Construction technology startup Scopey Onsite has raised €523,000 (about A$850,000) in a pre-seed funding round.
The round was led by UK-based Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) fund SFC Capital. In addition, Enterprise Ireland supported the investment.
The startup focuses on improving how construction teams capture and manage project records. Better documentation can help reduce disputes and delays across building projects.
CEO Jenna Farrell and COO Gillian Laging founded Scopey Onsite in 2022. The platform is currently used by construction teams in Australia, Ireland, and the UK.
The software helps teams capture important information from building sites. It uses artificial intelligence to convert WhatsApp messages and voice notes into structured records for office teams.
As a result, project data becomes easier to store, review, and search.
The company later moved its headquarters to Ireland. This change followed Farrell’s relocation with her family and her Irish-born husband.
After the move, Scopey Onsite secured support from Enterprise Ireland along with investment from the UK.
While the company’s headquarters is now in Ireland, Laging continues to operate from Melbourne.
Farrell said the platform is designed to help construction teams capture accurate site information quickly.
“Scopey Onsite will allow construction teams to correctly capture site events fast, reduce disputes caused by incomplete information, and prepare substantiation with confidence,” she said.
“Crews will be able to capture events on site and in real-time, and office teams get structured, easily searchable evidence.”
Laging explained that the team focused on building technology that does not interrupt daily site operations.
“Technology can bring great efficiency, but it’s not easy rolling out change – especially in the construction industry where work never stops,” she said.
“You can’t pull crews off site to learn another app and rely on a few ‘tech champions’ to smooth the way, I’ve seen many innovation projects stall when those people move on.
“Scopey Onsite re-imagines how we can use daily habits to have better data capture. Since crews are already texting, we use chat-based workflows and agentic AI to turn that into structured data, so the right information reaches the right people faster. In doing so, we’re addressing long-standing challenges around documentation, accountability, and commercial risk in construction projects.”
Enterprise Ireland ANZ senior market adviser Niall Casey said the platform addresses a common issue across construction projects.
“With disputes, claims and retrospective substantiation consuming significant commercial resources across Australian projects, contractors are under pressure to improve how evidence is captured at the source before cost and schedule impacts escalate, and this platform helps them do that easily,” he said.
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