Gather
AI site diary and NEC records platform, born on UK rail.Where they shine: Contract-aware records for major frameworks: structured shift diaries feeding NEC compensation-event workflows, with serious infrastructure credentials.
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You run Tier 1 infrastructure frameworks and your teams will complete structured shift records every day.
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You want the record to build itself from the conversation your site already has, meetings included, at a published per-site price.
Procore
The broadest all-in-one construction management platform.Where they shine: Running the whole project in one system: financials, RFIs, submittals, drawings, quality and safety, with a huge integration marketplace.
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You are standardising a mid-size or enterprise business on one platform for everything, with budget to match.
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You want the evidence layer under whatever you already run: the chat, the meetings and the diary, captured without anyone filling in a form.
Autodesk Construction Cloud
Construction management and common data environment in the Autodesk ecosystem.Where they shine: BIM-centred delivery: an ISO 19650-certified CDE with deep links from design models through to field work.
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Your workflows live in the Autodesk design ecosystem and you need the certified CDE around them.
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You need the day-to-day human record their forms never see, named to ISO 19650 so it files straight into your CDE.
Oracle Aconex
The formal correspondence and document CDE for major capital projects.Where they shine: Neutral, auditable formal correspondence between many parties on megaprojects, with unlimited users per project.
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You are administering a major capital project where every party needs a neutral formal-correspondence platform.
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You know the truth of a job lives in the informal record, and you want that captured with the same discipline as the formal one.
PlanRadar
Plan-pinned defect and ticket management with site diary features.Where they shine: Snagging against drawings: tickets pinned to plans and BIM models, mature and widely adopted, with published pricing.
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Defect management pinned to drawings is your main need and per-user pricing suits a small inspection team.
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You want the whole team on the record without counting seats, and the day captured as it happens rather than as tickets.
Full comparison: Construction Metric vs PlanRadar
HammerTech
Safety and site operations platform: inductions, permits, pre-task plans.Where they shine: End-to-end HSE workflows with flat-fee, unlimited-user pricing and free subcontractor access.
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Safety compliance workflows are the job to be done and you want every operative inducted through one system.
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You need the whole day on the record, not just the safety paperwork: progress, delays, instructions, deliveries, decisions.
Buildots
AI progress tracking from 360° camera walks measured against the BIM model.Where they shine: Objective, element-level progress measurement: what has physically been built, compared to the model, with delay forecasting.
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You need measured visual progress against BIM on large projects and the hardware programme that comes with it.
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You need what was said, decided and instructed, not just what got built, and you need it without cameras or site walks.
OpenSpace
360° photo documentation mapped automatically to floor plans.Where they shine: Effortless visual capture: walk the site with a camera and every location is photo-documented and time-stamped.
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Visual walkthrough documentation is your priority and a weekly camera walk fits how your sites run.
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The argument that costs money is rarely about what a wall looked like: it is who said what, when. That is the record we keep.
Fieldwire
Field task management on drawings, by Hilti.Where they shine: Fast, offline-capable task and punch-list management against plans, with a free tier and published pricing.
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Task coordination against drawings for a small field team is the need, and per-user pricing works for you.
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Tasks are a slice of the day. We keep the whole day, from everyone, without anyone opening an app to do it.
Raken
Daily reporting app for US field teams.Where they shine: Polished daily reports: field staff fill structured dailies on their phones and branded PDFs go out automatically.
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Your field teams will reliably fill in a daily report app and US-style dailies are the deliverable.
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Your dailies should write themselves from what the team already said, with the original evidence attached to every line.
Full comparison: Construction Metric vs Raken
Valoon
WhatsApp-based site communication and documentation, made in Germany.Where they shine: The same core insight we built on, executed well for the German market: the crew never leaves WhatsApp, the office gets structure out of it, and WhatsApp users are free no matter how many there are. Automatic translation across 50-plus languages is genuinely strong for multilingual crews.
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You operate in Germany or the DACH region, you need German data residency and DATEV, or your crews work across many languages daily.
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You are delivering UK work and the record has to stand up contractually: JCT and NEC notices, Building Safety Act golden thread evidence, ISO 19650 naming.
Full comparison: Construction Metric vs Valoon
Aphex
Short-term planning for major infrastructure, with a diary attached to the plan.Where they shine: Short-interval planning done properly: lookaheads, weekly work plans, resource planning and staging diagrams all drawing on one connected plan, with real credibility on rail, metro, energy and nuclear programmes.
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Short-term planning is the problem you are solving, and you want daily records tied directly to the planned activity they belong to.
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You need what actually happened, including everything that was never on any plan, which is usually where the delay and the money live.
Full comparison: Construction Metric vs Aphex
Site Diary
A focused UK site diary app: custom forms, photos, time-stamped entries.Where they shine: Doing one job and doing it directly: a flexible custom form builder with ready-made templates, time-stamped entries with photos, and exportable diary reports, used by a large base of UK contractors and trades.
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You want a straightforward diary app your team will fill in, and form flexibility matters more to you than capture.
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The diary keeps not getting filled in, and you would rather it wrote itself from the group chat the team already uses.
Full comparison: Construction Metric vs Site Diary
Novade
Enterprise field management across quality, safety and site operations.Where they shine: Breadth and scale: forms, checklists, quality inspections, permits to work, document control and site diaries, deployed across 25 countries and 10,000 sites with customers including Kier and Vinci.
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You are an enterprise standardising field operations across many countries and need one system of record for quality and safety workflows.
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You want the human record underneath the workflows: the conversation, the meetings and the day, captured without anyone completing a form.
GoBuid
Mobile-first site documentation aimed at claim-ready evidence.Where they shine: A genuinely generous entry point, with a free tier for unlimited users, plus a cheap on-site seat, 30-plus templates and automated PDF and Excel export packages. Their framing that reports should create themselves is one we agree with.
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Budget is the binding constraint and a free tier with structured templates gets you further than nothing at all.
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You want the reports to create themselves from the conversation rather than from forms your team still has to complete.
Remato
Crew, tools and time management for trade contractors, with a site diary.Where they shine: Keeping track of people and kit: GPS-geofenced time tracking, automatic timesheets, QR-coded tool inventory and site check-in, working across 20-plus countries and languages.
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Losing track of tools, hours and who is on site is your real problem, and the diary is a bonus rather than the point.
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The record is the point: what was said, instructed, delayed and decided, captured from the conversation as it happens.
Compiled July and August 2026 from each vendor’s public website, documentation and published reviews. Product names belong to their owners. Many of these platforms complement ours: the record we keep can feed the systems they run.