What Is SpatialSense and How It Can Show You Your Sites From Anywhere (The Key to Weekly Sign-Off Without a Site Visit)

2026-11-02

One 360° walk of your site becomes a dated record that your team and your client can check from anywhere.

Most project teams find out where a site stands in one of two ways: someone drives out to look, or someone sends photos. Both work until the questions get specific. A photo on WhatsApp shows that the slab was poured, but it can’t tell the client which bay it was, how much was finished or which revision of the drawing it was built to, and on a busy project that gap is where variations and payment disputes begin. Taking more photos doesn’t help, because each one is a loose image with no place on the plan and no earlier version to compare it with.

What is SpatialSense?

SpatialSense is a browser-based platform from Kodifly that helps construction teams document and track site progress through 360° site walks, with visual records that can be reviewed remotely and compared over time. Someone on site walks the floors with a phone and a 360° camera, and the walk becomes a dated record, pinned to the floor plan, that anyone on the project can open in a browser. Laser scans, drone flights, BIM models and floor plans go into the same place, so the history of the site lives in one record the whole team can reach.

How does it work?

Your site team records the walk with Trace, the SpatialSense capture app, and an Insta360 X4 or X5 camera. Trace connects each capture to a point on the floor plan and uploads the walk once there’s signal, so the walk is online before the team leaves site. Nobody has to change the route they already walk, and no survey crew is needed.

Back at the office, anyone can open the walk in a browser and move through the site stop by stop, with the floor plan showing where they’re standing. There’s nothing to install, and nobody has to send large files to anyone.

The real value starts with the second walk. SpatialSense puts the same viewpoint from two dates side by side, and both panes stay locked together as you pan and zoom, so the comparison shows the same wall on both days from the same spot. That’s how a project manager confirms that work reported as complete really is complete, without a site visit. If the project has a BIM model, it can be laid over the capture to show where the as-built differs from the design.

When someone spots a problem, they click the panorama to place an issue at that exact spot, with a photo, a note, an owner and a due date. The person it’s assigned to gets a WhatsApp message with a link straight to it, and a shared board shows what is still open across the organisation.

Then there’s the report. SpatialSense’s AI compares two dated walks of the same site and writes the progress report, listing what changed at each point on the walk, where it is and how serious it is, with every observation tied back to the 360° image it came from. The result is a multi-page PDF ready to send to the client, and because it follows the same structure every cycle, this week’s report can be read against last week’s.

What changes for your team

In a normal week, the site engineer walks the floors with the camera on Friday, which is the walk they’d make anyway, and it’s online before they leave. On Monday the client opens it from their own office and compares it with the week before, so the progress meeting starts with everyone looking at the same picture. If someone asks whether the east stair was formed by the 14th, the answer is the walk from the 14th.

For the project manager, the biggest change is usually the weekly report, which no longer has to be pieced together from a camera roll the night before it’s due. Owners and clients get something that’s harder to come by, which is a record they trust enough to sign off against without travelling to the site.

Where it’s already in use

On a 30-week embassy build in Islamabad, the client’s chief architect and design consultants were based in Europe while the contractor was on the ground, so remote review was how the project had to run from day one. The weekly record had been a pictorial report, with photographs pasted under headings by hand. With SpatialSense, seven dated walks across 24 days took the record from bare ground to a full steel frame. The client team reviews every stage from overseas, weekly, without flying in, and the weekly report is generated from the walks.

On a residential tower in Lahore, the second site a contractor onboarded on the same camera and app as its first, two walks 48 hours apart were compared from one locked viewpoint, floor by floor. The AI wrote the change list, and one entry for a ground-floor point, rated low, reads:

“Relocation and extension of green safety netting on the right side of the floor; the netting is now secured to a vertical pole framework closer to the central core.”

Nobody typed that sentence, and every part of it points back to the image it was read from.

What do you need to start?

A phone, an Insta360 X4 or X5 camera and floor plans for the areas you want to capture are enough for the first walk. If you already have BIM models, drone footage or point clouds, they can go into the same record. Your team runs the first walk on one site, start to finish, and then we review it together in SpatialSense. Setup is light, and one of your sites can typically be up and running within a week.

FAQ

Can I track construction progress remotely with SpatialSense?

Yes. Once a walk is uploaded, anyone with access can open it in a browser, compare it with an earlier date and raise issues without visiting the site. That’s how the client team on the Islamabad embassy build reviews progress from Europe every week.

Do I need a BIM model?

No. You can compare any two walks without one, and a BIM model adds the ability to see where the as-built differs from the design.

Does anything need to be installed?

Only Trace, on the phone that records the walk. Everything else runs in a browser.