Gate · mixer waiting 24 minThe gate and access road
Every delivery and how long it waited, trucks through the gate by hour, standby at the supplier's rate
The blind spot
A project's margin depends on hours that nobody measures.
Crew hours, equipment and deliveries drive a project's margin, and the only record of them is a handwritten daily report. Subcontractor hours are billed, rented equipment is paid for by the day and trucks wait at the gate, all without an independent measure.
Crew hours are self-reported
Subcontractor manpower on the daily report is rarely checked against how many people were actually on site, trade by trade, hour by hour.
Rented equipment sits idle
A rental invoice says how many days a machine was on site; nothing says how many hours it worked.
Deliveries wait at the gate
Standby charges arrive weeks later, with no record of which truck waited, when, or why.
What VideoBI measures
Every camera becomes a source of data.
An edge device on site reads the cameras and writes readings for the zones that matter. The video stays in the building.
Gate · mixer waiting 24 min
Electrical · 9 on site after 2 pmThe work zones
Crew by trade and area, hour by hour, against the daily report; exclusion zones entered; the fence line after hours
Excavator 1 · idle 2:07Equipment and laydown
Each machine working or idle, idle hours at the rental rate, laydown areas filling before the next delivery
Performance
Where measurement raises revenue and lowers costs.
Revenue up
Bill with evidence
Measured crew hours and deliveries, timestamped, behind pay applications and change orders.
Protect the schedule
Crew and equipment on site by hour show where a trade is falling behind, early.
Win the next bid
Measured productivity from past projects makes the next estimate sharper.
Settle disputes faster
A record of how many people were on site, and when, by trade.
Costs down
Verify subcontractor hours
Manpower on site by trade and hour, against what's billed on the time-and-materials invoice.
Take idle equipment off rent
Working and idle hours of every rented machine, so it goes back when it isn't needed.
Cut waiting at the gate
Delivery dwell by hour and day, to schedule the gate and dispute standby charges with the record behind them.
Reduce after-hours loss and safety exposure
Fence line crossings at night and exclusion zones entered, each with the still and clip that shows what happened.
Every level of the organization
Dashboards for executives, managers and frontline teams.
Each role sees the same governed numbers, arranged for the decisions it makes.
Executives · Decide
What waiting and idling cost last month, by project, and the record behind the invoices.
- Idle equipment cost and gate waiting cost against the prior month, by project
- A site index that scores every project and names its weakest part
- Machines idle two hours or more and deliveries past free time, longest first, for the rental and standby conversations
Managers · Operate
What the site did today, and the daily report written for you.
- Manpower by trade and hour, to check against the daily report
- Each machine's working share and idle hours, and the ones idle two hours or more
- Every delivery and how long it waited, exclusion zones entered, the fence line since midnight
Frontline · Act
A wall screen for the site trailer that names the phone call.
- Who is waiting at the gate right now, and for how long
- Which machines are idle right now, and since when
- Crew by trade against the usual for the hour, and all four cameras
Ask
Questions answered from your cameras.
Ask VideoBI in plain language. It investigates across every site and answers with the numbers and the evidence behind them.
- “Which trades are on site after 2 pm, and does that match the daily reports?”
- “How much rented equipment could we send back this month?”
- “Which deliveries waited longest at the gate last week, and on which days?”
- “Has anyone been on site after hours this month?”
Which trades are on site after 2 pm, and does that match the daily reports?
Ask answers from your own sites' readings: the measured numbers, the sites and hours behind them, and what the cameras can't see.
Early access: Ask is set up with your first sites. How Ask works →
The return
What the system saves, and the decisions it informs.
Recoverable dollars are counted week by week and pay for the system. Decisions about capital, leases and operating models made with the same evidence affect results for years.
The arithmetic
In the live demo's sample contractor with three active projects
- $116.8K
- of waiting and idling in one month, from what the cameras saw
- $98.1K
- of it rented machines that sat idle on the paid day
- $18.7K
- trucks waiting at the gate, at the supplier's standby rate
Dollars use the contractor's own rates: the loaded trade rate, the equipment rental rate, the standby rate and the free wait at the gate, set once in VideoBI. Crew hours stay hours: a cross-check against daily reports and invoices, not payroll.
The decisions
What the evidence changes
- Price the next bidFrom measured crew hours and productivity on past projects.
- Choose subcontractorsFrom measured manpower, project after project.
- Plan equipmentOwn, rent or share across sites, from measured working hours.
- Resolve a claim or a standby chargeWith a timestamped record of the site, day by day.
