Construction site management start-up SymTerra snaps up first 100 subscribers

SymTerra, the construction site management software, hits a major subscription milestone a mere three months since public launch of its subscription app

• 500 active users across 150 UK wide rail infrastructure, construction and utilities projects.
• Visibility of data & record keeping, and communications across the project supply chain.
• Mission to replace WhatsApp for sites, with simple, instant, integrated golden thread data.

The London-based contech (construction tech) start-up signed its first 100 new subscribers – including large national utilities companies, rail infrastructure companies and small to medium-sized general contractors – with over 500 active users operating across over 200 UK wide projects.

SymTerra offers users greater visibility of data and records from site, with a clear and accessible thread of communications across the supply chain. Following the launch of Freemium subscriptions in early September 2022, SymTerra has been adopted by a wide range of users on an equally wide range of sites – from major platform extensions for Crossrail, to maintenance rail lines across the country, from a refurbishment of a caravan park in North Wales to a castle in the Highlands.

SymTerra clients include Kier, Thames Water, Transport for London and Balfour Beatty

John Ryan, CEO and co-founder of SymTerra, comments: “We’ve been on a huge journey with our initial customers, including the likes of Kier, Thames Water, Transport for London and Balfour Beatty, working closely with users to develop and enhance the features that can enable the greatest level of visibility, confidence and efficiency for site teams.

“The launch of the Freemium subscription was intended to level the playing field across the supply chain in construction – we wanted to create a digital tool that would give ground-up access to a wide range of companies, especially those that may not have the benefit of huge budgets or proprietary software. We believe that the more inclusive the digital adoption across the sector, the greater the impact in getting all parties recording and managing quality data, saving time, managing out risk and conflict and ultimately, managing ‘in’ stronger commercial defensibility.”

The SymTerra construction site management app was built to empower site workers

Developed by co-founders Sarah Crawley and John Ryan, both ex-construction professionals with a broad range of site experience, SymTerra was built for site workers, for whom the intuitive, functionality and ease-of-use was specifically designed.

COO and co-founder Sarah Crawley says: “Across the 3,870km of works in rail, and on a huge variety of new and refurbishment projects in infrastructure, utilities and construction, the features that resonate most with users and receive the greatest feedback are those that allow teams to communicate with confidence and privacy, eliminates double-do of complex paperwork across the project supply chain, and importantly, enables project teams instant access to information so that they can operate in coordination, not in silos.”