PlanRadar AI Agents close the gap between what happens on a project and what gets done. Today, PlanRadar, a leading platform for 360° digital documentation, communication and reporting in construction, facility management and real estate projects, announces PlanRadar AI Agents. Built to close the follow-up gap, AI Agents give teams time back and scale follow-up without adding headcount. Every construction, real estate and facility management project depends on hundreds of small actions to keep moving, and until now, someone has had to step in and complete each one themselves. PlanRadar AI Agents change that, once an agent is triggered it completes the action itself, without an approval step, so results arrive the moment they're needed rather than whenever someone gets to them. PlanRadar customers can build their own agents using natural language prompts to automate workflows or draw on a collection of ready-made PlanRadar agents. The Response agent, for example, reads an incoming RFI, searches the project's documents, and creates a reply with the exact source named, cutting the time to a first response from hours to minutes. Every agent action is logged and attributed, and customers can test exactly what an agent will do before it goes live, so teams stay in full control of what runs automatically. For customers who want extra support, PlanRadar's Forward Deployed Engineers work directly with teams to uncover and build the AI Agents use cases most valuable to their business, helping customers get their first agents live faster. Ibrahim Imam, PlanRadar Group Co-CEO, comments: "Our customers want the routine work on a project to take care of itself, without giving up any control over what happens, and that is exactly what PlanRadar AI Agents deliver. Our agents catch what could otherwise slip through and turn into rework, so project teams can focus on the judgement calls only people can make. For PlanRadar customers, this shift means agents that get on with the work as it happens." Clemens Hammerl, Chief Product Officer at PlanRadar, adds: "Customers do not want another system to log into or another workspace to manage. They want more of their jobs completed from just one location. PlanRadar AI Agents run on existing project data, with each agent checked against its creator's own access every time it runs, so nothing it does goes further than the person who built it could. Building an AI Agent is like briefing a new teammate, easy to describe in your own words, and ready to act every time you need it. Every agent is built on that same principle, real autonomy matched with real control." The addition of AI Agents adds another layer of capability to PlanRadar, which already includes document management, reporting and integration features, enabling customers to connect all project processes in one place. General contractors, specialty contractors and project managers typically run the highest volumes of issues and inspections on a project and stand to benefit most as that work increasingly runs on its own. AI Agents are built directly into PlanRadar and every agent runs within PlanRadar's existing, ISO-certified security and data-protection standards, with no change to how project data is stored or processed. Full details on PlanRadar's approach to data security and privacy are available at planradar.com/data-security-and-privacy-at-planradar. PlanRadar AI Agents are available across all PlanRadar plans as part of the platform's AI features. This first release is the start of a wider roadmap, with future versions set to expand what agents can do and where they can connect.

PlanRadar opens Chicago office. PlanRadar, a leading platform for field management in construction, facility management and real estate projects, has announced the opening of its Chicago office as part of its continued expansion in the U.S. market. Driven by growing customer adoption across complex building and real estate projects, the new office strengthens the company's ability to support U.S.-based customers with localized expertise and closer market proximity. Located in Downtown Chicago's Loop neighborhood, the office serves as a strategic hub for PlanRadar's U.S. operations. Chicago's central location and strong construction and real estate ecosystem enable the company to better serve customers nationwide, while reinforcing its long-term commitment to scalable growth in the U.S. The Chicago office is led by Vice President David Homola, who oversees PlanRadar's strategic direction and market expansion in the U.S., supported by dedicated sales representatives. Homola brings extensive international expertise across real estate, construction and civil engineering, and previously led PlanRadar's growth in the UK and Western Europe. "Construction projects and real estate operations are inherently complex endeavors, often with many parties involved," Homola said. "Our goal at PlanRadar is to make working together easier, connecting your team and jobsite processes in one place to work more efficiently, enhance quality and achieve full project transparency. Our U.S. customers are already seeing tangible results, including cutting reporting time in half, and our presence in Chicago allows us to support them more closely from a central, strategic location." With 13 offices globally and operating in 75 countries, PlanRadar has experienced steady growth since expanding into the U.S., with customers adopting the easy-to-use platform across healthcare, industrial, residential and education construction projects. Chicago offers a strong talent pool in technology, software as a service (SaaS) and customer-facing roles to support the company in its growth goals. PlanRadar's clients include CBRE, Colliers and IKEA. "The U.S. is a leader in business and technology, and this expansion marks an exciting new chapter in PlanRadar's international journey," said PlanRadar co-CEO and co-founder Ibrahim Iman. "With Chicago as our new U.S. hub, David at the helm and a talented team to support him, we are poised to accelerate innovation and customer engagement in North America." PlanRadar has continued to invest in research and development in recent years, and in 2024 launched SiteView, allowing for the capture of 360° imagery of a project. This is then mapped onto a 2D plan, creating a detailed visual record of all site activities throughout the construction lifecycle. SiteView leverages SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), a technology widely used in robotics and autonomous systems to enable devices or robots to navigate unknown environments. SiteView's functionality is an ideal complement to PlanRadar's core ticketing, communication and reporting capabilities.

If you think about the cities of the future, what comes to mind? Flying cars and trains? Lab-grown food? Buildings that look more like space ships? Whatever your vision may be, someone has to build it – but will they be human or robot?. That question is valid even now as robots are rapidly becoming mainstays of the construction industry. In fact, the global construction robotics space is on track to grow to US$774.6 million by 2032, driven by breakthroughs in AI, data processing, and sensors. Additionally, these robots aren’t just doing “dirty, dangerous, and difficult” jobs like lifting heavy building materials or drilling and demolition, but they’re also increasingly being used to tackle more detail-oriented jobs like plastering or painting.Wei Build’s painting robot in action / Photo credit: Wei Build“Before, robots were very seldom mentioned as a construction solution,” says Frank Mao, co-founder and CTO at construction robotics company Weibuild. “But as the technology has developed and become more cost-competitive, people began to see just how helpful they can be.”