Trunk Tools’ Session Highlighted in Autodesk’s Digital Builder Blog for AU 2026
Article Title: AU 2026 session catalog is live! Build your construction schedule
Author: Jenny Ragan, Managing Editor, Digital Builder @ Autodesk
Trunk Tools’ Session Highlighted in Autodesk’s Digital Builder Blog for AU 2026
On their own Digital Builder blog, Autodesk announced that the AU 2026 session catalog is live — and highlighted a few sessions to help attendees start building a schedule. Under their picks for sessions to accelerate construction management processes, Trunk Tools‘ session made the list.
How Cleveland Construction Added AI-Powered Submittal and Drawing Reviews to Autodesk Forma
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 | 12:30–1:00 PM PDT
Session Speakers:
- Elliot Christiansen, SVP of Operations, Cleveland Construction
- Dr. Sarah Buchner, Founder & CEO, Trunk Tools
Inside the session
When Cleveland Construction migrated from Procore to Autodesk, company leaders saw an opportunity to build an intelligent document pipeline and agentic workflows on top of the wealth of data they run their business on in Autodesk. In the session, Elliot Christiansen will share how his team configured their Autodesk environment to enable AI-powered workflows that automatically review submittals against specs and new bulletins against previous ones. Trunk Tools Founder & CEO Dr. Sarah Buchner will join Elliot to share Cleveland’s winning playbook to transition from handshakes to driving deep adoption across their project teams.
What you’ll take away
- How to configure data and documents in Autodesk Forma for AI-powered workflows
- About the AI tools integrated with Autodesk Forma
- What automated submittal and drawing review workflows look like embedded directly in Autodesk
- How to build winning implementation strategies with App Marketplace partners
The agents behind the workflows
The automated submittal and drawing reviews at the center of the session run on Trunk Tools’ construction-specific agents. TrunkSubmittal reviews submittals against project specifications and trade RFIs, flagging discrepancies before they turn into revise-and-resubmit cycles. TrunkReview scans new bulletins against prior drawing sets and surfaces every change — clouded or not. It’s purpose-built construction AI layered on top of Autodesk Forma, not a generic chatbot pointed at a jobsite.
Across four projects, Cleveland Construction has saved 790+ hours and $60K+ with Trunk Tools on Autodesk Forma.
“We’ve already had architects recommend us for more work because of how we handle submittals.”
— Bryant Caporale, Assistant PM, Cleveland Construction, shared on webinar “Leveraging AI for Construction Submittal Reviews“
The session builds on the recently announced Autodesk Forma integration, which puts Trunk Tools’ agents directly on top of project data in Autodesk Forma Data Management.
Headed to AU 2026? Read Autodesk’s full session guide to plan out the rest of your week.