Construction & infrastructure intelligence

By the time a problem becomes obvious, the opportunity to influence it has passed.

We help construction and infrastructure organisations understand what is happening, what it means, and who needs to know.

Observe. Connect the context. Direct attention.

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How it works

Each feed sees part of what’s happening. Nobody reads them together. background does.

One camera. One telematics feed. The programme. Read on their own, each looks fine. Read together, today is already behind.

What a camera sees
Representative site view — an excavator waiting with no vehicle to load
Representative site view
What the telematics report
TELEMATICS · MUCK_AWAY_03 LIVE
Haulage turnaround planned 90 min
2h 00m ▲ over plan
Vehicles on cycle muck-away fleet
4
Excavator idle waiting for a vehicle
30 min ▲ accruing
Loads removed projected, end of shift
15/18
SHORTFALL PROJECTED · ~36 m³ BEHIND
Read together
The telematics Turnaround up from 90 minutes to nearly two hours The excavator has already stood idle for 30 minutes waiting on a vehicle.
The programme 18 loads today — about 216 m³ to shift What the plan requires — read as a number, not buried in a document.
What background sees On track for 15 loads — roughly 36 m³ short Three loads behind. Add a vehicle now, or agree tomorrow’s recovery — while there’s still a shift to use.

No single feed produces this.
The telematics don’t know the programme. The programme doesn’t know the excavator is already waiting.
background reads across all three — before the opportunity is lost.

The starting point

You already own every feed in that finding.

The camera is on the gantry. The RAMS is in your document system. The permit was signed this morning. The telematics is streaming from the rig.

They sit in separate systems, owned by different people, read by no one together.

Background reads them the way someone who knows the job would. It understands construction — what makes idle plant recoverable, what a bucket near a service drawing means. So the finding is something you can act on, not a guess to go and check.

The data is yours. The reading is what’s missing.

CCTVTelematics GPS machine controlRAMS PermitsNEC4 ProgrammeDelivery tickets SurveyWeather
What happens next

A finding nobody acts on is just a notification.

Background writes the intervention, addresses it to a named person, and follows it until it lands.

IntelligenceInbox · routed to the Construction Manager
Background IntelligenceInbox — the finding routed to one named person who can still act

Corrective when something was wrong. Reinforcing when something went right.
Both are routed. Both are tracked.

SiteRecorder — the on-site appliance SiteRecorder™ · installed on site
Where it runs

On site. On premises. Under your control.

Everything needed to understand the project sits on the SiteRecorder, on the site itself.

The site does not stop understanding itself because a network link dropped.

On-device AI NVIDIA Jetson — the perception and reasoning run on the box, not in a cloud
Fanless Passive cooling, no moving parts to fail in site dust
Site-rated −20 to 60°C, shock and vibration rated for plant environments
Held locally On-board storage — the project’s record stays on the site it came from
Fits the cabinet DIN-rail mountable, runs on 12–24V site power

Background recommends. People decide.

What changes

Nobody on site wakes up wanting intelligence. They want today to go better than yesterday.

Background exists to help that happen.

ActionBoard · every intervention owned and tracked
Background ActionBoard — interventions addressed to named people and tracked until they land

A finding only matters if something changes. This is where it does — and what that looks like on the ground:

Next step

See it on a real gap in your own data.

Every feed in that finding already exists on your sites. Walk one from the feeds that produced it to the person who acted on it.

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Grounded in real projects Built from time spent on the contractor and subcontractor sides of delivery.
Understanding, not replacement Background supports people in making better decisions. It does not make them.
Recommends. People decide. The decision stays human. The responsibility stays human. The outcome stays human.