The problem
Friday, 5 pm. A site manager calls subcontractors one by one to find out how much they have really done, because Monday's progress report is due. The estimate lives in Excel, tasks live in phones, and site photos get lost in chat.
The estimate becomes the source of truth
The tender estimate from the investor's Excel file goes into the system and defines the scope and value of the project. Nobody retypes it by hand.
The site runs from a phone
The crew sees their tasks, uploads photos and reports progress on site. Subcontractors quote through a plain link with no account, because every required login kills adoption on site.
Billing follows the work
The progress report is calculated from what was reported on site. Completion and value appear automatically, so billing no longer starts with a round of phone calls.
Data from a live contract
- 1,565
- phone photos in one site survey task
- 360
- cost items loaded from the investor's Excel
- 198
- tasks on site
- 7
- people using the mobile app
What it taught me
On a construction site the hardest people to win over are not in the office, they are the crew. That's why every feature starts from a problem on a specific site, not from market analysis.
