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Plans Are Not Reports.
POD Does Both.
PlanGrid (now Autodesk Build) manages blueprints and documents. POD manages daily intelligence — voice reports, safety compliance, and hundreds of KPIs that turn field data into executive dashboards.
The Challenge
What teams run into with PlanGrid
Document management is not daily reporting
PlanGrid stores and annotates blueprints. It was never designed for structured daily reports — crew counts, safety observations, weather delays, and equipment hours still require a separate system.
Absorbed into Autodesk Build with uncertain roadmap
PlanGrid was acquired by Autodesk and folded into Autodesk Build. Users face migration complexity, pricing changes, and a product roadmap driven by Autodesk's enterprise strategy, not construction field needs.
No KPI analytics or trend detection
PlanGrid shows you documents. It does not generate safety indices, earned value metrics, labor productivity trends, or predictive risk scores. The gap between field data and executive insight remains unbridged.
Requires manual data entry for everything
Every annotation, every RFI, every issue requires tapping and typing on a screen. No voice input, no AI structuring, and no automatic KPI generation from field observations.
The POD Advantage
How POD solves what PlanGrid cannot
Voice Reports Replace Manual Entry
One 60-second voice report captures everything PlanGrid requires manual entry for — plus crew counts, safety data, weather, equipment, and progress that PlanGrid cannot track at all.
hundreds of KPIs Generated Automatically
Every voice report feeds hundreds of construction KPIs — safety indices, earned value, labor productivity, quality metrics, and POD-exclusive indicators that no document management tool can provide.
Integrated Safety & Compliance
OSHA/MSHA compliance, incident tracking, near-miss reporting, EMR/TRIR calculation — all integrated into daily reporting. No separate safety platform needed.
AI-Powered Project Intelligence
Multiple AI agents analyze your data continuously, detecting risks before they become problems — turning daily reports into predictive intelligence.
Key Features
60-Second Voice Reports
Capture daily intelligence with voice. No typing, no screen interaction required.
Hundreds of Construction KPIs
Auto-generated metrics covering safety, schedule, budget, labor, and quality.
Safety Compliance Suite
OSHA/MSHA compliance, incident tracking, EMR/TRIR auto-calculation.
Accept Any File Format
Upload Excel, PDF, photos, P6, MPP — POD structures everything automatically.
Timeline Playback
Project DVR — scrub through your entire project history day-by-day.
“PlanGrid was great for plans, but it never solved our daily reporting problem. With POD, our foremen speak a 60-second report and the entire executive team has real-time dashboards.”
— VP of Operations, General Contractor
What You Get With POD That Nobody Else Has
POD tracks hundreds of KPIs from a 5-minute voice report. Here are just 4 of them.
Safety Performance
Momentum Score
PODExperience Modification Rate
Cash Flow Analysis
These update in real time from a 5-minute voice report. No spreadsheets. No data entry.
The Real Cost of PlanGrid
6 metrics that prove POD delivers better outcomes — using KPIs that PlanGrid can't even show you
Your Crew Gets Their First Hour Back
Your foreman spends 45 minutes every day on paperwork after a 10-hour shift. That's 188 hours per year per person — nearly 5 full work weeks — lost to forms, typing, and data entry. With PlanGrid, reporting is still a chore.
POD replaces all of it with a 60-second voice report in 10 languages. No forms, no typing, no laptop. AI structures everything automatically. Crews start producing from minute one.
Ask PlanGrid to show you your crew's first-hour productivity. They can't — they don't even track it.
Every Near-Miss Gets Captured
90% of near-misses go unreported because reporting is too hard. The ones that escalate to recordable incidents cost an average of $42,000 each — and they were preventable. PlanGrid can't tell you what it doesn't capture.
Voice-first reporting captures incidents in real-time. AI categorizes severity, identifies patterns, and alerts supervisors before near-misses become accidents. The more you capture, the safer your site.
How many near-misses went unreported on your site last month? PlanGrid doesn't know. POD does.
Your Data Is Never Stale
By the time your executive team reads a report from PlanGrid, the data is already 24-48 hours old. Decisions based on stale data cost projects an average of 7% in overruns. You're always looking in the rearview mirror.
Data flows in continuously via voice, photos, and file uploads. The dashboard updates in real-time. Every KPI reflects what's happening right now — not yesterday, not last week.
Your last report from PlanGrid was already outdated by the time you opened it. POD never sleeps.
Detect Turnover Before It Happens
Construction turnover averages 68% annually. Frustrated crews leave when their concerns aren't heard, their work isn't recognized, and their tools waste their time. Every departing crew member costs $15,000+ to replace. PlanGrid shows you output — not morale.
60-second reporting removes frustration. AI highlights team achievements. Momentum tracking shows managers which crews are thriving and which need support — before resignations happen.
Does PlanGrid tell you which crews are accelerating and which are about to quit? POD sees it weeks ahead.
From Data to Decision in 12 Minutes
Project managers spend 4.5 hours per day gathering data, compiling reports, and waiting for field information before making a single decision. That's more than half of an 8-hour day spent on administrative overhead. PlanGrid gives you data to export — not answers.
Voice reports auto-structure into hundreds of KPIs. 9 AI agents analyze continuously. Decisions that took hours now take minutes — with better data supporting them.
PlanGrid gives you data to export and analyze yourself. POD gives you answers in 12 minutes.
Five Dimensions. One Score. Zero Guessing.
Most construction software tracks metrics in silos. Safety doesn't talk to budget. Schedule doesn't connect to labor. You're making decisions with fragments of the picture. That's how projects go 20% over budget. PlanGrid can't connect the dots.
POD's Momentum Score combines schedule adherence, budget health, safety record, quality score, and labor efficiency into one number. You see the full picture — instantly.
Show us where PlanGrid connects schedule to budget to safety to quality to labor in one view. We'll wait.
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See what PlanGrid's overhead is costing you
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