CooperBuild AI - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

CooperBuild AI is a cloud-based, all-in-one construction management platform serving general contractors, specialty trades (electrical, low-voltage, steel, interiors, environmental and abatement), and adjacent firms such as millwork companies, lenders, and consultancies. All records, from initial estimate through final pay application, live in a single unified data graph, eliminating re-entry and reconciliation across separate tools. Estimate lines carry forward directly into live project records, purchase orders, submittals, timesheets, and the general ledger, giving real-time cost variance drillable to the original estimate line item. The platform is deployed as a multi-tenant cloud application on AWS with AES-256 encryption, and is accessible via web, iOS, and Android apps, with a built-in phone powered by Twilio and LiveKit. Self-hosted deployment is also referenced in the terms of service.

CooperBuild AI covers the full project and financial lifecycle: estimating and proposals, trade scopes and vendor quotes, purchase orders and shipment tracking, submittal management, pay application billing, vendor invoice processing, a native general ledger and chart of accounts, accounts payable and receivable, job costing, payroll with prevailing wage and certified payroll support, field time tracking with GPS and BLE check-in, and CRM. Native accounting removes the need for a separate accounting package. Connectors are available for Notion, Slack, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Xero, HubSpot, Asana, Monday, and Gmail, and a GraphQL API serves all client applications. Role-based access control and a full audit trail are applied to every record.

The AI layer of CooperBuild AI comprises 17 named agents organized across Projects, Money, Supply, People, and Platform departments. Each agent operates inside the same unified data graph as human users, with write access to workspace records and a versioned set of skills. Agents can flag cost overruns, match vendor invoices to purchase orders, draft pay applications, reconcile credit card statements, review submittals, and act on watched conditions automatically. Twenty-six AI routing slots allow a distinct model provider and model to be selected per feature, with support for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, and xAI, plus voice and transcription via ElevenLabs and Deepgram. The full workspace is exposed as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with 328 tools, allowing external assistants such as Claude, Cursor, and Copilot to read and write workspace records. AI runs on customer-held API keys with no provider markup, and customer data is never pooled across tenants or used to train public models.