There’s a thesis gaining traction in technology circles that should concern every vertical SaaS company in construction: the rise of AI agents will eventually render most vertical SaaS products obsolete. Tools like Claude and ChatGPT are getting good enough that the text-driven workflows sitting on top of CRM databases—which is what most construction project management software really is—will be replicated and customized by agents that any company can configure for itself.

Your competition is no longer the other SaaS vendor in your space. Your competition is the frontier AI labs. And they are coming fast.

And I gotta say: this thesis feels mostly right.

So what wins? What is the durable position in a world where agents can replicate any text-based workflow?

The answer is data. Specifically, unique, proprietary data that agents need—but cannot generate themselves.

And that is the thesis of this piece: OpenSpace, the Visual Intelligence Platform for builders, is a data platform. And in the agentic era, the companies that generate the data layers for the $13 trillion construction industry will redefine how that industry can operate. Those companies that don’t… will be left out in the cold.

Two revolutions collide

There are two revolutions converging on construction right now. If you’re paying attention to only one, you’ll be blindsided by the other.

The first is Visual Intelligence: the shift from digital experiences centered around words, numbers, and spreadsheets to experiences that are centered on visual information, like maps, photos, and videos. This revolution was enabled by the explosion of camera technology: cheap, connected, powerful, everywhere. You saw this trend in social media (Facebook => Instagram), and Apple has embraced the term in the past couple years. People like pictures! And for real world industries like construction, Visual Intelligence is even more important, since these businesses are defined by what gets done in the field, not just what’s on paper. Visual Intelligence allows construction to shift from processes centered on documents and opinions, to managing execution with visual truth and facts.

The second revolution is Agentic AI: autonomous software agents that don’t just answer questions but take action. Agents that reason across data sources, compose multi-step workflows, and execute on behalf of users. Agentic AI is revolutionizing industries across the board. And agentic workflows for construction are maturing rapidly—not turnkey today, but getting there fast.

Here’s what the construction technology industry hasn’t fully grasped: these two revolutions are about to collide, and the companies that own the data layers where they meet will shape the industry’s next decade.

Why data beats analytics—every time

Let me be direct about where value is migrating.

In the AI era, document and text-oriented analytics will be commoditized. This is not speculation—it’s already happening. Any reasonably structured text-like dataset can be fed to an LLM, which can then generate insights, summaries, risk assessments, and recommendations. The analytical capabilities that SaaS companies spent years building into their products are being replicated by general-purpose AI in months. If your moat is “we built a nice dashboard on top of structured text data,” that moat is evaporating.

What cannot be commoditized is the data itself—especially data that is unique, difficult to capture, and essential for reasoning about physical reality.

Consider what the dominant construction technology platforms store: documents. Drawings, RFIs, submittals, daily logs, contracts, change orders. This is important information. But it is also exactly the kind of text-oriented, document-based data that LLMs are purpose-built to process. Feed a project’s RFI log and schedule into Claude, and it can generate a credible risk assessment today. Feed it the full document set and a well-designed prompt, and it can replicate significant chunks of what a project management platform does.

Now consider what OpenSpace captures: spatially indexed 360° imagery of active construction sites. Drone-captured aerial data. Smartphone photos with AI-generated indoor positioning. Voice-enriched Field Notes automatically tied to physical locations. Verified progress tracking data that combines computer vision with expert human review. All of it organized by space and time—a continuously updated, machine-readable record of physical reality.

No LLM can generate this data. No competitor can replicate it without doing what we’ve done: putting cameras on 90,000+ projects across 125 countries and building the Spatial AI to make sense of 60+ billion square feet of captured reality—operating at true scale to gather, organize, and make sense of this data.

This is the asymmetry that matters. While analytics gets commoditized, unique data capture becomes more valuable—because it becomes the necessary fuel that every agent, every analytics product, and every workflow must consume.

You know that phrase, data is the new oil? It’s true. Data is fuel. Analytics is the combustion engine, and today, you can build many engines (aka agents) for very cheap. But you can’t just fabricate the fuel from nothing.

And without fuel, you get nowhere, fast.

The OpenSpace data platform

When we unveiled the Visual Intelligence Platform at Waypoint 2025, we described it as the shift from document-centric to image-first workflows. We introduced AI Autolocation—a breakthrough that turns every smartphone into a real-time indoor positioning system, eliminating the need for costly and annoying hardware beacons. We launched OpenSpace Field, which lets any worker on a jobsite generate spatially indexed, AI-enriched data just by walking and talking. We acquired Disperse and launched Progress Tracking, which combines AI analysis with expert human verification to deliver trusted, visual progress data.

All of this drove real results—86% speed improvements in issue documentation for customers like Suffolk. 50% reduction in travel budgets. 41% fewer insurance claims for builders using the technology.

But those products are the face of our strategy. Here’s the heart.

OpenSpace is building the data platform for construction’s agentic future. Every image, every spatial index, every verified progress data point feeds a structured, queryable layer that any AI agent can consume. Our agents. Autodesk’s agents. Procore’s agents. Trimble’s agents. Oracle’s agents. Palantir’s agents. Anthropic’s agents. The data is the product.

This is the unlock. Not a one-size-fits-all application. A data-powered agent layer that adapts to each organization, each project, each trade.

I wish I could reveal more about this now, but rest assured, you’re going to hear a lot more from us soon.

Watch this space.

To the builders: this is for you

We started OpenSpace because construction deserves better tools—tools built around how the jobsite actually works, not how software companies imagine it works.

We know construction is one of the hardest things human beings do, and that no AI will replace a great superintendent’s judgment. What we can do is make that judgment better informed and faster to act on. Your business becomes more predictable: you find productivity problems at 10% completion instead of 50%. More profitable: fewer insurance claims. Fewer change orders. Accelerated payment cycles with progress verification based on visual truth. And most importantly, this technology works the way you work.

As one superintendent told me this year, what he loves about our tools is that “your new way is like the old way”—fast, visual, based on walking the job, seeing what’s real, making a call, and moving on. Not drowning field teams in (digital) paperwork.

The future of construction technology isn’t about making builders learn new software. It’s about making software disappear into the work.

To the technology platforms: this is for you

You’ve built companies that millions of professionals rely on. You orchestrate complex workflows across owners, GCs, subs, and architects—multi-party coordination that agents can’t replicate overnight. You’ve earned enterprise trust, contractual relationships, and real switching costs. These are meaningful advantages.

But think honestly about the timeline. Agentic capabilities are compounding. Construction companies are already experimenting with custom agents, and while these still require fine-tuning, they’re progressing fast. You have time to react—but not as much as you might think.

At the end of the day, construction runs on whether work got done, got done right, and got done on time. That’s how builders get paid. The data that answers those questions—objective, visual, spatially indexed, continuously updated—is reality data. Documents, drawings and models describe intent. Reality data describes what is. Every coordination workflow, every payment application, every design comparison ultimately bottoms out on that question: what actually happened on the jobsite?

We’re building the layer that makes every platform more intelligent. Agents built on Procore, Autodesk, Trimble, Oracle, or Palantir all get better when they can see—when they access a spatially indexed photographic record of what’s actually happening, not just what someone typed into a log. While you navigate the agent transition and compete with AI labs over who builds the best workflows, we provide the unique data every agent needs. That’s powerful for all of us, if we build it together.

