Construction
DivitiBuild
Every site in one dashboard, deadlines tracked, and a mobile app that works on the ground instead of on paper.
Overview
Construction management with an AI foreman
Construction tasks live in chats and spreadsheets, which means they live nowhere: by the time a delay is visible in a group chat it is already a delay. DivitiBuild puts sites, teams and deadlines in one place and surfaces the overrun while it is still a risk.
The AI foreman does the part that nobody wants to do — chasing status, escalating what is stuck, and keeping the task list honest between the site and the office.
What it does
- Dashboard across all sites: metrics, team status, overdue work
- AI foreman that assigns, chases and escalates
- Messaging from foreman to director in one space
- iOS and Android app for use on site
- Overruns visible before they become delays
The category
What site management software is actually for
A delay on a construction site is visible to somebody on the day it starts. The foreman knows. The problem is that the foreman tells the group chat, the chat scrolls, and the office finds out at the monthly review when the overrun has become a fact with a price attached.
Every tool in this category exists to shorten that gap. They differ in where they put the work: drawings and issue tracking (Fieldwire), defect and documentation workflows (PlanRadar), or a full financial and project contour for large contractors (Procore, Autodesk). DivitiBuild puts the gap itself first — sites, teams and deadlines in one dashboard, with an AI foreman that chases the status instead of waiting to be asked.
That is a narrower product than the platforms above and it is worth saying so before the price comparison, because a cheaper tool that solves a different problem is not cheaper.
The real cost
What this category costs over a year, with the numbers published
Read from each vendor's own pricing page on 3 November 2026, for a twenty-person crew of foremen, engineers and office staff.
- Fieldwire — Basic is $0 per user per month; Pro $39; Business $64; Business Plus $89, all billed annually. Twenty Pro seats is about $9,360 a year; twenty Business Plus seats is about $21,360.
- PlanRadar — $32 a month for a single user; Starter listed at $107 and Pro at $159 a month for up to ten users. The same page also labels those tiers per user per month, so the two readings differ by a factor of ten and the figure is worth confirming with the vendor before you budget. We are not going to pick the reading that flatters us.
- Procore and Autodesk Build — neither publishes a price. Both are quote-only, scaled to annual construction volume rather than headcount, which is a different pricing shape entirely and usually a larger number.
- DivitiBuild — quoted by number of sites and modules, with the implementation as a project. A demo of every module is available before any of that.
The number that decides this category is not the licence. It is whether the foreman fills anything in. A $0 seat that nobody touches costs more than an $89 one that replaces the morning phone round, and no pricing page will tell you which you are buying.
The second hidden cost is per-seat arithmetic on a site crew. Twenty office users is a normal licence; eighty site workers is not, and the moment the price per person decides who gets access, the people closest to the delay are the ones left out. That is why DivitiBuild is priced by site rather than by head.
Comparison
DivitiBuild against the established platforms
Four tools a general contractor actually shortlists, compared on the axes that decide the purchase. Prices are from each vendor's own pricing page, read on 3 November 2026; where a vendor does not publish, the cell says so.
| DivitiBuild | Fieldwire | PlanRadar | Procore | Autodesk Build | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Published price | No — by sites and modules | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Entry paid tier | On request | $39 per user / month, annual | $32 per month, single user | Quote only | Quote only |
| Top published tier | On request | $89 per user / month, annual | $159 per month, up to 10 users (label ambiguous) | Quote only | Quote only |
| Priced per | Site and module | User | User or small team | Annual construction volume | User and product |
| Free tier | No — demo of all modules | Yes, Basic at $0 | Trial | No | Trial |
| Mobile app for site use | iOS and Android | iOS and Android | iOS and Android | iOS and Android | iOS and Android |
| AI that acts, not just logs | Yes — assigns, times, escalates | No | No | Assistive features | Assistive features |
| Attendance in one tap | Yes | No | No | Workforce module | No |
| Foreman-to-director messaging | Built in | Comments on tasks | Comments on tickets | Built in | Built in |
| Drawing and sheet tooling | No | Strong — sheets, compare, BIM | Strong — plans and defects | Strong | Strong — BIM native |
| Stage | In production | Mature | Mature | Mature | Mature |
Where we win
What DivitiBuild does better
Four things, and they all come from the same decision: the product is built around the overrun rather than around the drawing.
