Frederick W. Dodge once mapped Boston building sites from a bicycle and index cards. Today, his namesake company sells early signals across the commercial construction cycle - from the first permit whisper to the final award.
OnsiteIQ is a New York-based construction intelligence platform that combines 360-degree high-resolution site imagery with proprietary computer vision and AI to give real estate owners, developers, and lenders a verifiable view of what is happening on their job sites. Founded in 2017 by civil-engineering PhD Ardalan Khosrowpour, the company captures weekly imagery across thousands of active projects, maps it to floor plans and schedules, and turns it into progress, risk, and delay analytics so stakeholders can catch problems early and reduce costly disputes.
CivilGrid is a San Francisco construction-intelligence company that centralizes utility, environmental, geotechnical and land-rights data into a single collaborative platform - often called 'Google Maps for pre-construction.' Founded in 2021 by Wharton classmates Josh Mackanic and Brandon Cohen, it partners with utilities and agencies to pull current GIS datasets so engineers and construction teams can scope, plan and de-risk projects before anyone breaks ground, cutting pre-construction research time by up to 90%.