AI in construction · November 5, 2026

Your crew takes the photos anyway. Should an AI write the daily log from them?

Every job already produces photos, and somebody has to turn them into a daily log or an update for the customer. CompanyCam, a jobsite photo app, now sells AI that writes that document from the photos and your voice. The question is what one write-up costs you in plan allowance, and whether it is right.

10 vs 100

AI credits listed for the CompanyCam Core plan versus the Crew plan, which costs $66 a month more on annual billing (CompanyCam pricing page, read November 5, 2026)

1. What it is

CompanyCam's help center (article dated September 1, 2026 on the page, read November 5, 2026) lists four AI documents: Summary, Daily Log, Progress Recap and Walkthrough. For the first three you select photos that have descriptions and press Generate. For a Walkthrough you talk while you take photos in the mobile app, for up to 15 minutes, and the app writes it up. If the photos have no descriptions, the app still makes a document, but empty. Summary, Daily Log and Progress Recap do not work offline; Walkthrough does, and is processed once you are back online. The help center says these features are "available on select plans".

The glossary (read November 5, 2026) says each of the four uses 1 "AI Action", and that AI credits are the plan's allowance that "set how many AI Actions you can run". A voice checklist also costs 1 action each time you create or complete one.

2. What it costs

CompanyCam's pricing page (read November 5, 2026; the only date on it is "©2026") lists, billed annually: Core $63 a month, Crew $129, Scale $199, with extra users $29 each. Core includes one user (two at most); Crew and Scale include three. The figures in the page's own price calculator show $79 for Core when billed monthly. Credits in the plan table: Core 10, Crew 100, Scale unlimited. The page does not say whether credits renew monthly or are used once.

The same page contradicts itself: its FAQ says "AI features are included in Crew, Scale, and Enterprise", while the table gives Core 10 credits. Ask CompanyCam before you rely on either. By arithmetic, Crew costs $129 − $63 = $66 more a month than Core, $792 a year, plus whatever extra users you add.

3. Does it help?

We found no independent test of how good these write-ups are, so we cannot say. CompanyCam's own best-practices page (August 28, 2026 on the page) says "AI is not perfect and can make mistakes" and tells you to review and edit every output. It also says results depend on how much detail you put in the photo descriptions or say aloud. Treat any promised time saving as the vendor's claim.

An illustration, not a finding: if you run 4 jobs and write one Daily Log per job per workday, that is 4 actions a day. Ten credits last 2.5 workdays, and 100 last 25 workdays, about five weeks.

4. Verdict

Worth trying cheaply. The photos are worth taking whatever you pay for AI, and a Daily Log you only have to correct is faster than one you write. Use the free trial the pricing page offers, check which AI tiles your plan really shows, and count how many write-ups you would use in a month and how many needed fixing. Do not pay $792 a year more for the AI alone until that count says it is worth it. A write-up that goes to a customer is a statement about your work: read it first.

This week

Pick one active job and write the photo descriptions the way the help center asks: room, side of the house, what was done and what is next.
Generate one Daily Log and mark every sentence you would change. That is your accuracy number.
Ask CompanyCam in writing which plan includes AI and whether credits renew monthly.
Compare one week of your real use against the 10 and 100 credit limits before you upgrade.

Questions

Does the Core plan include AI?+

The plan table on the pricing page lists 10 credits for Core, while the FAQ on the same page says AI is included in Crew, Scale and Enterprise. Ask CompanyCam, and check your own account.

What uses a credit?+

The glossary says a Summary, Daily Log, Progress Recap or Walkthrough each uses 1 AI Action, and so does each voice checklist step that creates or completes a checklist.

Can I send the AI write-up straight to a customer?+

CompanyCam itself says to review and edit every output. Read it first; it speaks for your company.

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