The 2025 Pro Tool Innovation Awards have highlighted exceptional new products featuring advanced technologies and solutions designed for enhanced performance. As technology continues to evolve, tools and related products become increasingly sophisticated. Some innovations focus on tool tracking and inventory management, while others provide greater control and precision in your work.
In an era where technology is embedded in nearly every tool, pinpointing genuine innovation can be challenging. Our criteria prioritize products that significantly boost productivity and directly contribute to profitability. Equally important are advancements aimed at enhancing jobsite safety and security. The selected technology winners below represent standout innovations from an extensive pool of entries in the 2025 Pro Tool Innovation Awards.
Winner – General
Togal.AI
What they said:
Togal.AI is transforming the construction industry by using artificial intelligence to automate the takeoff process – a traditionally time-consuming, manual task in preconstruction. Unlike conventional digital takeoff tools that require users to trace, click, and count, Togal.AI instantly scans and interprets construction drawings using deep machine learning. This enables estimators to generate accurate quantities in seconds, rather than hours or days.
Togal.AI is the first tool in the market that brings true automation powered by AI to takeoffs. Its ability to identify, classify, and quantify architectural elements automatically sets it apart from legacy tools. In an industry facing labor shortages and economic uncertainty, Togal.AI offers a powerful solution to do more with less – making it a standout innovation that improves productivity, accuracy, and profitability.
In a recent case study, Nail City Painting switched from legacy takeoff software to Togal.AI with a goal of increasing monthly bids by 25%. Within just two months, his team surpassed that target—achieving a +215% increase in completed bids, jumping from an average of 19 per month with Bluebeam to 60 with Togal. This dramatic boost in productivity highlights the power of Togal.AI to streamline estimating and unlock growth.
Togal.AI offers several innovative features that set it apart in the construction tech space. Its AI-powered automation performs takeoffs 80–90% faster than traditional manual methods, dramatically improving efficiency. By reducing human error, the platform also delivers increased accuracy and more consistent results. Togal.AI is highly scalable, enabling smaller teams to handle more bids with less overhead—crucial in today’s labor-constrained market. Additionally, it provides data-driven insights by building a centralized library of takeoff data that can be analyzed and reused to inform future projects and pricing strategies. Togal also enables real-time collaboration through its cloud-based platform, allowing users to easily share takeoffs, internally or externally, with customizable viewing and editing permissions, eliminating the inefficiencies of emailing PDFs back and forth.
What we say:
Togal.AI seeks to revolutionize the construction industry by automating the takeoff process using advanced AI and deep machine learning. Unlike legacy software that requires manual tracing and counting, Togal.AI instantly scans and interprets construction drawings, performing takeoffs 80–90% faster. It reduces human error, generates more accuracy, and improves estimate consistency. It’s also scalable, letting smaller teams manage increased workloads. Real-time collaboration features further streamline communication, making Togal.AI a standout solution in a labor-constrained market.
Price: Varies
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Winner – Robotics
Canvas Model 2000CX
What they said:
The Canvas 2000CX machine takes the Canvas drywall system to the next level, literally and figuratively. The 2000CX is capable of reaching 20+ feet high while maintaining the compact footprint and lightweight features that it shares with the 1200CX. This ability to tackle tall heights makes the 2000CX perfect for Level 4 and 5 drywall spray and sand work involving large form factor such as those found in data centers, manufacturing facilities, hospitals and warehouses.
The 2000CX has self-drive and all-wheel steer, making it easy to auto-position and do continuous drywall work with minimal operator intervention. With a rechargeable battery that can run all day, the machine ensures untethered work and reduced downtime. This also makes it easy for 1 worker to operate 2 Canvas machines. The software platform that complements Canvas robots has also been greatly enhanced. The platform will auto-detect, calibrate, and adapt to site conditions as well as auto-segment walls and target key features. On the managerial side, users get real-time workflow visibility and spot and solve bottlenecks. The machines receive over-the-air (OTA) software updates, allowing continuous improvements in capabilities with new features added at every release. The software combined with the robot ensures a consistently high-quality finish each and every time.