To the technology community

OpenSpace sits at the intersection of two compelling theses. The vertical data thesis: the most durable AI companies will have proprietary, hard-to-replicate data in specific industries. The agentic infrastructure thesis: as agents proliferate, value accrues to the data and tool layers agents depend on, not to the agents themselves.

We have the data—the largest structured visual dataset in construction. The vertical AI expertise—Spatial AI, computer vision, indoor positioning, progress analytics with human-in-the-loop verification. And we’re building the agentic infrastructure that transforms our data into a platform.

Construction is a $13 trillion global industry that still manages its most critical asset—the physical jobsite—through documents and human memory. OpenSpace is building the data layer that replaces guesswork with ground truth. In the agentic era, that layer is not a feature. It is the foundation.

What comes next

When AI agents need to verify work completion, compare progress to schedule, or ground a recommendation in evidence—they’ll query OpenSpace data. Whether built by us, by Autodesk, by Palantir, or by a construction company using Claude—agents will need to see. We are how they see.

While SaaS companies take on the transition to an agent-native world, we’ll provide the fuel that every agent runs on. While the AI labs build increasingly powerful reasoning engines, we’ll provide the unique construction reality data those engines need to be useful. While construction companies begin experimenting with building their own agents, we’ll provide the framework that makes it possible.

The question isn’t whether the agentic era is coming for construction. It’s here. The question is whether you’re building on the data layer that makes it real.

We know where we stand. Come build with us!

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One key lesson I’ve learned: the difference between a smooth project and a stalled one often comes down to how quickly issues are communicated, and how quickly others act on them.

I’ve lived this reality. I’ve been the guy walking the jobsite, juggling multiple tasks, spotting issues, snapping photos, and telling myself, “I’ll remember that later.” But all too often, “later” meant scrambling at the end of the day to piece together what that photo was supposed to mean.

I know I’m not alone. If you’ve worked in the field, you’ve felt this pain! That’s why I’m excited about AI Voice Notes—a feature in our new OpenSpace Field solution.

Forms aren’t built for the field

Construction moves fast, and time is rarely on your side. On a real jobsite, stopping to fill out a form—especially something like an observation or task—isn’t always realistic. Not because it’s hard, but because it’s slow.

You’re faced with a wall of blank fields: status, location, description, assignee, due date. You know what to say, but you don’t have the time to hunt and peck on your phone screen or click through a dozen dropdowns. So instead you snap a picture, thinking (and hoping!) you’ll remember what it was about later.

But here’s the catch: a photo without context isn’t action. It’s a reminder, and it sits in “draft” mode.

AI Voice Notes is a better way

When we rely only on photos or delayed documentation we miss the immediacy of context. What makes a Field Note truly actionable is knowing what the image is, where it is, why it matters, and what needs to happen next.

That’s where AI Voice Notes comes in—it changes how quickly and easily that context gets captured.

Instead of typing, you just talk—pairing your voice with an image. OpenSpace AI fills out the form for you, and just like that, your Field Note is documented and it’s ready to go.

“Cracked corner at recessed drywall by the TV in room 201. Assign to Jim from the Drywall Company. Make it due Friday.”

In seconds, your note is complete. No guesswork later. No delay in getting it routed to the right person. No bottleneck in moving the project forward.

Why it makes a difference

Let’s break down what happens when you can capture context immediately:

• Create and fill out a Field Note faster. No more toggling through fields to complete or struggling to find time at the end of the day.
• Ensure more meaningful communication. A picture alone isn’t enough—pairing an image with real context makes it clear and complete.
• Assign the issue quickly. The right person sees the issue in real time—no need to wait for a summary email.
• Get faster action and results. The faster the loop from issue identification to action, the more momentum the project keeps.

Built for the realities of the field

AI Voice Notes is about accelerating the project management best practices you already have in place. It eliminates the biggest friction point in field documentation: slow and manual data entry. And it does so in a way that fits naturally into your jobsite workflow—by using your voice and the camera on your smartphone. That’s it.

No competitor offers this kind of hands-free, AI-powered field documentation. Others may let you record voice or attach photos, but OpenSpace fills in all the fields automatically—making the note complete and immediately actionable.

Plus, pairing AI Voice Notes with AI Autolocation—our groundbreaking technology that pins your Field Notes on your exact location, in real time (even indoors)—you can reduce documentation time 5-10x.

Final thought: let the work flow

Every project manager, super, and foreman knows the value of momentum. When issues are handled quickly, everything runs smoother. That’s why I believe in AI Voice Notes—a shift in how the jobsite communicates. The faster you can capture context, the faster someone can act—and the faster you can close it out.

And in construction, closing the loop quickly is everything you need to keep the project moving forward.

Learn more

• OpenSpace Field web page
• OpenSpace Academy course
• AI Voice Notes Support article
• AI Autolocation Support article
• Field Notes overview

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You—our customers, partners, the thousands of people using OpenSpace every day—are the reason we exist. You’re doing incredibly complex, high-stakes work, and we’re here to make that work clearer and easier.

Every workflow we rethink, every feature we ship, every late-night engineering sprint is in service of helping you make better decisions, faster—so you can keep the job moving.

What we’ve accomplished together in 2025

This was a monumental year for us, and it was genuinely shaped by your feedback, trust, and appetite to try new ways of working. Here are a few numbers I like to talk about, because they’re pretty great at telling that story:

• 62% of the ENR Top 400 GCs and trades have adopted OpenSpace into their operations
• You’re part of a community that now numbers 350,000 users across 125 countries working on over 80,000 projects
• You’ve documented more than 50 billion square feet of jobsite conditions, and counting
• You’ve captured more than a million drone images in OpenSpace, and counting
• You’ve reported 41% fewer insurance claims when using OpenSpace, driven by clearer documentation and faster decisions

These numbers are fun (50 billion square feet of imagery is a lot!), but they also show something deeper: the industry is shifting toward visual, reality-based ways of working. It’s just faster. It’s just easier. And it’s more trusted. And you’re leading the charge.

I’d like to share a handful of customer spotlights that shine a light on your successes::

• Suffolk Construction was an invaluable partner as we built OpenSpace Field. And the results speak volumes: Suffolk saw an 86% speed improvement in documenting issues using AI Autolocation and AI Voice Notes. Along with incredible time savings, their notes are high quality with properly assigned trades, drawings, zones, location, and other critical data. Watch this Waypoint session for more details.
• Our collaboration with Gilbane on OpenSpace Air is another example of great solutions coming out of great partnerships. Their feedback helped shape OpenSpace Air into the flexible, fully integrated, easy-to-use tool it is today. Check out the blog they wrote about our work together and how having drone imagery in OpenSpace means Gilbane doesn’t have to switch platforms or waste time with fragmented data.
• We’re inspired by the work Gap İnşaat is doing to improve safety workflows with their use of Field Notes in OpenSpace. By connecting Field Notes with Power BI, they’ve turned a manual, one-day-a-week reporting process into real-time visibility. Now, dashboards refresh every morning—a reduction of reporting time to near zero, safety observations are up 8X, and managers can take action the same day issues arise. Impressive numbers! Learn more in our case study.

2025: OpenSpace evolves into a Visual Intelligence Platform

We first announced Visual Intelligence at Waypoint 2025, and we’ve been talking about it since. When we started OpenSpace, the mission was simple—make it incredibly easy to document what’s happening on-site. Walk, capture, done. That was step one.

But capturing images was only the beginning. Builders need more than more photos—they need intelligence from those photos. Intelligence that’s fast, accurate, and embedded directly in the way the field works.

