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ProHQ vs Buildots

AI computer-vision tracking of site progress vs BIM. ProHQ is a process engine: it runs your whole operation as one process - offline, in the field, in your team's language - and we build and run it with you.

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ORIGIN: Israel · 2018
PRICING MODEL: Enterprise contracts (reportedly six- and seven-figure deals) aimed at large contractors; not SMB self-serve.
BEST FOR: Large contractors on big vertical builds wanting automated, objective progress tracking against BIM and schedule.

CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE

What Buildots is genuinely good at.

Best-in-class progress AI

Helmet-mounted 360° cameras plus computer vision automatically track what was installed, where, against BIM and schedule.

Objective delay detection

Flags deviations from plan early and surfaces them through dashboards and a natural-language AI assistant.

Proven with top contractors

Used by major global builders including VINCI, Kier and Wates; well funded.

SIDE BY SIDE

Six things that decide it.

CAPABILITY

ProHQ

Buildots

Built around your process

A state-machine workflow that mirrors how you actually work - not generic boards, lists or tickets you bend to fit.

✓

Offline-first, built for the field

Record work where it happens - site, road, shop floor - with no signal. It syncs when the network returns.

✓

One process, everything attached

Tables, documents, files, approvals and chat hang off the exact stage they belong to - not separate apps that never quite talk.

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A team that runs it with you

We sit with your people, map the process and keep it running. Not a download-and-configure-it-yourself licence.

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Your team's language

Feels like Excel and WhatsApp, in the language the field already speaks. No training period.

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AI only where it pays

Drafting, summarising and repetitive paperwork automated on the process - included, not a per-seat upsell.

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✓ Built in ~ Partial / add-on / configure-it-yourself ✕ Not available

WHERE IT STOPS

The gap ProHQ fills.

Buildots is excellent at one thing ProHQ doesn't do - automated visual progress tracking. But it is a single-purpose analytics tool, not a place to run your business: no unified finance/CRM/approvals process, no offline field operation, no India-language fit. ProHQ is the operating system for how the business runs; Buildots is a sensor on one part of it.

Narrow point tool

It tracks construction progress via vision; it is not a process engine and doesn't model how your whole business runs.
No unified ops layer

It does not provide finance, CRM, approvals, chat or document workflows attached to one process.
Needs hardware + BIM

Requires 360° helmet cameras and a structured BIM/schedule, which most Indian SMB builders don't have.
Enterprise-only economics

Priced for large contractors with big-project budgets, not affordable or offline-oriented for small Indian field teams.

THE INDIA REALITY

Effectively no SMB-India play: enterprise USD pricing, hardware and BIM prerequisites, and no Hindi/Excel-WhatsApp ergonomics. A specialist add-on, not a system of record.

KEEP IT - ADD PROHQ

Keep it, or run ProHQ alongside.

For a large contractor wanting objective, AI-driven progress data on a big build, Buildots is genuinely best-in-class and ProHQ doesn't replace it. For running the actual business - finance, leads, approvals, site records offline in Hindi - ProHQ is the system; Buildots could complement it, not substitute for it.

INTEGRATION

Bring your Buildots data with you

Buildots integrates with BIM and scheduling tools and exposes progress data, but it's a vertical analytics layer, not a records platform. ProHQ owns the operational records and syncs them offline across one process; Buildots progress can feed a stage.

Need to keep Buildots in the loop? We build that connector by hand during onboarding - which is why the beta is just twenty seats.

REACHING PARITY

Matching Buildots, on the process engine

Where Buildots leads today, here's what we're building - so it works offline and in the field too:

Image/photo capture of site state tied to each process stage
Schedule-vs-actual progress views derived from field records
An AI assistant answering natural-language questions over project data

THE VERDICT

Brilliant at seeing site progress - but a sensor, not the system that runs the business.

We'll tell you honestly whether ProHQ is the right move from Buildots for how you work. That conversation is free.

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