DailyBuild
Every DailyBuild feature explained in plain language: daily reports, timesheets, tasks, punchlist, safety, documents, Daily AI, pricing, roles and offline use.
Last updated 14 September 2026. Signed in? Open Help in the app.
DailyBuild is a mobile-first field management app for construction contractors. Crews record the day on a phone, the office gets branded PDFs and reports without chasing anyone.
It covers the daily paperwork of a construction job: daily reports, timesheets, tasks and scheduling, punchlists, safety records, receipts, project documents and photos, material and pay item tracking, cost codes and production tracking, owner updates and an AI assistant called Daily AI. Everything is filed under a project.
General contractors, subcontractors and self-perform crews. Field staff use it on a phone; project managers, admins and owners use the same account on a laptop.
DailyBuild runs in any browser at app.dailybuild.co. Native DailyBuild apps are also available for iPhone, iPad and Android from the Apple App Store and Google Play.
Sign up at app.dailybuild.co - no card needed. Your 14-day free trial starts right away, and setup is three quick screens: your company, your first project, then your first daily report.
First-run setup is two optional steps, both powered by AI, both skippable.
Step one asks for your company website. DailyBuild reads the whole home page (including the footer) and fills in the company name, address, phone and email. Step two asks for your first project's documents.
Drag and drop PDFs or photos of the contract, plans or notice to proceed, or tap to pick files. DailyBuild reads them - using vision on scans and photos that hold no selectable text - and drafts the project number, name, owner, engineer, address and dates. Nothing is created until you review and confirm, and the uploaded documents are filed with the new project.
Yes. Both steps have a 'Skip for now' button. You can enter company details under Profile then Company, and create projects manually from the Projects page.
A short list on the Dashboard covering company details, inviting the team, creating a project, adding resources and filing the first daily report. It can be reset any time from the bottom of the in-app Help page.
The Dashboard is the office command center. Overview gives reporting coverage, field hours, projects needing action and production status, plus a project health table with plain-language reasons, a needs-attention queue, a field pulse chart and recent activity. Reporting, Production and Safety views go deeper on missing reports and approvals, hours and cost-code exceptions, and incidents, inspections and toolbox talks. Production also lists subcontractor activity - hours, workers, trades and last day on site. Engineers land on Production by default, and whichever tab you last used is remembered. Filter by project and by 7, 30 or 90 days; the filters live in the URL so a view can be shared.
Today is the field home screen: choose a project and date, check the daily report, then use the large Time, Photo and Safety actions. Materials, Add Task, Punch list and Delays are under More actions. Needs attention, Tasks and Upcoming work are on Calendar. Superintendents and Field Mode users land on Today by default, while admins, project managers and engineers land on the Dashboard.
The signed daily record of one day on one project, exported as a branded PDF that files itself.
Tap the plus button and choose Daily Report, then pick the project and date. The report opens as compact one-line summaries, with weather filled automatically. Open only the section you need, use its Add button for personnel, subcontractors, equipment, delays or incidents, attach photos, sign and press Complete.
Yes. The Dashboard has an AI button beside the manual one. Describe the day out loud or type a few lines and Daily AI turns it into a draft report. Review the details before saving.
Crew, equipment and material lines are suggested from that day's timesheets and recent project activity. Every suggested line can be kept, edited or deleted, and a line you delete stays deleted the next time the report is opened.
A bar at the top of the report showing what is still missing - weather, crew, work performed, photos or a signature - before the report is completed.
Yes. Conditions, high and low, wind and precipitation are pulled from the project location. You can override anything, and the Fahrenheit / Celsius toggle is remembered per report.
Anyone ticked as an approver on that project's team panel. Until a report is approved it can still be corrected. Reopening a completed report records a revision and a reason, and any edit after completion rebuilds the filed PDF automatically.
Into that project's Daily Reports folder under Documents, branded with your logo, company details and brand color. Project managers, engineers and superintendents on the project team receive the daily report email by default.
Enter a whole crew's day in one pass, then review the week for payroll.
Open Timesheets, pick the project and the day, and fill one table for the whole crew: start time, finish time and break per worker. Hours and overtime are calculated for you, or you can type hours directly.
Yes. 'Set for everyone' copies one row's times down the whole crew and 'Copy previous day' rebuilds yesterday's entry in one tap. Clock in and clock out is available for live tracking.
