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A Sydney building company’s field team app. The crew sees today’s jobs, works through a photo checklist at each stage, and gets the client’s sign-off on the phone, even with no signal.
The brief
Ardent is a building company working on houses around Sydney. Site progress lived in text threads and on a whiteboard in the site office, so the latest on a job depended on who you asked.
When a stage was finished, the client signed off on paper. Those sheets were chased from site to site, and some went missing along the way.
What we built
Everyone on site uses the same app. The office sees the same jobs, photos and sign-offs from a computer.
Today’s jobs
The crew starts with today’s jobs, each with its address, status and start time. Opening a job shows a stage tracker, the site on a map, and buttons for directions and the checklist.
Photo checklist
Each stage has its own checklist. The crew ticks items off, adds site photos labelled by the kind of work, and leaves a note for the next visit with photos attached.
Client sign-off
When a stage is complete, the crew shows the client what was done and asks them to sign off. The client signs on the phone, with their name and the date, and a sign-off report goes to them as a PDF.
Works offline
On sites with no signal, the app keeps working. Checklist ticks, photos and notes are saved on the phone and sync when it is back online, with a queue that shows what is still to send.
Job history
Each job keeps its history stage by stage, with the date, the sign-off and the photos taken. The office sees it on a computer, and the crew can open the photo trail for any stage on site.
App stores
The app is published under Ardent’s own name on iPhone and Android, with store pictures for jobs, photos, sign-offs and the team. When a new version is ready, the crew sees what’s new and can update now or later.
Summary
Every tick, photo, note and signature is saved against the job and the stage it belongs to. When the phone is back in signal, the app syncs it all, so the office sees it in the job history and the client already has their signed report. Nothing depends on a sheet of paper making it back to the office.
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