A Raken alternative for supers who will not fill out form fields

Voice-to-text still means somebody is filling out a form

This is the part that gets glossed over in a demo. A voice feature on top of a form app moves the typing to your thumb-free hand. It does not remove the form. The super still opens the app, taps into the crew field, dictates, taps into the work-performed field, dictates, remembers to go back and log the delivery that showed up at 10:40, remembers the standby time on the crane crew, and remembers which of the eleven trades on site actually turned work today. If he forgets a field, the field is blank. If he skips the app in the truck at 6:15pm, there is no report.

We took the form away. Your super hits record and talks for two minutes: who was on site, what they turned, what showed up, what held them up, who stood by, what happened on the safety side. The AI produces the complete structured daily — crew counts by trade, work performed, deliveries, delays, weather, safety — and the PM reviews it instead of writing it.

Per-project pricing, not per seat

Per-seat pricing punishes you for the exact thing that makes a daily report good: more of the people who were actually in the field putting information into it. On a mechanical job with eight foremen, two supers, a safety manager and two PMs, a per-user tool turns into real money for one project — so the license count gets trimmed, and the guys who watched the work happen end up relaying it to the one person who has a login.

We charge $99/month per project and put everybody on it. Foremen, supers, safety, PMs, the estimator who wants to watch the job he bid. Add a project when you win it, turn it off when you close it out. The bill tracks your backlog instead of your headcount.

Built for industrial, not light commercial

A daily on a tenant improvement job and a daily on a unit turnaround are not the same document. Ours assumes stacked trades in the same footprint, standby driven by permits and vessel entry, a crew mix that changes shift to shift, and weather holds that matter because of a lift plan rather than because it was raining. The vocabulary is right out of the gate — pipefitters, boilermakers, millwrights, riggers, ironworkers, insulators, instrument techs — and it does not need to be taught what a spool or a tie-in is.

Where Raken is the right call

Raken is a good product and we are not going to pretend otherwise. If you are a commercial GC and you want a clean, mature form app — predictable fields, a big template library, a long track record, people on your team who already know it — Raken does that well, and swapping it for something else because a competitor wrote a comparison page is a bad reason to swap.

We are for a narrower problem. If your superintendents will not fill out boxes — if you have bought a field app before, rolled it out, and quietly watched the daily reports go back to a text message and a phone call two months later — that is what we built for. The fix was never a better form. It was not asking a guy who has been on his feet for twelve hours to fill one out.

Side by side

Raken pricing reflects publicly listed rates and may have changed; check with them directly.

What switching actually takes

There is nothing to install — it runs in the browser on the phone that is already in his pocket, and it pins to the home screen like an app. Setup is your project, your distribution list, and your report format. Training is one sentence: tap the button, talk about your day, tap it again. If a man can leave a voicemail he is done learning this.

Most crews start by running it alongside whatever they have now for a couple of weeks. Two weeks in, look at the dailies that came out of each one and see which set you would rather hand a claims attorney. That is the whole evaluation. See what belongs in an industrial daily or how the voice workflow runs.