- The AI foreman acts. It does not only record a deviation — it runs the task thread, starts the timer and escalates the overrun itself. On the platforms above the escalation is a notification that somebody still has to read and act on.
- Attendance is one tap. The site crew marks presence and task progress from the phone, which is the only data-entry burden a foreman will actually accept. Everything downstream — load, overrun, who is where — is computed from it.
- One contour from site to director. The conversation between the foreman and the office is in the same place as the task, so there is no chat that disagrees with the spreadsheet and nobody owning the difference.
- Priced by site, not by head. Adding the eightieth worker does not change the invoice, so access is not rationed to the people furthest from the work.
The honest size of the claim: the effect is early control. Overruns and subcontractor slippage become visible in the moment rather than at the end of the month. We do not put a percentage on it on this page, because the saving depends entirely on how late you currently find out, and the only way to know that is to ask your own project managers.
Where we lose
What the established platforms do better
The half of the comparison most vendor pages leave out.
- Drawings. Fieldwire's sheet management, version compare and markup, PlanRadar's plan-anchored defect workflow, Autodesk's BIM-native model handling — we have none of that. If your pain is drawing versions on site, buy one of them and do not argue with us about it.
- Financial and contract contour. Procore covers budgets, change orders, bids and subcontractor invoicing as a single system of record. That is a different scope of product, and for a large contractor it is often the reason the choice is made.
- Published pricing and a free tier. Fieldwire lets you start at $0 tonight and form your own view by the end of the week. We offer a demo and a conversation, which is slower for you.
- Ecosystem. Hundreds of integrations, an app marketplace, certified implementation partners in most countries — that is them. Our integration list is short and built per deployment.
- Procurement paperwork. No published audit reports, no reference list you can ring, no analyst coverage. For a contractor whose purchasing runs through a formal vendor review, that is a genuine obstacle.
- Scale references. These platforms have run projects far larger than anything we can point to. If you are building a stadium, the risk calculation is not in our favour and we will say so.
Why rollouts fail
Why site software ends up back on paper
The pattern repeats regardless of which system was bought. The office configures it, the foremen are trained for an afternoon, and for two weeks the data is good. Then a concrete pour runs late, everyone switches to the phone to sort it out, and the system records none of it. From then on the dashboard is a flattering fiction and the first manager who checks it against reality stops opening it.
The second failure is the entry burden. A tool that asks a foreman in boots to fill four fields and attach two photos per task gets filled in for a week. The honest design target is one tap, and everything the office wants has to be derived from that tap rather than requested separately.
The third is the review meeting. If the monthly review stays the place where overruns are discovered, nothing upstream matters — the organisation has decided to find out late. Software cannot fix a calendar.
The mechanics
What the AI foreman actually does
Four behaviours, described plainly so you can judge whether they match your process.
- Keeps the thread. Each task carries its own discussion, so the reason a job slipped stays attached to the job rather than living in somebody's memory.
- Runs the clock. Timers start when work starts, which is what makes an overrun visible on the day rather than at the month's end.
- Escalates by itself. A stuck task moves up a level without anyone deciding to escalate it, which removes the most political step in site management.
- Reads attendance. Presence marked on the phone feeds the load picture across every site, so the dashboard shows who is actually there rather than who was planned.
Who should buy what
An honest routing table
Five situations, five answers, and two of them are not us.
- A general contractor or developer with two to three sites or more, or sites from 3,000 m². This is the entry point DivitiBuild was built for, and the case where early visibility of slippage pays for itself fastest.
- A team whose main pain is drawing versions and site defects. Fieldwire or PlanRadar. That is their craft, not ours.
