Software for Construction and Trades

Paper on site is the actual problem

Job sheets, timesheets, delivery notes, certificates and photographs live on paper and in phones. They reach the office days later, sometimes damaged, occasionally not at all.

Everything downstream waits: invoicing, payroll, compliance certificates, the customer's confirmation. Getting site information into the system the same day is the highest-value change available to most contractors.

Contractors do not have a reporting problem. They have a three-day gap between work happening and anyone in the office knowing about it.

Offline is mandatory here

Plant rooms, basements, lift shafts, rural sites, steel-framed buildings. A site app that requires connectivity will fail at the moment it is needed, and the crew will go back to paper within a fortnight.

• Full local storage, with everything working offline
• Photographs queued and uploaded when signal returns
• A visible counter of unsynced items — never a silent queue
• Append-only job logs, which avoids sync conflicts entirely

Photographs are the primary data type

In construction the photograph is the record: before, during, after, defect, completion. A system that treats photos as attachments rather than as first-class data misses most of the value.

1. Tagged automatically with job, location, time and who took them
2. Compressed on the device, because a day of site photos is a lot of mobile data
3. Attached to the specific task or defect, not dumped in a folder
4. Assembled automatically into the completion pack the client receives

Certificates and compliance

Electrical, gas, fire, asbestos, working at height — certificates are legal documents with expiry dates, and chasing them manually is a permanent tax on the office.

• Generated from the job data rather than typed again
• Signed on the device, on site
• Sent to the client automatically on completion
• Expiry tracked, with reminders before it lapses
• Operative certifications tracked too — nobody scheduled to a job they are not certified for

Cash flow is the business case

For most contractors the strongest argument is not efficiency, it is getting invoiced sooner. If completion paperwork reaches the office same-day rather than in three days, invoices go out days earlier and the money arrives days earlier, every job, forever.

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