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ARK Watcher: 24/7 construction project monitoring

Your project, watched
while your team sleeps.

ARK Watcher is ARK's Watch layer. It monitors your project information 24/7, whichever systems your team uses to run the project. It looks for conditions that need a person to review, decide and act, and for issues that put the project at risk. ARK Watcher keeps checking when nobody is asking.

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How it works

From alert to decision to record.

ARK Watcher finds it.

ARK Watcher alerts the right team the moment it finds an issue, in ARK and by email, with the cited source and a suggested action.

Your team decides.

Your team checks the source in seconds, reviews the suggested action and decides what to do. Nothing happens without a person's approval.

ARK records it.

Every alert, review and action is kept as a permanent audit record, so you can show what was flagged, who decided and when.

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What it solves

Nothing important gets missed.

Project information changes every day and sits across many systems. Spec changes, pricing gaps, unanswered RFIs and missed claim events are easy to miss.

When they slip through, they turn into rework, delays and lost margin. ARK Watcher watches the whole project while your team sleeps, so nothing important gets missed.

ARK Watcher reads the systems your team already uses, in place. Nothing is moved or replaced. See integrations →

  • Spec changes
  • Pricing gaps
  • Unanswered RFIs
  • Missed claim events

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Features

What ARK Watcher looks for.

Spec changes

Spots spec changes and compares each revision with the last. The alert names the submittals and work packages the change affects.

Estimate checks

Finds inconsistencies in estimates and sends each one to your estimating team with the lines cited, before the price goes out.

Pricing gaps

Picks up gaps between tender pricing and subcontractor pricing, so your commercial team sees the shortfall before the subcontract is let.

RFIs and submittals

Reviews RFIs and submittals and flags the ones that are unanswered or checked against an old revision.

Claim events

Gives early warning of claim events, with the instruction cited and the notice window shown, so notice goes in on time.

Your own rules

Set your own conditions and actions, and choose which team each alert goes to. ARK Watcher checks new documents automatically as they arrive, including against your ISO 19650 or in-house information standard, set up for your projects.

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Benefits

What your team gets.

  • Your team is alerted the moment project conditions change.
  • People stay in control and make every decision.
  • Fewer issues slip through.
  • Less rework and fewer quality issues.
  • Faster decisions that protect the margin you planned at tender.
  • Every alert, review and action is kept as a permanent audit record.
  • Less overload and stress for lean project teams.

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A worked example

One alert, from Friday evening to Monday morning.

Friday 18:05

An addendum revises specification section 08 44 13. It lands in your document system after the design team has gone home.

Minutes later

ARK Watcher matches the change to submittal SUB-087, which is under review against the old revision. The project engineer gets an alert in ARK and by email, with both documents cited and a suggested action: hold the approval and request a resubmittal.

Monday 08:10

The engineer checks the two documents, holds the approval and asks for a resubmittal. ARK records the alert, the decision and who made it.

Without ARK Watcher, the submittal would have been approved against the old specification on Monday morning.

Watch it work

24/7 Project monitoring and early warning with ARK Watcher

ARK Watcher monitors the whole project across the tools you already use. It looks for conditions that need a person to decide, and issues that put the project at risk. The right team gets an alert with a link to the source, decides what to do and records the action.

  • Early warning while there is still time to act
  • The right team, the evidence and a next step
  • Transparent actions and a permanent record

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One platform, built in three layers

Answer. Watch. Act.

ARK Watcher is the Watch layer of ARK, the Project Intelligence Platform for AECO.

AnswerRunning today
Ask anything about the project and get an answer with the document, page and clause attached.
WatchLive now · ARK Watcher
Monitors your project information 24/7 and alerts the right team when something needs a decision.
ActNext
Have the routine follow-up drafted, chased and logged. ARK prepares it and a person approves it.

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FAQ

ARK Watcher questions

What is ARK Watcher?
ARK Watcher is ARK's Watch layer. It monitors your project information 24/7 and alerts the right team when something needs a decision or puts the project at risk.
What does ARK Watcher look for?
ARK Watcher looks for spec changes, inconsistencies in estimates, gaps between tender and subcontractor pricing, RFIs and submittals that need attention, and early signs of a claim event.
How is ARK Watcher different from notifications in my CDE?
A CDE tells you that a file changed inside that one system. ARK Watcher reads across all the systems on the project and checks what the change means: which submittals, estimates, RFIs or contract terms it affects. Each alert arrives with the source cited and a suggested action.
Can ARK Watcher check documents against ISO 19650?
Yes, when it is set up for your projects. ARK reads ISO 19650 naming to sort and track documents, and ARK Watcher checks new documents automatically as they arrive. Checks of information requirements, naming, status codes and approvals are configured to each client's own standard, because not every market mandates ISO 19650.
Which systems does ARK Watcher work with?
ARK Watcher works with whichever systems your team already uses to run the project (see integrations). ARK reads them in place, and nothing is moved or replaced.
How does ARK Watcher alert my team?
ARK Watcher alerts your team in ARK and by email as soon as it finds something. Each alert goes to the team you choose, links to the cited source and suggests an action.
Does ARK Watcher act on its own?
No. ARK Watcher suggests an action, and a person reviews it and decides. ARK records what was done.
Can we choose what ARK Watcher looks for?
Yes. Your team sets its own conditions and actions for ARK Watcher and chooses which team each alert goes to.
Is there a record of what happened?
Yes. ARK keeps every alert, review and action as a permanent audit record.
How is ARK Watcher different from asking ARK a question?
ARK answers when you ask. ARK Watcher keeps checking when nobody is asking, so changes are caught while your team is busy or off site.

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