Gloves on, screen washed out, one bar of signal, and a truck door about to close. Every field surface in BLT was drawn for that hand and that minute — not for a laptop on a clean desk.
Now on iPhone · the crew portal needs no download at all
Not a phone-shaped version of the desktop screen. Three constraints we hold every field surface to, and the reason each one exists.
No tap target smaller than 44 by 44 points, anywhere, ever. A framer with cold hands and work gloves should never have to take a glove off to hit a button, and nobody should have to look twice to confirm they hit the right row.
The camera is one tap from anywhere in the app. Photo documentation only happens if it costs less than not doing it — ten seconds to shoot, tag a phase, and get back to work, or it will not happen on hour eleven of a pour.
A dead zone is a state the app is in, not an error it shows you. Basements, elevator shafts, and the back half of a hundred-acre site are the normal case. Capture keeps working and the queue drains when you hit the road.
Every one of these writes to the same project, the same phases, and the same ledger the office is reading. There is no second system anyone has to reconcile at the end of the month.
A chronological timeline of every build, with the hour, the phase, and the GPS on each shot. Read by Vision AI on the way in.
OpenOne code, no app store, no password. Clock in with GPS, see today’s work, upload photos, ask a question.
OpenHours land on the phase they were worked on, with GPS on the row, and roll into payroll and into actual.
OpenPhases, crews, dependencies, and what moves when one slips. BLT drafts the first version from the budget.
OpenThe punch list photographed, assigned, and signed. Failed items reopen with the photo that failed them attached.
OpenScope, change orders, invoices split across budget lines, retainage held, and what they were actually paid.
OpenA read-only view of the build for the owner — weekly updates, change orders priced and signed, draw requests.
OpenPhotos, receipts, hours, and notes captured with no signal and uploaded in order when you get back in range.
OpenEverything the crew does on the phone is a byproduct of doing the work — a photo they were going to take anyway, a clock-in they have to do anyway, a receipt already in their hand. The office gets a complete record because nobody was asked to build one.
Every field surface, one project, no card. The crew portal takes a text message and thirty seconds.