Ajei Gopal Introduced as Next CEO
With a new CEO stepping in and artificial intelligence taking center stage, construction management software platform Procore offered a glimpse into a future where tech innovation signals a new chapter for the construction industry.
Firm founder and longtime CEO Craig “Tooey” Courtemanche, who is set to step down in November at the time of the firm’s Q3 results report. noted the arrival of his successor, Ajei Gopal, at its Groundbreak 2025 event in Houston. The 35-year global tech sector leader was most recently president and CEO of Ansys, Inc., an engineering platform sold to Synopsys Inc.
“This is a new era in intelligent construction, and this is just the beginning.” said Courtemanche, who will be chairman.
Central to that evolution is Procore Helix, the company’s intelligence layer, which received a significant upgrade unveiled during the event. The latest rollout featured expanded capabilities for Procore Assist, now equipped with photo analysis for safety and progress tracking, multilingual support in Spanish, Polish, French, and Portuguese, and mobile functionality built for field teams.
Also unveiled was Agent Builder, now in open beta, allowing users to create task-specific agents using natural language prompts, including RFI generation and daily log reporting without the need for coding.
“What we realized was that Procore Assist is just the chat interface,” Courtemanche said. “But there’s so much more on the agentic platform that we’re building, that we wanted to put that all under the caption of Helix.”
The rollout reflects Procore’s long-term push to embed intelligence directly into its platform, rather than rely on third-party integrations. The goal: improve data consistency across projects while delivering secure, scalable tools that adapt to customer needs.
“With the agentic revolution … the platform, the technology, the connected experience and the data across a global dataset to help our customers make better decisions,” Courtemanche said. “When I made the decision [last September] to seek out a successor, I saw a path … to connect everybody in construction on the global platform,” he added. “Now I’m seeing everything falling into place.”
But Courtemanche acknowledged the reality that some in industry may remain hesitant. “Some [general contractors] are adamant they’re not diving into the digital world,” he said. “There’s this new digital divide—the haves and have-nots—and it’s growing faster.”
