Case Study: OneTrack Proof of Concept

The challenge

OneTrack's founder is one of the foremost experts on construction law — he has written books comparing construction law practice worldwide — and his vision is to keep large construction clients out of court and off the front page. A large construction project brings together a huge array of stakeholders, often ten to thirty subcontractors, and every one has its own contract with its own rules and criteria. When an event as ordinary as a rainy day occurs, each contractor may be entitled to an extension of time, and each contract sets that entitlement differently. Plans, timeframes and costings all have to be adjusted. The primary supplier rarely has a clear picture of which contracts are affected, who is entitled and what it will cost, and may not even know it rained until the first claim arrives. This is how big projects blow out and make headlines.

What we built

We worked with OneTrack to build a proof of concept: a platform that brings every party onto one place to manage a project together, across all twenty-plus subcontractors. We translated OneTrack's detailed concepts and workflows into software that adapts to the constraints of each contract, in each scenario that construction contracts allow for. The point was to make the legal and compliance side of project administration something the team stays on top of, rather than something left in a drawer until it becomes a problem.

The outcome

The proof of concept let OneTrack think their core idea through in detail, validate it with real users, and show investors it was worth pursuing further. It proved that an extension of time could be controlled and approved across every stakeholder while holding to each unique subcontractor contract. For the projects that would eventually use it, that means lower administration risk and lower cost on exactly the kind of large, multi-stakeholder work where costs usually escape.

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Two people at a laptop testing an early version of a coordination tool in a Melbourne site office, plans and hi-vis on the desk, warm afternoon light. Documentary style, real testing moment, no gears or arrows.