Notes from the field.
Short, practical reads on field operations, safety evidence, job costing — and getting the record of the work without the paperwork.
AI
Treat AI like an intern: what NVIDIA AI Amplified confirmed about how we build FieldTaskora
30 October 2026 · 6 min read
At NVIDIA AI Amplified, Atlassian, NVIDIA and Orica described the AI principles FieldTaskora builds on: AI drafts, people sign off, records you can check.
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When the inspection record is the evidence
21 October 2026 · 6 min read
Victoria’s State Building Surveyor has warned building surveyors to oversee inspections done on their behalf and review inspection records before they reach the regulator. Why inspection records fail, what other regulators have found, and practical steps for surveyors, builders and trades.
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The AI that assigns the work is now regulated
14 October 2026 · 8 min read
The EU’s AI Act treats software that hands out work, or monitors and scores the people doing it, as high-risk AI. What that covers in field work, when it applies, what it asks of the company using it, and six questions to put to your vendor.
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The inspection that passed on paper
7 October 2026 · 7 min read
A handover certificate and a green scaff tag say the scaffold was right on the day it was signed. SafeWork NSW's own findings show how quickly that stops being true — and what the record has to do to keep up with the scaffold.
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“No hallucinations” is the wrong promise
30 September 2026 · 9 min read
Every field-software vendor now says AI, and “no hallucinations” is the promise you will hear most. It is the wrong one. Six plain questions that separate AI you can check from a good demo — what each term means, what good looks like, and what to ask.
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Your next employee might be AI
23 September 2026 · 1 hr 4 min listen
AI made building software cheap. It did not make trusting it cheap. An hour with Reyan Fernando on treating a model like a new employee — process, standards, boundaries and someone checking the work — and the governance that has to be code rather than a policy document.
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