This year, that evolution became real. We’re using AI to understand what’s in your images and place them in the right context. And we’re reinventing punch, QA/QC, safety, and other workflows, to be fundamentally faster and more reliable, because they’re oriented around reality, not just words. Finally, and most importantly, Visual Intelligence surfaces the insights you need via our OpenSpace Progress Tracking product—when and where you need them, from the field to the office to the executive suite.

When you can truly see the state of the project, everything gets better. You get fewer surprises. Faster decisions. Better coordination. Lower risk. Teams aligned around the truth.

Here are some important ways our Visual Intelligence Platform is coming to life:

• OpenSpace Air: We brought drone imagery into the platform, giving you ground-to-sky visibility from day zero. Upload imagery from any drone and get orthomosaics, 3D meshes, and point clouds—automatically processed and connected to everything else happening on your site. And this month we’re adding more power to OpenSpace Air with measurement capabilities for distance, slope, area, volume, and cut/fill and virtual control points to help improve the alignment accuracy of orthomosaics.
• OpenSpace Progress Tracking: Following a partnership we announced in June, and months of working together and validating the technology in the field, we acquired Disperse, our progress tracking partner. This brings industry-leading, verified progress analytics directly into OpenSpace, which gives you trustworthy insight into what’s built and what’s not, so you can stay ahead of schedule and avoid costly surprises.
• OpenSpace Field (currently in Early Access): This is a big one. For the first time, field teams can use the device they already rely on—the smartphone—to capture site conditions, log issues, and record observations in seconds—way faster, way more accurate than older ways of doing things. Using our Spatial AI Engine, OpenSpace Field powers innovations like:
  • AI Autolocation: real time location, indoors, on your phone, on any project using OpenSpace
  • AI Voice Notes: just talk, and the note logs itself, all the fields get filled out automatically
  • Deep, two-way sync integrations with Procore and Autodesk Construction Cloud: so high quality visual information can flow between your systems of record
• New capabilities that make OpenSpace even easier to use: We rolled out features like AI Image Enhance to automatically sharpen your 360° images with a single click, and QuickCodes for saving valuable time on capturing and on training new users.

For more on what we delivered this year, watch our end-of-year product roundup webinar.

Looking ahead to 2026

By the way, we’re just getting started. In 2026, Visual Intelligence from OpenSpace will continue to bring construction back to its roots. As one superintendent told me this year, “Your guys’ technology is badass and amazing. But what I love about your new ways of doing things, is that it’s like the old way.” I so loved to hear that. We want to let builders rely on reality, not documents or opinions, to understand what’s happening on-site. Because the field—where projects are actually getting built—is where money is made or lost.

You’ll see this vision come to life with the full launch of OpenSpace Field, bringing super fast, image-first field workflows to the center of daily jobsite coordination. And we’ll continue to invest in our groundbreaking AI Autolocation technology, so that work you do in OpenSpace always has a location attached to it, automatically.

And we have a lot of work bubbling with our AI team based on your needs—building technology that truly understands reality data in images, location, and the meaning of those images. AI that understands reality, not just words. Spatial AI is the next generation of AI, and we’re going to bring its benefits directly to you.

That’s the future we’re building: helping you run projects with confidence, grounded in what’s actually happening—not in guesswork or outdated reports. And we’ll continue to make this happen with technology that’s incredibly intuitive, lets field teams continue to work how they work, and makes the truth of the jobsite visible to anyone who needs it.

I’m excited for what we’ll create together in 2026—to see how you combine OpenSpace tools with your irreplaceable expertise to build with clarity and confidence in the year ahead.

We’re happy to connect

Reach out to your OpenSpace representative to scale OpenSpace across more projects, and to learn more about how Visual Intelligence can help you turn jobsite visuals into insights you can act on.

Not an OpenSpace customer? Our hardworking team is ready to chat and give you a quick, live demo to show you how Visual Intelligence could look on your next project.

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And solutions like OpenSpace Air make these tasks easy to achieve. With OpenSpace Air, it’s simple to add drone imagery into our Visual Intelligence Platform, where we process it automatically, and connect it with other project data for a complete view of your site.

Here’s a look at these top five use cases:

1. Progress tracking & documentation

The first way drones support construction project management is by helping you track progress over time. With drones, you can capture high-resolution aerial imagery that provides a clear record of how work is advancing—without needing to walk every inch of the site.

Key benefits:

• Start documenting even before a shovel hits the ground, for visibility from the start
• Reduce time spent on manual documentation
• Improve accountability and transparency
• Get a visual as-built record for billing, disputes, and reporting

Real-world example:

A general contractor using OpenSpace Air uploads drone captures weekly to automatically generate orthomosaics and 3D meshes. Project managers can then use Split View to compare up to four captures side by side to display progress over the course of multiple weeks or months, spot deviations from design intent early with the drawing overlay feature, and share progress visuals directly with owners—all without leaving the OpenSpace platform.

2. Site surveys & mapping

Drones have become an essential tool for site surveying and preconstruction planning. Specifically, you can capture accurate topographical data and generate maps and point clouds in a fraction of the time it takes using traditional surveying methods.

Key benefits:

• Faster, safer, and more cost-effective than manual surveys
• Accurate measurements for grading, drainage, and layout
• Easier logistic planning
• High-quality data that integrates with BIM and CAD tools

Real-world example:

Civil contractors use OpenSpace Air to automatically create 3D meshes and orthomosaics from standard drone flights. You can easily export the resulting files into the formats you need for uploading into tools like ArcGIS and Civil 3D for accurate planning and design validation.

3. Safety & risk management

Our next use case for taking advantage of drone imagery in construction is improving safety with remote inspections and monitoring. Instead of sending folks into hazardous or hard-to-reach areas, you can use drones to safely capture images and videos from above.

Key benefits:

• Keep crews out of unsafe environments
• Identify potential hazards earlier
• Help safety managers validate compliance, anytime and from anywhere

Real-world example:

A safety manager uses a drone to capture aerial overviews of their active zones and staging areas. After ingesting drone imagery into OpenSpace Air, they can layer the captures with site plans to verify barricade placement and ensure clear pathways for equipment and on-site teams. You can make these visuals, plus every drone image geolocated over the base map in full resolution, available to the rest of the safety team and pertinent stakeholders.

4. Earthwork & volume analysis

Drones make earthwork and volume measurement faster, easier, and more accurate than ever. By comparing drone-generated topographic data over time, teams can calculate cut-and-fill volumes and accurately monitor progress.

Key benefits:

• Reduce the need for manual measurement
• Assess grading, drainage, and cut-fill areas with heatmaps and measurement tools
• Track quantities and productivity
• Help validate subcontractor invoices and avoid disputes

Real-world example:

Using OpenSpace Air, site engineers analyze grading and excavation areas with cut-fill functionality and elevation models generated from their drone captures. That gives them more accurate reporting and reduced risk of costly over-excavation.

Note that 2D and 3D measurement functionality will be launching in OpenSpace Air in the coming weeks. With these powerful and accurate measurement capabilities, users will be able to streamline site analysis, improve accuracy, and reduce manual surveying time for construction and earthwork projects.

5. Stakeholder communication & reporting

Drone imagery is super effective for keeping all stakeholders informed. Having high-quality visuals makes it easy to clearly communicate project updates to clients, investors, and leadership teams—without requiring technical expertise.

Key benefits:

• Simplify complex information with imagery
• Build trust and transparency with clients
• Improve collaboration across teams

Real-world example:

Owners and developers use OpenSpace Air to help create visual reports that combine aerial and 360° captures. Everyone—from executives to field teams—can see progress and make faster, more confident decisions.

