Everything on a building job that does not happen at a desk
Not the whole product shrunk onto a small screen. The app covers the parts of a job that happen away from a computer — and it opens on a status board for the job you are standing on, so you can see what needs attention before you tap anything.
Available on the Builder plan
Built for the job, not for the demo
A site supervisor with the current drawing in their pocket is the difference between a wall built once and a wall built twice. That is still the sharpest single argument for the app.
What changed is everything around it. The diary, the checklists, the defect photos and the hours are all things that used to be written down somewhere and typed up later — and every one of them is worth more captured on the spot.
The app shows what is current, so the risk of building from a superseded drawing is largely removed — provided thedocument register is kept up to date. That is what makes it trustworthy.
Nine tiles that say what is happening, not what the module is called
Nothing on site today. Not yet confirmed. No open defects. Nothing to chase. A quiet board means a quiet day, and you knew it without opening anything.
- Documents
- The drawing register, current revision marked
- Purchase Orders
- What is committed, and what is still to come
- Bookings
- Who is confirmed, and who has not replied
- Defects
- How many are open
- Site Diary
- Whether today's entry has been started
- Checklists & Safety
- What is outstanding
- Colour Selection
- Where the client's selections are up to
- Tenders
- Packages out for pricing
- Messages
- Team chat for this job
The records that are only worth anything if they are made on the spot
Every one of these has a desktop screen for reviewing it. None of them has a desktop screen for creating it honestly.
The site diary
Who was on site, deliveries, delays, issues and photos. Two minutes standing on site; guesswork reconstructed at a desk on Friday.
Checklists and incidents
Run a check item by item, capture the photos an item requires, collect a signature. Incidents are reported from the same place.
Defects, with the photo
Log it where you are standing, against a location, with a picture. Notify the supplier responsible and track the notices you have sent.
Timesheets
Clock in and out against the job. One tap produces an actual time instead of a round number remembered on Friday.
Messages
The job's team chat, with the camera one tap away and a notification when something arrives.
Bookings
Who has confirmed and who has not. The gap between sent and confirmed is where lost days live.
Three things that used to wait until someone was at a desk
Book the delivery in
When the truck arrives, record the delivery against the purchase order it belongs to and photograph the docket. It lands on today's site diary, attached to that order and supplier, instead of on the dash of the ute.
Start and finish tasks on site
Mark a task started when the trade turns up and finished when they are off it. The programme back at the office moves with it, which is the only way a schedule stays true to the job.
See what has happened
A bell on the home screen carries the same notices as the desktop — orders, tenders, variations and call-up replies — so a subcontractor declining a call-up reaches the person standing on the site.
Gloves, and no signal
Dictation. Diary notes, defect descriptions and incident reports can be spoken rather than typed. Nobody writes a decent description on a phone keyboard with a hand full of tape measure.
Reception. Building sites have bad signal, so the app keeps working without it. What you have already opened stays readable, and what you write — a diary note, a defect, a checklist answer — is held and sent the moment the signal comes back, with a bar along the bottom telling you which state you are in.
One honest limit: close the app down completely before it has sent, and anything still waiting goes with it. Leave it open until the bar clears.
And the rest runs in any browser
SmarteBuild itself is web-based, so a tablet in the ute or a laptop at the client's kitchen table gets the full product. The app is for the moments when a phone is what you have in your hand.
A closer look on site
The board, the day's record, and where it gets used.
What it connects to
Nothing in SmarteBuild is an island — that is the point of it. Mobile & On Site reads from and feeds into these.
Site Diary
What happened on site today, with the weather recorded for you
Checklists & Safety
Inspections signed off on site, and an incident register behind them
Defects & Handover
Log it, assign it, close it out, hand over clean
Messages
The job conversation, attached to the job instead of lost in a phone
Want the detail?
The help centre documents Mobile & On Site step by step, with worked examples — written for people using it, not for a brochure.
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