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Construction software often assumes that the most important project information begins at a desk. Gewerkton starts from the opposite end of the process: the spoken account of what has happened on site.

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Gewerkton enters beta with a voice-first platform built from the site outward

The platform starts with spoken evidence in the field, then carries it into plans, models and operational coordination across trades, languages and regions.

Available now

Beta with defined Field, Studio and Cloud product lines—not yet a finished public release.

Fall 2026 Public beta planned

One record, three connected product lines

01 · CAPTURE Field

Voice-first site app for evidence, defects, daywork reports, takt and portal workflows—including offline capture.

02 · CONTEXT Studio

Browser workspace to use an existing plan or model—or create a model when the project has none.

03 · COORDINATE Cloud

Operations and data coordination between Field, Studio and third parties, in an EU cloud or on customer infrastructure.

Built to cross borders

27 content languages From capture through report
13 AI providers Bring your own keys
3 provider regions EU · US · Asia, including mainland China
2 deployment paths EU cloud or own infrastructure

German foundation: GAEB, REB, XRechnung and DATEV integration.

The editorial angle

“On site, what counts is what’s proven.”

  • Voice becomes structured evidence instead of a separate, unconnected stream.
  • Original audio can support instructions on long-running projects with many change orders.
  • Photos, deadlines and signatures can accompany defect, daywork and handover records.

Four fields where the workflow is clearest

Wind farms & renewables Distributed sites, rotating crews, field acceptance and offline capture in dead zones.
Data centres & industrial plants Parallel trades, tight deadlines and meeting decisions converted into trade-sorted task lists.
Housing & building Defects with photo and deadline, dictated daywork reports and device signatures at handover.
Infrastructure & tunnels Long durations, numerous change orders and instructions supported by original audio.

Agent-built software

21

software packages shipped in one nightA solo founder directed coding agents using Codex and Claude, with negative controls and mutation tests used for verification.

Quiet public footprint

51+

self-produced clips and postersThe 27-language marketing site is fully egress-free, with zero trackers and no cookie banner.

The company has entered beta with a voice-first construction documentation and defect management platform designed for global markets. Its current product family spans site capture, browser-based work with plans and models, and the coordination of operational data across project teams and third parties.

Gewerkton is in beta now. A public beta is planned for fall 2026. That distinction matters: the product lines and their intended workflows are defined, but the platform has not yet reached its public-beta milestone.

Born in the German market, Gewerkton combines its deepest German commercial integration—GAEB, REB, XRechnung and DATEV—with 27 content languages and a choice of regional AI providers. The aim is to support construction teams working locally, internationally or across several regions without forcing every participant into the same language or AI infrastructure.

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Voice as the starting point

The platform’s premise is neatly captured by its marketing line: “On site, what counts is what’s proven.” In practical terms, Gewerkton treats voice as a way to move from an account given in the field to structured evidence and project records.

That approach is particularly relevant on sites where information is produced faster than it can comfortably be typed: a defect observed during an inspection, work carried out on a daywork basis, an instruction given during a long-running project or a decision made in a meeting involving several trades.

The platform is organised under one brand with three product lines: Field, Studio and Cloud. Together, they cover capture at the construction site, work with plans and models in the browser, and coordination between Gewerkton’s own tools and external parties.

Gewerkton Field

Gewerkton Field is the voice-first construction site app. Its scope runs from dictation to evidence, defects and daywork reports, as well as takt and portal workflows.

The intended use varies by project type. On wind farms and renewable-energy projects, Field is designed for distributed locations, rotating crews and field acceptance, including offline capture in dead zones. In housing and building construction, teams can record defects with a photo and deadline, dictate daywork reports, and collect a signature on the device during handover.

For infrastructure and tunnel projects, where work can run for long periods and generate many change orders, instructions can be backed by their original audio. That preserves a direct connection between what was said and the record subsequently used by the project team.

Gewerkton Studio

Gewerkton Studio is the browser workspace for plans and models. Where a model already exists, the project team can work with it in the browser. Where no model exists, the site team can create one there.

