A site walkthrough, told in pins

A site walkthrough, told in pins

Every week you walk the same route. Ground floor, cores, the slab they poured Tuesday, the unit the client keeps asking about. You take photos as you go — and by the time you’re back in the office you have ninety images in a roll, in chronological order, attached to nothing. The walk had a structure. The camera roll threw it away.

A progress walkthrough is one of the most valuable half-hours a site manager or jefe de obra spends all week. This is how to keep its structure: capture the whole route as located pins, so the walk becomes a record anyone can read instead of a pile you have to narrate.

The camera roll loses the one thing that mattered: where

A photo knows the minute it was taken and nothing else. Stack ninety of them and you’ve got a timeline, when what you actually walked was a place. Which floor, which unit, which side of the core — all of that lived in your head as you shot, and it’s gone by the time anyone else opens the gallery.

PinMy flips it: the plan is the record, and each observation is a pin on it. The walk keeps its shape because every note sits where you stood.

A site walkthrough app that pins onto what you capture

Walk with your phone. At each point of interest you tap the plan and drop a pin — on a slab edge, a leaking joint, a finished unit. You can shoot a walkthrough video or photos as you go and pin onto that captured media and the plan, so the visual and the location travel together. Be clear on the mechanic: pins are placed on the plan and the media you capture — that’s what a site walkthrough app is for, not magic auto-detection.

Voice or text on every point, hands-free

At each pin, drop a voice note or a quick text: “Second-floor riser still open, plasterers can’t close the wall.” Free voice notes run to 30 seconds, Premium to three minutes, and every one auto-transcribes across 20+ languages — so the pin carries both your voice and searchable text. You narrate the walk once, on the move, and never again.

Construction progress documentation that assembles itself

Here’s the shift. The pins you drop become construction progress documentation without a write-up step: a located, time-stamped record of exactly what you saw, in the order it matters — by place, not by timestamp. Next week’s walk sits next to this one on the same plan, so progress is something you can actually see, not reassemble from two camera rolls.

It also changes the conversation with everyone who wasn’t there. Instead of forwarding a gallery and narrating it over the phone — “the third photo, no the one after that” — you share the plan, and the client, the developer or the head office reads the walk for themselves: each point in place, each note attached. The walkthrough stops being something only you can interpret, and becomes a shared record of where the job actually is.

Assign the points that need action

Most pins are just a record. Some need a hand. On those you @mention the right person — the subcontractor, the foreman — and assign it. The moment you do, that observation stops being “I’ll mention it at the meeting” and becomes an owned task. This is the same engine behind a day in the life of a site supervisor: capture in the moment, hand off on the spot.

The board fills itself from the walk

Every assigned pin lands on a Kanban board — To-do, In Progress, Done — that you never built. It’s the live state of your walk. So the meeting after the walkthrough isn’t you scrolling a gallery; it’s a list of real, located, owned items everyone can see.

Resolved items dim, so the plan tells the truth

When a flagged point is handled, mark it resolved and it dims on the plan. Live issues stand out, closed ones stay on record, and the plan becomes an honest map of progress instead of a frozen snapshot. For the ones that need a formal write-up, the same pins flow into a shareable defect report.

FAQ

What is a site walkthrough app, exactly? It’s a way to record a progress or inspection walk as located pins on the plan — each with a photo, voice note, or text — instead of a chronological camera roll. The route keeps its structure because every note sits where you stood.

Does PinMy automatically detect progress from my video? No — and it doesn’t claim to. You place pins yourself on the plan and the media you capture. The value is that the location and the note travel together, not auto-detection.

Can I compare this week’s walk to last week’s? Both walks live as pins on the same plan, so you can see what changed by place rather than reconstructing it from two galleries.

What PinMy is NOT

PinMy isn’t a 4D scheduling tool or a reality-capture/point-cloud platform, and it won’t replace your programme or your project-management suite. With 3D models, a pin marks a point in space — a dated snapshot — not a model element, and it doesn’t read element data. The web PDF report is useful but still maturing. What PinMy does well is turn a walkthrough into located, shareable progress documentation, in the moment.

Tell your next walkthrough in pins

Walk one route with PinMy and see the difference between a record and a camera roll.

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