I'm a project manager. I started out as an engineer, and for years that job came with a second job: photos.
I'd ask the team for them. They'd come through WhatsApp, often a day or two after the work. I'd save them into OneDrive folders straight away, because if I didn't, I'd forget what they were for. With five engineers taking photos all day, it became a full-time job. I wasn't doing the engineering and management I was there for, and I stopped enjoying it.
The worst moments were with clients. You tell them you've got the photo. You scroll. You can't find it. They're waiting, and you look unprepared. That's your reputation, and it's hard to win that trust back.
And sometimes a photo would turn up days later, suddenly found on someone's phone, and you couldn't be sure where it came from.
So I built a camera for site work
You use it like your normal camera. Choose your project and tags, take the photo, and it's filed in the right place with who took it, when and where. Nothing to sort, nothing to chase.
Now we use it on the project I work on. I get a notification when photos come in, I check them, and we've picked things up before the concrete went in. Snag reports go out, and the supervisor replies on each one.
If I'd had a tool like this when I started as an engineer, I'd have done my job better. That's why anyone on site can download it free and get their photos in order.
Juliano Thana MCIOB
Founder of Thanex
