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How Track3D Solves Construction’s Most Frustrating Progress Tracking Problems
How many times have you found yourself in a payment dispute over work quantities? Or discovered a critical task stalled weeks after it should have been completed? If you’re nodding along, you’re not alone, these challenges topped the list when we recently asked construction professionals about their biggest progress tracking pain points.
In our recent webinar, our Product Lead, Pavan Tadikonda and Customer Success Lead, Samir Patel, walked through how Track3D’s Reality Intelligence platform is changing the game for field teams, VDCs, and project managers. Rather than just capturing site conditions, our platform transforms visual data into actionable insights that solve real problems happening on job sites every day.
Here’s what we explored during the discussion, and how these four capabilities are helping teams move from reactive firefighting to proactive project monitoring.
1. Catching Problems Early: Automated Stalled Work Detection
The Problem: Limited visibility into what’s actually happening between site visits means delays often go unnoticed until they’ve already impacted your schedule.
As Pavan explained during the webinar, Track3D takes a “stitch in time saves nine” approach to progress monitoring. Our platform automatically compares each capture to the previous one, flagging any work that hasn’t progressed between visits.
This is where Diagnostic Indicators come in, providing automatic alterts on potential issues:
- Stalled (Red): No progress has been recorded since the last capture, even though work had started earlier
- Slowed Down (Orange): Progress continues, but at a much slower pace than before
- Behind Schedule (Grey): Actual progress is lagging behind the planned schedule
The information comes to you automatically rather than requiring you to dig through data looking for problems, and makes it easy to identify exactly where attention is needed.
2. Connecting the Dots: Schedule-Linked Progress Reporting
The Problem: Delays and disputes often stem from misalignment between what’s happening in the field versus what the schedule says should be happening.
This capability takes progress tracking a step further, linking AI-detected progress directly to your project schedule. The report automatically compares actual installed quantities against your baseline schedule, showing you at a glance which categories and stages are behind schedule (red), at risk (amber), and on track (green).
While construction isn’t always linear, this report helps you identify trends and take corrective action early, giving you a clear view of critical path items before they derail your schedule.
3. Ending the Invoice Guessing Game: Faster Payout Validation
The Problem: Payment disputes eat up time and damage relationships, especially when both parties are working from different data sources.
Track3D transforms what used to be contentious conversations into collaborative problem-solving. When there’s a discrepancy between an invoice and detected quantities, you can see exactly where the installed work is located on a 2D floor map, isolate only the work completed during the billing period, and reference actual 360 images from those locations.
This shifts the conversation from subjective debates to objective data, replacing finger-pointing with visual evidence that both parties can review together. Trades can also use this workflow proactively, checking their own progress before submitting invoices to ensure accuracy.
4. Keeping Everyone Aligned: Shareable Progress Insights
The Problem: Misalignment between field and office stakeholders, often because everyone’s working from different information sources.
Track3D addresses this by making progress data easily shareable across all stakeholders, whether they have platform access or not. The platform enables you to generate shareable links to 360 captures, export progress dashboards, and download visual progress reports.
This creates a single source of truth that keeps everyone aligned, from field teams to office staff to trade partners, eliminating the confusion that comes from working off different data sets and ensuring smoother coordination.
Questions That Came Up: Insights from the Discussion
Several excellent questions from attendees revealed important details about how Track3D works in practice:
Q: Can the system differentiate between work layers, like distinguishing a plain brick wall from a plastered one?
A: Yes. Our platform can track multiple stages of the same element and understand how they layer. For example, it can distinguish between hung drywall, taped, and floated drywall, and painted walls, showing each stage separately on the floor map with different color coding.
Q: Can users create issues or observations directly from the 360 views and assign them to team members?
A: Yes, if you have Track3D credentials and are logged into the platform, you can add notes to any location in the 360 captures and assign them to specific people for resolution.
Q: Does the AI achieve 100% measurement accuracy, or are manual reconciliations needed?
Track3D uses a quality assurance process that combines AI confidence levels with human review. High-confidence detections proceed automatically, while items flagged as lower confidence receive manual verification, ensuring accuracy while maintaining efficiency.
Q: Does the platform integrate with BIM models for split-view comparisons?
Yes. Track3D supports BIM model overlay, allowing you to view your model alongside reality capture data.
Moving From Reactive to Proactive
Track3D’s Reality Intelligence platform transforms visual capture data into actionable insights that address these challenges head-on. The four capabilities covered in the webinar, stalled work detection, schedule-linked reporting, faster payout validation and shareable progress insights, represent our response to real feedback from real construction professionals dealing with real problems every day.
Watch the webinar to see live demonstrations of each capability
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