Switch to the Week view for a worker-by-worker, day-by-day summary with weekly totals, and export it. Assign a cost code per row so hours roll into cost and production reports.
Assign work, schedule milestones and see the month at a glance.
Create a task with a project, priority and due date and assign it to yourself or a teammate. Tasks appear on the calendar on their due date.
Green is daily reports, blue is timesheets, red is tasks, purple is schedule items and orange is punchlist due dates.
Yes. Choose a date and tap + Add to start a scheduled item, task, daily report, timesheet or material entry for that date. Tapping the selected date again opens the same add sheet.
Log what is left, attach photos, then verify it closed.
Pick the project, take or choose a photo, then add location or room, trade, description, responsible party, due date, priority and status. Items are numbered automatically per project.
Completing and verifying are separate permissions. Anyone with punchlist access can complete an item; a supervisor with the verify permission signs it off. Comments and closeout photos live on the item.
Yes, as a branded PDF filtered exactly the way the list is filtered on screen. It files itself into the project's Documents folder.
Toolbox talks, inspections, incidents, JHA / pre-task plans, observations and certifications, with a review and approval workflow.
An overview of talks held, inspections passed, open incidents, days since a recordable, expiring certification cards and anything waiting on review.
Pick a topic from the library or write your own, record who attended, collect signatures on the device and add photos of the sign-in sheet. Daily AI can also generate a talk for a hazard you name.
Report injuries, near misses and property damage with people involved, witnesses, injury type and body part, root cause, corrective action and photos. Mark OSHA recordable items and export an OSHA 300 style log.
Field entries are saved as a draft, submitted for review, then approved by someone with the safety approval permission. Only approved records count towards Safety Hub metrics.
Yes, and they are set per project: expiring certifications, inspections due, toolbox talks overdue, open incidents and records waiting on review. Every list exports to CSV or Excel, and every form exports as a branded PDF.
Every project has Daily Reports, Photos, Receipts and Documents folders.
Drag files anywhere onto the Documents page - a drop zone covers the whole screen - or drop a whole folder and the structure comes with it. You can also tap to pick files. Switch between thumbnail and detailed list views.
Yes. Open a PDF to add arrows, notes and highlights, then save it back as a new version. PDFs show page one as their thumbnail.
Yes. The camera's rotation flag is applied as the photo uploads, so pictures are filed upright. The viewer has a rotate button, and a rotation you save is used everywhere - thumbnails, lists and the daily report, safety and punchlist PDFs.
Field notes have their own category: upload a scan or photo of the notebook page and tag it. Photos and field notes can be selected and exported together as one ZIP for the owner or a claim file.
One Expenses list holds both. Snap a receipt from the plus button and add vendor, date, amount and project, plus an optional cost code, material or equipment. Log mileage the same way: pick the project and the miles, and the dollar value fills in from your company rate per mile. Mark anything paid out of pocket, and a manager marks it reimbursed once the person is paid back. Filter by project, dates or unpaid only and export the list to PDF, Excel or CSV. Amounts are only visible to people whose permissions include viewing costs.
Yes. Connect your Google Drive or Microsoft SharePoint account under Profile then Storage, then link a folder to a project from that project's documents page. Files in the folder appear in DailyBuild and open in the app, but the originals stay in your own account and use none of your DailyBuild storage. Linked folders sync automatically on a schedule, when you open the project, and any time you tap Sync now. Synced cloud PDFs are indexed for Daily AI, so questions work the same whether a document was uploaded or synced.
Marking up a PDF that lives in your linked Drive or SharePoint folder saves back over the original as a new version, so your team sees the same file wherever they open it. If the cloud copy changed since you opened it, your markup is saved as a separate copy instead of overwriting anyone's work. Files removed from the cloud folder keep their listing with a Removed in cloud badge. Unlinking a folder only removes the DailyBuild listing; nothing is deleted from your cloud account.
Materials, subcontractors, workers, equipment and cost codes live under Resources.
A pay item is a contract line you bill against, tracked with a contract quantity. A material is something you consume without billing it as a line. Every item is classed as one or the other and reports can be filtered by type.
Yes. Import a spreadsheet to load a whole contract at once. The import reads the item type from the file, so pay items and materials can come in together.
Through Material Entry in the field. Tag a cost code on the entry so quantities roll into production tracking.
Tagging hours, receipts and material quantities so costs roll up per activity, and setting production budgets.
