Coastal Construction Saved $3.2 Million with Togal.AI

For more than five decades, Coastal Construction has built some of Florida’s most complex projects, from high-rise residential towers and hotels to commercial and mixed-use developments. Its portfolio includes projects stretching well beyond 50 stories, where even a small change in quantities can have a major impact on a project budget.

At that scale, preconstruction has to move quickly while retaining high accuracy!

For Coastal, the challenge was figuring out how to handle more work without simply adding more time and cost to the estimating process.

Coastal’s business grew significantly between 2023 and 2025. Revenue increased from $960.6 million to $1.77 billion—an increase of roughly 84%.

That kind of growth creates a familiar problem for construction companies: More projects mean more estimating, more takeoffs, more design changes, and more coordination. With that in mind, the goal wasn’t just to make individual takeoffs faster—it was to make the entire preconstruction operation more efficient.

That’s where Togal.AI came in.

Enterprise Construction Takeoff Software Makes a World of Difference

Togal.AI is an AI-assisted construction takeoff platform built to reduce the repetitive work that slows estimators down.

Instead of spending hours manually measuring drawings, comparing plans, and moving quantities between disconnected workflows, estimators can use Togal.AI to automate much of that work while maintaining control over the estimate.

Coastal Construction Saved $3.2 Million with Togal.AI

Coastal Construction estimates that Togal.AI saved the company $3.2 million in 2025.

The number is based on measurable reductions in the time and effort required across the preconstruction process—not simply a projection of what the software might save.

The results were significant:

• 50–65% reduction in total preconstruction effort
• 140–230 hours saved per project
• 60–70% faster ROM development
• 40–60% less coordination and data integration effort
• 35–45% faster design change tracking
• 60–70% faster quantity validation during buyout

The value came from removing the repetitive work that adds up across dozens of projects, design iterations, and estimating tasks.

Togal.AI Turns Hours Saved Into Real Cost Savings

Take rough order of magnitude (ROM) development as one example. For a typical 28–30 story project, Coastal reduced early-stage estimating time from roughly 32–40 hours to 13–20 hours—a 60–70% reduction.

Design changes created another source of savings. Across an average of seven design iterations, Coastal reduced change-tracking time by 35–45%, saving approximately 85 hours per project.

During buyout, faster quantity validation saved another 45–90 hours per project.

Individually, these improvements are productivity gains. But across a large preconstruction operation, they become meaningful financial wins!

Coastal’s broader financial numbers show why that matters. Between 2023 and 2025, gross preconstruction cost fell from 27.6% to 15.2% of overhead. Preconstruction cost as a percentage of revenue also dropped, from 0.92% to 0.34%. That happened while Coastal’s revenue grew by roughly 84%.

Togal.AI wasn't the only reason those numbers improved. Larger projects, internal process improvements, and a more selective pursuit strategy also played a role. But Coastal’s increased use of Togal.AI gave its estimating team another way to scale: get more preconstruction work done without increasing costs at the same rate.

For a growing construction company, that’s the real ROI.

See What Togal.AI Could Save on Your Projects

Coastal’s $3.2 million result shows what can happen when small efficiencies across the estimating process compound at scale.

The best way to understand what that could mean for your team is to see it on your own plans.

Request a custom demo and see how Togal.AI can help your team reduce takeoff time, increase estimating capacity, and save money across preconstruction.