The site walk shouldn't end as a PDF.
The field is where drawings meet reality. It is also where some of the most valuable practice knowledge is created — and where almost none of it survives the drive back.
Folii makes it easier to capture that experience while you're standing there, then turn it into the report you already need to issue.
In development · with the founding practicesCapture it once.
Not a clipboard, followed by notes, followed by photographs, followed by a Word template, followed by a PDF. One observation, recorded where you're standing, carrying everything it needs:
- Photograph
- Observation
- Voice note
- Location within the project
- Assignee
- Status
- Visibility
Done on the spot, while you can still see the thing you are describing.
Turn the walk into the report.
Back at the office, the observations from the visit are already organised. Review them. Edit them. Choose what is issued and what stays inside the practice.
Then generate a clear Site Observation Report, under your studio's name, for the client and the contractor.
The report is the deliverable. The structured experience is what remains afterwards.
Then keep what was worth learning.
Most of what a site visit teaches is useful long after the project closes — and almost all of it is currently lost with the report that carried it.
- A planting failurebecomesa note on the plant
- A paver coming loosebecomesmaterial experience
- A connection modified on sitebecomesa note on the detail
- A substitution acceptedbecomesproduct history
- A specification read two waysbecomesa practice note for the next project
Folii can suggest which observations look useful beyond this project. You decide what enters the practice library — nothing arrives there because software thought it should.
Capture knowledge at the moment it becomes useful.
Standing in front of the thing that went wrong is the only moment anyone will ever describe it accurately. Every hour after that, the description gets shorter.
How the field connects back to the Library →Ten practices are shaping what this becomes.
Free for the first year. Half an hour a week. One real project.