This gives the platform a route into projects that do not begin with a complete model. It also makes Studio the visual and spatial counterpart to the voice-first capture happening through Field, rather than treating spoken site records as a separate stream with no connection to plans or models.

Gewerkton — from our own media bank

Gewerkton Cloud

Gewerkton Cloud handles operations and model or data coordination between Field, Studio and third parties. Its role is to connect the information captured at the site with the browser workspace and the other participants involved in delivering a project.

Customers can choose an EU cloud deployment or run the system on their own infrastructure. That choice sits alongside the platform’s regional approach to AI providers and its support for multinational project teams.

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Built for projects that cross borders

Gewerkton supports 27 content languages. On cross-border projects, teams in the EU, US and APAC can work on the same project in their own languages while the original evidence remains unambiguous.

The platform also addresses projects in Asia involving Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese crews. Its multilingual workflow extends from initial capture through to the report, while data residency remains a matter of choice.

Language support is paired with a bring-your-own-AI model. Gewerkton supports 13 AI providers, allows users to bring their own keys and lets them select a region covering the EU, US or Asia, including mainland China. The stated purpose is to avoid vendor lock-in while allowing provider selection to reflect where a project operates and where its data needs to reside.

This regional flexibility is not limited to projects that are visibly international. A construction programme can involve contractors, specialists and crews from several countries even when the physical site is in one location. Supporting different working languages from capture to report can therefore matter on housing, industrial and infrastructure work as much as it does on projects formally managed across continents.

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Four fields where the workflow is clearest

Gewerkton identifies several deployment fields in which spoken capture, structured records and multilingual coordination meet recurring site pressures.

  • Wind farms and renewables involve distributed sites, rotating crews and field acceptance, with offline capture intended for dead zones.
  • Data centres and industrial plants bring many trades together in parallel under tight deadlines. Decisions made in meetings can become task lists sorted by trade.
  • Housing and building construction uses include defects recorded with a photo and deadline, dictated daywork reports and signatures collected on the device at handover.
  • Infrastructure and tunnel projects combine long durations with numerous change orders, while original audio can support the record of instructions.

These are not identical markets, but they share an information problem: evidence often originates with people moving through a site, speaking with colleagues or inspecting work away from a conventional workstation. The three-part structure of Field, Studio and Cloud is intended to carry that information from capture through coordination without separating the site record from the wider project context.

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A solo founder and a fleet of coding agents

The platform is being built by a solo founder directing a fleet of coding agents using Codex and Claude. In one night, that fleet shipped 21 software packages, with the work verified through negative controls and mutation tests.

That development model is notable in its own right. Gewerkton is not merely adding AI to the product offered to construction teams; coding agents are also part of how the software itself is produced and tested. The number of packages shipped in that session shows the potential pace of the approach, while the stated use of negative controls and mutation tests points to verification as part of the process.

A deliberately quiet marketing site

The public-facing site follows the platform’s international and regional themes. It is available in 27 languages and uses a fully egress-free architecture. It has zero trackers and therefore no cookie banner.

Gewerkton has also assembled a media bank containing more than 51 self-produced clips and posters. That material gives the beta platform a substantial set of its own visual resources without changing the central proposition: voice captured on site becomes part of a structured construction record.

What is available now—and what comes next

The current beta comprises the Field, Studio and Cloud product lines, the 27-language content framework, regional AI-provider choice across 13 providers, bring-your-own-key support, and the option of an EU cloud or deployment on the user’s own infrastructure. The German-market foundation includes GAEB, REB, XRechnung and DATEV integration.

But Gewerkton remains a beta product, not a finished public release. The next stated milestone is the public beta planned for fall 2026. Until then, the clearest way to read the launch is as the arrival of a defined platform architecture: voice-first site capture in Field, browser-based plans and models in Studio, and operational coordination through Cloud.

Its larger bet is that construction records should begin where the evidence appears—on the wind farm, inside the data centre, across the housing site or deep in a tunnel—and remain usable when projects cross trades, languages and regions.