- A large contractor that needs budgets, change orders and subcontractor invoicing in one system of record. Procore. The licence is the smaller part of that decision.
- A design-led practice working model-first. Autodesk, because the model is the source of truth and everything else should hang off it.
- A single site with one foreman and a site diary that works. Buy nothing yet. The payback arithmetic in this category needs a portfolio before it starts to make sense.
Rollout
What implementation actually contains
Start with a demo on your own sites rather than a slide deck. Full implementation for a general contractor is a project, and it runs roughly like this.
- Demo on your objects. Dashboard, the messenger with the AI foreman and the mobile app, shown against your sites rather than a sample project. This is where most conversations should end if the fit is wrong.
- Sites and schedules connected. The portfolio and the deadlines go in, which is also the moment the real state of the schedules becomes visible — often the first useful output.
- The AI foreman configured. Escalation paths, timers and thresholds set to your chain of command, because an escalation that goes to the wrong person teaches people to ignore it.
- Foremen trained in the app. Short, on site, with the people who will resist. If attendance in one tap does not survive this step, nothing downstream works.
If a vendor in this category promises a two-week rollout across a portfolio, they are quoting the installation. The installation was never the hard part.
The pilot
How to run it so the answer means something
Four conditions. The first one is the one companies skip.
- Pick the site that is going badly. A healthy site makes every tool look good and teaches you nothing.
- Write down what you expect to see earlier. One sentence: which slippage you want visible in days rather than weeks. Agreed before the first task is created.
- Include the foreman who hates software. If the pilot runs on the enthusiast, you have measured the enthusiast.
- Keep the old reporting running. The comparison between what the dashboard said and what the monthly review said is the actual result of the pilot.
Limits
Where this product is the wrong answer
Said plainly, because the alternative is a stalled rollout in month three.
- Drawing-centred work: sheet versions, markups, model coordination. Buy Fieldwire, PlanRadar or Autodesk.
- Contract and budget control as the primary need. That is Procore's scope.
- A single small site. The visibility gain needs a portfolio to pay for the change in habits.
- Procurement that requires published certifications and reference calls before a pilot. We do not have that paperwork yet, and it is on us rather than on you.
- An organisation that wants software instead of a process change. The AI foreman escalates; somebody has to be willing to receive the escalation.
Due diligence
Questions worth asking any vendor in this category
Including us. Vague answers are themselves an answer.
- Is the price per user, per site or per annual construction volume — and what does the eightieth site worker cost?
- How many taps does a foreman make to record a day's work?
- Does the system escalate by itself, or does it notify somebody who then has to decide?
- What happens to my data and my schedules if I leave?
- Which part of the rollout does your team own, and which is mine?
- How many portfolios of my size are running this in production right now?
- What does the demo use — my sites or your sample project?
The short version
If you only read one section
DivitiBuild puts every site in one dashboard, gives the crew a mobile app with attendance in one tap, and runs an AI foreman that keeps task threads, starts timers and escalates overruns by itself. It is in production, priced by sites and modules, and every module can be demonstrated on your own objects before you commit.
Against it: Fieldwire from $0 to $89 a user a month with serious drawing tooling, PlanRadar from $32 a month with plan-anchored defect workflows, and Procore and Autodesk as quote-only platforms that cover budgets, contracts and BIM. They are better at drawings, at financial control and at procurement paperwork.
We are better at the narrow thing that decides whether any of it helps: finding out about the delay on the day it starts, from people who will only ever tap once.
Subcontractors
Where the slippage actually comes from
On most portfolios the overrun is not the crew's. It is a subcontractor who promised Tuesday, arrived Thursday, and told nobody in between. The general contractor finds out when the next trade turns up to a site that is not ready, and by then two schedules have moved.
This is the case the AI foreman is pointed at, and it is worth being precise about what it can and cannot do.
- What it catches. A task with a timer that has not started when it should have. That is a mechanical signal and it does not depend on anybody reporting honestly — the absence of a start is itself the alert.
