Founded by Julian Wiedenhaus, Alexander Noll, and Richard Keil, Plancraft has secured a €38 million Series B led by Headline, with participation from Creandum, HTGF, and xdeck. The fresh capital pushes the company’s total raise above €50 million and will accelerate development of its voice-enabled AI platform for European tradespeople.

Replacing Paperwork With Conversation

Today, contractors across Europe still spend hours shuffling between paper, email and outdated apps just to handle quotes, schedules and invoices. Plancraft changes that by making voice the primary interface for managing construction workflows. A contractor can simply say, “create a work order for next Tuesday” or “send the invoice to Müller GmbH,” and the platform generates and dispatches everything automatically. More than 20,000 tradespeople across 11 countries already run their day-to-day operations on Plancraft.

What’s easy to overlook - but incredibly important for founders - is how Plancraft achieved this adoption: they didn’t try to digitize construction. They designed around the way tradespeople already think and behave. People on a jobsite don’t want more screens or new processes - they want to stay focused on work. By making the interface disappear into natural conversation, Plancraft lowered the barrier to adoption so sharply that using the product feels like doing the job. That’s a key insight: the most powerful technology in operational markets is often the least visible. When the interface becomes part of the craft itself, switching away becomes nearly unimaginable.

Expanding an AI-Driven Workflow Engine Across Europe

With the Series B investment, Plancraft plans to:

• Roll out AI agents that generate quotes, catch scheduling conflicts and recommend corrections before users even need to ask
  
• Expand market presence across Austria, the Netherlands and Italy with localized teams
  
• Hire across AI research, product, and regional operations to sustain growth
  

Rather than focusing on feature parity with legacy tools, the company is building intelligent automation that anticipates the next task - turning Plancraft into a proactive project assistant rather than a passive system of record.

Solving Structural Challenges in Construction

Europe’s construction industry faces acute labor shortages, increasing regulatory burden and high fragmentation (over 95% of firms have fewer than 20 employees). Most can’t afford enterprise software or digital transformation consultants. Plancraft offers a lightweight solution that fits directly into daily flow - and helps small teams operate with the efficiency of larger ones.

Investors Back a Product Built With Empathy

Headline’s Trevor Neff praised Plancraft for “building a platform that deeply respects how tradespeople actually work.” Co-founder Alexander Noll explains the mission clearly: “AI in construction should feel as natural as talking to a colleague.”

Looking Ahead

Over the next 12 months, Plancraft will:

• Launch predictive AI features, including delay forecasting and automated re-scheduling
  
• Deepen integration with local accounting systems and supplier networks
  
• Continue opening regional hubs to provide on-the-ground support in target countries
  

Plancraft isn’t merely digitizing trades - it’s fundamentally reshaping how work is communicated and executed. As the sector begins to embrace smarter tools, the companies that remove friction - not add features - are the ones that will define the next chapter of the industry.