oculai
Crane-mounted AI cameras that turn construction sites into an automatic target/actual schedule
German ConTech company that mounts plug-and-play cameras and mobile-communication modules on tower/top-slewing cranes to film the entire construction site from a bird's-eye view. Computer vision and deep learning models trained on the footage detect and classify manual construction activities against a component and process taxonomy, automatically comparing planned vs. actual schedule progress and generating daily site reports, working-hour records, and productivity (effort-value) metrics.
Why This Tool Exists
Site managers on large shell-construction (Rohbau) projects manually track progress, productivity, and daily documentation by walking the site and writing reports by hand — a process that is time-consuming, inconsistent, and often surfaces schedule delays and productivity shortfalls weeks after they occur, once rework or claims are already costly.
oculai mounts AI-enabled cameras on site cranes to continuously film the whole jobsite, then uses computer vision to automatically detect and classify construction activities (tied to a component and process from the schedule), producing a live target/actual schedule comparison, auto-generated daily construction reports, and per-component labor/productivity (effort-value) metrics — without manual data entry.
How You Use It
Data Transparency
Exactly what this tool uses and how
Contact vendor for API access — no public API documentation foundUse Cases
- ·Automated target vs. actual schedule tracking on shell-construction (Rohbau) projects
- ·AI-generated daily construction site reports (activities, weather, working hours)
- ·Productivity/effort-value benchmarking per trade and component across projects
- ·Early delay detection via 24/7 remote site monitoring from the project office
- ·Disruption and impediment documentation to support claims
Pricing
Sources & Research NotesResearch date: 2026-07-17
- https://en.oculai.de/
- https://en.oculai.de/terminplan
- https://en.oculai.de/aufwandswerte
- https://en.oculai.de/bauzeitverkurzung
- https://en.oculai.de/team
- https://en.oculai.de/datenschutz
- https://en.oculai.de/agb
- https://www.munich-startup.de/en/110592/oculai-7-questions/
- https://www.munich-startup.de/en/89796/construction-site-startup-oculai-secures-25-million-euros-in-seed-round/
- https://www.htgf.de/en/portfolio/htgffamily/oculai/
- https://www.htgf.de/en/htgfs-700th-investment-how-oculai-is-revolutionising-the-construction-industry/
- https://leonard.vinci.com/en/oculai-member-of-leonards-seed-2022-program-completes-e2-5-million-seed-round/
- https://www.eu-startups.com/2023/03/contech-startup-oculai-secures-e2-5-million-to-optimise-on-site-monitoring/
- https://underthehardhat.org/oculai/
- https://www.cemexventures.com/top-50-startups/oculai/
- https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/oculai
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