OpenSpace Air—drones in the Visual Intelligence Platform

With OpenSpace Air, you can upload imagery from any drone and we’ll automatically create high-quality orthomosaics, 3D meshes, and point clouds. With drone imagery added to our Visual Intelligence Platform, you have a single, easy-to-use place to access all your site imagery—from drones, smartphones, 360° cameras, and laser scanners.

The result? Clarity from every angle—making it fast and easy to turn imagery into intelligence you can use to manage projects efficiently, reduce risk, and make decisions with confidence.

FAQs about drone use cases in construction

1. How are drones used in construction project management?

Drones are used for surveying, progress tracking, inspections, logistic planning, and reporting. They capture high-quality visual data that helps teams manage sites safely, efficiently, and accurately.

2. What are the benefits of drones in construction?

Drone imagery improves visibility from day zero, reduces site visits, enhances safety, and saves time. You can also use your drone data to generate accurate documentation for billing, QA/QC, and schedule tracking.

3. Can drones integrate with project management tools?

Yes. Platforms like OpenSpace Air can help you manage and produce drone data that can be ingested into popular tools such as ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, Autodesk systems like ACC and Civil 3D; plus project management systems like Procore and many more. All creating one central source of truth for project reality.

4. How do drones reduce risk in construction?

By capturing aerial data quickly and safely, drones minimize the need for manual inspections and provide early warnings of safety or schedule issues, helping teams take proactive action.

Want to learn more about OpenSpace Air?

• Grab time with one of our experts to chat and see OpenSpace Air in action, or contact your OpenSpace representative if you’re already an OpenSpace customer
• Head to our OpenSpace Air web page
• Read our FAQs for OpenSpace Air blog post
• Watch Director of Product Jess Lam’s talk about OpenSpace Air from Waypoint 2025

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We’re incredibly excited to share big news: Disperse is now part of OpenSpace.

This marks a pivotal new chapter—not just for our two companies, but for builders everywhere who want to make better decisions, faster. We’re ushering in a new way for builders to work, based on reality, not opinions. And with this acquisition, we’re now able to deliver a full-stack platform to the industry.

Over the past few months, we’ve seen incredible momentum around OpenSpace Progress Tracking, powered by Disperse—our joint product that combines OpenSpace 360° image capture with verified progress analytics from Disperse. The response from customers has been clear: this combination works. It saves time, eliminates guesswork, and delivers the kind of trustworthy insight that construction teams have wanted for years. OpenSpace Progress Tracking helps builders manage work with clarity and confidence.

Using reality data from the field—smartphone data, 360° images, aerial imagery, and more—means you can run your business with facts, not opinions. And with OpenSpace Progress Tracking, you can pull high level insights out of that reality to run your business with even more confidence.

Why this makes sense

At OpenSpace, our first mission was simple: make it easy to visually capture what’s happening on the jobsite. That mission was good, and it worked! Our customers have captured more than 50 billion square feet of projects globally, and that number is growing rapidly. And now, our vision has grown. We’re taking those images and turning what’s happening in the field into intelligence teams can use to run smarter and faster.

Disperse shares that vision. Their team built an incredible platform that takes construction progress tracking from a painful, low trust manual task to a fast, objective, and scalable process. They’ve proven that you can combine AI and human expertise to deliver accurate, verified progress data you can trust, based on image data from the field. Critically, the solution is simple, and provides data that fits perfectly into how teams already work.

We’ve spent months working closely together, validating the technology, and confirming the results on live projects. Our customers love the solution. They see the value, and when they decide to deploy OpenSpace Progress Tracking, their teams use it. A lot. And when they use OpenSpace Progress Tracking on one project, they expand the solution to many more. The verdict: it works beautifully.

The progress tracking vision is one builders have been asking for, for years. Many companies have tried to deliver. I’m proud to say we are delivering, at scale, for the industry. I truly believe this is not just a big moment for our two companies, but for construction generally.

What OpenSpace Progress Tracking delivers

OpenSpace Progress Tracking is part of our Visual Intelligence Platform—giving builders one connected system to capture everything on the jobsite, turn that imagery into intelligence, and put that intelligence into action.

Our solution is a hybrid approach—AI-powered analysis + human verification—delivering speed and accuracy. No black-box. No guesswork. Just results you can trust.

With OpenSpace Progress Tracking, field teams can:

• Organize and analyze all visual data (from smartphones, 360° cameras, and drones) by place and time, for a complete, contextual record.
• See what’s built and what’s not—across hundreds of components and schedule tasks.
• Validate work-in-place for billing with clear, visual proof you can stand behind.
• Spot risks early by comparing actual progress to plan, so you can catch issues before they cause delays.
• Resolve disputes and issue payments faster with verified, objective progress data.
• Integrate seamlessly with key tools like P6, Asta, Microsoft Project, and Excel to keep progress, schedule, and cost data in sync.

Olli’s take: a winning combination

For these partnerships to work, both companies need to be jointly building something customers love. And you need to have two company visions—and cultures—that mesh. Our teams do, and it’s been so fun working together. Olli, Disperse’s CEO, said this:

Disperse was built to give construction teams a trustworthy, objective picture of progress. By joining OpenSpace, we can deliver that clarity at unprecedented scale—and bring even more value to builders on projects of every size.

I couldn’t agree more. This combination strengthens our shared mission: helping builders make smarter decisions, reduce risk, and deliver with confidence—based on reality.

Looking ahead

This acquisition deepens our leadership as the Visual Intelligence Platform for construction—a place where reality data and AI come together to give builders the full picture of their projects. OpenSpace Progress Tracking, in combination with our recent wave of announcements, including reality-first field execution tools via OpenSpace Field, aerial data integration via OpenSpace Air, and our lightning fast OpenSpace BIM Viewer, paint that picture.

This acquisition also gives OpenSpace a new superpower: the ability to make sense of massive amounts of imagery and progress data with accuracy and context. That’s super useful for reporting, and it’s foundational for the next generation of Spatial AI. You’ll hear more about this from us over the next year and beyond, but suffice to say: OpenSpace is now in an even stronger position to pioneer next-generation AI systems that truly understand reality. This is exciting because it places OpenSpace at the forefront of the next wave of AI broadly, a wave that goes by the term Spatial AI, of course, but also “Physical AI”, “Real World AI,” and others. You’ll be reading about it a lot in the mainstream technology press in the coming years!

Some brass tacks

For existing OpenSpace Progress Tracking customers, nothing changes—you’ll keep using the same tools you know and love. For existing Disperse customers, nothing changes—you too will keep using the same tools you know and love. For new customers, OpenSpace Progress Tracking is available as an add-on to an OpenSpace Capture subscription license and available at the project level or for your entire portfolio of projects.

We’re thrilled to welcome the talented Disperse team to OpenSpace, and we can’t wait to show you what’s next.

Learn more

Find more information, including FAQs, here:

• Acquisition details
• OpenSpace Progress Tracking web page

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This blog answers questions from our live chat during Waypoint. If you’d like to watch or rewatch any of the sessions, the recordings are available on demand.

OpenSpace Field

Is OpenSpace Field available now?

OpenSpace Field is currently available in early access to select customers. Fill out our form if you’re interested in learning more. (During the event we unveiled OpenSpace Field with exciting new capabilities like AI Autolocation.)