- What it escalates. The stuck task moves up the chain on its own, so the conversation with the subcontractor happens while the delay is a day old rather than a fortnight.
- What it cannot do. It cannot make a subcontractor answer the phone, and it cannot tell you whether the delay is their fault or a late material delivery. It tells you earlier; the judgement stays yours.
- What it needs from you. Subcontractor work has to be on the schedule as tasks with owners, not as a line in a contract. If the trades are not in the system, the system cannot see them slip, and no amount of AI changes that.
The honest version of the benefit, then, is narrow and real: you find out on day one instead of day fourteen. What that is worth depends on how much a fortnight costs you, which is a number your project managers already know and no vendor should be guessing at.
Questions
DivitiBuild, answered.
How is it different from a chat plus a spreadsheet?
The chat and the spreadsheet disagree, and nobody owns the difference. One contour means the status in the office is the status on site, and the overrun shows up as a number rather than as somebody's recollection of a message.
What does the AI foreman actually do?
It keeps each task's thread, starts timers when work starts, escalates a stuck task up a level without being asked, and reads attendance marked from the phone into the load picture. The point is that it acts rather than notifying someone who then has to decide to act.
What does it cost?
It is quoted by the number of sites and the modules you need, with implementation as a separate project. We do not publish a price list, which is worse for you when shortlisting. For comparison, read from their own pages on 3 November 2026: Fieldwire is $39 to $89 per user per month billed annually with a free Basic tier, PlanRadar lists $32 a month for one user, and Procore and Autodesk Build publish nothing and quote against annual construction volume.
Who is it for?
General contractors and developers with a portfolio from two or three sites, or individual sites from 3,000 m². Below that the visibility gain does not pay for the change in habits, and a site diary that already works is a reasonable answer.
Can we see it before committing?
Yes — a demonstration of all modules, the dashboard, the messenger with the AI foreman and the mobile app. Ask for it against your own sites rather than a sample project; if a vendor will only demo their own demo data, that is worth noticing.
How is this different from PlanRadar or a site-control system?
Those are built around the plan and the defect: a deviation is recorded against a drawing and routed for fixing. Ours is built around the schedule and the overrun: the task thread, the timer and the escalation. If your pain is defects on drawings, theirs is the better shape. If it is finding out late that a subcontractor has slipped, ours is.
Does the site crew really use the mobile app?
That is the whole design constraint. Attendance is one tap and task progress is marked from the phone; everything the office sees is derived from that rather than asked for separately. A tool that needs four fields and two photos per task gets filled in for a week and then abandoned.
What are the limits?
No sheet management, no version compare, no BIM viewer, no contract and budget contour. No published audit reports or reference list for a formal vendor review. And if the monthly meeting stays the place where overruns are discovered, no software in this category will change the outcome.
How long does implementation take?
Start with the demo; full implementation for a general contractor is a project — connecting sites and schedules, configuring the AI foreman's escalation paths to your chain of command, and training foremen in the app on site. Anyone promising a portfolio-wide rollout in two weeks is quoting the installation.
How do we run a pilot that proves something?
Take the site that is going badly, write down in one sentence which slippage you want to see in days rather than weeks, include the foreman who dislikes software, and keep the old reporting running in parallel. The gap between what the dashboard said and what the monthly review said is the result.
Does it replace our existing schedule software?
No, and we would be wary of a vendor who said yes. The schedule stays wherever it is maintained; what goes into DivitiBuild is the task layer that hangs off it — who is doing what, when it started, and what is stuck. If your schedule lives only in one person's head, that is the thing to fix first, and no software in this category fixes it for you.
What happens if the crew simply does not use the app?
Then the dashboard is wrong and you should stop paying for it. That is why the entry burden is one tap and why we ask you to put the foreman who dislikes software into the pilot rather than the enthusiast. If attendance in one tap does not survive two weeks on a real site, the honest answer is that the product does not fit your crew, and we would rather find that out in the pilot than in month six.
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