AI tools for lumberyards & building-material dealers
ERP, order entry, takeoff, quoting and sales tools for LBM dealers and distributors. 25 tools.
Bluebeam
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AI addedBluebeam uses AI to overlay and compare drawing sets and, in Bluebeam Max, to review drawings for issues.
Home Depot Blueprint Takeoffs
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AI addedHome Depot uses AI to turn single-family blueprints into a material list and quote.
CompanyCam
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AI addedCompanyCam AI writes field reports, checklists, captions and photo summaries from photos and voice.
Togal.AI
From $299/mo
AI-poweredTogal AI auto-detects, measures and labels spaces on drawings, and you can chat with your plans.
SafetyCulture
From $24/mo
AI addedSafetyCulture's AI Assistant creates checklists and training content in seconds.
Hover
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AI addedHover Instant Design uses AI to create photoreal exterior visualizations from one photo.
RSMeans Data Online
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AI addedFlash AI Estimating builds conceptual estimates on RSMeans cost data.
STACK
From $49/mo
AI addedSTACK AI reads and names plan sheets, flags revisions and assists takeoff and estimates.
PlanSwift
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AI addedPlanSwift Takeoff BOOST uses AI for auto takeoff, counting, scaling and bookmarking.
ECI Spruce
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AI addedThe Spruce eCommerce AI Agent watches orders and accounts and answers questions about them.
DMSi Agility
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AI addedDMSi uses machine learning to tally lumber bundles from a phone photo.
Kreo
From $100/mo
AI-poweredKreo AI auto-measures drawings and its Caddie agent and Spot voice agent run takeoff tasks.
Intenseye
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AI-poweredIntenseye runs computer-vision AI on cameras to detect high-risk safety events.
Hyphen Dash
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AI-poweredDash surfaces schedule and order issues from Hyphen data and answers questions with labeled, sourced answers.
Canals
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AI-poweredCanals AI turns emailed orders and invoices into ERP-ready entries.
Parspec
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AI-poweredParspec is an AI-native quoting and submittal platform for distributors and reps.
Prokeep Order Pro
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AI-poweredOrder Pro AI agents draft replies, match products to inventory and summarize threads.
Higharc AI Estimating
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AI-poweredAutoTranslate AI turns 2D plan images into a 3D model the estimator checks; takeoffs are calculated from the model.
SalesJack (with Radar AI)
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AI-poweredSalesJack Radar AI answers sales questions and AI matches permits and ERP data to customers.
Toolbx AI Order Entry (Forge AI)
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AI-poweredToolbx AI Order Entry turns material lists into priced lines from your catalog.
Aximos
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AI-poweredAximos AI drafts lumber takeoffs from plans with every quantity traced to the sheet.
Proton.ai
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AI-poweredAI reads emails, PDFs and spreadsheets, matches SKUs and drafts quotes and orders for a rep to approve.
APAS Vision Engine
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AI-poweredAPAS AI detects, measures and labels plans; a senior estimator verifies each takeoff.
Rundoo
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AI-poweredDooey answers plain-English questions on sales, inventory and AR and drafts reorders and price rules.
BuildMapper
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AI-poweredAI reads plan sets into a priced material list from the dealer's price book and answers questions about drawings and pricing.
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Ideas to try
- AI delivery routing and ETAs for yard trucks
Dispatch builds routes by hand; builders call asking where their load is.
- AI product suggestions when building dealer quotes
Building quotes across many trades and supplier catalogs is slow and depends on veteran staff.
- Automate the paperwork in truss & panel estimating
Estimators spend most of their day on intake, retyping specs and filling bid forms instead of judgment work.
- Let AI tell dealer reps which permits and quotes to chase today
Lumberyard reps lose jobs because open quotes go unanswered and new building permits from existing customers never get matched to an account until the order has gone elsewhere.
- Quote siding & roofing from smartphone photos
Exterior quotes wait on a site visit with a tape measure.
- Same-day framing takeoffs on your own SKUs
Builder plan sets sit in the queue for days waiting on a takeoff.
- Send overflow takeoffs to AI with an estimator check
When the estimating desk is maxed out, builder quotes go out late or not at all, and pure AI takeoffs can miss hardware or framing that turns into hot-shot deliveries.
- Turn emailed & handwritten orders into ERP orders
Counter and inside sales retype POs from emails, PDFs, photos and voicemails into the ERP.