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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We’re proud to recognize several top OpenSpace users of 2025. These awards spotlight customers who prioritize visibility, strong execution, and field-first workflows—and are seeing the results across their projects.

Most projects captured in OpenSpace

Recognized team: IES Holdings, Inc.
Special recognition: The Grapevine office of IES Residential, Inc.

Capturing across multiple projects isn’t just about volume. It’s a commitment to giving teams everywhere a shared view of jobsite reality. A view you can access anywhere for better coordination, stronger resource planning, tighter schedules, and better cost control. Plus, it takes buy-in from the field and technology that’s easy to use from day one.

IES Holdings, Inc. earned top recognition for the most projects captured in OpenSpace in 2025. We applaud their deep field adoption and consistent use across teams.

IES is one of the largest and most respected electrical, plumbing, HVAC, solar, and cable solutions providers in the U.S. We’re proud to partner with IES and celebrate how they’re setting the bar for visibility and execution across their portfolio.

Most capture minutes

With frequent capture, you get the images you need. Images that deliver trustworthy intelligence to surface issues earlier, reduce rework, and make decisions based on what’s actually happening on-site.

Recognized team: Comfort Systems USA

A leading provider of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing building systems, Comfort Systems USA is made up of more than 50 operating companies across 184+ locations nationwide. Their teams logged some of the highest total capture minutes in OpenSpace in 2025. Their disciplined, regular capture makes coordination and insight across a large, distributed organization much more efficient.

Top companies with the most projects using Field Notes

Field Notes turn visual context into action—helping teams manage punch items, observations, and issues directly from the jobsite.

Recognized teams:

• IES Holdings Inc.
  IES makes another appearance on this year’s award list, this time for broad adoption of Field Notes across projects—showing how image-based task management can work consistently across teams.
• VCC
  For 38 years, VCC has been a leading U.S. general contractor committed to excellence on every project. Their teams used Field Notes across a large number of jobs to keep work clear, documented, and moving forward.
• Marriott International
  Marriott’s Global Design team relies on Field Notes to help support consistent standards and oversight across a global portfolio.

Looking ahead, we’re excited to see how these industry leaders get even more efficient with OpenSpace Field—our newest solution for faster, easier image-based task management, powered by AI Autolocation and AI Voice Notes.

Top superintendents of the year: most days capturing

Superintendents play one of the most demanding roles on a project—balancing people, plans, and ever-changing challenges and conditions day after day. Consistent capture takes discipline, and these leaders set the standard in 2025.

Recognized superintendents:

• Christian Rubio, IES Holdings Inc.
• James McClain, Senior Superintendent, VCC
• Dawson Wallace, Superintendent, VCC

We’re impressed by their commitment to frequent capture and the value of ensuring all teams have access to a clear, up-to-date view of site conditions—supporting faster issue resolution and stronger alignment between field and office.

Top companies with the most drone captures

Drone imagery adds an important layer of visibility—especially on large, complex, or rapidly changing sites. Combined with ground-based capture with smartphones, 360° captures, and even laser scans, integrating drone images with OpenSpace Air gives you the full picture inside and out. All in one easy-to-use spot: the OpenSpace Visual Intelligence Platform.

Recognized team: Renascent Inc.
With more than 30 years of experience in demolition, abatement, recycling, and consulting, Renascent uses drone capture to support safety, precision, and planning across complex environments. Their extensive drone usage in OpenSpace reflects a forward-thinking approach to site intelligence.

What’s in store for 2026?

Our recognized OpenSpace users of 2025 show what’s possible when teams can rely on reality—not opinions or paperwork—to understand what’s happening on-site.

In 2026, Visual Intelligence from OpenSpace will continue to bring construction back to its roots: seeing the jobsite clearly. With our plans to add even more functionality to OpenSpace Field, continued investment in Spatial AI, and new ways to turn images into insight, you’ll be able to coordinate, verify, and act faster—without changing how you work.

We’re excited to see how builders combine OpenSpace with their hard-earned expertise to run projects with clarity and confidence in the year ahead.

Ready to see how Visual Intelligence and AI-powered workflows from OpenSpace can help you see clearly and move faster? Grab time with one of our experts to chat and get a quick demo.

