PROGRESS · PHASE · PROOF

Photo Documentation for Construction Teams

Site photos organized by project and visit, with the location and date attached to every frame.

What is construction photo documentation software?

Construction photo documentation software organizes jobsite photos by project and visit so progress can be proved rather than described. Vortyk extracts GPS coordinates, timestamp, and camera bearing from each photo on upload, which means every frame records where the camera stood and which direction it faced. Photos group into projects and then into surveys, so a single site can hold a separate visual record for each site visit, phase, or trade without anything being renamed or moved. An interactive map plots every photo at its coordinates with clustering, so hundreds of images from one site stay readable. When a client, an owner, or an insurer asks what a given area looked like on a given date, the answer is a PDF photo log generated in one click, or a password protected link that shows the same photos on the map with an expiration date you set.

What makes this hard today?

Progress photos scatter across phones

Different people shoot different areas on different days, and the record lives in whichever camera roll took it. Nothing links a photo to the phase it documents.

Change orders turn into arguments

A disputed change order can wipe out the margin on a job. Without dated, located photos of the condition before and after, the discussion comes down to whose recollection sounds better.

Owners want updates you do not have time to assemble

Compiling a weekly visual update by hand competes directly with running the site. Most weeks the update is the thing that slips.

How does the workflow actually run?

  1. Create a project for the site

    Set the location with address autocomplete and coordinates. Everything from that site lands in one place with a status of active, completed, or archived.

  2. Add a survey per visit or phase

    Each walk of the site becomes its own survey, so the record stays chronological without renaming a single file.

  3. Upload and caption the set

    Batch upload the visit, add captions, and mark up the frames that need an arrow or a callout to make the point.

  4. Send the update as a link or a PDF

    Generate a photo log for the file, or share a link that shows the client the photos and the map directly.

Common questions

Can I keep separate photo sets for each phase of a job?
Yes. A project holds as many surveys as you need, and each survey is its own set of photos with its own date and report. Most teams use one survey per site visit or per phase, which keeps the record chronological without renaming files.
Can the whole crew add photos to the same project?
On the Enterprise plan, yes. An organization gives every member access to shared projects, with owner, admin, and member roles controlling what each person can do. Pro is built for a single user.
How many photos can one survey hold?
Two hundred photos per survey, with 30 GB of storage included on Pro and 50 GB per user on Enterprise. Extra storage is available in bundles from 50 GB up to 2 TB if a project archive outgrows the plan.

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