The paper stream, filed as it flows
Every RFI, submittal, and report lands connected to the drawing, spec, and milestone it touches. Nothing waits for a Friday admin pass.
Engineering and construction
A job produces RFIs, submittals, field reports, and revisions faster than anyone can file them. Vela reads that stream where it already lives and holds the job as one current model, so the answer is in the record instead of in someone's truck.
- AwardScope, schedule, and the owner behind it
- SubmittalsApproval before anything is built
- ProcurementMaterial against the look-ahead
- Field workCrews, RFIs, and daily record
- CloseoutEvidence the job is finished
What this team asks Vela.
Which submittal is holding the sequence?
Is this the current drawing?
What did the owner decide on that RFI?
Vela answers from the project’s own record, and every answer names the document it came from.
Current drawings, visibly current
A superseded sheet on site is money lost. Vela tracks which revision is current and what each revision changed, with the old sheet still readable behind it.
The owner's asks, on the schedule
Owner directives and open decisions land in the same model as the work they affect, so nothing surfaces for the first time at the OAC meeting.
A bulletin supersedes the set.
Somewhere a crew is framing to a drawing that just died, followed from the bulletin to the field.
What arrivesArchitect's bulletinDrawing set revisionThe set is superseded and a submittal comes back
What movedDrawing setCurrentSupersededSubmittal statusApproved as notedResubmit
What it touchesField sequence Crews working to the old set this weekMaterial orders Fabrication already released against it
Where it stopsProject managerOwns what the field builds Monday morning. The hold notice and the resubmittal wait on their call.Waiting on sign-off
How a job moves through Vela
The mechanism is the same on every page of this site, because it is the product. What changes is what it reads for you.
Connect what the work already produces
Vela reads the mail, drawing sets, registers, and calendars a project generates in the systems where they already live. Nothing gets moved and nothing gets re-entered.
The live model builds itself
Records, milestones, equipment, decisions, and owners get mapped into one operating picture. Every value keeps a way back to its source.
A change is traced to what it touches
When a source moves, Vela follows the change through the records and milestones that depend on it and flags the risk before the schedule slips.
A person signs off before anything moves
Vela stages the exact updates and drafts the replies, then stops. Nothing is written and nothing is sent until someone on your team approves it.
What Vela reads for a GC
Vela connects to the systems the job already runs on and keeps the record current from the stream.
Reading and writing stay separate. Vela reads the scopes you grant, and writing anything back is its own permission with a named person signing off.
Sources
Read-only
Job inboxOwner directives, subcontractor threads, and vendor quotes for the job
Job driveThe current drawing set, submittal packages, and daily reports
Tracking sheetsRFI logs, procurement registers, and the look-ahead tabs
Job calendarLook-ahead milestones, inspections, deliveries, and OAC meetingsArtifacts stay where they live. Vela reads them in place and keeps a way back to every source. The Google systems read today; the rest of the catalog ships in the order teams ask for it.
Who works out of it.
One model, read four ways. Each seat sees the records and decisions its own work depends on, without creating a second version of the project.
Project management
Owns the owner relationship, the schedule, and the change position.
Engineering leads
Issue the packages everyone downstream builds and buys against.
Procurement
Turns issued packages into orders, and orders into deliveries that hit the sequence.
Project controls
Reports progress and risk from the record rather than from the last status cycle.
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Bring us a job mid-stream.
We will read a week of its traffic and show you the record it builds.