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It changes today with OpenSpace Field

We’re excited to announce a better way. Introducing OpenSpace Field, an image-based solution for creating and managing tasks and issues in the field. And powered by groundbreaking AI Autolocation technology (built with our Spatial AI). Create, capture, and route work items dramatically faster—with rich visual context and deep, two-way sync with Procore and Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC).

OpenSpace Field is for the people doing the work. It makes the field visible, connected, and actionable for everyone, from boots on the ground to the executive suite.

Jobsite data is powerful, but underutilized

Field teams continuously observe, document, and solve problems. But too often the information they collect gets lost in text-heavy reports, disorganized photos, or disconnected systems. What can typically happen:

• When logging issues takes too long, you might delay or skip doing it entirely
• You can easily miss critical details like location, trade, assignee, or due date
• Photos are scattered across phones, texts, and emails, without spatial context
• When the tools you use to document issues aren’t designed for the field, you might avoid using them or end up doing double data entry

These challenges are a problem. You can end up with incomplete data, delayed decisions, unnecessary rework, and avoidable risk. With OpenSpace Field, the jobsite becomes a reliable source of intelligence, not a missed opportunity.

Built for how the field actually works

As an image-first solution, OpenSpace Field gives jobsite teams a fast, intuitive way to create and manage tasks on-site.

You’ll experience the difference immediately. Less typing. Fewer steps. More work captured while it’s happening, with GPS-like location—even indoors. All with speed and simplicity. Just like everything we deliver at OpenSpace, we’re making your work easier, not changing it.

Visual clarity

On-the-spot, visual context that eliminates guesswork and back-and-forth. Every task, issue, report in OpenSpace Field is anchored directly to jobsite images, and pinned to their exact location on your plan. That means everyone—from superintendents to subcontractors to project managers—can see exactly what’s happening and act with confidence.

Mobile workflows

Intuitive workflows, built for the smartphone in your pocket and supercharged with AI, that reduce documentation time 5-10x and ensure your data is complete.

• AI Autolocation (like GPS for indoors) pins your Field Notes on your exact location, in real time. No more pinching and zooming on your plans. No more manual tagging.
• AI Voice Notes technology enables you to create Field Notes by talking instead of typing. OpenSpace AI takes your words and fills in all the details for you (like status, tag, and assignee), in the right place.

Connected systems

Seamless two-way sync with Procore and ACC with Integrated Field Notes. No double entry. Your system of record stays the same, but now you can get work done easier and without slowing down your walk in OpenSpace. Create Procore Punch List Items and Observations, plus ACC Issues in the OpenSpace mobile app, making them quicker and simpler to find, on-site and on the go. Both systems stay in sync. Automatically.

Answers at your fingertips

Capture, organize, and easily find photos you take in OpenSpace with our camera overhaul in the mobile app and a new AI-powered Media Library. Take all the photos you want—as part of a Field Note, or not—without interrupting your workflow. We automatically index every image, making it a breeze to find what you want with AI Search (by keyword or context). Get visual answers about your project right away.

Easy to adopt & scale

Put simply, OpenSpace Field turns your smartphone into a true jobsite tool—technology built for the field, not retrofitted for it. In fact, early customer Suffolk Construction reports:

• 85% faster issue logging
• 95% completion of all required data fields, including trades, drawings, zones, locations, due dates, and task owners

An issue that used to take 3–5 minutes to log—and often happened after the walk—can now be done in about 30 seconds. While teams are still in the field. Doing their normal work.

Because OpenSpace Field works how you do and requires minimal training, you’ll see high adoption across projects of all sizes. That equates to richer data for every team, and compounding value over time.

OpenSpace Field completely changed our inspection process. What used to take 3–4 hours now takes 30 minutes, and issues no longer get missed or ignored. With every item documented by photo and exact location, our subcontractors know exactly what to fix, and we can clearly verify it was done. The result is not just speed. It is work that actually gets done.

Advancing the OpenSpace Visual Intelligence Platform

OpenSpace Field marks a major step in our transformation to a Visual Intelligence Platform. Working alongside our industry-leading 360° reality capture, this new set of capabilities turns jobsite reality into actionable intelligence, connecting what teams see on-site to the actions and decisions that move projects forward. This launch is just the beginning of our investment in image-first, field-driven workflows that reduce risk, increase speed, and bring clarity to construction.