Budget vs actual vs projected labor, and a daily read-out per project.
Set budget hours, budget quantity and a unit on a cost code, then the project's Production panel shows budget, actual to date and projected at completion. Status lights: green on track (within 5% over), amber watch (5-15% over), red over budget (more than 15% over). Codes without budgets stay off the panel.
The project hub starts with today's report, a short Needs attention list, then every project tool grouped as Everyday, Field work, Changes and issues, People and information, Office tools and Project setup. The settings gear opens project actions and settings. It uses your records only and costs no AI credits.
DailyBuild's assistant. It answers from your project documents and records, drafts paperwork and turns a spoken update into report lines. Review its work before saving.
Questions about the documents uploaded to a project - plans, specs, submittals, contracts - with the page it took the answer from, and questions about your job records such as daily reports, timesheets, tasks and punch items. For example 'what days did we lose to weather in March?' or 'what punch items are still open for the electrician?'
Upload PDFs under Documents; indexing runs once per file and takes a moment on big drawing sets. You can also attach a document straight into the chat and it is indexed on the spot.
Toolbox talks, RFI drafts and document summaries run straight from the chat - just ask for them in plain English, no tool menu. A microphone in the chat box takes a spoken field update and sorts it into report lines, delays, materials and tomorrow's tasks. Change event detection and an AI narrative for owner updates are built in too.
Yes. Ask it to pull up a sheet by number, title or discipline and it links you to the page. It reads schedules and tables off the plans, tells you which copy of a sheet is current when a job has more than one plan set, and gives a first pass quantity estimate when you ask how much of something is on the drawings.
Open a drawing under Documents and tap Measure. Set the scale once by tracing a printed dimension and typing its real length, then trace a run for linear feet, outline an area for square feet, or tap items to count them. Totals save to the project's Takeoff tab. Anything Daily AI estimated arrives there marked as an estimate until a person verifies it, and the whole list exports to CSV. Takeoffs carry quantities only - no pricing.
No. It can suggest a task, a delay or a line on the daily report, but a person has to approve each suggestion before anything is created.
Yes. Daily AI only sees your own company's projects and documents, and it says when it cannot find something rather than guessing.
Yes. Check generated details against the source documents before saving a report or acting on an answer.
AI work is metered in credits, included with every plan and toppable up.
A unit of AI work, not a dollar. A question is 1 credit, an RFI draft is 2, a toolbox talk or a document summary is 3, an AI owner-update narrative is 2, and document indexing is 1 credit per 100 pages.
Each month: Starter 25, Team 75, Pro 150, Business 300. They reset with your billing period.
Add a monthly bundle - AI Light is $25 for 200 credits, AI Pro is $50 for 500, and bundles can be stacked - or buy a one-off Credit Pack of 200 credits for $25, used after the monthly allowance. Admins get an email at 80% and 100% of the allowance.
Share progress with the owner and catch out-of-scope work early.
A summary of a chosen period - last 7 days, 14 days, a month or a custom range - pulling reports, hours, quantities, tasks, punchlist and safety items into a plain-language update. Share it as a public link (with optional PIN and expiry), an email or a branded PDF. Links can be revoked instantly.
DailyBuild scans delays, weather and report notes to surface work that may fall outside the contract, clustering them into suggested events with a rough cost and labor-hour estimate. Nothing is sent anywhere automatically: you review, edit and confirm. Confirming generates a branded PDF backup package filed under Documents.
Roles set the defaults, per-person overrides handle the exceptions.
Admin, Project Manager, Engineer, Superintendent, Inspector and Viewer. Admins see every project; everyone else must be added to a project's team.
Yes. Admins edit the roles matrix under Profile then Users, and can also grant or remove a single permission for one person as an override.
Profile then Users, invite by email. The invitation arrives by email with a link; you can resend it or copy the link if it doesn't arrive.
Yes. An admin invites the other company by email at one of two levels. Field access lets them see the job, record daily entries, upload photos and post in chat. Co-manage lets them work the job like your own team, but never delete the project or change who it is shared with. 'Show costs' is a separate switch, and access can be changed or revoked at any time. Sharing is per project.
By default admins, project managers, engineers and superintendents. Inspectors and viewers never see rates, unit costs or receipt totals, and a guest company only sees costs if 'Show costs' was switched on.
Built for a phone on a jobsite with poor signal.
