Trestle Named to BuiltWorlds' 2026 Preconstruction Top 50
Trestle has been named to BuiltWorlds' 2026 Preconstruction Tech Top 50, placing us in the same category as Oracle, Autodesk, Avetta, and Highwire: enterprise platforms with decades of market tenure and, in some cases, hundreds of millions of dollars in backing.
BuiltWorlds, a Chicago-based research and membership network that covers the built environment, compiles the annual list from primary survey data gathered from contractors globally. Respondents report which solutions they are actively using, how frequently, and how those tools perform across key criteria. The methodology does not weight by company size or market share.
We are the only early-stage startup named in the category.
A Category Dominated by Enterprise Players
The Prequalification section of the 2026 list is otherwise occupied by tools with significant institutional weight. Our inclusion reflects something the list's methodology is specifically designed to surface: what contractors are actually choosing, not what has the most name recognition or the largest sales force.
The platforms we compete against weren't built for how general contractors actually work today. We started Trestle in 2023 to solve the specific problems we lived. The fact that general contractors are choosing us alongside platforms with 20-year head starts tells us we got the product right.
AI-Native Architecture in a Legacy Market
Trestle is an agentic vendor prequalification, compliance tracking, and procurement risk platform built specifically for general contractors. Our platform automates the hardest parts of subcontractor due diligence: COI and endorsement compliance, financial document review, qualification tracking, and actual performance reviews, so procurement and estimating teams can move faster without taking on more risk.
Unlike the legacy tools on the market, Trestle was designed from the ground up the modern general contractor and trade partners. We've spent decades in this field. We know what an estimator needs to see to feel confident pulling a sub into a bid. That industry knowledge is baked into every part of the product.
And we're not stopping at prequalification. We're putting the finishing touches on our AI-native Invitation to Bid software, the missing piece that makes Trestle the only seamless end-to-end preconstruction vendor management platform on the market. For the first time, GC teams will be able to manage their entire vendor relationship in one place: qualify your subs, track compliance, and get bids out the door, all without switching tools or losing context. The result is a preconstruction workflow that's faster, tighter, and gives teams the confidence to bid more and win more.
What's Next
This recognition is a milestone, not a finish line. We're continuing to build, continuing to grow, and continuing to earn the trust of general contractors who are serious about managing the risk that lives inside their supply chains.
If you're a general contractor who wants to see what Trestle can do for your preconstruction process, we'd love to show you.
