What it produces
A signed daily log per job covering manpower, equipment, weather, photos, deliveries, visitors and sub attendance, plus matching hours in the ERP.
Workflows
Daily Reports
the dated jobsite record of crews, equipment, weather, work performed, and delays, written for each day a project is active
The job in one minute
Who owns it
The superintendent signs it; foremen, field engineers and safety feed it; payroll, the PM and equipment managers use it.
How often
Every day, on every active job. These eight processes top every construction catalog by hours.
Why it hurts
The same facts get typed three times: on the foreman's sheet, in the field app and in the ERP. Sub headcounts depend on someone collecting sign-in sheets. Photos stay on phones. Delivery lines have no ticket number. On a tired day, yesterday's narrative gets copied forward, and a fact finder reading the log months later starts doubting all of it. Meanwhile the report starts clocks that do not wait: claim notices, weather days, concealed conditions and OSHA injury reporting.
Systems it touches
Procore or Autodesk Construction Cloud, mobile field and time apps, phone photos, the ERP, Outlook, Excel crew templates, SharePoint and NOAA's weather records.
Keep your field app. The agent fills in what never makes it into the app on its own: the paper, the gaps and the hours that still have to reach payroll.
- Procore or Autodesk Construction Cloud
- Mobile field and time apps
- Phone photos
- ERP
- Outlook
- Excel crew templates
- SharePoint
- NOAA's weather records
12 steps · 6 actions · 5 decisions · 1 human reviews
The workflow, step by step
Action Decision Human review Select a step in the flowchart to jump to it.
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- 01 Action · Agent At the set hour, collect the day's inputs
- 02 Action · Agent Read each input into fields
- 03 Action · Agent Pull the superintendent's weather observation
- 04 Decision · Agent Every section filled
- 05 Decision · Agent Narrative text that matches yesterday's goes back to the foreman
- 06 Decision · Agent A delay
- 07 Decision · Agent Any injury goes to the safety manager with the OSHA deadlines shown
- 08 Action · Agent Draft the report in the field system
- 09 · Human review · Superintendent The superintendent corrects, then signs
- 10 Action · ERP Carry crew and equipment hours into the ERP
- 11 Decision · ERP ERP hours by job and cost code equal the signed report
- 12 Action · Agent File photos and tickets by date and location
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Action · Agent
At the set hour, collect the day's inputs: foreman notes, crew sheets, sub sign-ins, tickets, photos, inspections, visitor log.
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Action · Agent
Read each input into fields. Unclear handwriting goes to review, never into the report.
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Action · Agent
Pull the superintendent's weather observation.
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Decision · Agent
Every section filled, every scheduled sub has a headcount or "not on site", equipment hours fit the shift, each delivery has a ticket and PO, each photo has a location.
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Decision · Agent
Narrative text that matches yesterday's goes back to the foreman.
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Decision · Agent
A delay, directive or concealed condition starts the contract's notice clock and lands on the PM's list.
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Decision · Agent
Any injury goes to the safety manager with the OSHA deadlines shown.
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Action · Agent
Draft the report in the field system.
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Human review · Superintendent
The superintendent corrects, then signs. Works from a phone too.
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Action · ERP
Carry crew and equipment hours into the ERP, or reconcile what the time app already posted.
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Decision · ERP
ERP hours by job and cost code equal the signed report. Differences go to payroll and the PM.
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Action · Agent
File photos and tickets by date and location.
✓ Done
Rules vs judgment
- Required sections, scheduled subs against headcounts, equipment hours, copy-forward check, notice and OSHA clocks, the ERP hours tie-out.
- Handwritten crew sheets, photographed tickets, photo content for location tags, voice notes and texts, free-text delay descriptions. A rule still decides.
- What caused a delay, whether it is a weather day, what a verbal directive meant, whether an injury is recordable, and the signature.
When it stops
- Foreman sends nothing by the set hour. A reminder goes out and the superintendent sees the empty report first.
- Sub headcount missing. Logged as missing, not zero, and the sub is asked for its sheet.
- Unreadable crew sheet. Goes to review with the image. No names or hours are guessed.
- Day already locked in the field app. The agent adds nothing; corrections go to the admin.
- Signed hours differ from ERP hours. Payroll and the PM see the difference by job and cost code.
What you end up with
A complete, signed log every day, with source images beside every value, no copied narratives, every notice and injury clock already started, and job cost hours that match what the superintendent signed. Every run is logged with screenshots. Product →
Questions
Can the agent write the report without the superintendent?
It can draft every section. It cannot attest that it saw the work. The superintendent signs, and that is what gives the report its weight.
Site weather or station weather?
Both. The site observation says what happened on the slab. The station record, pulled once the data settles, shows whether that weather was abnormal.
Can it read handwritten crew sheets?
Yes, one field at a time. Anything below the confidence threshold goes to the superintendent with the image, so a smudged 8 never becomes a 3.
What if the time app already posted the hours?
Then the agent reconciles instead of entering, and reports only the differences. Nothing is posted twice.
No prompts. No babysitting. No Integrations.