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Buildots
Hard hat mounted 360 cameras and computer vision that score build progress against the BIM model
As of 1 September 2026, Buildots's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. A site walk with a helmet camera produces an objective percentage-complete per element, compared to the model and programme. Softwr lists it under Construction. Buildots is available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Buildots does
Buildots issues a 360 degree camera that clips to a hard hat. Someone walks the floors once or twice a week, the footage uploads, and computer vision identifies which activities have been performed in each location, matches them to objects in the BIM model and to activities in the programme, and produces a progress percentage per trade and per zone. The output is a dashboard showing where the job actually is against where the programme says it should be, plus a forecast of the delay implied by current rates. The reason this matters commercially is that construction progress reporting has always been self-reported. A subcontractor claims 70 per cent of second fix is done, the project manager believes it or does not, and the argument surfaces at the next payment application. Buildots substitutes a measurement for the claim. That changes the commercial conversation on site more than it changes any workflow, which is why it is bought by main contractors and developers rather than by trades. Buyers are large main contractors and developers on repetitive vertical projects, residential towers, hotels, hospitals and data centres, where the same activities repeat floor after floor. Buildots does not publish pricing and quotes per project including hardware and the subscription. The trade-off is dependency: the system compares against a BIM model, so a job whose model is not maintained to construction level of detail cannot be tracked well, and the camera walks depend on someone actually doing them every week.
What people use it for
- A residential tower where the same fit-out sequence repeats on forty floors and the contractor wants an objective read on cycle time
- A hospital or data centre fit-out where MEP first fix progress is disputed between the main contractor and trades every month
- A developer that wants independent progress evidence before certifying an interim payment application
- A contractor building a production rate history across projects so future programmes are based on measured output rather than assumption
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Where it falls short
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- Tracking depends on a BIM model maintained at construction level of detail; on a job where the model is stale or was never built for coordination, the comparison degrades and much of the value disappears.
- The data only arrives if someone walks the site every week with the camera, so coverage decays quietly when the site team is under pressure, exactly when the reporting is most needed.
- Pricing is per project rather than per seat and includes hardware, so a contractor cannot roll it out cheaply across a portfolio of small jobs and it is uneconomic below a certain project value.
- It reads interior fit-out and repetitive vertical work far better than structure, groundworks or external envelope, so a large fraction of a project's programme is outside what it can score.
- Making progress objective creates commercial friction with subcontractors whose valuations have historically been negotiated, and contractors who deploy it without addressing that in the subcontract get pushback rather than adoption.
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What people choose instead of Buildots
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- BuildotsvsMatterport
Matterport: If the requirement is a navigable spatial record and measurement rather than programme tracking
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Procore: If progress reporting is acceptable as a self-reported field process and the gap is workflow rather than measurement
Pricing
What Buildots costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Buildots
On request
- Priced per project by size and duration
- Camera hardware included in the engagement
- Model onboarding and setup quoted separately
- No published rate card
Capabilities
Features
Hard hat 360 capture
A weekly walk with a helmet-mounted camera collects the site imagery
Model to as-built comparison
Matches captured conditions against BIM objects to determine completion
Per activity progress scoring
Reports percentage complete by trade, floor and zone
Programme deviation alerts
Flags activities running behind the planned sequence
Delay forecasting
Projects completion dates from observed production rates
Visual evidence trail
Time-stamped imagery of every location for dispute and quality review
Subcontractor performance reporting
Compares actual output rates between trades and periods
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Questions people ask
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What does Buildots cost?
It is quoted per project based on size, duration and scope, with camera hardware included. Nothing is published.
Do I need a BIM model?
Yes. The system scores progress by comparing captured conditions against model objects, so the model quality sets the ceiling on accuracy.
What kind of projects suit it?
Repetitive vertical work with heavy interior fit-out. Civil, groundworks and external envelope are poorly covered.
Who does the site walks?
Your own site team, typically once or twice a week. There is no Buildots operator on site.
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