Construction Progress Photo App

The Problem

Site photos are scattered across phones, WhatsApp groups and cameras with no location or date context. Months later — when you need to evidence a variation, a claim or what the ground looked like before you covered it — you cannot find the right shot.

What Changes

Every site photo captured with GPS location and a timestamp, auto-organised into a chronological timeline and a per-project site map, searchable by description and location, and shareable to the client portal — a complete, defensible visual record of the job.

GPS location and timestamp on every photoAuto-organised into a timeline and a site mapSearchable by description and locationShareable to the client portal when you choose

How It Works

From capturing a photo on site to finding it months later, build a defensible visual record without any extra admin.

1
Capture from the field
Photos uploaded from the mobile app carry their EXIF geotag and timestamp, which are extracted automatically on upload — no tagging, no spreadsheet, no manual filing. Existing photos with GPS metadata are placed without rework.
2
See the chronological timeline
Every photo is grouped into a dated, day-bucketed timeline with its caption, location and who uploaded it, so you can scroll the whole job in order from first dig to handover.
Project progress photos for a sample civils scheme grouped into a dated timeline — real site photos with captions and location labels under day-by-day headings.
3
Find any photo on the site map
The map view plots every GPS-tagged photo as a pin on the project location, so you can click straight to a photo by where it was taken rather than scrolling through hundreds of shots.
An enterprise photo-timeline map view for a demo project — GPS-tagged site photos plotted as red pins clustered at the site on a map, with grid, timeline and map tabs.
4
Search and evidence
Search by description or location to surface the exact shot, and link photos to applications, variations and ITP records so the evidence sits with the commercial or quality entry it supports.
5
Share to the client portal
Surface the photos you choose in the secure, branded client portal so the client sees progress in real time — without giving them anything you have not enabled.

Features That Move The Needle

Built for high-stakes construction workflows: deadlines, compliance, and audit trails.

Automatic EXIF geotag and timestamp

Location and date are captured on upload — every photo becomes evidence without extra effort.

Chronological timeline

Scroll the whole job in order, so the story of the site is always reconstructable.

Per-project map view

Find a photo by where it was taken, not by scrolling through hundreds of shots.

Search by description and location

Surface the exact shot you need to prove a point in seconds.

Captions and location labels

Every photo carries context, so it still makes sense to a QS or adjudicator months later.

Link to applications, variations and ITP

Photo evidence sits with the commercial or quality record it supports.

Share to the client portal

Show clients live progress photos without handing over anything you have not chosen to share.

Mobile capture

Photos go straight from the site team into the record — no offloading from a camera later.

Seen enough?

Start a 14-day free trial with no card required, or book 15 minutes with Rich (the founder) to walk through your exact workflow.

Why It Works

Every site photo is captured with its GPS location and timestamp, then auto-organised into a chronological timeline and a per-project map. Search by description or location to find the exact shot, link it to applications, variations and ITP records for evidence, and share what you choose to the client portal — a complete, defensible visual record of the job.

Site Samurai — Site documentation

Find the photo that proves it

GPS + time

On every photo, extracted automatically

14-day

Free trial, no card required

Timeline + map

Two views of the same record

Who It’s For

Site Managers
Project Managers
Quantity Surveyors (QS)
Contracts Managers
Directors / Owners

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions teams ask before they book a demo.

A construction progress photo app captures site photos with their location and date and organises them automatically into a searchable record — a chronological timeline and a project map — so you can evidence progress, variations and ground conditions long after the work is covered up.

Yes. The EXIF geotag is extracted on upload and the photo is plotted on the project map. Photos taken on a mobile device include coordinates automatically, and existing photos that already carry GPS metadata are placed without any rework.

Yes. Photos are searchable by description and location, and the timeline groups them by date — so you can jump to a specific day or surface every shot of a particular area in seconds rather than scrolling through a phone roll.

Each photo carries a timestamp and a location, so it stands as contemporaneous, geotagged evidence. You can link photos directly to applications, variations and ITP records, giving you a defensible visual trail to support a claim or justify a variation.

Yes, if you choose. Progress photos can be shared to the secure, branded client portal, so the client follows real-time progress while you keep control of exactly what is shared.

The photo timeline and map are part of the Enterprise AI Site Suite. Contact us for Enterprise plan pricing tailored to your team size and project count.