Get started with OpenSpace Field

The future of construction starts in the field. And now the technology does too. This is more than better documentation. It’s clearer communication and speedier resolution, powered by the field. OpenSpace Field improves QA/QC and safety workflows, reduces unnecessary complexity for the people doing the work, and turns jobsite reality into real intelligence.

• OpenSpace Field will automatically roll out to most customers throughout February—reach out to your OpenSpace representative to learn more
• If you’re not a customer, our team can give you a quick demo to see how OpenSpace Field fits into your projects
• Get an overview on our website

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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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When we started OpenSpace, our mission was to simplify how the world gets built through reality capture. Over the years, we’ve scaled that mission to more than 80,000 projects across the globe, capturing over 50 billion square feet of the built environment. 

While OpenSpace became the industry’s leading solution for capturing jobsite reality, we heard a clear message from customers: capturing is just the start. You need insight. You need clarity. You need faster decisions. That’s why we’re evolving into a Visual Intelligence Platform—transforming raw imagery into the intelligence that keeps projects moving.

Why refresh now?

As we evolved, our visual identity wasn’t keeping up to fully reflect who we’d become and where we were going. What once served us well in marketing communication started to feel stale and not innovative. In the product, we were relying on a typeface that no longer was supported by the foundry who created it and a user experience that prioritized 360° reality capture above anything else. We needed a unified brand strategy and identity that would help us communicate this evolution and rally the team around a new vision, and around the practical application of artificial intelligence in construction.

Goals

As we embarked on this project, we identified clear goals to serve as our guide:

• Establish OpenSpace as the leader in a new category—Visual Intelligence.
• Define a brand strategy that serves as a foundation for the verbal and visual brand expression.
• Develop a cohesive brand language that would work well in marketing as well as within the product.
• Reflect both the technical precision of our platform and the human collaboration it fuels.

We’ve been rolling out our new brand identity over the past few weeks, and we wanted to share how we got to where we are today.

Unified brand strategy as the foundation

We partnered with design studio Awful Good to augment our team—to help us shape and define our brand strategy from the beginning. Having an outside perspective helped bring structure to the process and kept our team accountable for making decisions on time; something that could have been easy to deprioritize in a dynamic startup environment (there’s always something else we could be doing!).

Awful Good helped the team rally around a brand strategy that defined the OpenSpace purpose, mission, vision, values, differentiators, and our personality traits. This strategy served as a jumping off point for the verbal and visual expression we explored in later rounds of creative.

Laying this foundation enabled us to take a step back, understand how people perceive OpenSpace today, and put to paper who we are going forward.

Verbal identity—translating strategy to a singular voice

We used the brand strategy to define a singular voice centered around clarity and reality. Recognizing our brand needs to flex between environments in order to connect with our audience at their level, our brand voice nimbly adapts between crews on the ground (more casual) and executives in the C-suite (more professional). Our tone and style brings boldness and drive that’s always delivered with an upbeat, magnetic energy.

Visual identity—expressing the brand through visuals

The words we use are one part of our identity. The other part is the brand’s visual expression. The place where logo, color, typography, illustration, and photography come together to bring the brand to life.

The team went through rounds of creative that started with moodboards, allowing us to quickly see the different paths we could take with our brand strategy.

Once we narrowed on a visual direction that started to feel right, we started exploring how it would feel in practical applications in marketing and product.

Logo

Our updated logo refines the original form with cleaner geometry, improved balance, and better legibility at small sizes. In addition, the decision to go from all caps to Pascal case (upper camel case) solved a need around how to properly type out the name OpenSpace.

Typography

We chose a modern, humanist sans-serif with strong legibility and warmth. It supports technical content without feeling cold or overly rigid.

Color palette

Our palette introduces vibrant blues, brighter accents, and warmer neutrals—grounded in trust, but flexible and expressive enough for storytelling and data visualization.

Illustrations & graphics

The graphics evolved our markup vernacular to have more grit and look realistic. Patterns and textures inspired by the construction industry bring some authenticity and depth to applications.

Photography

Photography is important to how we tell our story and authentically connect with our customers’ daily experience leveraging technology in the field.

