Construction intelligence

Know what's built. Back what's billed.

BracenBuild is engineered from the ground up to give owners, lenders, and contractors immediate, shared clarity on the health and status of a project: percent complete observed in the field, tied to the pay application, with the footage behind every number.

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Live in production · Running on a large commercial construction project in Los Angeles · Los Angeles, California

The problem

Progress is reported, not observed.

On large commercial construction projects, percent-complete arrives as an opinion from the field, days or weeks after the work. Owners, lenders and contractors then argue over a number nobody actually measured.

Every party on the job is paying for the same walk to happen three times, and still no one trusts the result.

What BracenBuild does

Turns the walk into arithmetic.

Reads the units off the drawings

The unit list comes straight from the architectural PDF. There is no spreadsheet to build and none to maintain.

Weights that are stated, not judged

Scope items carry whole-number weights per project, overridable per building, so percent-complete is arithmetic rather than opinion.

An observed status for every unit

On every walk: not started, in progress, complete, blocked, or not visible. A unit nobody looked at is not a unit at zero.

Runs beside your system of record

In parallel with the incumbent, rather than demanding replacement on day one. Nothing has to be switched off to start.

Built for robots from the first commit

Capture and assessment are separated by a strict interface.

The assessment engine does not know what carried the camera down the corridor. A handheld 360 rig today; a quadruped or a humanoid tomorrow. Same interface, no rewrite — the robot becomes a capture device the platform already knows how to consume.

Straight about the gap: automated observation from footage is the next build. Today a walk is assessed by a person against the capture. The architecture to receive an autonomous walk is already in place; the vision pipeline is not.

Building a humanoid or quadruped? An active site is approved for robot testing. Ask for the pilot site offer.

The BracenBuild dashboard: project picker and tools down the left, percent-complete and the registers to the right. — The dashboard on a live project. One line is blanked out: it named the incumbent system the job runs on, which belongs to the customer and is not ours to publish.

What is live today

Running in production, on a real job.

Not a roadmap. Every line below is deployed and in use on a large commercial construction project in Los Angeles.

Units read off the architectural drawings. A three-sheet PDF read back the full unit list for one building, matching the confirmed roster exactly.
Scope weights per project, overridden per building. Whole numbers, summing to one hundred, so a percentage can be checked by hand.
An observed status for every unit on every walk, with how it was reached recorded beside it — named aloud on the walk, or inferred from a trade that could not have started otherwise. Coverage is reported separately from completion, so a unit nobody looked at never reads as a unit at zero.
360 walk footage, uploaded and reviewable, and searchable by unit number: what was said on the walk is written out, so one click moves the recording to the point where that unit was discussed.
Daily reports from the field — typed or dictated on a phone, with photographs attached and the day's weather fetched automatically for the site, so nobody types it.
Per-project roles and invitations for contractor, owner, owner's representative, architect and lender. A role is per project: the same person can be an administrator on one job and read-only on another. A field user sees no dollar figure anywhere in the product.
Percent complete becomes dollars. A draw sheet showing verified earned beside billed, with retention and balance to finish. Each scope item carries its line on the schedule of values, and the number on the pay application traces back to the walk it came from.

Where this is going

The full product strategy — intelligence loop, accountability engine, financial and schedule layers. Roadmap, not a feature list.

Nearest of those: a clip-to-unit map built from the camera track; milestones, with on-track or behind per building; connectors to CMiC and Procore for the schedule of values; and autonomous capture — robot and drone walks — feeding the same review.

BracenBuild White Paper v1.0 — Vision & Product Strategy (PDF)

The ask

A pilot on one active jobsite.

One building, one scope. You supply the site and the drawings; I supply the unit map, the scope weights and the assessment platform.

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