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A weekly operations brief for general contractors

The goal: Finish jobs on schedule and on budget, with every crew working safely and every piece of equipment where it's needed.

From week 4 you get a brief built from your own records: your goals, the KPIs with their assumptions, the options in front of you with their guardrails, and a 30-day agenda. Bifrost answers your team's questions about the same records, and shows how each number was worked out. We review it with you every week.

Open the free demo A fictional company in your industry, opened in the Console. No card needed.

What you see

Bifrost in the Watch Tower Console

An illustration of Bifrost with sample data: a plain question answered with three insight cards, each citing its records. — Questions about your own records, answered with how each number was worked out. An illustration with sample data. The demo opens a sample in your industry.

For owners, project managers and safety leads at general contracting firms

What it looks like for general contractors

The KPIs, cards and questions below are examples of what we set up with you. The names and units are made up.

KPIs, with the assumption behind each

Jobs on scheduleActive jobs whose current milestone is on or ahead of the baseline date.Assumption: Baseline is the schedule agreed at contract; approved change orders move it.

Cost to complete vs budgetProjected final cost against budget, per job.Assumption: From the latest job-cost report; committed costs included.

Shift inspections doneScaffold and fall-protection checks logged before the shift, as a share of shifts worked.Assumption: Counted from daily logs; a missing log counts as not done.

Cards on the work tracker

Get the competent person's scaffold check logged before Monday's shiftSite superintendent · due Mon · Job: Riverside clinic
Return the idle rented excavator or move it to the next jobEquipment manager · due Wed · Excavator R-12
Update the cost to complete after the steel change orderProject manager · due Fri · Job: Elm Street retail

Records you already keep

Job-cost reports
Daily logs and inspection checklists
Equipment lists and rental agreements
Subcontractor schedules

Assets in the register

Job sites
Owned and rented equipment
Crews and foremen
Subcontractors

Questions your team can ask Bifrost

Which jobs are behind their baseline, and by how many days?
Which rented equipment sat idle for more than five days last month?
How many shifts started without a logged scaffold check this quarter?

Bifrost answers from the records in your own workspace and shows how each number was worked out.

How it runs

Weekly brief, step by step

Your records come in during week 1 and your goals and KPIs are set in week 2.
Your first brief arrives in week 4, with the assumptions behind every number.
Your team asks Bifrost about your own records, and each answer shows the records it used.
We hold the weekly review with you and update the brief from what moved.

The barriers this crosses

Use: What exactly would I use it for? We name the specific uses by role and by industry: the decision, the calculation, the plan, the brief.
Consistency: Will this still be useful next week? We design AI into the daily system: the Console, the toolkits and the career plan people come back to, with customer success that follows up.

Rules and facts for general contractors

What the records have to show

Each employee on a walking or working surface with an unprotected side or edge six feet or more above a lower level must be protected from falling by a guardrail, safety net or personal fall arrest system.Source: 29 CFR 1926.501(b)(1), Duty to have fall protection
Scaffolds and their components must be inspected for visible defects by a competent person before each work shift.Source: 29 CFR 1926.451(f)(3), Scaffolds
OSHA's "Focus Four" construction hazards are falls, caught-in or -between, struck-by and electrocution.Source: OSHA, Construction Focus Four training

A summary for planning work, not legal advice. Check the source for the full rule and any state requirements.

Start

See it on a sample company first

Founding 10

$2,000 for setup and the first 3 months of Watch Tower, then $250/month. Ten places. We set up your team, goals and KPIs, asset register, map and work tracker with you, then review it with you every week.

Hardware implementation is quoted separately. Start with the demo; you can order from inside it.Open the free demo

Questions

Common questions

Does this replace our construction management software?

No. It reads your job-cost reports, logs and equipment lists and puts the goals, the actions and the weekly review in one place. Keep the tools your field team already uses.

Where do the answers come from?

Only from the records in your own workspace. Bifrost answers questions about them and shows the records it used and how each number was worked out, so your team can check it.

What does a brief look like before we pay?

Open the free demo: it runs on a fictional company in your industry, with a sample brief you can read end to end.

What does Watch Tower cost for general contractors?

Founding 10 covers setup and the first 3 months in one payment, then a monthly price; the numbers are on this page and on the pricing page inside the demo. Hardware implementation is quoted separately.

Weekly brief in other industries