Industrial construction
Industrial construction daily report software for petrochem, turnarounds, and T&I
Built for the GCs and specialty subs doing the work — mechanical, E&I, civil, scaffold, insulation, refractory — on refinery, chemical, power, and heavy manufacturing sites. Your super talks through the day. The report writes itself.
An industrial daily is a different document
Most field reporting software was drawn up for a commercial GC on a ground-up building. One prime, a handful of subs, a schedule that moves in weeks, and a daily that mostly answers “what did we build today.” Industrial does not look like that. On a turnaround you have eleven contractors stacked in the same unit, a crew count that swings by two hundred between day and night, and a job where the number that ends up mattering is not what you built — it is what you were kept from building, by whom, and for how long.
That changes what the daily has to carry. Standby is not a note in the margin, it is the record. Permit delays, escort waits, an area that never got turned over, a vessel that was not gas-free at 7am, a crane pick pushed on wind — those are the entries that decide whether a change order or a delay claim goes anywhere six months from now. And they are precisely the ones that never make it into a form, because by the time the super is back at the trailer at 6:30 he is writing from memory.
Who this is for
This is contractor-side software. Industrial GCs and the specialty subs under them — the people who have to prove what happened on their scope, defend their hours, and hand the owner or CM a clean daily every morning. We build for the reporting obligation you carry, not for a plant’s internal work management system.
The fit is best when you have real complexity to document: crews of fifty and up, three or more trades turning work at once, an owner or CM with a required report format, and enough exposure that a thin daily costs you money. If you are running two men on a service call, you do not need this.
What actually goes in the daily
Crew and trades
Headcount by craft and by contractor, foreman of record, shift, and where each crew actually worked — not one lump number for the job.
Deliveries and materials
What hit the gate, what was short, what got rejected, and what a crew is still waiting on. Late material is the most commonly missed entry in a daily.
Standby and idle time
Permit waits, vessel entry, LOTO, hot work holds, escort waits, an area not turned over. Hours and crew size, so the exposure is countable later.
Weather and weather holds
Conditions pulled automatically for the site, plus what the weather actually stopped — a lift called off on wind speed reads very differently than "rain."
Safety
Toolbox talk topic, JSA coverage, near misses, first aid, recordables, stop-work events, and any observation worth a written record.
Stacked trades and interference
Who else was in the same footprint, who had to work around whom, and where congestion cost production. This is the entry nobody writes and everybody needs.
Your super does not fill any of that in. He talks — “had 46 today, 18 pipefitters in the north rack, boilermakers stood down till 10:15 waiting on the confined space permit, two spools showed up short, wind called the 40-ton pick, toolbox talk was line-of-fire” — and the AI sorts it into the structure above.
Turnaround and T&I conditions
Turnaround work compresses everything. Twelve-hour shifts back to back, day and night crews on the same scope, a headcount that doubles in a week, and a daily that has to close before the next shift walks in. That is exactly when documentation quality falls off — the reporting burden peaks at the same moment nobody has a spare twenty minutes.
Voice capture holds up under that because it costs a foreman two minutes standing at his truck, and it can happen throughout the shift instead of all at the end. Each clip is timestamped as it is recorded, so a 9:40am hold is documented at 9:40am with the details still fresh, not reconstructed at 7pm as “delayed on permits.” Weather comes in on its own and delays get flagged as the AI hears them.
The report your owner requires
Every plant and every CM wants their own format, and most of them want it as a PDF in an inbox by a set time. On approval the report renders to your branded PDF and goes out to the distribution list automatically. On the Contract tier and above you can upload the blank format an owner requires and have field data mapped into that layout, so nobody is retyping a daily into somebody else’s template.
More on how the voice workflow runs, or how this compares to a form-based app.