Is English the only language supported for the new AI Search and AI Voice Notes?

AI Search on photos is currently available in English. AI Voice Notes and its transcription are currently available in the following languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. (If you’d like to request support for another language, please contact your OpenSpace representative.)

Note that our OpenSpace platform is localized in English, German, Japanese, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

How many captures do you need to complete for AI Autolocation to work?

The more captures, and the better the coverage, the better. But to get started, you only need one. Our technology relies on the sensors on your smartphone and its camera to build out our sensor map, which allows a user’s device to locate them in the project space. To learn more about how AI Autolocation works, see our CTO’s blog.

Will AI Autolocation account for elevation changes between floors?

We’ve built in a “floor change detection” algorithm that indicates when floor or elevation changes occur. This means you’ll be prompted to switch sheets. In the future, as we continue to build on and improve this system, floor changes will become more fluid and accurate.

How does AI Autolocation work with Field Notes? Do I need to walk around with my phone to collect camera data?

You will pin your first Field Note. After that, AI Autolocation will follow you and suggest a location for each Field Note thereafter—no need to keep your phone or camera out.

OpenSpace Air & drone imagery

When will OpenSpace Air be able to host drone video?

We expect that OpenSpace Air will be able to ingest drone video later this year.

When will RTK and GCP be integrated in OpenSpace Air?

RTK (real-time kinematic) is already supported today—correction data is included in the image metadata. We expect to support GCP (ground control points) later this year.

How do you deal with laws regarding flying drones?

Legal requirements for where you can fly drones vary from city to city. We definitely recommend you research and follow local and federal drone laws in your area before flying.

Does OpenSpace integrate GIS data?

We currently use GIS (geographic information system) data in OpenSpace Air and our new OpenSpace Field features. We plan to continue exploring additional places to integrate GIS in our platform.

OpenSpace Progress Tracking

How does OpenSpace suggest product rate?

With OpenSpace Progress Tracking we track your production rate with the speed of AI and the accuracy of experienced professionals.

APIs

Do you have an API that plugs into Power BI?

Yes, our Usage API works great with Microsoft Power BI. You can take advantage of our Usage API and Power BI template to develop custom reports on OpenSpace data. The data is delivered in a structured, simple format. Find details in our Support article.

Can you use the Field Note API if you don’t use Procore? Are you planning an integration with Trimble ProjectSight, Dalux, or other platforms?

Our upcoming Field Note APIs will enable you to integrate your Field Notes in OpenSpace with any platform you want. Also, we plan to continue building new integrations. Stay tuned for future announcements.

Is the Field Note API two way?

Today, our APIs support GET endpoints for most fields, meaning you can take data out of OpenSpace. POST and PUT endpoints will come later, which will allow you to build a connection that works bi-directionally (two-way sync, where data stays aligned in both systems).

OpenSpace BIM Viewer

What model file types will the new OpenSpace BIM Viewer support? Can it read NWF files and ProjectWise or Aconex models?

The new OpenSpace BIM Viewer supports dozens of file types including .NWC and .NWD; find a full list of supported file types on the Autodesk Platform Services website. NWF files are project containers, not true 3D model files, so they cannot be read outside of the Navisworks program. But please reach out to your OpenSpace representative so that we can learn more about your workflow and see how we might work to get your model data into the OpenSpace Visual Intelligence Platform.

Models from ProjectWise and Aconex must be exported into one of our supported file types and imported into our platform.

Does the BIM Viewer sync with Autodesk Construction Cloud?

Yes, you can use our Autodesk Model Import feature in OpenSpace BIM+ to pull your model directly from ACC into OpenSpace—and pull in new versions as the model is updated with one click. Learn more in our Support article.

Additional questions

How precise is AI Image Enhance, and is there a chance it could introduce anything new in the image?

AI Image Enhance automatically sharpens, adjusts contrast, and corrects blur and visual noise on your captures. Our technology will not hallucinate any extraneous imagery in your capture. See our Support article for details on enhancing 360° captures.

Can we integrate our OpenSpace 360° images in our GIS platform, so that the capture coordinates display in GIS?

Yes, if you’d like to incorporate your OpenSpace 360° imagery into your GIS platform, please reach out to your OpenSpace representative so we can learn more about your use case.

Learn more

Here are links to the recordings of each Waypoint 2025 session, and some additional resources about all the exciting announcements we made:

• Waypoint 2025 on demand:
  • The full event recording
  • CEO Jeevan Kalanithi—welcome to the era of Visual Intelligence
  • Customer video: Gilbane
  • OpenSpace Air—one platform, from day one
  • Customer video: Balfour Beatty
  • The front end for the construction industry
  • Customer video: Skanska
  • CTO Michael Fleischman—Under the hood of the Visual Intelligence Platform
• Blogs:
  • A deeper dive into Spatial AI & AI Autolocation with our CTO
  • Beyond reality capture: why we built the Visual Intelligence Platform with our CEO
  • Visual intelligence—a new era (Waypoint 2025 complete recap)

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The most important device on your jobsite is already in your pocket

If reality capture is about seeing, Visual Intelligence—the concept that jobsite imagery, anchored to time and location, becomes actionable—is about seeing, understanding, and acting. AI Autolocation is one of the foundational pieces that makes the jump from reality capture to Visual Intelligence possible: it gives your phone real-time indoor positioning on active jobsites without beacons or special hardware. It’s a patent-pending capability built on our Spatial AI Engine and it comes to life in OpenSpace Field, our image-first system of work.

Builders already capture a ton of visual context with their 360° walks, smartphone photos, and drone imagery. Our Spatial AI Engine organizes these images by time and place and understands what’s in them. This gives you the ability to find what you need quickly and, more importantly, act on it in OpenSpace and in other tools you already use, including through deep integrations with Procore and Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC).

All of this can now happen with the one device you already carry: your smartphone.

OpenSpace Field turns your smartphone into the front end for field workflows: fast, simple, and grounded in reality. Layer on our breakthrough innovation, AI Autolocation, and you get real-time indoor positioning for the whole team that gets smarter with every capture.

Under the hood: how AI Autolocation works

GPS stops at the door. Satellite signals struggle indoors, and beacon-based “indoor GPS” systems don’t fit the organized chaos of construction. AI Autolocation takes a different path:

1. Captures create a sensor map: Your normal 360° walks generate a living model of the site plus a compact fingerprint that ties sensor data to specific spots on the floor plan.
2. Your phone streams live signals: As you move (even when you’re not taking a 360° capture) the sensor data from your phone is collected.
3. The system matches fingerprints: We compare the sensor phone’s readings to the latest sensor map, estimate your position, and update confidence in real time.
4. It learns as the site evolves: Each new capture refreshes the model and map, so positioning keeps up as conditions change.

The result: reliable indoor positioning that adapts as the construction site evolves.

With AI Autolocation, everyday tasks get faster and clearer. Field Notes, observations, and images are auto-pinned to the right spot on the plan, cutting back-and-forth and miscommunication. On complex sites, a live “you-are-here” view helps you get to the right room the first time. And with AI Voice Notes, you can talk through a punch item and our AI creates your Field Note—filling in assignee, due date, and more—so you can see it, deal with it, get it done.

The flywheel in action

Every 360° capture makes AI Autolocation a little sharper. As positioning gets smarter, logging issues gets faster—especially with AI Voice Notes turning what you say into complete Field Notes in the right place. With more, better-placed issues, progress tracking becomes more accurate and decisions get quicker. Those wins encourage teams to capture even more, which in turn strengthens AI Autolocation again. The loop compounds across projects and over time.

