Operational Intelligence
OPERATIONAL INTELLIGENCE · INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY

STOP PAYING
CREWS TO DO
NOTHING.

"We tell infrastructure programme managers whether tomorrow's work should go ahead — and why — before the crews leave home."

The night-before decision system for infrastructure sites. One verdict by 20:00: proceed, delay, or cancel — with the full reasoning behind it.

🌊 TIDAL WINDOWS 🚆 RAIL POSSESSIONS 🛣️ LANE CLOSURES ✈️ AIRSIDE WINDOWS 🔐 PERMIT READINESS 👷 MINIMUM CREW
⚡ REAL INCIDENT · 7 MAY 2026
Thames Barrier — Monthly Gate Check Overrun Fifteen people across three contractors mobilised for a full shift. By 7:30am the tidal window had closed. Safe access to the barrier leaves was impossible. Full shift. £7,200 in guaranteed contractor costs. Gone before a single tool touched a bolt. Nobody did anything wrong. The system simply failed to connect the dots the night before.
£7,200
ONE MORNING
ONE SITE
⚡ REAL INCIDENT · 11 MAY 2026
Thames Barrier — One Absentee, Minimum Crew Not Met Eleven May. One DiveCo ERT member absent — unannounced. Minimum crew number not met. Primary task (anode cutting, Leaf G) stood down all day. Thirteen personnel redeployed to secondary tasks. An unscheduled Rendel inspection aborted afternoon works at 15:00, costing another 30 minutes. The absentee was not known until 07:30 morning briefing.
1
ABSENTEE
FULL STAND-DOWN
£10,040
PREVENTABLE WASTE LOGGED
and counting — live from site
2
OPERATIONAL EVENTS LOGGED
Thames Barrier · May 2026
100%
ASSESSED PREVENTABLE
foreseeable the night before
£0
COST WITH SLACKWATER
right information · night before
VERDICT: DELAY — DO NOT FULLY MOBILISE
Gate rotation test not viable today. Tidal window closes before safe completion (82% failure probability).

Action: Stand down 14 staff. Keep 6 essential on site. Reassign to backup maintenance package — sill beam cleaning, Pier 3, tidal-independent.

📱 Workforce notification drafted and ready to send.
Est. saving this shift: £4,480
HOW IT WORKS
SIMPLE DAILY
LOOP.
01

UPLOAD YOUR DOCUMENTS

Drop in permits to work, risk assessments, and method statements. Slackwater reads and understands them — extracting every constraint, threshold and uncontrollable factor automatically. No manual data entry.

PERMITS · RISK ASSESSMENTS · WORK PACKS
02

SET LIVE CONDITIONS

Wind speed. Tidal state. Asset status. Permit readiness. CTC clearance. Weather forecast. Each contractor's progress. Updated daily in 5 minutes. Slackwater cross-references everything simultaneously.

REAL-TIME · MULTI-CONTRACTOR
03

GET THE DECISION

By 8pm the night before. A clear PROCEED / DELAY / CANCEL verdict. Exact crew numbers. Task sequence. And the message to send your workforce tonight — so nobody travels for nothing.

NIGHT-BEFORE · HUMAN APPROVED
slackwater > analysing tomorrow's tidal window...
window: 06:20–09:40 · duration: 3h 20m · state: FALLING ✓
wind: 8 m/s · threshold: 15 m/s ✓ · crane threshold: 10 m/s ✓
ctc clearance: 26 of 30 verified · 4 blocked ⚠
permit to work — leaf d: valid ✓ · leaf e: pending ⚠
apollo crane: wind within limits ✓ · diveco ert: on station ✓
slackwater > calculating optimal crew...
✓ PROCEED · mobilise 22 of 30 staff · 8 stood down
✓ task sequence: bolt survey → sill cleaning → staging
⚠ leaf e works blocked · ptw pending · do not mobilise bolttech
slackwater > drafting workforce notification...
✓ notification ready · 22 mobilising · 8 stood down · est. saving £2,880
slackwater >
WHAT SLACKWATER DOES
BUILT FOR THE
REAL COMPLEXITY.
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DOCUMENT INTELLIGENCE
Upload any permit, risk assessment or method statement. Slackwater reads it, extracts every constraint and threshold, and applies them to every operational decision automatically. No forms. No manual entry.
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ENVIRONMENTAL WINDOW MATCHING
Tidal windows, weather thresholds, temperature limits, wind speed hard stops — cross-referenced against your method statements in real time. The system knows your crane has a 10 m/s limit when the rest of the site works to 15.
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CTC & COMPETENCY COMPLIANCE
Every worker's security clearance and certification is verified before they're listed as mobilisable. Non-compliant staff are automatically blocked. Built for CTC-cleared critical national infrastructure environments.
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MULTI-CONTRACTOR COORDINATION
Every contractor sees their own view. The principal contractor sees everything. Dependencies are tracked automatically — scaffold must complete before engineers can access, ERT must be on station before any in-water work begins.
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WORKFORCE DISPATCH
AI generates the optimal crew plan. Supervisor approves with one tap. Workers receive a personalised message by 8pm — come in or don't. Zero-hours staff not called in cost nothing. No wasted mobilisations.
REAL-TIME REOPTIMISATION
Conditions change mid-shift. A team finishes early. A permit clears. A tide window shortens. Tell Slackwater what changed and it reoptimises the remaining work in seconds — telling you exactly who does what next.
MARKET POSITION
NOBODY OWNS
THIS SPACE.