Guidelines built in Standards.site

Rather than documenting the decisions we made in a static PDF, we used this refresh as an opportunity to digitize our brand guidelines using the tool Standards. The benefit of this approach reduced the overhead of having to update, reexport, and share a PDF whenever we needed to make changes, expand, and evolve the identity—ain’t no one got time for that!

Rolling out the new look

Here are highlights of our brand rollout so far.

Team & collaborators

This refresh was a truly collaborative effort involving a cross-functional tiger team in collaboration with the team at Awful Good. Thank you to everyone at OpenSpace who contributed ideas, feedback, and craftsmanship throughout the process.

We’re incredibly excited to share this new chapter with you—check out our company video that boldly showcases our new identity! We’re even more excited for what comes next. 

OpenSpace
Creative Lead: Ronald Viernes
Design: Lisa Bambach
VP of Marketing: Jennifer Toton
Director of Marketing: Claudia Thijs
Senior Manager, Product Marketing: Kat Greenbaum
Senior Copywriter: Liz Irwin

Awful Good
Founder: Katie Lee
Founder: Bobby Biskupiak
Brand Strategy: Euan Fraser
Brand Copywriter & Strategist: Garret Mireles
Motion Design: Alex Trimpe

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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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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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Before joining OpenSpace, I spent three years helping manage a massive 1.6 million square foot project in the Bay Area as a Senior Project Engineer. I was deeply involved in our reality capture process—planning walk paths, coordinating schedules with other project engineers, and making sure every corner of the site was captured week after week.

Reality capture played a critical role in how we tracked progress, communicated across teams, and held ourselves accountable. But even with solid systems in place, the process had opportunities to become more intuitive.

The rhythm of a reliable process

Our capture workflow worked—it was structured, consistent, and essential to keeping the team aligned. We had our walk paths mapped out, our responsibilities divided, and we knew the sequence by heart. Every week, we’d power on the camera, connect via mobile, open the OpenSpace app, find the right sheet, drop the pin, and begin the walk.

This process was dependable. But as project complexity grew, and as we onboarded new team members or shifted responsibilities, even small tasks—like selecting the correct sheet or confirming the starting location—began to require a bit more attention.

Over time, it wasn’t about the difficulty of the steps—it was about how frequently they had to be repeated, and how they added to the cognitive load when you’re trying to stay focused on what’s happening on-site. The process demanded presence and consistency, and in a busy field environment, even a few minutes spent navigating an app could take you out of the flow of the job.

Reliability with speed: why OpenSpace built QuickCodes

That’s why I’m excited to help launch QuickCodes, one of the newest features released in OpenSpace.

With QuickCodes, you’ll post QR codes at your typical capture start locations. When scanned, the codes automatically trigger a 360° capture with the correct floor plan and starting location already selected—no scrolling, no pin dropping, no guessing.

This update might seem small, but it has a big impact.

• For new users: You won’t need detailed training sessions or printed instructions. Users simply scan and go.
• For experienced teams: While teams know how easy it is to use OpenSpace, saving minutes previously spent navigating sheets and confirming starting points is a big deal.
• For large projects: Make it easier to standardize workflows across hundreds of similar units with consistent, repeatable processes.

Real results for real-world projects

Imagine being able to shave off just a couple minutes per capture, across dozens of daily walks, multiplied by the number of capturers on-site. You’re not just saving time; you’re unlocking hours each week that can go toward higher-value coordination and planning.

And just as importantly, you’re reducing the risk of human error. With QuickCodes in OpenSpace, the right sheet and location are programmed into the QR code. Captures become less about memory and more about consistency.

Bridging the field and the future

I’ve lived the challenges our customers face—and now, I’m on the team helping solve them. That’s what makes QuickCodes meaningful for me personally. It’s the kind of tool I wish I had when I was part of a team walking millions of square feet and trying to keep everything documented and organized.

Just like everything we build, our goal for QuickCodes is simple: to make reality capture as seamless and intuitive as possible. Whether you’re just getting started or are a seasoned OpenSpace pro, QuickCodes is designed to help you work faster, smarter, and with less friction.

Because when the jobsite runs smoother, everybody wins.

If you’re not using OpenSpace to document your projects, we’d be happy to give you a quick demo of all our features, including QuickConnect.

