We have been getting amazing feedback from our early customers. “Range is more than 3x faster at collecting field data” than their existing apps like Planradar and Procore. Data collection from the Range mobile app (iOS) has increased 10x in the past six months. We just launched our Android app this week just in case you missed that - range.io/mobile
Why is this so important? Teams in AEC (architecture, engineering, construction) and real estate constantly document work in the field to show work progress for their team and stakeholders. Customers are required to capture photo documentation and data for liability, dispute resolution, and legal reasons. Documenting work with photos by location is the backbone of Range.
Top use cases for collecting photos in the field using Range:
✅ documenting existing conditions
✅ creating work tasks
✅ recording work progress (before and after)
✅ documenting defects and “punch list” items
Easier to use ➡ faster ➡ higher quality and more data ➡ more team participation 🙌
Range reimagines team tools with unmatched speed and efficiency. Simple yet powerful, it's easy for anyone to use and requires no training. Not the case with those “other” tools.
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We just released the maiden version of the Range app for Android! 🎉 Head over to range.io/mobile to download.
We have heard from early mobile users that Range is 3x in the field for documenting work - photos, tasks, punch lists, work progress, existing conditions, and more.
Range is the app for you if you take photos of projects or document work in the built world. Sign up for our beta at range.io.
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Introducing Range 1.0
We are excited to share some news about what we have been working on for the last 18 months at Range.
Introducing Range - collaborate and document the built world with your team in real-time. Range organizes all your team photos, conversations, documents, tasks, and more - by location.
If you work in architecture, engineering, construction, or real estate, we would love to invite you to try Range. Sign up here for the invite-only, private beta at range.io
More deep dives on topics below in upcoming posts! Follow us for updates.
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THE CHALLENGE
Over $177 billion per year is lost in the built world due to out-of-date information, mistakes, and redos.
Decisions, specifications, documentation, work progress, and more are scattered throughout emails, cloud drives, and people’s phones.
“But I have seen various construction apps that do something similar!”
Yes, apps range from complicated and expensive construction management apps to simple “punch list” apps to email. Yes, email!
Let’s be honest here: they were all built in a bygone era and haven’t kept up with modern collaboration, software, and technology paradigms. The design and user experience are an afterthought at best. It is 2023, and no one wants to be “trained up” to use clunky software.
And more importantly, hard-to-use software always results in poor quality and sparse data.
And lastly, all these existing apps are highly verticalized and are mostly built exclusively for construction trades. Construction is a highly ephemeral process. Once those teams finish their work, there is no easy way to “get a copy” of the data intact so that owners can use that valuable data to operate or serve as historical records for future repairs. A "handoff" involves getting a folder of thousands of photos with weird file names, no location, and no context. This is low value for owner/operators.
ENTER, RANGE!
Our vision for Range is to be the digital record for the built world. We have a history of our health with medical records. We can see the history of a car with a Carfax. In the built world, we get a mishmash of data spread throughout different companies with no easy way to aggregate data across teams and vendors throughout the entire lifecycle.
Instead, it gets recreated over and over at great expense.
The world doesn’t need a better punch list app or a fancier way of organizing field photos. We need an app that everyone can use and spans the lifecycle of the built world - from design to construction to operations to capex. An app that anyone can use to organize all the photos, docs, conversations, tasks, annotations, and more. An app that makes it effortless to share data among teams and groups – forever.
That is Range.
KEY FEATURES
1. Get Started in 5 Minutes - Range requires no onboarding, team training sessions, or pesky induction calls.
2. Drop Pins in Real-time - drop pins on any canvas and organize all your work. Updates happen in real-time across all devices. Range is as familiar to use as requesting an Uber ride.
3. Works on ANY Canvas - Range is built from the ground up using a geospatial canvas. While other apps can only support traditional PDF construction drawings, Range supports a wide range of canvases from satellites, drones, 3-D tiles, NERFs, reality capture, and more.
4. Sharing (Coming Soon) - rather than the pointless flattened folder export, Range allows you to send a copy of a project to any team while preserving your data for historical and legal purposes.
5. Multi-Organizational Data Support - Teams in AEC and owner / operators often work with a complex web of partners, vendors, and projects. Range allows each team to control data ownership and user permissions so that everyone has complete control over their data.
A TEAM WITH A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE
Our team has experience in many facets of design, construction, and operations in the built world. My co-founders Sam, Jeff, and I worked together at LocusLabs, the aviation industry's leader in indoor maps and spatial data. We have a unique view of this problem because we experienced firsthand pain in each stage of the built world lifecycle - design, construction, operations, and capex.
INITIAL DESIGN PARTNER INSIGHTS
We have worked with several design partners over the past six months to help test and validate our product. Many of them have already started using Range in production workflows.
Residential / Commercial Builder
A construction company has been using Range to increase the quality and delivery of their builds. Range has helped their teams dramatically increase “quality of delivery” and coordination during the final stages of construction. They have told us that Range is 3x faster when clearing hundreds of tasks during “walk-throughs”. Real-time collaboration has reduced the amount of coordination calls between the field, office, and subcontractors.
Their team quickly brought their architecture partner into Range to collaborate on projects.
Architecture Firm
An architecture firm has been using Range to coordinate with their owner/operator client and builder to document weekly build progress and punch list items at the end of a build. They used to work by emailing photos from their phones to another team member, who took 5 or 6 hours to insert them tediously into Microsoft Word templates. Not exactly inspiring work!
With Range, this takes less than a minute.
Residential Builder
Another construction company using Range builds dozens of homes yearly. Like many builders, they often use the same floor plan for cost efficiency but change materials and finishes to offer design variety to buyers. We heard a horror story about finishes getting mixed up that resulted in $8,000 of the wrong stone installed on a new house. They had to tear it down and start over. Ouch! Now, they drop Range pins on their plans for all their design inspirations, materials specs, and final decisions. They spend less time wrangling and communicating hundreds of decisions and have reduced costly mistakes.
Owner / Operator
An operator of high-density, multi-family homes uses Range to track over 16 acres of land using high-resolution drone imagery as their “canvas”. Before Range, they would email tasks and photos around with location descriptions. A time-consuming workflow when you have hundreds of issues per year.
And as we all know, if documenting things is the least bit “hard”, it won’t get done. Using Range dramatically reduced their time “doing work to talk about work” with their internal team, vendors, and residents.
These are just a few examples of what we have heard from design partners using Range over the last four months.
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We’ll post more exciting details on our product development, strategy, and use cases over the coming weeks and months.
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