Traditional daily report
"Utility conflict delayed the pipe crew most of the morning."
- No precise timing
- No quantified impact
- Limited supporting detail
Built for the moment work stops
Know what stopped.
Prove what it cost.
Better field records. Stronger change orders. Defensible claims.
Every construction delay has a cost. But recovering that cost depends on what you can prove.
Downtime captures objective, measurable impacts directly from the work face—preserving the facts your team needs to document disruptions, support change orders, and build stronger claims.
Capture the facts today. Protect your revenue tomorrow.
Report from the field
< 60 secto log a field event
One recordfrom field note to claim
Live viewacross every active project
NO SPREADSHEETS.
NO END-OF-DAY RECONSTRUCTION.
01 / THE PROBLEM
The delay starts now.
The paperwork starts later.
By then, the details that matter are already gone: who was affected, what equipment sat idle, and how the work actually changed.
01
Details get scattered across texts, calls, notebooks, and daily reports.
02
Teams lose the timeline while everyone works from a different version.
03
Claims lose credibility when records are rebuilt days or weeks later.
02 / DATA VS. EVIDENCE
A delay happened.
Which record would you rather have?
Structured Downtime record
Utility conflict — Station 12+50
- 8:15 AM – 11:40 AM
- 6 workers / 1 excavator affected
- Planned: install 24" storm pipe
- Observed: existing unmarked utility prevented excavation
Illustrative comparison, not an actual product record. Further documentation is needed to establish labor loss, cost, causation, and contractual entitlement.
03 / CAPTURE IT ONCE. KEEP IT MOVING.
From field observation
to commercial value.
Downtime connects the first field report to management review, resolution, reporting, and claim support.
01
Capture
Record the work interruption as it occurs.
02
Preserve
Build a timestamped, structured project history.
03
Substantiate
Connect events to labor, equipment, production, and costs.
04
Recover
Support change order requests and claims with traceable records.
05
Analyze
Use AI to uncover relationships and potential opportunities.
Ready to turn every delay into a defensible record?
Contact us ↗04 / BUILT FOR THE WORK
Fast enough for the field.
Complete enough for the claim.
A simple front door for crews. A structured operating record for everyone downstream.
Guided field reporting
Standardize the facts without slowing down the people doing the work.
One live operations board
Give project teams a shared view of pending, reviewed, and closed events.
Traceable event history
Keep status changes, updates, and ownership in a time-stamped record.
Delay analytics
See work stoppages, root causes, trends, and labor exposure by project.
Stop reconstructing delays. Start documenting them as they happen.
Contact us ↗05 / BUILT EVERY DAY
Strong claims aren't built when disputes begin.
They're built every day the project is underway.
When a change order is disputed or a claim needs to be prepared, the quality of your project records can make an enormous difference.
These questions are much easier to answer when the facts were captured as they happened.
Downtime helps construction teams establish a more complete, consistent record of project impacts—reducing dependence on memory, retrospective estimates, and scattered documentation.
- 01What work was planned?
- 02What prevented it?
- 03When did the interruption begin and end?
- 04Which resources were affected?
- 05What work continued?
- 06What productivity was lost?
Don't wait until you need a claim to start collecting the evidence.
06 / ONE SYSTEM, EVERY PERSPECTIVE
Built for the field.
Useful all the way up.
Each person sees the detail they need—without creating another handoff or duplicate report.
Superintendents & crews
Log an event while the facts are fresh, with clear prompts and minimal typing.
Project managers
See what is active, review the impact, and keep owners and partners informed.
Project controls & claims
Work from structured, contemporaneous records instead of reconstructed narratives.
Operations leaders
Spot recurring causes and exposure across projects before they become patterns.
07 / OUR VISION
AI can't analyze the facts
you never captured.
The next generation of construction intelligence starts at the work face.
AI is opening new ways to analyze project performance, spot disruption patterns, and prepare better-supported change orders and claims—but only as far as the underlying data allows.
Our vision: Downtimelabs is building a connected set of field-data tools, so teams capture critical information once and use it across the project lifecycle. That gives AI the detail it needs to surface insights and potential recovery opportunities.
- 01Field captureFacts recorded at the work face
- 02Project recordOne connected, structured history
- 03AI insightPatterns and potential recovery opportunities
It starts with Downtime. It grows with the project record.
Better records start at the moment of impact