Buildineer
Field Ops That Hold Up Without a Signal
Buildineer is a construction field-operations platform: crews track tasks and time from their phones, and the office watches progress in real time. We took the product over from a previous development vendor, and the handover started with getting DNS, hosting, and Stripe back into the owner's own accounts before any feature work began. From there we focused on production readiness: rebuilding time tracking on a client-authoritative model, hardening the offline-first field app against real jobsite conditions, and instrumenting the system so problems surface before customers see them. The work spans two front-end surfaces on one backend, an office admin dashboard and a field-worker PWA, both built on Svelte 5 and Strapi 5.
- The previous vendor left DNS, hosting, and Stripe outside the owner's control, so day one was regaining access to their own infrastructure
- Time tracking broke under real jobsite conditions, where spotty connectivity meant writes could be lost or conflict once a crew came back online
- The office had no visibility into problems until customers reported them, with no monitoring runbook in place
- A big-bang cutover of the time-tracking model risked breaking a system crews already depended on every day
- Took the product over from a previous vendor, starting by getting DNS, hosting, and Stripe back into the owner's own accounts
- Rebuilt time tracking on a client-authoritative model, shipped behind a feature flag so it went live without a big-bang cutover
- Hardened the Svelte 5 PWA field app for offline-first use, with queued writes and conflict handling for spotty jobsite connectivity
- Wrote the backend business rules and lifecycle hooks in the Strapi 5 TypeScript backend
- Built out the admin dashboard for office staff, covering progress tracking, task management, and exception handling
- Ran a launch-readiness audit and QA sweeps, triaging bugs before they reached the crews using the app in the field
- Left the team with a production monitoring runbook they still use to catch problems before customers do
Buildineer's rebuilt time tracking shipped behind a feature flag with no big-bang cutover, and the team now runs on a monitoring runbook we left them.
- Time-tracking rebuild shipped behind a feature flag, with no cutover for crews already depending on the app
- Production monitoring runbook the team still uses to catch problems before customers do
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