Electrical & mechanical
- T&M tickets with your cost codes
- Change-order drafts and written notice
- Startup and service reports
For electrical and mechanical contractors
“Go ahead. We’ll paper it later.”Buildport papers it now.
A rugged recorder your foremen wear on the job. One press captures a verbal directive the moment it’s given, and Buildport turns it into the change order, T&M ticket, or daily log, sealed as evidence and ready to send.
Now selecting five contractors for the founding pilot.
Later is where the money goes.
The work gets done on a verbal OK. The paperwork shows up days later, if it shows up at all. By then the super remembers it differently.
From the slab to a signed change order.
- Step 1
Press once
Big button, work gloves on. The recorder announces that it’s recording, and the light stays on until you stop.
- Step 2
Talk like you already do
Walks, huddles, trailer meetings. Buildport knows gridlines, cost codes, RFIs, and the names on your job.
- Step 3
Get a record, not a transcript
Change-order drafts, T&M tickets, daily reports, commissioning logs, and meeting minutes, filled in and waiting for review.
- Step 4
Send it where it gets paid
Approved records go to your project and accounting systems. The original audio stays sealed alongside them.
It writes the paperwork your trade runs on.
Built for the slab, not the conference room.
Phones stay in pockets, and notes apps don’t survive gloves, dust, and a 95 dB deck. Buildport clips on and works with no signal.
Pilot hardware · design targets
- Sealed against dust and water
- IP67
- Survives drops onto concrete
- MIL-STD-810H test methods
- Battery
- A full shift, and then some
- No signal
- Records offline, syncs later
- Mounts
- Vest, lanyard, or hard hat
- What it doesn’t have
- No camera. No screen.
Targets for pilot units. We’ll confirm each one with independent testing.
When it turns into a claim, bring more than a memory.
Buildport keeps the record the way a claims consultant would want it kept, from the moment it’s captured.
- Sealed when it’s captured
- Every recording gets a digital fingerprint the moment it’s made, so any later edit is detectable.
- Chain of custody
- Who recorded, who listened, who exported. All of it logged.
- Legal hold wins
- Put a project on hold and nothing on it can be deleted, by anyone.
- Retention that fits construction
- Keep records through your state’s statute of repose. Set it by company, project, or record type.
- Owned by the company
- Records belong to your business, not to the phone of the foreman who left last spring.
- Ready for counsel
- Export audio, transcript, and audit trail together for discovery.
Built to get through the gate.
Mission-critical sites restrict recording devices for good reasons. Buildport is designed to be the one the owner’s security team can approve.
Run site security or a data center program? Tell us what approval takes.- No camera and nothing that looks like one.
- Radios off with a physical switch. Capture offline and sync only where the site allows it.
- Owner controls on the data: who can see it, how long it’s kept, and when it’s deleted.
- Managed devices: enrolled, tracked by serial number, and remote-wipeable.
- A security packet with the data flow, subprocessors, and exactly what the device can and can’t capture.
Delivers into the systems you already run
- Procore
- Autodesk Forma
- ServiceTitan
- Viewpoint Vista
- Sage
Integrations in development for the founding pilot.
Five contractors. Live jobs. Measured results.
We’re choosing five electrical and mechanical contractors to run Buildport on live projects as founding pilot partners.
What you get
- Recorders for a crew, set up on one of your live projects
- A direct line to the people building it
- Founding-partner pricing, locked in
- A scorecard at the end: change orders recovered, admin hours saved, disputes avoided
You’re a strong fit if
You self-perform electrical or mechanical work, handle T&M and change orders every week, and have at least one job where a verbal OK cost you money.