Site capture and inspection
Fast structured capture with photographs and location, tolerant of poor connectivity, synchronising without conflicts when signal returns.
Industry
Construction and engineering
Site capture, submittal review and project reporting for work that happens away from a desk.
Services most used here
- Application Development
- Agentic AI & Automation
- Data & Analytics
- Managed Services & Support
Context
What makes this sector different
Construction and engineering projects generate a continuous flow of records from site — inspections, snags, variations, safety observations, progress claims — produced by people whose primary job is not data entry.
Systems succeed here when capture is faster than the workaround. If a structured form takes longer than a photograph and a message, the workaround wins and the record is lost. We design for the device, the glove and the patchy signal first, and treat reporting as a by-product of capture rather than a separate exercise.
This page sets out how our capabilities apply to this sector's operating pressures. It is not a claim of prior engagements in it. The solution patterns we publish are labelled as designs rather than completed engagements, and we will tell you directly where a requirement would be new to us.
Operating pressures
- Records created on site, on mobile devices, often without reliable connectivity
- Drawing and specification revisions that must reach the right people quickly
- Submittal and variation review cycles that delay progress
- Progress and cost reporting assembled manually from several sources
- Subcontractor compliance and documentation to verify across packages
- Defect and snag lists tracked in spreadsheets that fall out of date
Where we would start
Use cases that tend to pay back first
Ordered by how quickly the result can be verified. Where output is easy to check, automation carries less risk.
Submittal and document review
Checking submissions against specification requirements and surfacing gaps with the clause cited, for a reviewer to confirm.
Progress and cost reporting
Reports drawn from captured records and cost data on agreed definitions, so the position presented is reconcilable.
Defect and snag management
Items with owner, location, evidence and closure state, and escalation when a due date passes.
Technical knowledge assistants
Cited answers from current specifications, standards references and project documentation, with version awareness so superseded revisions are not relied on.
Governance
Constraints we design to from the start
These are the requirements that decide the architecture in this sector. Retrofitting any of them means rebuilding, so they are settled during design.
- Offline-first capture with conflict-safe synchronisation
- Document version control so site teams cannot act on a superseded revision
- Automated checks presented as findings for a competent person to confirm, never as approvals
- Photographic and location evidence retained with capture time and author
- Access segregation between main contractor, subcontractors and client
- Records retained in a form that supports later claim or dispute resolution
Related
Services and solutions for this sector
Application Development
Secure, maintainable web and mobile applications — new builds, AI-enabled products, and the modernisation of systems that have become risky to change.
Agentic AI & Automation
AI agents, assistants and automated workflows that carry out real work inside your systems, with human approval at the points that matter.
Data & Analytics
Dashboards, reporting and data foundations that make operational reality visible — and make your organisation ready for AI.
Managed Services & Support
Advisory, managed IT and application support — the long-term accountability that keeps a delivered system healthy.
Relevant solutions
Illustrative solution pattern
Automated compliance checking
Submissions checked against a written rule set, with every finding citing its clause and a competent person confirming the outcome.
Read the full write-upIllustrative solution patternDocument intake and extraction
Structured data extracted from inbound documents, with confidence surfaced and a person confirming before anything is committed.
Read the full write-upIllustrative solution patternOperations dashboard on governed data
A single operational view built on agreed metric definitions, with visible freshness and drill-through to source records.
Read the full write-upWorking in construction & engineering?
Tell us which of these pressures you recognise and which you would put first. We will come back with an honest view of whether we are the right people for it.
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