Between 2014 and 2016, Vertical Matters transitioned from research observation to structured IP creation. The question was no longer whether mobile first compliance was viable. The question became: what, specifically, needed to be built and by whom? The answer required…
The smartphone reached mass adoption in Australian construction sites approximately two years before the industry’s compliance systems acknowledged it had happened. By 2014, the majority of construction workers carried a smartphone on site. Yet the compliance ecosystem which included forms,…
Construction’s paperwork problem isn’t an administrative inconvenience. It’s a structural failure embedded in how the industry manages safety and quality compliance. In 2012, Vertical Matters commenced formal research into a question that had no satisfactory answer in the industry: why…