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New capabilities, customer growth, an expanding team, and continued investment in security are helping Drawer AI move into its next stage.
A lot has been happening at Drawer AI. We have introduced new product capabilities, expanded our work with leading electrical contractors, grown our U.S. sales team, strengthened our security program, and received new industry recognition.
Each milestone matters on its own. Together, however, they tell a bigger story about where Drawer AI is today and where we are headed next.
From the beginning, our goal has been straightforward: help electrical contractors turn project drawings into smarter, actionable workflows. We are building practical AI that reduces repetitive work, improves accuracy, and helps estimating and BIM teams move more confidently from preconstruction into project execution.
As the projects our customers pursue become larger and more complex, the need for that kind of support continues to grow.
“Electrical contractors are being asked to estimate and deliver increasingly complex projects with greater speed and accuracy,” said Den Lavrik, co-founder and CEO of Drawer AI. “Our focus is giving their teams practical AI that removes repetitive work, strengthens quality control, and helps them make better project decisions. Everything we have introduced this year has been shaped by that goal and by direct feedback from the contractors using Drawer AI every day.”
Here is a closer look at what we have been building and why it matters.
Making the Journey From Drawings to BIM Easier
For many electrical contractors, the path from a set of 2D drawings to a coordinated, BIM-ready project still involves hours of manual work.
Devices must be identified. Schedules must be interpreted. Information must be classified, entered, reviewed, and checked. Routing decisions have to be made, measurements confirmed, and potential errors caught before they affect estimating or field execution.
These tasks are important, but they also consume valuable time from some of the most experienced people on the team.
Drawer AI is designed to change that.
Our Takeoff and BIM Wizard products automate time-consuming work across device detection, estimating, routing, quality assurance, and the creation of BIM-ready project data. The goal is not to replace the expertise of estimators and BIM professionals. It is to give them better tools, stronger checks, and more time to focus on the decisions that require their experience.
We have continued expanding BIM Wizard to create a faster connection between 2D drawings and structured project data. The technology automatically detects devices, applies unified item classifications, and generates organized information that can feed into existing BIM workflows.
The result is less repetitive data entry, greater consistency, and a more efficient transition from preconstruction to project execution.
Giving Estimators and BIM Teams More Control
We have also introduced a series of new capabilities across the Drawer AI Takeoff platform.
New in-slab routing options allow users to create right-angle or direct conduit paths based on project requirements. Circuit Grouping QA Mode gives teams the ability to review, move, and lock home run groups, while Branch Routing QA Mode automatically recalculates lengths and wire sizing as changes are made.
Additional updates include AI-powered lighting and panel schedule parsing, rebuilt wire-sizing calculations, clearer drawing warnings, and improved drawing review with zoom capabilities of up to 1000%. Users can also select and copy text directly from drawings, eliminating another source of manual retyping.
Individually, these improvements make specific tasks easier. Together, they create a more connected workflow that gives estimators and BIM teams greater control over how project information is identified, routed, reviewed, and prepared for downstream use.
Most importantly, these capabilities have been shaped through conversations with the contractors doing this work every day.
Building Alongside Electrical Contractors
The best construction technology is not built in isolation. It is built alongside the people who understand the work, the risks, and the realities of delivering a project.
That is why customer collaboration remains central to how we develop Drawer AI.
Our growing customer community includes Gaylor Electric, one of the country’s largest design-build electrical construction firms. Gaylor Electric is piloting Drawer AI across estimating and BIM workflows, evaluating how the technology can accelerate takeoff, improve accuracy, and provide stronger checks and balances for employees with different levels of estimating experience.
“The interest in the tool focuses really around efficiency and speed to market,” said Mike Pote, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Gaylor Electric. “The process of estimating takeoffs from our operations teams is cumbersome. It takes time. The tool really does give you a path forward that is much quicker and hopefully much more efficient.”
The pilot is also an example of how we want to work with contractors. Gaylor Electric’s teams are providing direct product feedback based on real workflows, helping us understand what large and sophisticated electrical contracting organizations need from AI-powered preconstruction technology.
That open feedback process helps us build capabilities that solve actual problems, not theoretical ones.
Earning Trust as We Grow
Product performance is only one part of earning a contractor’s trust.
As Drawer AI supports larger organizations and increasingly complex project environments, our customers need to know that we are treating their systems and information responsibly.
Drawer AI recently completed a SOC 2 examination and received its SOC 2 Type 1 report. This milestone reflects our continued investment in documented controls, platform reliability, and the responsible handling of customer information.
“Contractors are trusting Drawer AI with important project information and workflows,” Lavrik said. “That trust has to be earned through product performance, close customer collaboration, and a serious commitment to security. We are building Drawer AI to support contractors from an individual estimator’s first takeoff through enterprise-wide adoption.”
That last point is especially important. Drawer AI must be useful enough for an individual estimator to see value in the first project, while also being secure, reliable, and scalable enough to support adoption across a larger organization.
We are building for both.
Recognition From the Construction Industry
Our progress has also been recognized by organizations tracking innovation across construction technology. Drawer AI was named to the 2026 BuiltWorlds Preconstruction Top 50 for estimating innovation and selected as a finalist in the BuiltWorlds Contractor’s Choice Awards.
Because these programs are informed by feedback from contractors participating in BuiltWorlds’ benchmarking program, the recognition is particularly meaningful. It reflects a growing interest in technology that can deliver measurable improvements across real preconstruction workflows.
We are proud of that recognition, but we also see it as motivation to keep moving.
Growing Our Team to Support More Contractors
As interest in Drawer AI grows, we are also expanding the team responsible for helping contractors evaluate and adopt the technology.
We recently welcomed Jesse Bustos as Sales Director and Austin Haid as Account Executive.
Jesse will lead U.S. sales strategy and help Drawer AI build deeper relationships with electrical contractors across the country. Austin will work directly with contractors to understand their estimating and BIM processes, identify workflow challenges, and determine where Drawer AI can deliver immediate and measurable value.
Their addition is about more than expanding our sales organization. It is about creating a stronger connection between our customers, our product team, and the people helping contractors successfully introduce AI into their workflows.
Adopting new technology requires more than a product demonstration. It requires understanding how a contractor works today, where time is being lost, how quality is being managed, and what success should look like for that specific organization.
Our growing U.S. team will help us have more of those conversations.
Where Drawer AI Goes From Here
When we look at everything that has happened recently, the common thread is not growth for growth’s sake.
It is progress toward a more practical and connected way for electrical contractors to work.
New product capabilities are helping teams move faster and maintain greater control over their takeoffs. BIM Wizard is creating a more efficient path from 2D drawings to BIM-ready information. Customer collaboration is helping us prioritize the problems that matter most. Our expanding team is allowing us to support more contractors, and our security investments are preparing the platform for broader enterprise adoption.
We have accomplished a great deal, but we are still building.
We will continue listening to electrical contractors, learning from their workflows, and developing AI that helps their teams reduce manual work, improve accuracy, and pursue more opportunities with confidence. That is where Drawer AI is today, and it is what will guide what we build next. Learn more about Drawer AI and explore our AI-powered Takeoff and BIM solutions.
