Company: Fieldwire
CEO and General Manager: Puneet Raj
Website: https://www.fieldwire.com/
About Fieldwire
Five Lives is a digital health company focused on brain health, cognitive Fieldwire began in 2013 when founders Yves Frinault and Javed Singha established the company in San Francisco to resolve a massive productivity gap in construction operations. For years, jobsite coordination remained broken because field and office teams relied on fragmented communication channels, manual data entry and physical paper drawings.
These inefficiencies forced craftspersons to spend a mere 30% of their day on direct building tasks while wasting the rest on administrative delays or travelling to retrieve information. Fieldwire addressed this by creating a mobile-first jobsite management platform that puts live plans, tasks and reports directly into the hands of crews on site.
The journey from startup to a global scaleup required overcoming significant structural and operational hurdles. A major challenge emerged during the transition period following the departure of the original founders. Navigating the accompanying uncertainty and organisational turmoil demanded rapid stabilization while simultaneously maintaining an aggressive growth trajectory.
The leadership team successfully shifted the company’s focus from relying on isolated heroic efforts by individual standouts toward designing repeatable, scalable processes that an expanding global workforce could systematically reproduce. Today, the business operates with nearly 400 professionals across 25 countries.
In terms of ecosystem impact, Fieldwire has fundamentally redefined how software serves the construction industry. Acquired by the Hilti Group in 2021, the platform now supports more than 10,000 construction companies across 6 continents. It has been deployed on more than 4 million projects worldwide, allowing field crews to save an average of over one hour per day per person. By centralising documentation, the technology has eliminated massive printing costs, drastically reduced variance expenses, and completely protected specialty contractors from expensive legal disputes.
Fieldwire is pioneering the integration of practical artificial intelligence within the sector through Field Intelligence™. Instead of building separate analytics dashboards that add software complexity, the platform embeds AI intelligence directly into the existing workflows that crews use daily. Field Intelligence facilitates voice-driven task management, automated photo tagging, and intelligent search across plans, specifications and forms.
This approach removes the friction of capturing real-time jobsite progress, ensuring that field data is instantly transformed into trackable action without forcing workers to remove their gloves or manage clunky administrative interfaces. By driving widespread digital adoption among historically change-resistant workforces, Fieldwire continues to maximise building time and elevate operational profitability globally.
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