The Best Interface Was One I Didn't Build: WhatsApp on a Construction Site

说明与用途

在建筑工地使用 WhatsApp 作为照片提交接口，消除了构建和维护单独门户的需求，降低了用户注册和培训成本，同时保持了财务验证的结构化数据流。

问题

Field workers needed to submit photo evidence for contractor disbursements, but building a dedicated portal would incur high account creation, training, and maintenance costs.

结果

Using WhatsApp for evidence submission eliminated account provisioning costs, improved adoption, and maintained structured data flow for financial verification.

工作流

• 1. Field worker opens WhatsApp and initiates the AutoKon bot. 2. Bot asks for unit, stage, and photo one at a time. 3. Bot validates each input, rejecting incomplete submissions. 4. Structured data is sent to AutoKon platform. 5. Vision pipeline grades evidence. 6. Five-role approval workflow receives the submission. 7. Approvers receive guided chat with photo and decision prompt. 8. Decision is recorded and disbursement processed.

证据

AutoKon verifies construction progress with photo evidence and uses that evidence to gate contractor disbursements across thousands of housing units.

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I did not build them a portal. They submit over WhatsApp.

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Field submissions come in through a WhatsApp-first flow built on n8n and Botpress.

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The conversation collects what the record needs (which unit, which stage, the photo) and hands a structured submission to the platform.

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Approvers work through guided chat too. Someone with four items to approve does not open a dashboard, find the queue and filter it.

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