UPDATESep 13, 2026ai building engineering

Workspace: one platform for every project, site and plant a team runs

Seventy apps across eight services — project management, site supervision, operations, procurement, training, engineering design and factory audits — under one login, with an AI that answers questions against your own workspace data. Built in India, as the alternative to stitching a company together out of imported ERP modules.

Why it exists

Engineering and operations teams in India run on a patchwork. A project tool here, a spreadsheet for site progress, WhatsApp for approvals, paper for the audit — and, for the companies that can afford it, imported ERP modules priced and shaped for somebody else's organisation. The audit trail ends up in five places, and none of them is the one you need on the day of the audit.

Workspace is my answer to that: one login for the plant, one invoice, one place the audit trail lives. Each service is a set of connected apps, and a team turns on only what it needs — the rest stays out of the way.

What is in it

Project Management — 16 apps for planning, tasks, meetings, documents and approvals.
Construction Supervision — 18 apps for the site: daily progress, inspections, quality and safety.
Operations Management — 24 apps for running a plant or a facility, from attendance and leave to maintenance, production and HSE.
Procurement — 7 apps, from requisition to purchase.
E-Learning — 3 apps for courses and training records.
Engineering Design — a calculators app with 43 engineering calculators across mechanical, electrical, utilities and civil work.
Factory Assessments — 26 audit checklists and 1,194 questions, including all eight FSSAI Schedule-4 sector checklists, hygiene ratings, and fire, electrical and boiler safety.
Notes — shared across everything.

Under every app sit the things that should never be bolted on afterwards: a live home feed, to-dos, direct messages, approvals, notifications, and dark mode on the phone.

Goku, the AI layer

Goku answers questions about your own workspace in plain English. It works by calling tools across project, site, operations, procurement, quality, HSE and training data, and streams the answer back as it goes. Today it reads; it does not act. Letting it take actions on your behalf is the next phase, and it is deliberately the next phase rather than this one.

Where it stands — September 2026

Live on the web, iOS and Android. Version 1.3.18 went out on 11 September — the fifth release in about a week.
Being built right now: a redesigned app shell on the web; the Factory Assessments catalogue, which grew from 11 checklists to 26 in one push; Expenses, shipped, with Travels drafted behind it; and a KPIs app, specified.
Offline, honestly: recently opened data stays readable on the phone when the signal drops, and attendance punches queue until it comes back. It is a cache, not offline editing.

What has been hard

Every customer gets its own database schema. That is the right call for isolation and a constant tax everywhere else: every background job has to step into the right schema explicitly, and the internal list of places where that can go wrong now runs past a hundred entries.

The quiet failures have been worse than the loud ones — real-time delivery that stopped after a routine restart without raising a single error, and push notifications on Android that died for want of one build plugin. And breadth is its own discipline: seventy apps is seventy places for access rules, prices and even the app count itself to drift out of agreement.