From AI Autolocation to spatially aware AI agents

Looking ahead, AI Autolocation lays the groundwork for a new class of assistants we call spatially aware AI agents. While these features aren’t in our product today, they’re an active area of R&D and early prototyping. The idea is simple: if an agent understands where you are—not just what you’re working on—it can become far more helpful.

In internal demos, we’ve explored agents that could quietly watch your context and, as you enter a zone, surface the most relevant nearby items from OpenSpace, Procore, or ACC, along with suggested next steps. We’ve also experimented with “X-ray” moments, where the agent retrieves archival imagery from the exact room you’re standing in, pre-drywall, so you can reason about what’s behind the wall without opening it up. And at the portfolio level, we’re testing summaries that roll visual and spatial signals into an executive snapshot of progress and risk, grounded in reality data rather than documents alone.

These concepts are exploratory and will evolve as we learn with customers. We’ll share timelines and specifics as they mature.

Learn more

• AI Autolocation is a feature in OpenSpace Field and is available as part of your OpenSpace subscription. If you’re not a customer, let’s chat.
• See our CEO, Jeevan Kalanithi’s blog post, Beyond reality capture: why we built the Visual Intelligence Platform for a “why it matters for GCs, trades, and owners” view.
• To learn more about the tech behind our Visual Intelligence Platform, watch my talk from Waypoint 2025.

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We’ve been talking about what it means to move beyond reality capture. OpenSpace is evolving into a Visual Intelligence Platform that helps teams capture everything, transform visuals into intelligence, and take action with confidence.

That vision came to life in London, where three customers shared their stories:

• Skanska UK
• BW: Workplace Experts
• McLaren Construction

Each team shared how reality data has become embedded in their daily workflows, the lessons learned along the way, and how OpenSpace is supporting their vision of the future of construction.

Skanska UK: scaling reality data across buildings & infrastructure

Tom Denby (BIM Lead Pre-construction) and Daniel Callaghan (Senior Digital Construction Manager), walked us through Skanska UK’s evolving journey with OpenSpace. What began as pilot projects on a handful of building sites has grown into a company-wide standard, with reality data now embedded into Skanska’s digital delivery approach.

Today, OpenSpace is part of Skanska’s minimum digital standards, making it mandatory across projects. Teams are using it to validate as-built conditions, resolve issues more quickly, and improve collaboration between office and field. On building projects such as 105 Victoria Street and The Smith in London, the tool has streamlined condition surveys, record keeping, and design validation.

Perhaps most striking is how Skanska has extended usage into infrastructure projects, where traditional capture methods can be challenging. The team demonstrated how they have used 360° cameras mounted on cars, bikes, and even boats to document highways and large-scale civil works. These creative approaches are enabling consistent, high-quality visual records in environments where accuracy and coverage are critical.

Skanska is also embracing the newest features of the platform, from BIM overlays and Autodesk Construction Cloud integrations to OpenSpace Air for drone captures and a first test of AI Autolocation. (AI Autolocation is a groundbreaking and patent pending new advancement that works like GPS but for indoors, enabling OpenSpace to provide indoor location, in real time, to devices like the smartphone.)

By linking capture data into project dashboards and GIS tools like ESRI, the Skanska team is building a connected ecosystem where reality data drives reporting, benchmarking, and decision-making across their portfolio.

BW: Workplace Experts is turning reality data into progress insights

Tomas Hollingsworth, Director of Technology at BW: Workplace Experts, shared how the company has been embedding OpenSpace into its workflows to strengthen visibility and reporting across projects. BW first adopted 360° captures as a straightforward way to document site progress, but has since expanded its use of the platform to include OpenSpace Progress Tracking. By comparing planned versus actual work, project managers now gain clearer insights into where projects stand, helping them keep delivery on schedule and stakeholders fully informed.

This enhanced visibility doesn’t stop at the project level. BW has developed ways to generate portfolio-wide overviews for executives while still enabling detailed site spotlights for project teams. The result is greater confidence that projects are aligned, risks are spotted earlier, and reporting is both consistent and credible.

BW is also exploring robotic quadrupeds equipped with 360° cameras to automate site captures. Although still at a trial stage, these innovations reflect BW’s commitment to testing emerging technologies that reduce the manual effort of routine documentation while simultaneously increasing capture coverage.

For BW, OpenSpace has become more than a visual record—it’s a foundation for new ways of working that allow project teams to spend less time chasing information and more time focusing on delivering quality projects.

McLaren Construction: Scaling deployment & driving adoption

Tom Gothard, Senior Digital Implementation Manager at McLaren Construction, offered a different perspective, talking about what it takes to roll out OpenSpace across a fast-growing business.

McLaren first tested the platform in 2023 on projects including a data centre in Peterborough and a London renovation. Encouraged by the results, the company signed an enterprise agreement in 2024 and began rolling OpenSpace out across its portfolio. By the end of that year, 20 projects were live, with adoption continuing to grow in 2025.

The results speak for themselves:

• More than 9,000 captures completed
• Over 60,000 logins
• 404 unique users actively engaging with the platform

Around a third of McLaren’s workforce now uses OpenSpace to evidence completed works, capture site conditions, and resolve disputes more efficiently. Captures are increasingly part of weekly coordination meetings, ensuring everyone is aligned to the same source of truth.

To support this rollout, McLaren built internal KPI dashboards that they review monthly to track adoption across projects and highlight where additional support is needed. The company is also investing in drone captures, backed by a clear policy framework, trained pilots, and compliance with aviation regulations.

Looking ahead, McLaren plans to deepen integration by automating model uploads via API, refining reporting to identify blind spots, and combining 360° captures, drone imagery, and laser scans into one unified view. The team is also starting a trial of OpenSpace Progress Tracking, further strengthening their approach to digital project delivery.

By scaling OpenSpace thoughtfully and embedding it into reporting and compliance processes, McLaren is creating a foundation for smarter, more data-driven project delivery that allows them to reduce risk and build smarter.

We unveiled the Visual Intelligence Platform, a unified system of work that moves beyond reality capture to power faster, better-informed decisions that reduce risk and help you get work done more efficiently.

If you missed it, here’s a recap of everything we covered, and links to the on-demand recordings.

A shared vision for the future

What stood out most at Waypoint London was the range of ways customers are putting OpenSpace to work. For Skanska, it’s about making Visual Intelligence an enterprise standard. For BW, it’s about leveraging OpenSpace for progress reports and leveraging robotics to test the future of progress tracking. For McLaren, it’s about scaling adoption across dozens of projects and ensuring the right data flows into decision-making processes.

Together, these stories show how the industry is moving beyond reality capture. Our Visual Intelligence Platform is helping builders not only see what’s happening on-site, but understand it, act on it, and share it seamlessly across their organisations. The result is faster decisions, fewer disputes, and greater confidence at every stage of delivery.

As these companies continue to experiment, learn, and lead, they’re shaping a new standard for construction. One where the jobsite is no longer a black box, but a transparent source of truth powering every decision.

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We unveiled the Visual Intelligence Platform, a unified system of work that moves beyond reality capture to power faster, better-informed decisions that reduce risk and help you get work done more efficiently.

If you missed it, here’s a recap of everything we covered, and links to the on-demand recordings.

