Norquay — Field documentation for mechanical trades

01 — The problem

The two inches nobody wrote down

Photos die in text threads

The clash gets photographed, texted to the PM, and buried under forty other messages by Thursday. When the dispute lands three months later, nobody can find it.

Thin paperwork kills change orders

Field conditions cost you real money — but a change order backed by "Dave remembers it" gets shaved or denied. Documentation is the difference between eating it and billing it.

As-builts from memory

At closeout, someone reconstructs months of field changes from crumpled markups and recollection. The record existed once. It just never got kept.

02 — How it works

Ninety seconds, gloves on

Pin it where you stand

Open the sheet, tap the spot, drop a pin. Your prints live on your phone — zoomable, organized, offline. No signal required on the deck.

Plan says, field shows

Two fields and a photo: what the drawing called for, what's actually there. Attach the measurement. Time-stamped, located, done.

Export the report that gets you paid

One tap turns the log into a clean PDF — photos, locations, plan-vs-field — ready to attach to an RFI or change order in whatever system the GC runs.

Built for the moment the GC asks for proof

Procore and Buildertrend run the general contractor's world. Norquay runs yours: the sub's side of the story, documented in real time, exported in the format their system already accepts.

Every pin you drop is also tomorrow's as-built record — the field changes captured while they happen, not reconstructed at closeout.

03 — On the bench

In development

AR overlay

Stand in the room, raise your phone, and see where the plan says it goes — dashed lines over the real ceiling, offsets measured on the spot.

In development

3D a foreman can drive

Tap a room on the plan and the coordination model drops you there at eye height. One tap isolates your trade. No orbit controls, no property tables.

Built by a tradesman, not a software company

I work in HVAC in Calgary. Norquay started as the app I kept reaching for on site and never found — the place where "the print says X, the field shows Y" gets written down once, properly, and turns into the paperwork that protects the company.

It's in development now, being shaped by conversations with foremen, PMs, and owners across the trades. The early access list gets first crack at pilots — and a real say in what gets built.