FIELD REPORTS  /  Where BuildCycle started

Stop writing reports
in Word at 9pm.

You walked the site at 10am. Why are you still formatting photos into a document at 9pm? BuildCycle builds the report while you walk.

Day one BuildCycle was built by a practicing architect who was done losing evenings to Word. Field reports aren’t a feature we added — they’re the reason it exists.

SEC. 01  /  One site walk, start to issued

The report writes itself.
You just walk.

Everything you capture in the field lands in the record, already organized.

01

Mark it on the plans

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.”

02

Photos, pinned in place

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.

03

The context fills itself in

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.

04

Review, generate, issue

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.

05

Punch lists that actually close

Items tracked from open to verified — not a Word table that dies in an inbox. And when the job ends, the whole record — reports, photos, punch history — exports as one zip. It leaves with you.

SEC. 02  /  Reports are the door, not the building

Report-only tools
stop here.

ArchiSnapper, Raken, and the report apps do one thing. The problem: your projects don’t.

Report-only apps
  • Field reports & punch lists — and that’s the ceiling
  • Priced per user (~$29–46/user/mo)
  • RFIs, submittals, COs, pay apps? A second subscription, somewhere else
Same money, whole platform
BuildCycle
  • Everything above — reports, plan markers, punch lists
  • Plus RFIs, submittals, change orders, pay apps — on every tier
  • Flat from $39/mo, unlimited users, two-way Procore sync

Comparing report tools? BuildCycle vs ArchiSnapper  ·  Full pricing

$39/mo Your next site visit could end at the truck, not at your desk.

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