Unlocking the future of building

OpenSpace CEO Jeevan Kalanithi set the stage with the big picture: the construction jobsite holds the most valuable data in a project, yet it’s historically been the hardest to capture and act on. Even with 1000s of pictures taken with smartphones on jobsites every day, along with 360° captures, drone imagery, and laser scans—if you can’t make sense of all the imagery, you’re flying blind. With the Visual Intelligence Platform, OpenSpace is changing that.

Jeevan announced game-changing capabilities in our new product, OpenSpace Field:

• AI Autolocation. This groundbreaking and patent pending new advancement works like GPS but for indoors, enabling us to provide indoor location, in real time, to devices like the smartphone for anyone on the OpenSpace platform.
• AI Voice Notes. Simply talk and our AI logs your Field Note (for punch items or any issues or observations) with everything filled in and placed in the right location—automatically.
• Two-way integrations with Autodesk and Procore. When you log an issue in OpenSpace, it automatically syncs into your project management system, and both stay in sync—flawless and seamless data flow where decisions get made.
• AI Search. With the significant amount of imagery we’re harnessing from new mobile phone workflows, we made sure to make that information easy to find. If you’re looking for something, just type it in, and our AI will find it. AI Search is tuned for builders and construction terminology.

Powered by our Spatial AI Engine, OpenSpace Field is a new way of working built for the realities of the field.

We are graduating from a tool that captures data that you can refer to when you need it into an essential platform—a system of work centered on reality that allows you to make better decisions, faster.

Watch the recording to hear more details and all of Jeevan’s announcements.

Customer spotlights

We debuted videos filmed on active jobsites with three top customers during Waypoint:

• Gilbane shared how OpenSpace Air and OpenSpace Capture help them manage projects spread across regions, from Reno to Phoenix, with speed and clarity. Drone flights combined with 360° site walks give them a complete perspective—from the ground and from above—making it easier to track progress, manage risk, and deliver value to clients. Watch the video.
  

  Having drones in OpenSpace really helps me out because I’m able to go to the site, do my flight, and by the time I’m back in the office and finish my lunch, it’s finished processing and I can present it to the team.

• Balfour Beatty highlighted how simplicity and field-first workflows make technology stick. OpenSpace helps them save minutes, hours, and days by consolidating visual data in one platform, powering faster punch, quality control, and communication across dozens of active projects nationwide. Watch the video.
  

  It’s all about time. [OpenSpace] saves so much time and lets me get back to what I’m really getting paid for: quality, safety, and production.

• Skanska shared how they’re using OpenSpace across both building and infrastructure projects—from skyscrapers in London to highways near Birmingham. With distributed teams across countries, OpenSpace helps them coordinate, reduce risk, and create an immutable record of site conditions. Watch the video.
  

  With AI Voice Notes, you can assign people to the snag and assign a date when it needs to be completed—it’s removing the desk work after the actual photo has been taken.

OpenSpace Air: one platform, from day one

Director of Product Jess Lam walked through how OpenSpace Air brings aerial data into the Visual Intelligence Platform, expanding the value of visual data on a project starting from day zero. Just four months after launch, customers are already using nearly one million uploaded drone images for bidding, planning, QA/QC, and progress tracking.

Jess also previewed what’s next: measurements (distance, area, volume, cut/fill), exports to integrate data into tools like ArcGIS and Civil 3D, georeferencing for improved accuracy, and Field Notes within OpenSpace Air to tie issues directly to drone captures.

OpenSpace Air isn’t just evolving; it’s accelerating how we build. From the first flight to final handover, OpenSpace Air gives your team clarity and speed to take action.

Learn more in Jess’s talk.

Field-first workflows and smarter BIM

Product Team Manager Michael Jones was up next to tell us more about OpenSpace Field, a new way of working that brings reality data, AI, and integrations together into one seamless, field-ready system.

He outlined why OpenSpace Field matters: construction is becoming more complex, but most tools are still built for the back office—handling documents, forms, and finances. When it comes to punch, deficiencies, snags, or design challenges, visual data is what matters most. And the jobsite is where that data is—the truth that defines if money is made or lost.

With Visual Intelligence, OpenSpace becomes the essential system of work for the field—the place the whole team goes to understand what’s really happening on the ground. And importantly, this data feeds those back office systems, making your PMIS and ERP smarter. That means you’re equipped to make faster and better-informed decisions. Clarity to know what’s next.

Michael shared impressive results from early OpenSpace Field early customer Suffolk: an 86% speed improvement in documenting issues versus their old system, with high-quality notes, properly assigned trades, drawings, zones, location, and other critical data. And that we’ve seen customers with very large projects where this type of time savings at scale would be even more impactful. For example, a customer recently told us that one of their more complex projects had 17,000 issues or punch list items. With OpenSpace Field, they could have saved about 730 hours of labor, or about $55,000 dollars in wage costs.

Great products remove work—they don’t add it. With OpenSpace Field, teams are capturing more value from what they’re already doing, effortlessly.

Molly Taylor, Senior Product Manager, then shifted the focus to 3D. She noted that while BIM is a powerful investment, it has traditionally been locked away with design and VDC teams. For field crews, models were too resource-intensive to load and too complex to navigate on mobile devices everyone uses in the field.

That’s why OpenSpace built a smarter, mobile-friendly BIM Viewer, powered by a modern streaming engine so even large models load smoothly on a phone. Molly described it as “more like Netflix than VHS”—fast, intuitive, and ready for the field.

Our new viewer makes BIM actionable for everyone on-site. With one tap, a superintendent or trade partner can pull up the model in context, validate work against design intent, and even create Field Notes directly from that BIM view. No screenshots, no back-and-forth emails—just immediate clarity. And because these notes sync with drawings and PM tools, the entire team stays aligned.

Together, Michael and Molly painted a clear picture of how OpenSpace is moving beyond documentation to orchestration. The combination of OpenSpace Field and the smarter BIM Viewer makes it easier for teams to see what’s happening, act on it in real time, and keep projects moving forward.

This is the future of construction: intelligent, connected, and driven from the field.

OpenSpace Field is available in early access to select customers—fill out our form if you’re interested in learning more.

Watch Michael and Molly’s Waypoint presentation for more details on everything OpenSpace Field has to offer and about our new OpenSpace BIM Viewer.

Under the hood of the Visual Intelligence Platform

Co-founder and CTO Michael Fleischman closed the day with a deep dive into the technology powering our Visual Intelligence Platform. He explained how our Spatial AI Engine combines advances in vision, language, and now location data to deliver unprecedented intelligence from the field.

He showcased our groundbreaking AI Autolocation capability—a breakthrough that transforms every smartphone into a sophisticated, real-time indoor positioning system for active jobsites, completely eliminating the need for costly and cumbersome hardware that’s historically been necessary to provide indoor location. Like GPS for indoors, AI Autolocation pinpoints a user’s location on a jobsite making every note, issue, and capture location-aware.

Looking ahead, Michael revealed how AI Autolocation technology lays the groundwork for advanced Spatial AI agents. By combining image and location data to proactively detect and resolve issues, these agents will provide executive-level insights for the entire industry. Prototypes show a future where agents can guide field teams through BIM models, surface issues in real time, and even deliver “X-ray vision” of past construction phases.

Just as GPS transformed the outside world, AI Autolocation will transform how builders work indoors—creating spatial AI agents that redefine construction technology.

Catch Michael’s full Waypoint presentation on demand.

Welcome to a new way of working

Waypoint 2025 wasn’t just about product announcements—it was about a new way of working. With the Visual Intelligence Platform, OpenSpace is becoming the front end for construction, where reality flows seamlessly from the field to the office to the C-suite.

