By late 2016, Vertical Matters had established a field operations platform under the Safe at Work program that was generating real operational data from real construction sites at commercially meaningful…
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,…
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…
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…
