You walked the site at 10am. Why are you still formatting photos into a document at 9pm? BuildCycle builds the report while you walk.
Everything you capture in the field lands in the record, already organized.
See an issue? Drop a marker on the drawing where it is. The observation carries its location forever: in the report, in the record, in the closeout. No more “see photo 14, somewhere on level 2.” And the plan you’re marking is always the current sheet. BuildCycle manages your drawing versions underneath.
Shoot from your phone or tablet; photos attach to the observation and the marker it lives on. The full photo archive stays organized by project, searchable long after the job closes.
Weather attaches automatically. Who was observed on site and who attended is captured as a permanent snapshot. The legal record stays true even when people change firms later.
Back at the truck: review, hit generate, and a clean formatted PDF goes to the distribution list: owner, GC, consultants, CC’d as needed. The 9pm Word session is now a two-minute review.
Punch items tracked from open to verified. Not a Word table that dies in an inbox; the full walkthrough story is just below. And when the job ends, the whole record — reports, photos, punch history — exports as one zip. It leaves with you.
You create the punch list. Then the whole team walks the building at the same time, on the same list.
The mechanical engineer drops their observations, the electrical engineer drops theirs. Each item marked on the plan, photographed in place, and carrying its author’s name. Items land on the shared list as they’re created; nobody collates five marked-up PDFs afterward.
The contractor works the list; items don’t just get checked off. They get verified, by you, with the record to prove it.
Report apps charge per user. A five-consultant walkthrough is five subscriptions. On BuildCycle, consultants are free on every tier. Bring the whole team; that’s the point.
ArchiSnapper, Raken, and the report apps do one thing. The problem: your projects don’t.
Field reports and punch lists, in plain language.
Architects need field report software that builds the report during the site visit, not after it: observations marked directly on the drawings, photos pinned to plan locations, weather attached automatically, and a clean PDF issued to the distribution list. BuildCycle does this from $120/month. Unlike report-only tools, the same platform also handles RFIs, submittals, change orders, and pay applications when you need them.
Yes. In BuildCycle you drop a marker on the plan where the issue is, attach photos to that marker, and the observation carries its location with it, into the report PDF and the project record. No more “see photo 14, somewhere on level 2.”
That is exactly what it replaces. The report assembles itself from your site walk — observations, photos, weather, attendees — and exports as a formatted PDF you issue by email. The hours previously spent reformatting a Word document become a review-and-send.
Yes. Every discipline contributes to the same live punch list, from their own device, with their own attribution. Consultants and contractors are free on every BuildCycle tier, so a five-discipline walkthrough costs the same as a solo one: nothing extra.
An architect’s field report should record the date and weather, who was on site, observations of the work in progress — each tied to a location on the drawings — photos supporting those observations, and any items requiring correction, plus a distribution record showing who received it. BuildCycle captures all of it during the walk and issues it as a formatted PDF, so the architectural field report is complete when you leave the site.
You’ll land in a live CA project with real RFIs and real numbers already in it. Poke around; we’ll follow up once you’ve had a look, not spam you.
