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SITE INTELLIGENCE FOR DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

Know what is on the ground.
Before the report says so.

Groundwork watches your development from orbit: every recent satellite pass over the site, its high-resolution history, the programme against what is actually built, and a brief your board can read.

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SITE FRAME · DUBAI HILLS ESTATE
A 6 Nov 2011 · WorldView-2
B 23 Nov 2025 · WorldView-2
25°06'25"N 55°15'04"E
MASTER-PLANNED COMMUNITY · CAPTURE DATES AT THE SITE CENTRE
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Recent passes · 14 dayschecking
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Searching Sentinel-2 over this site, live…
Esri World Imagery Wayback · DigitalGlobe, Vantor, Earthstar Geographics
BOUNDARY → PASSES → HISTORY → PROGRAMME → BRIEFIMAGERY: ESRI WAYBACK · DIGITALGLOBE, VANTORDRAG THE DIVIDER ⇄
10M
Sentinel-2 passes over your site, typically every few days, within a day of capture.
0.5M
High-resolution captures back to the early 2010s, each with its real capture date.
7DAYS
Crane wind, gusts, rain and heat ahead, against your own site limits.
1PAGE
A board brief, generated from the imagery and the site’s own log.
THE SITE, FROM ORBIT

A big programme.
A close watch.

Draw your boundary once. From then on the site keeps its own record: what the satellites saw, what the programme said, and what the team logged.

RECENT PASSES

Last week’s site.
Not last year’s map.

Groundwork showing a Sentinel-2 pass from 9 October 2026 swiped against the basemap over Dubai Creek Harbour
WHO IT IS FOR

For the people
who answer for the site.

The same page, read four ways. Groundwork does not replace the site team; it gives everyone above them a view they can check for themselves.

01 / DEVELOPERS

See the whole portfolio, site by site.

Every site and phase on one globe, each with its latest pass, its programme position and its status.

02 / DEVELOPMENT MANAGERS

Evidence beside every update.

Pin the pass that shows the slab poured or the earthworks finished. The log carries its own proof.

03 / LENDERS AND MONITORS

An independent eye between visits.

Check activity on site against the drawdown story, on dates you choose, from imagery nobody on the project controls.

04 / BOARDS AND INVESTORS

One page, then the story.

A brief for the pack, and Present: the site walks the board from then to now in five scenes.

WORKS WITH YOUR AGENT

Your assistant keeps the log.
The satellite keeps it honest.

Give an AI assistant a Groundwork key and it can list your sites and post dated updates, progress and status, with exactly your rights and nothing more. Groundwork was built alongside Nyx, a private assistant that keeps site logs this way.

Keys are shown once and stored only as a fingerprint. Revoke one and it stops at once.

POST /api/v1/updates
Authorization: Bearer gwk_••••••••
{
  "project": "4f1c…e2a",
  "body": "Level 12 slab poured; tower crane 2 climbs Monday",
  "progress": 42,
  "rag": "A",
  "agent": "Nyx"
}
TODAY · NYX · PROGRESS · 42%
Level 12 slab poured; tower crane 2 climbs Monday
PRESENT

Let the site
tell its own story.

Five scenes, built from the site itself: the fly-in, then and now, the last few days, the programme, the week ahead. Made for the boardroom screen.

Present mode: Dubai Hills Estate, the earliest and latest high-resolution captures with a lower-third caption
DUBAI HILLS ESTATE · NOV 2011 → NOV 2025A PUBLIC DEMO SITE · REAL IMAGERY
HOW IT STAYS HONEST

Rules the page
cannot break.

A view from orbit is persuasive. That is exactly why every frame says where it came from and what it cannot tell you.

  • Capture dates, not release dates.History reads the archive’s own metadata for your point; where none exists it says so.
  • Cloud is the scene’s, and says so.Cloud cover comes from the whole satellite scene; each thumbnail is checked for overcast or missing data before you rely on it.
  • Every public figure is sourced.Demo sites carry a ledger: every date and cost links to where it was read, with variance against the first announced target.
  • Your sites are private.Row-level security on every record. Share links are read-only and die when you turn them off.
  • Your limits, not ours.Weather flags use the wind, rain and heat limits your team sets. A flagged day is a prompt, not a verdict.
  • A construction tool, not a spy console.No live tracking of people, vehicles or vessels. Public imagery of the ground, nothing more.
GROUNDWORK / SITE INTELLIGENCE

Your site, seen from above.
Starting today.

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