Learn more about related OpenSpace products and features:

• OpenSpace Capture
• Use case: documentation
• OpenSpace on mobile

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Reality capture software solutions help construction companies cut their travel costs and boost team communication. The software’s impact spans countries worldwide whose users monitor project progress in near real-time. Project managers can track progress, spot schedule issues early, and maintain quality control from start to finish by combining photo documentation with construction AI.

This blog shows how reality capture technology changes project monitoring in construction so that companies can make better decisions and save money across their construction projects.

Planning and preconstruction: setting the foundation

Success in construction projects starts well before breaking ground. Teams that implement complete site documentation during planning can reduce dispute risks by 60% compared to those who don’t.

Why early site capture matters

Site documentation serves as the best defense against disputes that get pricey. Construction disagreements often start from poor documentation of existing conditions. Detailed preconstruction records protect profits and help teams make confident decisions throughout the project.

Site documentation before construction is crucial—teams get only one chance to capture starting conditions. Construction activity erases that baseline. Complete reality capture during planning creates value throughout the project and beyond.

Construction professionals typically follow a systematic approach. They break sites into zones to document everything. Urban projects need special attention to neighboring structures because vibration and settlement from construction can affect nearby buildings. A solid documentation strategy should record:

• Foundation conditions and facade integrity.
• Existing structural stress points and interior finish status.
• Natural and engineered drainage systems.
• Pavement integrity and surface conditions.
• Utilities including poles, valves, hydrants, and underground markings.

This approach creates solid baselines—an effective way to ensure you have evidence during construction disputes and project evaluations.

Construction phase: tracking progress with Reality Capture

Reality capture technology plays a crucial role in project success after construction begins. Teams can track construction progress, accessing detailed, accurate pictures of construction sites that are a great way to get visual records throughout the build process.

Daily and weekly photo documentation workflows

Photo documentation serves as a powerful tracking tool. Teams can verify schedule adherence and task completion at key milestones. Clear naming conventions and chronological organization of photos turn traditional tracking into an analytical process.

Automated photo documentation cuts down time spent on manual photo-taking and delivers better site coverage. The time and location stamps create solid evidence that protects against claims about completed work. Weather conditions captured in these documents help justify timeline adjustments when needed.

360° cameras for site walks

360° cameras have reshaped the scene of jobsite documentation. Workers can capture detailed site data without disrupting their workflow by mounting these cameras on hard hats. The one-click operation makes automatic 360° capture quick and simple.

Stakeholders can explore construction sites from anywhere in the world through virtual site walkthroughs. Companies using 360° reality capture report a 67% drop in project costs and save multiple hours each week. On top of that, it blends with popular construction management platforms like Procore and Autodesk BIM 360.

Comparing as-built vs. as-designed models

Visual documentation from reality capture technology offers the quickest way to verify as-built records versus planned construction. Teams spot and fix discrepancies fast by comparing reality capture data with design models. Project managers can track progress against design intent thanks to this comparison feature.

Post-construction: handover and facility management

Reality capture’s value extends well beyond the construction phase. It becomes a great asset for facility management teams once the project is complete. The captured data forms the backbone of long-term building maintenance and operations strategies.

Creating digital twins for long-term use

Reality capture technology helps create digital twins—virtual replicas that evolve throughout a building’s lifecycle. Digital twins are different from static BIM models. They represent living digital environments that work with IoT sensors to provide live operational data. These detailed models act as digital profiles with all project history, equipment specs, and as-built conditions.

How reality capture supports maintenance planning

Digital twins bring a fundamental change to maintenance approaches. They help switch from reactive to predictive strategies. Facility managers can use reality capture data to:

• Track and inventory building assets with up-to-date information.
• Schedule preventive maintenance based on wear detection.
• Cut down energy waste and consumption.
• Plan emergency response with accurate building layouts.

The benefits are huge. Facility managers who use digital twins see longer asset lifespans, lower maintenance costs, and better operational efficiency. These systems let teams test “what-if” scenarios without touching actual operations. Teams can simulate potential changes’ effects before implementation.

Regular reality capture updates keep digital models accurate. This becomes crucial for large or frequently changing spaces. Facility managers can combine reality capture with Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solutions. This gives them detailed awareness of asset status, which improves efficiency and cuts operational costs.

Overcoming challenges in reality capture implementation

Reality capture software offers amazing benefits. However, construction teams can face several challenges during implementation that can limit the technology’s value if not addressed.

