28% Average cost overrun
Rising to 45% on projects above $100 million. Schedule overruns from rework alone reach 22%.
Supply chain & industry · India & South Asia
Rework is responsible for more than half of your cost growth.
And the average project still overruns by twenty-eight percent.
2019-24
the period in which US highway, street and bridge productivity declined, while industrial building rose.
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, construction labor productivity
In India
This is what it actually runs on here.
Platforms in this market
- Procore
- Asta Powerproject
- Tally
- SAP
- RERA portals
Rules that apply here
- RERA
- GST e-invoicing
- the National Building Code
- state labour cess
We read the rule before the call. It is the cheapest way to prove we did the work.
What is happening
Rework is not a site problem. It is a drawing that never reached the crew.
4-10% Of project cost is rework
Most of it traceable to information that existed but did not reach the crew before the work was done.
The site and the office are on different versions
Drawings, RFIs, change orders and daily reports move at different speeds. The crew builds to what they have.
Progress claims are argued from memory
What was actually completed, when, and by whom is reconstructed from photographs and recollection at billing time.
However hard, whatever it is
Rework is one example. Bring the thing actually eating margin.
We wrote this about drawings reaching the crew. If yours is procurement, plant or a subcontractor nobody can track, we start the same way.
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01 We sit with you
Days where the work happens, not a workshop in a meeting room. We watch the job get done and write down the shortcuts nobody wrote down.
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02 We read everything
Your data, your rules, your vendors and their documentation, and the published research on your sector. We report what is actually in there.
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03 We break it to first principles
Not which tool fixes this. What is actually causing it, taken apart until we reach the piece that cannot be divided further.
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04 Then we build
Weeks, not quarters. By this point we are not guessing what to build, and guessing is the thing that makes projects long.
Where we sit
Your project platform stays. We build what the crew actually holds on site.
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What you get
- Less rework Current information reaches the crew before the pour
- Evidence Progress captured as it happens
- Earlier Cost and schedule variance visible weekly
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Built new for you — none of this exists in your stack today
- A site app that works in a basement with no signal
- A camera post that logs progress with nobody remembering to
- A weekly one-pager showing where the cost is leaking
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The site-truth layer Reads your drawings and schedules. Writes nothing back without approval.
Connectors, one agreed meaning per field, and a model reading what no
field holds. Accuracy measured on your own records.
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- Procore
- Asta Powerproject
- Tally
- SAP
- RERA portals
What you already run — unchanged, and still yours
If it happens on site, we can capture it. A drawing marked up in pen, a delivery note left in a cab, a camera on a mast. All of it becomes a record.
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No API -
No documentation -
A terminal from 1994 -
It arrives as paper -
The vendor said no -
It reports nothing
Not a list of limits. Name yours on the call.
And once we can reach it, a model can read it. Most of the value here is in the sources nobody ever structured — the note, the letter, the screen.
Intelligence, plumbed in
A marked-up drawing and a site photo are both readable now.
The work is the boring half: a connector to the drawing store, one naming standard across trades, and a scored test set.
How we make AI survive real data-
Connectors -
A semantic layer -
Evals you can check
What changes
Judge us on this, not on what we built.
Less rework Current information reaches the crew before the pour
Drawing revisions, RFI answers and change orders pushed to the field, with acknowledgement recorded.
Evidence Progress captured as it happens
Timestamped, located and attributable, so the progress claim is documented rather than argued.
Earlier Cost and schedule variance visible weekly
Not at the month-end review, when the decision point has already passed.
Who this is for
The people who feel this first
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Project Director -
Commercial Manager -
Site Manager -
Head of PMO -
Finance Director
Straight answers
The questions you would ask on the call
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Our site teams will not use another app.
They will not, and they should not have to. Anything we build for the field either replaces something they already do or captures information passively. If it adds a step, it will be abandoned in week two — that is not a training problem, it is a design failure.
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Do you work with Procore or Autodesk?
Yes, alongside them. They are systems of record for documents and RFIs. The gap is usually between them and the commercial and scheduling systems.
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Do you work outside our country?
Yes. We work with clients in the US, Europe and India. The systems differ more by contractor than by country, so neither is a stretch.
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What can AI actually do on a site?
Read the marked-up drawing, the delivery note and the site photo. We score it against a month of real records before the site relies on it.
Do you know the rules that apply in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh?
For construction that means RERA, GST e-invoicing, the National Building Code and state labour cess. We read the rule before the call, so the first meeting is about your operation rather than about us catching up.
Whatever construction needs here, we can make it.
What you already run stays where it is. Around it we build software, hardware and the process itself. Here that means a site app that works in a basement with no signal.
See everything we build-
Software -
Hardware -
Ways of working -
Whole ventures
Honest about the numbers
The figure above is from US Bureau of Labor Statistics, construction labor productivity, for construction.
We have not localised it, because a number nobody can check is worth less than a real one plus this sentence. The pattern travels. The size of it in your market is a question for the call.
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