Customer Case Study · Project Control Room
A leading Indian EPC contractor builds highways, expressways and rail works across India. HMC built a project control room for leadership and site teams: GenAI reads daily progress reports, voice notes and site photos; progress is tracked by chainage against plan; fleet and fuel are watched machine by machine; tenders are read in hours, not days; and site safety is checked from photos.
Figures indicative; validated metrics available on request.
Leadership saw progress, machines, bids and safety in separate reports, weeks after the fact.
Daily reports arrived as texts, voice notes and photos; the monthly review was the first consolidated view.
Telematics existed but nobody compared hours, idle time and fuel issued across sites.
Each RFP ran to hundreds of pages; risky clauses surfaced late in the bid cycle.
Observations were logged on paper; patterns across sites were invisible.
One control room, four lenses, starting from data the teams already produced.
Select a step to see what happened.
Interviews from site engineers to the CMD's office.
Deliverable: Decision map and data inventory.
Every record tied to a project, a chainage and a date.
Deliverable: Data model and rule book.
GenAI where reading is the bottleneck, rules where the numbers decide.
Deliverable: Control room prototype.
Site teams kept sending reports the way they always had.
Deliverable: Pilot and playbook.
Rolled out across road, rail and new verticals.
Deliverable: Roll-out plan.
Four working modules on synthetic projects, machines, tenders and sites. Try the presets or bring your own report, telematics file, RFP or site photo.
Optional. Without a key every module runs on presets and built-in rules, and you can type or tag things yourself. Add your OpenAI key to read site photos and voice notes, extract any RFP, check your own safety photos and write the summaries.
A time-chainage chart shows where each crew is: every line is one pavement layer moving along the road. Move the status date, read a daily progress report, and see the forecast finish and the weekly summary for the CMD.
| Activity | From | To | Length | Against plan | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pick a report and select Read report. | |||||
The summary combines status, forecast and the latest report.
Synthetic projects, chainages and schedules. Activity weights and rates are illustrative.
Last seven days of telematics for 48 machines across seven locations. Fuel issued is compared with the norm for the hours worked; under-used machines are matched to sites that are short of them.
| Machine | Site | Util. | Idle | Fuel var. | Flags |
|---|
Draft the morning note on fuel, idling, breakdowns and moves.
Synthetic fleet. Fuel norms in litres per working hour by machine type; idle burn at 35% of the norm; diesel at ₹92 a litre.
Pick a sample RFP or upload one. Key clauses are pulled out and rated; the bill of quantities is priced from the rate library, and a bid / no-bid score combines risk, margin, fit and capacity. Click a clause to find it in the document.
| Clause | Found | Risk | Why |
|---|
| Item | Qty | Rate ₹ | ₹ crore |
|---|
The note summarises clauses, estimate and score.
Sample RFPs are synthetic extracts, not real NHAI documents. Rate library, net worth and order book are illustrative.
Pick a site photo to see the hazards found, or upload your own. Without a key you can drag a box on the photo and tag the hazard yourself. Incident notes are sorted by type and potential severity, and every site gets a safety score.
| Site | Open obs. | High-pot. | Trained | Score |
|---|
Preset photos are drawn illustrations with pre-marked findings to show the output. Incident notes are synthetic.
With slippage visible from the daily report and fuel compared every morning, projects tracked closer to plan and fuel variance fell at every site.
S-curve small multiples: cumulative % complete by month
Heat map: % of diesel issued above the norm
Figures indicative; validated metrics available on request.
Reading texts, voice notes and photos beats asking engineers to fill another form.
Progress, machines, quantities and incidents all line up once tied to a kilometre.
The cheapest machine is the one already idle on another site.