Inside PlanOps

What we’re doing, and why we’re doing it.

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The PlanOps RAMS Review Standard: twenty tests, four parts, one score where every point lost is traceable to a named criterion - shown as the weights of the twenty tests grouped into the four parts of the review
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The PlanOps RAMS Review Standard

A published, versioned standard for reviewing a subcontractor's RAMS against the requirement you issued. Twenty tests in four parts, the weight of each, the duty each one evidences, and an arithmetic method that turns verdicts into a score. Adopt it on paper, or let PlanOps run it for you.

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What a competent RAMS review actually tests: twenty tests, four parts, and weights that say what matters most when it is missing - shown as a signed RAMS beside twenty criteria marked met or not met, in four rows
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What a competent RAMS review actually tests

A RAMS review is supposed to be a test. On most sites it is a receipt. Here is what a competent review tests, how much each test is worth, why the result is scored the way it is, and where the arithmetic has to overrule itself.

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Documents moving along a production line through five gantry-style checkpoints, with one flagged document diverted out of the run into a holding area before it can reach the finished stack
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How we stop AI making things up

During testing, our AI produced a full, confident, non-compliant verdict on a RAMS document it had never received. Here is why language models fill gaps, and the five engineering controls that stop those failures reaching a project record.

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Construction software built to challenge the status quo
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Challenger construction software: what it is and why it exists

A new category of construction software is taking on the incumbents the way Monzo and Starling took on the high street banks - AI doing real work, published pricing, self-serve start, no lock-in. Here are the five tests that define it, and who passes them today.

Ian YeoRead →
PlanOps article graphic showing a construction worker reviewing documents as chat bubbles turn into structured project records
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Why can't we just use a chatbot? A fair question that deserves a proper answer

Chatbots are useful, but there is a difference between a tool an individual finds helpful and a capability a construction business can rely on. Here are the questions that separate ad-hoc chat from governed AI workflows.

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A construction team using PlanOps to turn a project request into a structured output
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Why PlanOps is different: useful before you learn the software

Most construction platforms ask you to learn the software before you get the value. PlanOps starts the other way round: describe what you need, and it guides the work into a structured result you can review.

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A construction project manager working through paperwork late in the office
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Why PlanOps? The admin tax nobody signed up for

Ask any project manager where their week goes and you'll hear the same answer - reports, forms, chasing and checking documents. None of it is the actual job. We built PlanOps to bring that tax down.

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A construction site with digital overlays
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The quarter construction AI grew up: what actually changed

Three months of writing the Construction AI Brief, distilled. The conversation moved from "is AI useful?" to "who's accountable, who owns the data, and can you keep running the model you've built on?" That shift - from capability to consequence - is the real story of the quarter.

Ian YeoRead →
The PlanOps platform
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What PlanOps actually is: a team of specialists, not a chatbot

PlanOps isn't one AI answering questions. It's a team of specialist construction assistants - Health & Safety, Quality, Document Control, Commercial - with a router that sends each request to the right one and runs a real workflow behind it.

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