Daily logs by text

The problem in one paragraph

Every commercial project requires a daily log. Owner expects it. Architect references it. Insurance carrier needs it for any future claim. The daily log gets filed reliably only when the cost of filing is low. App-based daily logs require 9 fields, 3 photo attachments, and 4 minutes of focus at the end of a 12-hour day. Most supers don’t.

The 60-second daily log via text

Forward accepts the daily log in whatever shape the super actually wants to text it. Free-form is fine:

Crew of 14 today. Concrete pour east deck 7:30-11:00, 240 CY total. Rain stopped us 1pm-3pm. Inspector signed off rough plumbing east half. Pier 23 forms broke down, replaced with R&R blanket. No safety incidents.

Forward parses that into the structured daily-log shape your project records expect:

• Manpower: 14
• Weather: rain delay 1pm-3pm
• Production: 240 CY concrete east deck
• Inspections: rough plumbing east half — passed
• Equipment issues: Pier 23 forms — replaced
• Safety: none reported

If a required field is missing (your project requires craft breakdown by trade, for instance), Forward asks one follow-up text. The super answers in 5 seconds — not 4 minutes of app navigation.

Photo attachments

Super texts photos of the day’s notable progress. Forward attaches each photo to the relevant log section, captioning them based on what comes before/after in the text thread.

Photos go straight to the project’s photo log — Procore Photos, Autodesk Photos, or the shared OneDrive folder. No re-upload, no re-tagging.

Where the structured log lands

Forward writes to whatever daily-log tool your project tracks canonically:

• Procore Daily Log — native API write, with PM approval gating if you’ve configured it
• Autodesk Construction Cloud Daily Log — same
• Raken — cross-post via Raken’s API
• HCSS HeavyJob (civil) — coming Q2
• OneDrive / SharePoint daily-log spreadsheet — if you keep the log in Excel, Forward updates the spreadsheet directly

Owner + architect distribution

Owner’s rep wants the log delivered by 9am the next day. Architect wants it on Friday rollup. Forward routes through the underlying tool’s distribution settings — same emails, same schedule, same format. Owner doesn’t know Forward is in the middle of the workflow.

The supers who actually use it

Across the supers we’ve worked with, daily-log filing rates went from 50-70% on app-based tools to 95-100% on Forward’s SMS interface. The behavior change isn’t about discipline — it’s about removing the friction gap. Texting a paragraph at 6pm is easier than opening an app with 9 required fields.

Compliance + audit trail

Every daily-log entry through Forward is logged with the super’s phone number, the original text, the parsed fields, and the timestamp. The audit trail is exportable + retained per your plan tier (90 days Standard, 365 Pro, 7 years Enterprise).

Insurance carriers, OSHA, and the architect can all be served the same daily-log records they’d get from Procore directly — Forward isn’t a different source of truth, it’s a write-path on top of the existing one.

Try it

Text +1 (682) 300-6750 with daily log for 4/22/2026 — demo project returns the log for that date in the structured format. Same shape Forward produces when your super texts in an update.