Top Builder AI is built and run by Cory Salisbury, its founder and developer. He is a construction bookkeeper and fractional CFO who runs Salisbury Bookkeeping, and an ex-Tesla Master Technician with 7+ years on the bench plus prior experience at SpaceX and Rivian. He installs the eight self-learning agents, tunes them to your shop, and answers when you call.
Top Builder AI is the AI back office for ServiceTitan, Buildertrend, and Procore contractors. It runs the Money, Materials, People, and Paperwork work your field software leaves to QuickBooks, every figure is deterministic and audited, and every agent is advisory by default, so it proposes and you approve.
Last updated June 23, 2026 · Salisbury Bookkeeping LLC, Eagle Mountain, Utah
Most software companies put a sales rep between you and the people who built the product. Here the founder is the developer, the bookkeeper, and the support line. That is the whole point.
Cory Salisbury sits in two seats that rarely sit in one person. He keeps the books for contractors as a construction bookkeeper and fractional CFO, so he knows exactly where a service shop leaks money: unbilled materials, missed calls, margin that quietly walks out the door between the sold hour and the paid invoice. And he spent more than seven years as a Tesla Master Technician, the top diagnostic tier, with earlier work at SpaceX and Rivian, where a process either works every time and gets audited or it does not ship.
Top Builder AI is what happens when those two backgrounds meet. The financial judgment of someone who does the close, and the engineering discipline of someone who diagnosed cars for a living, built into a system that does the repetitive back-office work and shows its math every step of the way.
When you come on board, Cory installs the agents on the ServiceTitan, Buildertrend, or Procore you already run, tunes them to how your shop actually operates, and is the person who answers when you call. Operators in the onboarding cohort work with him directly. The bookkeeping side of his practice lives at salisburybookkeeping.com.
Give every contractor the back office a 250-person firm can afford, run by agents that learn your shop and never touch a number they were not built to compute.
Top Builder AI exists to close one gap. Field software like ServiceTitan, Buildertrend, and Procore runs the front office well, then hands the back office, the Money, Materials, People, and Paperwork, to QuickBooks and a stack of spreadsheets. That is where good shops lose margin. We run that back-office work with eight self-learning agents that sit alongside the platform you already use, learn from the calls you approve and the edits you make, and stay advisory by default, so you stay in control of every action. The figures are deterministic and audited so the math is always something you can hand to a partner or a lender.
Authority only matters if it is paired with restraint. Here is how the platform is built so an AI agent can help with the back office without ever putting your books at risk.
Every dollar and hour is computed by plain, tested code, not by a language model. The AI only narrates and advises. It cannot invent or change a figure, so the math stays exact, auditable, and the same every time you run it.
Every agent ships in advisory mode: it proposes, you approve. You can set each one to Off, Approve-first, or Auto, per agent, with full undo and an audit trail on every action. Nothing writes back to your systems until you say so.
Every contractor is isolated at the database level with row-level security, credentials are encrypted, and your data never trains another shop's agents. A rule your agents learn stays in your account and never leaves it.
The agents learn from what you approve and what you edit, but only on the wording and judgment side. Three matching corrections become a candidate rule that must clear a safety check and a regression test, then a human approves it before it rolls out gradually with rollback.
ServiceTitan, Buildertrend, Procore, and QuickBooks stay your systems of record. Top Builder AI plugs in alongside them and reads your jobs, calls, parts, and paperwork. Nothing is migrated, and if you ever leave, your business keeps running exactly as it did.
Your data, your configuration, and your agents' learned playbook are yours and exportable any day in standard formats. We can hand off to a database you own or run on your own keys. You are never held hostage, and you are never locked in.
Eight self-learning agents, two on the front line alongside your platform's own agents and six running the back office your field software leaves to QuickBooks.
Cory Salisbury, founder and developer. He runs Salisbury Bookkeeping as a construction bookkeeper and fractional CFO, and spent 7+ years as a Tesla Master Technician with prior experience at SpaceX and Rivian. He is the same person who builds the platform, installs it on your shop, tunes the agents, and answers when you call.
Top Builder AI is the AI back office for ServiceTitan, Buildertrend, and Procore contractors: eight self-learning agents that run the Money, Materials, People, and Paperwork work your field software leaves to QuickBooks, with every figure deterministic and audited and every action advisory by default.
Because the two backgrounds solve the same problem from both ends. As a fractional CFO and construction bookkeeper, Cory sees exactly where service shops lose margin in the back office. As a former Tesla Master Technician with time at SpaceX and Rivian, he knows how to build a process that runs the same way every time and gets audited. Top Builder AI is the financial judgment and the engineering discipline in one system.
Yes. Top Builder AI is the AI-operations brand of Salisbury Bookkeeping LLC, based in Eagle Mountain, Utah. Same founder, Cory Salisbury, and the same legal entity. Salisbury Bookkeeping handles construction bookkeeping and fractional CFO work for contractors at salisburybookkeeping.com, while Top Builder AI installs the eight self-learning agents on the systems contractors already run.
The math is separated from the AI by design. Every dollar and hour is computed by plain, tested code, and the language model only narrates and advises. The learning layer is structurally blocked from touching a figure, so the numbers stay exact and auditable, and only the wording and judgment improve over time.
Only if you turn that on. Every agent ships advisory by default: it proposes, you approve. You set each one to Off, Approve-first, or Auto, per agent, with full undo and an audit trail on every action. You see the value in advisory mode long before anything writes back to your systems.
Two paths. This quarter the install is $0 (normally $8,000), so you start with no install fee, or you pay the install and keep your monthly flexible from day one. Either way the monthly starts at $3,000 for up to 25 people and scales with team size: $4,500 for 26 to 75, $6,000 for 76 to 125, $8,000 for 126 to 250, and custom above 250. It is backed by a 30-day board-ready-or-free guarantee, and we onboard a small cohort each quarter. Full detail is on the pricing section and the FAQ.
ServiceTitan is the flagship integration and the deepest one. The same adapter layer also covers Buildertrend, Procore, Housecall Pro, Jobber, FieldEdge, Service Fusion, Workiz, JobNimbus, and AccuLynx. The agents read your jobs, calls, parts, and paperwork from whichever platform runs your shop, with your books staying in QuickBooks.
Three properties. Salisbury Bookkeeping at salisburybookkeeping.com provides construction bookkeeping and fractional CFO services. Top Builder AI at topbuilderai.com installs the eight self-learning agents on the systems contractors already run. Neuron at neuron-hq.com is an AI training platform that teaches teams to actually use AI at work. All three are founded and operated by Cory Salisbury.
Email support@topbuilderai.com, or book the fit call: pick a time and you get a calendar invite straight onto the developer's calendar. It is a 30-minute call with Cory, with a real teardown on your own data and no pitch. Top Builder AI works with contractors across the United States.
Thirty minutes with the developer, a real teardown on your own ServiceTitan, Buildertrend, or Procore data, no pitch. It answers one question: whether your shop is a fit for this quarter's onboarding cohort.