OpenSpace

OpenSpace is the leading 360° construction-site capture platform. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, OpenSpace lets workers walk a construction site wearing a 360° helmet-mounted camera while the platform's AI automatically maps every captured photo to its BIM coordinate. The result is a time-stamped visual record of the entire job site, navigable in a Google Street View-style interface, with AI-powered comparison against the design model to flag progress, deviations, and rework. The technical moat is the automatic BIM mapping — using computer vision and SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping), OpenSpace figures out where each photo was taken on the floor plan without QR codes, markers, or manual photo tagging. The operator just walks the site at normal pace; capture takes 30-60 minutes per 100,000 sq ft. The platform is used by ENR Top 400 contractors including Skanska, Suffolk Construction, McCarthy Building Companies, and Mortenson, with over 20 billion square feet of captured construction since launch. The ProjectAI add-on layer tracks progress automatically — drywall installation percentage, MEP rough-in completion, finish work — by comparing weekly captures against the BIM schedule, and flags anomalies (missing equipment, safety violations, design deviations). OpenSpace Track 3D extends to point-cloud-grade layout verification for high-precision applications like data centers, hospitals, and complex MEP installations. The platform competes most directly with Buildots (similar workflow, more schedule-tracking depth) and DroneDeploy's StructionSite acquisition.