In the Race to Patent AI-Assisted Takeoff, Togal.AI Is Already There

Artificial intelligence is already transforming construction. And because of that, there’s a race to patent the AI technologies driving industry innovation. As the market fills with “AI-powered” claims, companies that have built foundational innovation are moving quickly to secure it.

Togal.AI has secured five U.S. patents, with six additional patents pending, covering our artificial intelligence systems for construction takeoff, change analysis, and code-based building metrics.

This milestone signals more than protection. It reflects category leadership in AI-driven preconstruction.

Built to Solve Preconstruction Bottlenecks

Founded in 2019, Togal.AI was engineered specifically to solve one of construction’s most persistent constraints: manual takeoffs.

Our platform was initially trained on a proprietary dataset of more than 100,000 construction drawings, curated and labeled by architects and engineers. The system was designed to interpret plans the way experienced estimators do—reading intent, identifying scope, and translating drawings into quantifiable requirements. The result is AI structured around the realities of construction workflows.

Togal.AI was founded by Patrick E. Murphy, a former Congressman who returned to his family’s construction business to see firsthand how little the preconstruction processes had evolved during his tenure in DC. Estimators were still investing thousands of hours manually measuring drawings.

He assembled a team of construction professionals, engineers, and AI specialists to build a system that could meaningfully accelerate takeoffs through deep domain intelligence and technical rigor.

Among the named inventors is Johnny Maghzal, current Head of Growth at Togal.AI, who brings an engineering background, an MBA, and nearly a decade of hands-on estimating and product development experience across large general contracting and specialized engineering firms.

Togal.AI’s innovation is grounded in lived construction experience and advanced AI architecture—a combination essential to transforming preconstruction at scale.

What Togal.AI Has Patented

Togal.AI’s five issued patents protect core AI systems that power automated takeoffs and plan interpretation:

1. Methods and apparatus for quantifying requirements in the construction of a building: AI that interprets 2D plans and quantifies materials, labor, and building requirements.
2. Artificial intelligence conversion of a two-dimensional reference into a takeoff: Systems that analyze architectural floor plans to generate room dimensions, net floor area, and quantity measurements.
3. AI conversion of change orders into an actionable interface: Methods that identify design changes and translate them into cost and labor impacts.
4. AI conversion of a two-dimensional reference into an actionable interface: Technology that converts static drawings into structured, actionable project requirements.
5. AI determination of building metrics for code compliance: Systems that evaluate plans and calculate key metrics to assess regulatory compliance.

These patents protect intelligent systems that transform drawings into structured construction data, forming the backbone of AI-assisted takeoffs.

Why Patents Matter in Construction AI

As AI adoption accelerates across construction, more technologies are entering the market. For enterprise contractors and institutional stakeholders, a key question is increasingly clear: Who is building proprietary infrastructure? And who is assembling surface-level features?

Patent portfolios offer a measurable signal of long-term investment in research, data development, and system architecture.

Togal.AI’s intellectual property reflects years of focused R&D, specialized dataset development, and AI architecture designed explicitly for plan interpretation and takeoff automation.

While artificial intelligence systems cannot be listed as inventors under U.S. law, AI-driven technologies are patentable when human inventors make significant contributions. Togal.AI’s portfolio represents exactly that intersection of domain expertise and technical innovation.

Construction AI: A Category Taking Shape

Construction AI is no longer experimental. It is operational, investable, and rapidly becoming essential infrastructure in preconstruction.

By securing foundational patents in automated takeoffs and AI-driven plan interpretation, Togal.AI is helping define the emerging category of AI-backed construction estimating.

For enterprise general contractors, investors, and forward-looking construction leaders, this milestone signals:

• The technology is mature.
• The systems are defensible.
• The platform is built for long-term scale.

Togal.AI and the Road Ahead

Securing patents is not an endpoint. It’s part of a broader commitment to building intelligent infrastructure for construction.

Togal.AI will continue expanding its intellectual property portfolio, advancing construction-specific AI systems, and accelerating the preconstruction process for the builders shaping tomorrow’s skylines.

Innovation moves quickly. Leadership requires building it to last.