The go/no-go decision for constrained infrastructure works is currently made by a programme manager with a phone, a spreadsheet, and a weather app. No software exists to do it systematically. That is Slackwater's uncontested space.

COMPANY WHAT THEY SOLVE WHERE SLACKWATER IS DIFFERENT
Procore / Autodesk Office-layer project management — documents, drawings, RFIs We solve the ground-level operational layer. What happens on site, not in the office.
Buildots Progress tracking via cameras on hard hats. Indoor buildings only. We solve constraint-governed environments — tidal, weather, regulatory. Entirely different problem.
Mastt / Firmus Pre-construction document and cost management We operate during delivery — in the shift, not before it starts.
Nobody Go/no-go decision for constrained infrastructure works This is Slackwater's uncontested space.
POSITIONING RULE: Slackwater is not construction software. The category is operational intelligence for infrastructure delivery — a category that does not yet exist and that Slackwater is building.
HOW WE BUILD IT TOGETHER
WORK WITH ME
AND I'LL WORK
WITH YOU.

Slackwater doesn't arrive knowing everything. It starts by reading your documents, learning your constraints, and understanding how your specific programme runs. The more operational data you feed it, the more accurate and useful it becomes.

Every task logged. Every tidal window recorded. Every permit tracked. Every delay noted. Over weeks and months, Slackwater builds a model of your programme that no spreadsheet, no generic AI, and no outside consultant could ever replicate — because it was built from what actually happened on your site.

THE LEARNING CURVE
W1
Upload your documents
Permits, risk assessments, method statements. Slackwater reads them and extracts every constraint automatically.
W2
Log your first tasks
Time in, time out, crew size, what happened. 60 seconds at the end of each task. Builds the performance database.
W4
Slackwater starts recognising patterns
Task durations, tidal sensitivities, crew configurations, sequencing conflicts. The AI learns what your programme actually looks like.
M3
Recommendations become precise
Crew sizes, task sequencing, window optimisation. Based on your real data, not industry averages. Accurate to your site.
📋
UPLOAD YOUR DOCUMENTS

Drop in your permits to work, risk assessments, method statements, lift plans, and work packs. Slackwater reads every one and automatically extracts the constraints, thresholds, and uncontrollable factors that govern your works.

→ Permits to Work
→ Risk Assessments
→ Method Statements
→ Lift Plans & LOLER
→ Work Packs & Specifications
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LOG SITE DATA AS YOU GO

60 seconds at the end of each task. That's all it takes. Log what happened, how long it took, how many people, and any blockers. Over time this becomes the most accurate construction task database ever built — for your specific site, your specific programme.

→ Task start & finish times
→ Crew size & configuration
→ Tidal & weather conditions
→ Blockers & delays
→ Productive vs idle time
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WHAT SLACKWATER DOES WITH IT

Every document read. Every task logged. Every condition recorded. Slackwater builds an operational model of your programme that gets more accurate every day — and uses it to tell you what's coming before it becomes a problem.

→ Accurate task duration forecasting
→ Optimal crew size per task
→ Night-before go/no-go decision
→ Sequencing conflict detection
→ Programme risk forecasting
TARGET INDUSTRIES
WHEREVER GROUND-
LEVEL COORDINATION
LOSES MONEY.
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FLOOD DEFENCE
Tidal windows, gate operations, EA consent, ERT standby requirements
🛣️
HIGHWAYS
TM permits, carriageway access, weather-dependent surfacing windows
🚆
RAIL
Track possessions, isolation certificates, safety-critical window management
✈️
AIRPORTS
Airside permits, AOC compliance, movement area access, PLA coordination
POWER & UTILITIES
Outage windows, HV isolation, network operator coordination, LD risk
🏗️
MAJOR CONSTRUCTION
Multi-contractor sequencing, trade dependency, QA gates, programme delivery
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OFFSHORE WIND
Marine weather windows, vessel scheduling, installation sequencing
⚛️
NUCLEAR
Highest-regulation environment. Most complex permit stack. Highest cost of delay.

READY TO STOP
LOSING MONEY
BEFORE 8AM?

We're offering a free 90-day trial to one infrastructure site. You provide honest feedback. We build around your operation. No cost. No obligation.

Or email us directly at hello@slackwater.live