OnSiteIQ

OnsiteIQ operates a construction intelligence platform aimed at real estate owners, developers, investors and lenders. A network of capture specialists across the United States and Canada visits active job sites on a weekly basis and records the site using 360° high-resolution imaging, producing an interactive visual record of construction progress. The imagery is automatically mapped to the project's architectural floor plans, allowing users to navigate documentation spatially rather than sorting through unstructured image files.

On top of the captured imagery, the company runs a computer vision engine that extracts progress information and compares it against the project's baseline schedule, covering up to 24 trades across 8 asset classes. Outputs include analytics, early indicators of schedule delay, completion forecasting and agentic workflows intended to support portfolio-level oversight. The platform originated as a visual documentation and risk assessment product — recording conditions for change-order reconciliation, defect and dispute resolution, and later facilities management — and added scheduling and progress analytics from 2021 onward.

The company positions its record as a verification layer for GPs, LPs and lenders exercising fiduciary oversight of development projects, consolidating construction, development and C-suite users on a single platform.

Founding story

OnsiteIQ was founded by Ardalan Khosrowpour, who holds a PhD in civil engineering from Virginia Tech with research on artificial intelligence and computer vision in the built environment. He developed the company through the Runway Startup Postdoc Program at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, where he set out to digitize construction after interviewing industry stakeholders. Because fixed cameras were impractical on dynamic job sites and raised privacy concerns, the team built an alternative approach: walking sites with 360-degree cameras and automatically geo-localizing the footage against floor plans. Cornell computer science alumnus John Mollis served as CTO. An early pilot with New York construction management firm New Line Structures provided initial industry validation.

Business model

OnsiteIQ sells software-based construction intelligence to real estate owners, developers and investors, bundled with a field service component: company capture specialists perform recurring weekly on-site 360° documentation visits, and the resulting imagery and derived analytics are delivered through the platform. Onboarding requires only the customer's architectural floor plans and baseline schedule.

Traction

Company-reported milestones include launching Visual Documentation in 2019 and Progress Monitoring in beta in 2021, operating in 52+ US and Canadian markets in 2022, monitoring 1,250+ projects across 70+ markets in 2023, and 2,200+ projects across 110+ markets in 2024. The company cites a database of 4 billion images and an average of more than 2 million data points captured per project. In early 2018, while at Cornell Tech, it reported having collected more than 3.5 million square feet of data and was piloting on a 430,000-square-foot New York project.

Latest developments

In March 2024 the company issued announcements covering a major FY 2024 momentum product release and the hire of a new VP of Marketing, completing its executive team. A patent relating to risk assessment techniques based on images is dated February 2025. The current product includes agentic workflows and delay forecasting, with monitoring reported across 2,200+ projects and 110+ markets in 2024.