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BuildSight: Construction Site Progress Tracking Platform

Introduces BuildSight, a visual dashboard that unifies site updates, photo uploads, task assignments, and schedule tracking to eliminate delays and improve team accountability.
LBy Leadde Updated August 18, 2026

Why Nobody on Site Agrees on the Schedule

On most sites the schedule exists in four versions: the master programme, the foreman's whiteboard, the subcontractor's own plan, and whatever was agreed verbally that morning. Progress is reported by phone and photograph into a group chat, and by the weekly call nobody can say which version is current.

The cost is not the disagreement itself but what it hides. A three-day slip on one trade is absorbed quietly until it collides with a delivery that was booked against a different version of the programme, at which point it becomes a fortnight. The material to leave in the source document is the commercial layer: contract values, retention terms, and delay penalties are exactly what a competitor and a claims consultant would both like to see.

The platform is introduced across eight scenes: two on the four-version problem as a site experiences it, one on capturing progress from a phone at the point of work, two on how photographs and task updates become one record, one on the schedule view that everyone is looking at, one on what the client or owner sees, and one on what the first week of adoption looks like.

How to Explain a Site Platform to People Who Distrust Software

Construction buyers have been sold site software before, and the previous one is still half-implemented. The video has to acknowledge that history, because the objection is not whether a shared record would help; it is whether the trades will actually use it.

Show the phone in a glove, in the rain

Show the phone in a glove, in the rain

Adoption on site is decided by whether an update takes ten seconds standing on scaffolding. Any scene shot as a desktop interface loses the audience that has to enter the data.

Make the four versions explicit before the solution

The problem is so familiar it goes unnamed. Putting all four on screen at once is the moment a project manager recognises their own site.

Cover what the subcontractor gets

Subcontractors carry the input burden and see the least benefit. Naming what improves for them, usually fewer calls and faster valuation, is what makes rollout possible.

End on the first fortnight, not the feature list

Buyers know implementation is where these products die. Describing the first two weeks honestly is more persuasive than another capability.

Take the product brief your team already circulates

Upload the product brief, the case study from your reference project, or the implementation plan sales uses in PDF, DOCX, DOC, PPTX, or TXT, up to 200 MB. Scenes come back ready to edit; the file itself stays as it is.

Tightening It for a Tender Audience

Rebuild the example around a project type you win

Rebuild the example around a project type you win

Fit-out, civils, and residential have different reporting rhythms. A generic site persuades nobody; the one that matches the tender in front of you does.

Split the video by audience if the room is mixed

Split the video by audience if the room is mixed

Owners want certainty and contractors want less admin. Where both watch, mark which scenes matter to each rather than averaging the message.

Cut it to the slot the tender allows

Cut it to the slot the tender allows

Tender presentations run to a clock. Use the script tools to shorten scenes that overrun, expand the reporting scene if the client is the decision-maker, and regenerate any line that reads as marketing rather than as evidence.

Construction Progress Video FAQ

That data gets captured at the point of work. Every product in this category can display a schedule; almost none survive contact with a site where nobody enters anything. Showing capture in field conditions is the proof that matters.

Usually three people at once: the project manager who buys it, the site team who feed it, and the client who reads the output. A video that speaks only to the buyer will be blocked by the second group.

Enough to establish that it is usable in a glove, and no more. Interface tours date with every release and are the single most common reason a product video has to be rebuilt within a year.

Only with the client's written agreement, and with anything identifying the site or its commercial position removed. Progress photographs frequently show more about a project's state than the parties intend to publish.

Agree the Schedule Before the Weekly Call

Bring the product brief your team already circulates across, review the scenes, and publish before the next tender presentation.

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