Operative SpacesOperative Spaces

Your construction tech stack

Keep every system. Fix the handoffs.

Project software plans the work. Financial systems track the money. Time systems record the hours.

Operative Spaces owns the worker-level execution state between them.

The current state

The PM is middleware.

Each system holds part of the truth. The last worker-level handoff still runs through people and messages.

The current state

Project truth

  • Procore
  • Autodesk
  • Drawings
  • Schedules

Financial truth

  • QuickBooks
  • Sage
  • ERP
  • Job cost

Labor + time

  • Time tracking
  • Payroll
  • Field reporting
  • Resource planning

Local plan

  • Excel
  • PDFs
  • Work orders
  • Whiteboards
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Project manager

Manual integration

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Phone calls

Individual texts

Group texts

Email

WhatsApp

Teams / Slack

Foreman relay

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Field crews

Duplicate entry

Unknown current version

Manual confirmation

Late exceptions

Project, financial, time and local-plan systems all feed a project manager who then routes calls, texts and relays to field crews. Duplicate entry, unknown versions, manual confirmation and late exceptions follow.

Plans live upstream.

Execution spreads across channels.

The PM reconstructs status.

AGC–Sage 2025 research found that 59% of contractors did not intend to replace existing technology, even while field-to-office communication and software integration remained common IT challenges.

With Operative Spaces

One execution layer.

Connect or import the approved plan. Keep worker-facing state attached to the assignment.

With Operative Spaces

Project truth

  • Procore
  • Autodesk
  • Drawings
  • Schedules

Financial truth

  • QuickBooks
  • Sage
  • ERP
  • Job cost

Labor + time

  • Time tracking
  • Payroll
  • Field reporting
  • Resource planning

Local plan

  • Excel
  • PDFs
  • Work orders
  • Whiteboards
Native connectorOpen APICSV / XLSXPDF / work order

Operative Spaces

  • Approved assignment
  • Current revision
  • Worker and language
  • Acknowledgment
  • Arrival
  • Exceptions

Responses → operating state

Reviewed field state → write-back where appropriate

Field crews

  • Ordinary SMS
  • No separate app
  • Any supported language

The same four source systems connect through a planned connector, API or file import into Operative Spaces. Workers reply by ordinary SMS. Responses become operating state. Reviewed field state can write back where appropriate.

Connect or import.

Approve worker-facing truth.

Escalate exceptions only.

System ownership

Every system keeps its job.

System ownership

Project systems

  • Projects
  • Documents
  • Schedules
  • RFIs

Accounting + ERP

  • Job cost
  • Billing
  • Payroll
  • Financial control

Time systems

  • Clock time
  • Timecards
  • Payroll inputs

Operative Spaces

  • Current assignment
  • Acknowledgment
  • Arrival
  • Field exception

Project truth

Financial truth

Hours and pay

Execution truth

Project systems keep project truth. Accounting keeps financial truth. Time systems keep hours. Operative Spaces keeps execution truth: the current assignment, acknowledgment, arrival and field exception.

Operative Spaces does not create a second ERP. It maintains the state the office needs after the worker assignment is issued.

Simple setup

No IT project.

Simple setup

01

Connect

Authorize Procore or choose an import.

02

Select

Choose projects and worker-visible information.

03

Map

Confirm crews and worker identities.

04

Run

Workers use ordinary SMS.

  • No customer-managed API keys.
  • No custom worker rollout.
  • No new field application.

Setup is four stages: connect or import, select worker-visible information, map crews and identities, then run on ordinary SMS. Procore is the first planned native connection. Files remain the fallback.

Procore is the first planned native connection. Additional connectors will be prioritized with early-access customers. CSV, XLSX, PDF and approved work orders provide the universal fallback.

No duplicate truth

Changes never overwrite silently.

No duplicate truth

Upstream source

  • Start: 7:00 AM
  • Access: North gate

Current worker assignment

  • REV 02
  • Start: 8:00 AM
  • Access: East gate

Difference detected

Keep current assignmentCreate REV 03

Upstream information remains source-owned. Operative Spaces owns the issued worker-facing version and its acknowledgment state.

When upstream information changes, the PM reviews the difference and decides whether workers need a new revision.

Your stack can stay complicated.

The crew experience should not.

Workers receive a text, confirm the assignment, ask a question and report a problem. Operative Spaces keeps the context attached to the work.

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