CASE STUDY

Coastal Construction Accelerates Preconstruction by 50–65% with Togal.AI

Coastal Construction Accelerates Preconstruction by 50–65% with Togal.AI

Coastal Construction is no stranger to complexity.

With more than 110 projects completed across Florida, and typical project values between $185M and $215M, their work includes high-rise residential, mixed-use developments, hotels, and commercial towers. Many projects span 30+ stories, with landmark builds exceeding 60.

At that level, even a 1% variance can translate into a $2M impact.

So, when choosing a takeoff solution, the estimating team at Coastal Construction needs a software that prioritizes speed while maintaining accuracy, alignment, and control across every phase of preconstruction.

Compounding Friction Across Preconstruction

For Coastal, the issue wasn’t a single bottleneck. It was the cumulative drag across the entire estimating process.

  • Slow early-stage pricing limited how quickly teams could respond during business development
  • Disconnected workflows across estimators created coordination overhead
  • Manual design change tracking made it difficult to keep quantities aligned with evolving drawings
  • Lengthy buyout validation required significant back-and-forth with subcontractors

Individually, each step was manageable. Together, they reduced capacity, delayed insights, and increased exposure to risk.

Togal.AI: A Unified Platform for the Entire Estimating Lifecycle

Coastal adopted Togal.AI to bring their preconstruction workflow into a single, connected system.

Instead of juggling multiple tools, spreadsheets, and manual handoffs, their team now works within one cloud-based platform that supports:

  • AI-assisted takeoffs
  • Real-time collaboration across estimators
  • Automated drawing comparison and change tracking
  • Live quantity validation with subcontractors

Thanks to Togal.AI, Coastal fundamentally changed how its estimating team works—removing friction between steps and keeping everyone aligned from early pricing through buyout.

Faster Decisions, Better Coordination, and Reduced Risk with Togal.AI

Faster Early-Stage Decisions

1. Faster Early-Stage Pricing

Speed at the ROM stage directly impacts how many opportunities a team can pursue.

For a typical 28–30 story project:

  • ROM timelines dropped from 32–40 hours to 13–20 hours
  • A 60–70% reduction in early-stage estimating time

This allows Coastal to deliver faster insights, support design decisions earlier, and increase bid throughput.

2. Streamlined Team Workflows

Estimating large, complex projects often requires multiple contributors working across scopes.

Before Togal.AI, that meant:

  • Separate files
  • Manual exports
  • Spreadsheet consolidation

Now, teams work and collaborate in a shared cloud environment, eliminating reconciliation work and improving visibility.

  • 40–60% reduction in coordination and data integration effort
  • Faster turnaround across the full estimate

3. Control Over Design Changes

Design evolution is constant across SD, DD, and CD phases. Keeping quantities aligned used to require repeated manual effort.

With Togal.AI:

  • Drawing changes are automatically identified
  • Existing takeoffs are referenced and updated
  • Quantity deltas are instantly visible

Across an average of seven design iterations:

  • 35–45% reduction in change tracking time
  • Approximately 85 hours saved per project

4. Faster Buyout, Lower Risk

Quantity validation during buyout is one of the most critical and time-consuming steps.

Instead of relying on emails, calls, and manual comparisons, Coastal now works directly with subcontractors inside Togal.AI:

  • Live takeoffs shared in real time
  • Immediate alignment on scope and quantities

Results:

  • 60–70% reduction in validation time
  • 45–90 hours saved per project

More importantly, discrepancies are caught early, before they negatively impact the budget.

At a Glance: The Impact of Togal.AI

“Togal.AI reduces coordination and data integration efforts by 40–60%, enabling Coastal to streamline team workflows, eliminate manual merging of quantities, and deliver more accurate and timely estimates.” — Daniel Cutimanco, Estimator at Coastal Construction
  • 50–65% reduction in total preconstruction effort
  • 140–230 hours saved per project
  • 60–70% faster ROM development
  • 40–60% less coordination overhead
  • 35–45% faster design change tracking
  • 60–70% faster quantity validation during buyout

A More Scalable Approach to Preconstruction

For Coastal Construction, the value of Togal.AI isn’t just efficiency. It’s the ability to scale preconstruction without losing control.

By reducing manual effort and keeping teams aligned across every phase, Coastal can:

  • Pursue more opportunities
  • Make faster, more informed decisions
  • Maintain accuracy across increasingly complex projects

Because at the enterprise level, success comes down to control—over time, over risk, and over outcomes.

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