Change order vetting
Flag scope changes, quantify impact across trades, and route for approval.
Daily field reports
Turn site notes and logs into clean, consistent daily reports automatically.
Bid tracking
Track every invitation to bid, due date, and follow-up in one place, so no opportunity slips through.
Sales and CRM
Qualify leads, follow up, and book meetings, straight into your CRM.
less busywork across Ruh deployments
less spend on the work AI now owns
to a live deployment on your stack
functions in one shared workforce
75% and 90% are Ruh's advertised platform outcomes. Your results depend on scope and rollout.
Not a generic tool. A workforce built around your business.
Point tools ship everyone the same fixed features. Ruh starts with every capability already in the market, then builds on top, custom AI employees and workflows shaped to how your business actually runs. That is where the ROI lives.
Every market feature, included
Whatever the point tools do, Ruh already covers, in one platform.
Custom built on top
Need something specific? We build the AI employee or workflow for it.
Fit to your stack and process
Ruh adapts to how you work, not the other way around.
Higher ROI, not another tool
One workforce that owns outcomes, instead of a stack of subscriptions.
Beam B-12 upsized from 400x600 to 450x700. Ruh compared the revised structural set against the issued-for-construction drawings and quantified the knock-on across trades.
| Trade impact | Change |
|---|---|
| Concrete | +$4,200 |
| Rebar | +$1,850 |
| Formwork | +$0 |
| Schedule | +2 days |
Knowing the answer is step one.
Ruh takes the next step.
Trunk Tools tells your team what the documents say. Ruh shares one Knowledge Hub too, and then acts on it, drafting the RFI response, updating the estimate, posting the invoice, with a human approving.
See it on your own workFind the answer
Both Ruh and Trunk Tools retrieve answers from your documents.
Act on it
Ruh drafts the response, updates the estimate, and posts the invoice.
Approve and move on
A person signs off in your tools, then Ruh continues.
Most construction AI never pays off.
A point tool saves time on one task. It rarely changes the P&L. The research on AI adoption is blunt about it.
of organizations get zero return from generative AI.
MIT NANDA
of companies abandoned most of their AI initiatives.
S&P Global
extract real value. Ruh is built to put you there, by owning whole functions, not one task.
The bar Ruh builds to
It runs where your work already lives.
Ruh works inside the construction stack, not beside it. No rip and replace.
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Keep Trunk Tools for document Q&A if you like it.
Let Ruh run the rest.
Bring one slow, repetitive workflow to a 30-minute call. We will deploy an AI employee on it and show real output before we hang up.
Ruh AI vs Trunk Tools, answered.
The questions construction leaders ask when they compare the two.
Is Ruh AI a document assistant like Trunk Tools? +
Ruh shares a Knowledge Hub that can answer questions from your documents, so it covers that ground. The difference is what happens next. Trunk Tools tells you the answer, Ruh acts on it, drafting the response, updating the estimate, posting the invoice, with a person approving.
Do I have to replace Trunk Tools to use Ruh? +
No. If your teams like Trunk Tools for document Q&A, keep it. Ruh is most valuable on the functions Trunk Tools does not touch, estimating, accounts payable, marketing, and sales. They can run side by side.
Can Ruh do things Trunk Tools cannot? +
Yes. Trunk Tools uses pre-built agents fixed to construction documents and, by design, avoids general-purpose AI. Ruh is a workforce you can extend, with custom AI employees and workflows built for any department, on top of every capability already in the platform.
Does Ruh work with Procore and Primavera? +
Yes. Ruh runs inside the construction stack, including Procore, Sage 300 CRE, Viewpoint Vista, QuickBooks, Bluebeam Revu, Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft 365, and Teams, and connects to your scheduling tools.
How is pricing different? +
Trunk Tools is quote only. Ruh is priced as a workforce around the functions you deploy. The right comparison is not cost per question answered, it is cost per outcome owned.
How fast can Ruh go live? +
About a week for a first deployment on your stack, with custom work scoped from there. The 30-minute walkthrough starts on one real workflow and you see output on your own work.