Drywall finishing creates significant risks: slippery floors, working at height, airborne fine particulates, and strenuous repetitive motions. Traditionally, seams from floor to ceiling are mudded and sanded, often requiring work on mobile scissor lifts, ladders, or scaffolds, which pose fall risks. Falls are the leading construction industry injury, per OSHA. Canvas’ drywall finishing tools, with a sprayer/sander system, lift station, and vacuum sanding that eliminates 99% of dust, mitigate these risks. Since the 2000CX can reach 20+ feet high, it protects workers from falls and repetitive motion injuries by handling the high work. Canvas machines eliminate multiple passes of finishing, instead completing work with a single sprayed coat of mud and a single sanding pass, reducing touch points on the wall to two working days. They accelerate drywall finishing, even in markets where skilled labor is constrained, while maintaining rigorous standards of quality and safety. The Canvas system has been deployed on over 100 commercial projects across the United States with zero injuries.
What we say:
The Canvas 2000CX takes everything about the original and expands its scope. A truly innovative advancement in drywall finishing, it combines high reach capabilities of over 20 feet with a compact, lightweight design that fits through standard doorways. Its self-drive and all-wheel steer features enable seamless auto-positioning, allowing one operator to manage multiple machines simultaneously. You get real-time workflow visibility and automatic calibration to site conditions. Using the 2000CX should also reduce risks associated with traditional drywall work, including falls and exposure to dust.
Price: Leased
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Winner – Software & Apps
Twiceme Safety Management Portal
What they said:
The Twiceme Safety Management Portal (SMP) is a comprehensive solution for all safety management value chain components, from securely ensuring worker certifications to tracking the health and expiration dates of personal protective equipment (PPE).
The SMP empowers safety managers to digitally transform their approach to safety and certification management. The SMP is a desktop or tablet solution that provides safety managers with a secure dashboard for their organization, offering an overview of safety performance at job sites. The SMP is password-protected and desktop-based, allowing safety managers to ensure their workers’ personal data is protected while managing various facets of job site safety. This includes PPE inventory, condition tracking, and records of guided product inspections, all of which are accessible through a single digital portal.
There are many moving parts on a construction site or an industrial facility, and ensuring the safety of both employees and equipment is one of the most critical components. Yet, it is one of the most challenging factors to manage, as safety managers must individually verify certifications, equipment records, and more, often through physical paper documents. The Safety Management Portal brings significant value to safety managers by helping to digitally transform what was previously a cumbersome process, ensuring all workers are safe and compliant on a job site through a single digital dashboard.
Workers are often required to obtain and maintain certifications to perform daily tasks, most of which are tracked with pen and paper. This scenario poses a challenge for workers and safety managers, who must constantly track expiration and renewal dates and ensure that workers are certified for the designated job at hand for compliance purposes. With Twiceme’s SMP, workers can quickly and easily store their respective certifications in their equipment via the embedded Twiceme near-field communication (NFC) hardware in their PPE. The portal empowers safety managers to scan the Twiceme-enhanced PPE to retrieve information on workers’ certifications and training history for compliance and inspection. Safety managers will benefit from significantly improved productivity and organization via an aggregated view of worker certifications and expiration dates within the portal.
What we say:
The Twiceme Safety Management Portal (SMP) simplifies and organizes safety management by integrating digital solutions for tracking worker certifications and PPE health into a single, secure dashboard. Instead of relying on paper documentation, SMP users access embedded NFC technology in PPE, enabling instant access to certification and training history. This innovation streamlines compliance verification, enhances productivity, and reduces the risk of equipment failure through guided inspections and health tracking features. By transforming cumbersome processes into an efficient digital experience, the Twiceme SMP sets itself apart as a valuable tool in ensuring workplace safety and compliance in construction and industrial settings.
Price: Subscription
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