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Use case · Commercial & GCs

When the GC wants documentation before payment.

Commercial work runs on paperwork. The pay application needs backup, the super wants photos of what went in before it got covered, and the retention conversation happens months after anyone remembers the day. FieldLog produces that record as the work happens, not the week the invoice is questioned.

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"Send me photos of the rough-in before we release the draw."

The wall closed three weeks ago. Someone took pictures on their own phone, and that someone is on a different job now.

"This line item is not getting paid without backup."

You did the work. Proving which day, at which unit, by whom, from a shared photo album with 400 untitled images is its own afternoon.

"The super says that area was never touched."

Three subs were in the same corridor that month. Without a stamped, addressed record, it is your schedule against his memory.

The record

What goes in the submittal.

  • The photo, stamped. Time and date burned into the image — not metadata that gets stripped when it's forwarded. The location is recorded on the report, so a coordinate never rides along in a picture your customer sends on.
  • A name on the work. Which tech, at which address, at which minute. "One of my guys" becomes D. Okafor, 9:14 AM.
  • The write-up from the day. What was found, what was done, what was tested — written when it happened, not reconstructed for the argument.
  • The filed line. Who filed the report, when, from where. The job closed on the record, on site.
  • Sent that day. The customer received this report in August. Hard to claim in March that nothing happened.
In practice

Where the documentation actually gets used.

Not in a dispute, most of the time. In the ordinary friction of getting paid on schedule.

The pay application

Attach the reports for the period. Dated, addressed, with the tech named on each one. The backup arrives with the application instead of after a request for it.

The rough-in record

What went in before it was covered, photographed at the time. Inspectors, the GC and the owner all read the same document.

Retention release

Months later the question is what was completed and when. The reports are still there, still stamped, still in order.

The change order

Extra work photographed as it happens, with the write-up from that day. Easier to price and harder to argue about later.

Punch list

Before and after on each item, in one document, sent the day it closes rather than compiled at the end.

The multi-sub corridor

Your work is dated and located. What other trades did on the same floor stops being your problem to disprove.

Straight talk: FieldLog is a record, not a legal outcome. No app guarantees how a dispute ends. What it guarantees is that when one starts, your side of it is already written, stamped, and filed.

Documentation is easier to produce than to reconstruct.

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