Training teams to use site capture software effectively

A lack of expertise ranks among the top five barriers to reality capture technology adoption. This comes from all four major stakeholder groups in a newer study. Architects, engineers, and owners identified poor training as a critical obstacle. Contractors who used the technology more often worried less about this aspect.

Management must support developing internal capabilities for successful implementation. The best implementations usually have a “champion”—a respected, tech-savvy team member who creates the implementation plan and builds support across departments.

State-of-the-art solutions help overcome these challenges. Teams should evaluate software based on how easy it is to learn to ensure wide adoption in construction organizations. User-friendly systems ensure anyone on the project can use the technology.

Want to learn more about how to set your team up for success?

Check out our webinar, Inisights for success: implementing OpenSpace and accelerating adoption.

Conclusion

Reality capture software is changing the game in today’s construction projects, bringing major advantages throughout a project’s lifecycle. Construction teams that use this technology to track construction progress cut their travel costs by half while getting a detailed view of their sites.

The numbers tell a powerful story about reality capture’s impact. Site documentation in the planning phase can reduce disputes by 60% or more. Teams save several hours each week with 360° capture technology and can cut project costs significantly. Digital twins help predict maintenance needs after completion. This extends how long assets last and reduces running costs.

Data management and training can be challenging. However, companies overcome these obstacles with cloud-based solutions and smart implementation plans. The key to success lies in picking easy-to-use platforms. These platforms should process data quickly and blend with existing construction management tools.

Reality capture technology keeps getting better, delivering concrete results rom the first day of construction through facility management. Builders who consistently capture their sites deliver projects faster, clearer, and within budget.

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Our 360° reality capture documentation solution creates a visual source of truth for your jobsite, helping fire protection teams document sprinkler and piping installations faster, track progress with confidence, and reduce exposure to costly rework or disputes.

Built for fire protection teams: track every sprinkler with confidence

OpenSpace helps fire protection pros stay on schedule and reduce risk by automatically capturing comprehensive jobsite imagery—tied to your floor plans—without slowing crews down. Whether you’re tracking miles of sprinkler piping or confirming installation around hard-to-reach ceilings, our platform offers unmatched visibility into real-time conditions.

• Sprinkler and piping progress documentation: Walk the site as usual, and let OpenSpace document the install—hands-free.
• Offline deliverables for city maintenance: Provide facilities teams with accurate records of what’s behind the walls, even after years have passed.
• Model integration with BIM platforms: Compare your installation side-by-side against the coordinated model from tools like Revit, AutoCAD, and Navisworks—ideal for identifying design conflicts early.

Improve schedule adherence and reduce rework

Time is everything in fire protection. OpenSpace helps you catch issues before they delay inspections or require costly rework. With 360° reality capture documentation and BIM Compare, you can quickly identify deviations from design and collaborate with GCs, MEPs, and owners to stay aligned.

• Detect installation gaps early
• Eliminate back-and-forth over change orders
• Prove what was done—and when—with historical capture

A visual record that protects your business

Your install is complete, but what happens a year from now when a pipe bursts or a tenant files a claim? OpenSpace gives you a clear visual audit trail, providing indisputable evidence of what was installed, and where. Benefits include:

• Reduce liability with timestamped visual records
• Provide maintenance teams with clear, offline documentation for faster emergency repairs
• Avoid legal disputes with photographic proof of compliant installation

OpenSpace delivers results for fire protection

Our fire protection partners use OpenSpace for:

• Weekly as-built captures for field and office review
• City permit closeout packages with full visual documentation
• Remote QA/QC workflows without stopping work onsite

 Having consistent visual data from OpenSpace drives results:

• 25–30% cost savings on average through reduced rework and better coordination
• 74% of users save hours per week on documentation tasks
• Seamless integrations with Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, and BIM tools

Schedule a personalized demo to see what OpenSpace can do for you

Fire protection teams are responsible for systems that protect lives, so you can’t leave your documentation—or your liability—to chance. With OpenSpace, you get the speed, accuracy, and insight your team needs to succeed.

Let’s talk in a quick demo and we’ll show you how OpenSpace can help your fire protection business track sprinkler installs, reduce rework, and protect your bottom line.

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