When people first see PlanOps, the natural assumption is "it's a chatbot for construction." It looks like one - you type what you need. But it works the other way round from most construction software, and that difference is the whole point.
Most construction software asks you to learn it first. Menus, modules, training days, someone whose job quietly becomes keeping everyone else using it. PlanOps starts from the opposite end. You open a project and tell it what you need, in plain English, and it works out the rest.
One request, the right specialist
A single general model trying to do everything tends to do everything averagely. Construction documents don't reward average. A scaffold handover form, a progress report, a construction phase plan and a materials schedule are different jobs with different rules.
So PlanOps doesn't answer your request directly. It reads what you asked for, it understands your project,works out which specialist assistant the job belongs to, runs the right task, and hands back a structured result. "Create a scaffold handover form." "What's overdue?" "Draft me a construction phase plan from these pre-construction documents." You don't choose the assistant or learn a menu - the routing is the product.
A team, not a model
Underneath PlanOps there's a team of specialist assistants that know construction, starting with the areas where project teams lose the most time. A Health & Safety Manager. A Quality Manager. A Document Controller. A Commercial Manager. Each one has its own job, its own rules, and its own workflows. You ask in plain language, and the right specialist picks it up.
It's project management for contractors who'd rather be running the project than feeding the software.
Backed by real workflows, not just generation
Behind those assistants sit more than 230 ready-to-use automations and templates. That matters because it enables your tasks to be automated consistently and correctly. A workflow encodes that. Generation alone gives you something plausible; a workflow gives you something you can work from.
What you actually get back
The output is a structured, review-ready document - not a blank template, and not a loose chatbot answer you have to copy, paste and reformat. Something you can work from.
Why this shape
Three consequences fall out of building it this way:
- Far less to learn. If you can describe what you need, you can produce it. No menus, no modules, no training day.
- It improves by addition. New work becomes a new assistant and new workflows, without changing how you ask.
- It stays accountable to construction. Every assistant is scoped to a real construction task, so the output speaks the right language.
Built by construction people
PlanOps is built by people who've run projects, working alongside the site teams and operatives who use it. The workflows come from how the job is actually done, not from a software team guessing at it. It's early, and it doesn't do everything yet - but what it does, it does well.
That's the platform: a plain-language front door, that routes your task to the right specialist, and a deep library of workflows doing the work. A chatbot talks. PlanOps hands you something you can work from.
You can start free - 50 Intelligence Units on real project work, no card needed. Pick one job you'd usually dread, and try it out.