Yes. On a phone, open the top-right hamburger menu and tap the star beside up to four items. They appear around the fixed center + button and follow you to any device.
Reports, hours, tasks, receipts and photos are saved on the device. A banner shows how many changes are waiting and they sync when you're back online, or you can tap Sync now.
Download the native DailyBuild app from the Apple App Store on iPhone or iPad, or from Google Play on Android. Sign in with your existing account and your projects and preferences stay in sync. On desktop, use DailyBuild at app.dailybuild.co.
A simplified layout for the jobsite, switched on under Profile then Interface (or set as a role default by an admin). Today leads with Time, Photo and Safety, with materials, tasks, punch list and delays under More actions.
Pricing is tiered by how many active projects you run. Users are unlimited on every plan.
Starter is $29 a month for 1 active project, Team is $99 for up to 5, Pro is $199 for up to 15 and Business is $399 for up to 50. Annual billing is ten months for the price of twelve months of use ($290, $990, $1,990 and $3,990).
Active, on hold and complete projects count. Archived projects do not. If you outgrow your tier the app tells you and you move up from the Billing page.
14 days free, no card to start. We ask for a card once you have seen it work - after your first daily report, on your second project, or on day 3. Adding it does not restart the trial and charges nothing that day. Cancel any time before the trial ends and you are not charged. Only admins can add the card.
The app becomes read only. You can still see everything, but creating new records is blocked until billing is sorted.
Profile then Billing: change the card, switch between monthly and yearly, change tier or manage the subscription.
Your details, how reports look and account safety.
Profile then Company: upload a logo, pick a brand color, choose a report template and add custom fields that appear on every daily report. The brand color is used on PDFs and optionally on the app header.
Both, plus System. There is a quick toggle in the header and your choice follows you across devices.
Use 'Forgot password' on the sign-in screen and a reset link is emailed to you.
Yes, under Profile then Security. Admins can also delete a whole company account.
The issues support hears most.
Add them under that project's Project team panel. Project managers and engineers must be added like everyone else; only admins see every project automatically.
An admin may have changed the role in Profile then Users then Roles, or set a per-person override under that member's Permissions.
Check spam, then resend or copy the invite link from Profile then Users.
Add or correct the project location, or type the conditions in manually.
Reopen the report and save. The filed PDF is rebuilt each time a completed or approved report is edited.
Open it and use the rotate button. The saved rotation is used in the app and in exported PDFs.
Check the file is uploaded to that project and has finished indexing. Scans of scans can be hard to read, so try a clearer copy.
An admin can add an AI bundle or a one-off credit pack from Profile then Billing.
The trial may have ended. An admin can start a plan from Profile then Billing.
The full walkthroughs from the in-app Help section, word for word.
How DailyBuild is laid out on phone and desktop.
One page for everything that needs you, sortable by date and category.
Two steps on your first sign-in: your company, then your first project.
Pictures the right way up, everywhere they appear.
Create, sign and complete the daily record - the PDF files itself.
Enter a whole crew's day in one pass, then review the week.
Check, approve and export hours. DailyBuild does not run payroll.
A simple lookahead chart for each job, with optional links between activities.
Assign work and see the whole month at a glance.
One running conversation per project.
Snap a receipt or log the miles you drove - both land on the job.
Every project has the same set of folders.
What happens when you download or export a file, on each device.
Log what's left, attach a photo, then verify it closed.
Toolbox talks, inspections, incidents, pre-task plans, observations and certifications.
Set up a job, copy it, and decide who can see it.
Bring an owner, GC or sub into one job without adding them to your team.
Materials, subcontractors, workers, equipment and cost codes.
Get the paperwork out of the app.
Invite people, pick a role, then fine-tune what they can do.
Give a teammate access to specific jobs.
Logo, brand color, report template and custom fields.
Ask questions about your plans, specs and job records in plain English.
A simplified layout for the jobsite: crew hours, photos, tasks and voice updates.
Catch out-of-scope work early and keep the backup to prove it.
Share a professional project update without touching a spreadsheet.
Budget vs actual vs projected labor per cost code.
A short daily read-out at the top of every project.
What AI work costs and how to top up.
The 14-day trial and how pricing works.
Your details, the app's look and account safety.
Connect QuickBooks and your cloud storage.
Download the native app for iPhone, iPad or Android.
Keep working when site signal drops.
The questions we hear most.
Where to read reports and documents.
Owner-only view across every company on DailyBuild.