How it works

Operational intelligence for construction and infrastructure projects.

Background continuously builds an understanding of what is happening across a project.

Like a flight recorder, it creates a trusted record of reality. Unlike a flight recorder, it doesn't wait until after the event.

It helps organisations understand situations while there is still time to influence them.

Projects generate information continuously.

Site activityDocumentsProgrammesPermitsReportsSystemsConversations

Background brings these sources together into a single operational picture.

Not to create more information. To create understanding.

ActionWhat gets done about it
UnderstandingWhat it means in context
RealityWhat is actually happening

Reality

Everything starts with reality.

Background continuously captures the information projects already generate.

VideoDocumentsProgrammesPermitsCommercial systemsSite records

Together they create a trusted operational record of what happened, when it happened, and where it happened.

SiteRecorder™
Creates a trusted record of project reality.
SiteRecorder edge device

Understanding

Information becomes useful when it is understood in context.

Background combines:

Visual understandingDocument understandingProject contextStructured reasoningOrganisational knowledge

The result is a continuously evolving picture of what is happening across a project.

SightAgent™
Transforms observations into structured information.
CompoundOS™
Connects observations, project context and organisational knowledge.
Reality
What is happening
+
Context
What should be
=
Understanding
What it means, in context

Deployment

Background is designed to operate where projects operate. On site. On premises. Under organisational control.

Background edge device and compute platform on site
Edge device
Processes information close to the source.
Compute platform
Provides deeper analysis, organisational memory and long-term understanding.
Under your control
Data remains under the organisation's control.
Trust
Designed for operational environments.
Local-first deployment Audit trail Data ownership Explainable outputs Human decision making

Delivery

Understanding only creates value when it reaches the people who can act on it.

Background delivers information where decisions are already being made.

The format changes. The principle doesn't: the right information, the right person, the right moment.

IntelligenceInbox™
Delivers understanding where decisions are already being made.
Morning briefing
The PD reads it before the stand-up. What moved overnight, what needs a decision today.
Alert
It reaches the SHEQ manager while it still matters — not in the report a week later.
Evidence package
The commercial manager opens a claim and the proof is already assembled. No trawling footage.
✓
Toolbox talk
The foreman briefs the gang with one that's already written — from what actually happened on this site.
Report
The weekly report writes itself. Nobody loses half a Friday pulling it together.
Audio briefing
The site manager listens on the drive in. Two minutes. Everything that changed overnight, before they've parked.

Action

Background recommends. People decide.

Every output remains connected to the evidence that created it.
Every action remains traceable.
Every outcome becomes part of organisational knowledge.

Every project teaches the next.

Projects end. People move on. Knowledge is often lost.

Background helps organisations retain what worked, what didn't, and what changed.

The result is not just better project visibility. It is stronger organisational memory.

Reality
→
Understanding
→
Action
→
Learning

Background does not compete for attention. Background directs attention.

The purpose is not to maximise notifications. The purpose is to maximise usefulness. Every capability exists to help people understand what matters while there is still time to act.

Next step

See Background in action.

Walk through a real project and see how Background moves from reality to understanding, and from understanding to action.

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Operational, not a wrapper
Itelligence that runs where projects run — on site, on premises, under your control.
Reality to action
A trusted record of what happened, understood in context, delivered to the person who can act.
Recommends. People decide.
Every output traceable to its evidence. Every outcome part of organisational memory.