With the Visual Intelligence Platform, you can operate in a way that is always visible and never in doubt.

If you’d like to watch the full event from beginning to end, head to this on-demand recording. For more on why we built the Visual Intelligence Platform, see our CEO Jeevan’s blog post. ‘Why Visual Intelligence’. 

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At this year’s Waypoint, we shared something I’ve been excited about for a long time: OpenSpace is evolving into a Visual Intelligence Platform.

That may sound like a big statement—and it is. This is our most transformative set of product and technologies we’ve delivered since we started the company. Let me explain why this shift is important for you, and why it’s such a big step forward for the construction industry.

From pictures to intelligence

When we started OpenSpace, our vision was simple: make it easy to capture what’s happening on the jobsite. A picture is worth a thousand words—and in construction, the right picture can save thousands of dollars (and sometimes a lot more than that!).

And that vision came true! Today, 350,000 builders use OpenSpace. You’ve captured more than 52 billion square feet of projects (that’s bigger than the Grand Canyon!). Everything from skyscrapers to shipyards to schools, and even projects in Antarctica have been managed on our platform.

But here’s the truth: the jobsite is still the most underutilized source of data in construction. Traditional, document-heavy processes just don’t capture the reality of the field. More than that, they can be error-prone, cumbersome, and laborious. So teams don’t engage, and the field ends up being a black box. And it’s a black box not just to stakeholders back in the office, but even to folks in the field itself, who can’t easily track and action what is going on day-to-day, week-to-week, and from start to finish.

The irony is that the field is where all the value is created, where the profits are made—and where the biggest risks and losses occur.

Reality capture helped change that. It allowed builders to collect visual data for future reference. But it was only the first step.

What is Visual Intelligence?

In short: Visual Intelligence turns images into everyday action.

It’s now not just about collecting visuals. It’s first about using AI to understand what’s in those images and place them in the right context. It’s then about reinventing everyday workflows, like punch and observations, to be fundamentally faster and more reliable, because they’re oriented around reality, not just words. Last, it’s about surfacing the insights you need—when and where you need them, from the field to the office to the executive suite.

Here’s how it works:

• Capture everything. Use smartphones, 360° cameras, drones, and laser scanners to document real site conditions—and find everything you captured in one place. If it’s happening on your sites, it’s in OpenSpace.
• Transform into intelligence. Our Spatial AI engine organizes every photo by time and location, and understands what’s in those images. Find what you want quickly, when you need it—and don’t drown in data!
• Take action. When you know what all your images mean and where they are, you can use OpenSpace to make better decisions, faster, from the field to the office. And importantly, insights flow directly into your workflows—whether that’s in OpenSpace itself, through deep integrations with Procore and ACC, or OpenSpace Progress Tracking—so you can act quickly.

I think of it this way: reality capture is like seeing. Visual Intelligence is seeing, understanding, and acting.

But what was really missing from existing reality capture solutions? What did we need to build to go beyond reality capture and become a Visual Intelligence Platform?

Why smartphones matter

Here’s the game-changer: the most important device on the jobsite is already in your pocket. For every drone on a site, you might find five to ten 360° cameras. But you’ll certainly find hundreds of smartphones, and they’re already capturing thousands of images every day. Not only are they capturing so much rich image data, they’re also the first stop for initiating and closing so many workflows that lie at the heart of getting great buildings built.

With the upcoming launch of OpenSpace Field, we’re enabling an image-first way of getting work done that’s faster than traditional methods, and integrated into your existing technology stack.

One of the superpowers that we’re first deploying in OpenSpace Field is our foundational innovation: patent-pending AI Autolocation (built with our Spatial AI). Location is critical for builders—if you don’t know where something happened, you might as well not know about it at all. For outdoor locations, you have GPS—but GPS doesn’t work indoors. AI Autolocation solves this problem: we provide indoor location, in real time, to devices like the smartphone, for anyone on the OpenSpace platform. And the more you capture, the better it gets! It’s hard to overestimate the power of this new innovation. AI Autolocation is a fundamental technology that will be powering our products in so many ways, for years to come, and we’re proud to launch its first application in OpenSpace Field.

Our Spatial AI engine technology also helps power another new feature: AI Voice Notes. Simply talk when you’re doing a punch list to log an issue, or any other time you want to note something. Our AI takes your words and logs everything in a Field Note automatically, and in the right place—filling out the right fields like assignee, due date, and so on. It’s fast and it works.

OpenSpace Field also provides deep integrations to PM tools, simplified ways to log issues visually, an AI-powered image search function, and more.

Overall, OpenSpace Field turns your phone into a true jobsite tool. You can capture reality, add expert observations in the field, and turn it all into intelligence that drives action.

What I’ve loved hearing from customers that have tried OpenSpace Field is this: “This new way of working is great because it’s like the old way of working: see something, huddle, assign it out, and get it done. No endless reports or word-based workflows that zing back and forth on the internet 5,000 times before resolution. See it, deal with it, get it done.”

Why it matters for builders

Construction is complex, high-stakes work. So if you don’t have visibility into what’s really happening in the field, you risk cost overruns, schedule delays, and disputes.

With Visual Intelligence, that changes:

• For GCs, it means clearer communication and fewer surprises
• For trades, it means better productivity and faster payments
• For owners, it means projects stay on track and risks are easier to manage

And for everyone, it means more confidence in every decision, made faster.

The essential triad: ERP, PM & Visual Intelligence

In conversations with our customers, we’ve heard clearly that when you’re looking to consolidate your tech stack, construction technology boils down to three essential systems:

1. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)—where the money lives
2. Project management (PM)—where documents live
3. Field system of work—where the job actually gets done

With Visual Intelligence, OpenSpace has become that system of work—the front end of construction. The place the field team goes first, and the place where data flows upward to make PM and ERP smarter—so you can make better-informed decisions based on reality from the field, to the office, to the C-suite.

A flywheel for your business

Here’s something I love about this shift: the more you use OpenSpace, the more valuable it becomes for your teams:

• The more 360° captures you take, the smarter AI Autolocation gets
• AI Autolocation makes it easier for you to log issues
• The more issues you log (which is super speedy with AI Voice Notes) means more data for accurate progress tracking, better and faster decision making, and ultimately a data layer that can set your business apart
• Better progress tracking results will naturally drive the field to capture the site more often…

And on and on!

It’s a flywheel effect—a compounding cycle that keeps building on itself. And because our technology is simple to adopt and effortless to use, we have massive capture and field engagement, meaning we’re able to scale like no other. Our platform is designed to build more value for you across your entire business (not just on one site), year in and year out—fueling automation and predictive insights.

Always visible, never in doubt

OpenSpace has always focused on making the lives of builders easier. The Visual Intelligence Platform is the next step in unlocking the future of building: giving you the clarity to run projects, portfolios, and businesses with confidence. OpenSpace Field is a huge step in making this vision a reality, but it’s not the only piece of our vision: with recent launches of our next-generation OpenSpace Progress Tracking, OpenSpace Air, and our new BIM Viewer, I hope you can see how we are pioneering a new way to work that is faster, easier and more trusted.

With Visual Intelligence, your work is always visible—and never in doubt.

I’m incredibly excited for what’s ahead, and I can’t wait to see how you use these tools to build better.

Watch Waypoint 2025

As you can see, we announced a lot of exciting things this year, so head to our website for recordings of my talk and all the Waypoint sessions.

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