Questions From the Field

TradePlane is an asset-intelligence platform, born at install. The crew putting equipment into a building scans a QR sticker, lands on the current drawing for that room, and captures each device (serial number, model, photo and location) before it's covered up. The result is a record of what's actually in the building, pinned to its drawings.

We load your PDF plan sets and read the equipment schedules into device records. A QR sticker goes up in each room and opens the drawing for that exact room. The crew captures serial, model and photo for each device as they install it. For equipment that has to be recorded, the app won't let it be marked roughed in until the capture is done. The daily report is generated from the same scans. The full walkthrough is on How It Works.

Building owners who want a record of what's in their building, general contractors and construction managers who owe that record at closeout, and the MEPF trade contractors whose crews are at the wall when it's cheapest to capture. The owner keeps the building for decades; the contractors are there for the months when the record is free to make.

A maintenance system runs work orders once the building is open, and it assumes someone already has an accurate equipment list. TradePlane makes that list during construction, from the drawings and the crew at the wall. Sending our record straight into a maintenance system isn't built yet.

Whoever the owner chooses. The owner can put it in the contractor's scope so the installing crews scan as they go, or have their own project or facilities staff do it. Either way it's the same record on the same drawings.

Not well yet. TradePlane works best on new construction or a renovation, while the equipment is going in. Building a record for an existing building from its old drawings is something we're working on. It isn't ready.

No. We keep the record. We never sign off on it. Your inspector, fire marshal or trained staff do that. We make it faster for them to find and check what they came to see.

Yes. It runs in the phone or tablet's web browser, so there's nothing to download from an app store. Crew members log in with a code sent by text message instead of a password. Someone on the job adds them first, so a stranger can't scan their way in.

A tool a foreman has to learn is a tool a foreman won't use. That's why TradePlane starts with a QR sticker on the wall. Once a crew member has been added to the job, they point their phone at the sticker and the right drawing for that room opens. No app to install, no password to remember. Logging an install is tapping the device on the drawing they're already looking at, and the daily report builds itself from what they logged. Adoption is still work, and it goes best when the person running the job requires it.

TradePlane is built for the MEPF trades: mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection. It reads the schedules those trades live by, including panel, lighting, HVAC equipment and plumbing schedules, and ties devices on the drawing to their records. Electrical is the deepest today, with devices linked to their circuit and panel.

No. The QR codes are ordinary printed stickers, and any phone or tablet camera reads them. There's no scanner gun and no app to install. On jobsites that don't allow personal phones, a company tablet works the same way.

The PDF plan set every job already has. TradePlane reads the drawing from the actual lines and text in the file, which keeps device locations precise. Scanned or photographed sheets are much harder, and results on them are weak today, so send the original PDFs from the design team whenever you can. No BIM model and no CAD software needed.

Yes. Each company's data is walled off from every other company's, and permissions are checked on our servers, where a user can't get around them. When someone's role changes, their old access ends right then.

You do. The install records, photos, serial numbers and reports your crews capture on your projects are yours to keep.

While the job runs, the builder pays a monthly subscription. After handover, the owner pays per square foot per year. We never charge per inspection, and we quote each job directly. See how pricing works.