Kwant Gives the Jobsite Five New Senses Ahead of Groundbreak 2026

‍New York, NY — October 2026 — Every day on a construction site comes down to five questions: Are workers cleared to work? Where are they? What is happening around them? What is coming their way? And what should we do next? Kwant, the workforce and jobsite intelligence platform for construction and industrial projects, today introduced five new and expanded capabilities, each built to answer one of them.

Think of them as new senses for the jobsite. FormIQ reads the paperwork, turning handwritten and photographed safety forms into usable data. ZoneIQ knows where workers are. Camera integrations see what is happening across the site. Weather detection sensors watch the sky. And Kwant MCP gives the jobsite a voice, so teams can simply ask a question in plain English and get an answer from an AI assistant.

“Construction teams have more workforce, safety, and operational data than ever, but the real challenge is turning that information into action,” said Niran Shrestha, CEO and Co-Founder of Kwant. “With these new capabilities, we’re bringing the data teams already have into a more complete picture of what is happening across the jobsite. Our goal is to help construction leaders make faster, smarter decisions that improve safety, productivity, and project performance.”

Turning Jobsite Data Into Intelligence

Construction teams manage information across workforce systems, safety documentation, access control, cameras, weather tools, and project platforms. Yet much of that information remains fragmented across different systems.

Kwant brings these data layers together to help teams understand who is on site, where they are, whether they are cleared to work, what is happening around them, and what action may be needed.

“You already have the locations, the workforce, the sensors displayed through the jobsite. So being able to map that out to all the locations and the PTPs and the permits with the crew sizes, all that stuff, you have the foundation to collect that data. It’s building the overall big picture to say how this all works together.”

Head of Innovation, ENR Top 100 Contractor

This connected view helps teams move beyond collecting information in separate systems to understanding how workforce activity, planned work, and safety conditions affect one another.

FormIQ: Are They Cleared to Work?

FormIQ transforms paper-heavy and manual field processes into instantly digitized, manageable data at scale. Using AI, teams can process digital, handwritten, and photographed forms, including Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs), Pre-Task Plan (PTPs), inspections, toolbox talks, and other jobsite documentation. 

By reducing manual entry and making safety information easier to manage, FormIQ helps general contractors and subcontractors work from the same information while identifying missing data, potential hazards, and compliance issues. 

Over the course of a project, that information can also reveal trends and recurring risks, creating deeper insight into jobsite safety. FormIQ builds on Kwant’s existing workforce and site safety capabilities to provide a more complete safety solution for projects of all sizes and complexities.

When safety documentation is connected to workforce and location data, teams can also identify potential gaps between planned activities and required safety procedures.

One of the customers who piloted this feature mentioned, “I got a crew of 10 working in zone 2 today, then the PTP module highlighted there was hot work going on, and then there’s a hot work permit missing in zone 2, or there’s an incident. Well, now we can just flag through the system that [a] Hot Work Permit was never even filled out to begin with. That’s a huge safety issue. Or it was filled out, and here it is.

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I see that as highly valuable just because it’s more data that you can use to tie everything together — the permits, the scheduled work, whether it’s declared or not, the conflicting trades in the zone. You can see where the trades are concentrated.”

Safety Manager, ENR Top 10 GC

By making safety documentation more accessible and actionable, teams can better understand whether required procedures are in place before work progresses.

ZoneIQ: Where Are They?

ZoneIQ now provides even more powerful real-time workforce intelligence, building on Kwant’s leadership in indoor and outdoor location awareness. Teams can see workforce location, movement, density, and activity across jobsite zones.

Recent enhancements also bring compliance and safety data into the ZoneIQ experience. Field teams can self-manage site changes, making it faster and easier to maintain visibility and control as jobsites evolve.

“When you can track the biggest resource in construction, the people, the opportunities are endless. There is immense power in that data.”

VP of Operations, Top 10 GC in Canada

ZoneIQ can also work with FormIQ and access control to help teams make smarter decisions about where workers are authorized to go based on certifications, permits, completed forms, and current compliance status.

By combining location intelligence with information about scheduled work and safety requirements, teams can identify where trades are concentrating and where additional coordination may be needed.

Kwant MCP: What Should We Do Next? Just Ask.

Kwant MCP lets teams ask their jobsite questions in plain English and get answers in seconds. MCP, short for Model Context Protocol, is an open standard that lets AI assistants connect securely to business data. In practice, it means Kwant’s workforce and jobsite intelligence can flow directly into AI assistants and enterprise applications.

For example, a superintendent could ask:

“How many electricians were on Level 3 yesterday, and were all their JHAs complete?”

Instead of manually pulling information from multiple systems, the answer can be surfaced in seconds.

Kwant is seeing growing demand from general contractors and owners looking to bring information from different sources into a more complete view of their projects. Workforce data adds an important intelligence layer, providing insight into safety, productivity, compliance, and the pulse of what is happening on site.

MCP creates new opportunities for natural-language queries, AI-powered workflows, automated reporting, and enterprise applications.

Cameras: What Is Happening Around Them?

Kwant’s expanding camera ecosystem adds visual jobsite intelligence to workforce and access information. Camera systems can provide live video, AI-based person and vehicle detection, recording, monitoring, and alerts, while Kwant adds workforce context to those events.

This supports use cases including unauthorized access, investigations, PPE compliance, perimeter security, and incident response. Teams can use visual events alongside workforce and access information to better understand what happened, who was present, and what action may be required.

The result is a more complete understanding of jobsite activity, combining what cameras see with the workforce information that provides context.

Weather Integration: What Is Coming Their Way?

Kwant partners with the industry leading weather detection platform, bringing real-time environmental information into workforce operations, including alerts for lightning, heat stress, wind, air quality, and severe weather.

The integration was driven in part by feedback from the field. When severe weather develops, teams need to move quickly from receiving an important alert to communicating with everyone on site.

By bringing weather information into the workforce environment, teams can streamline site-wide communications and safety responses when every minute matters. This supports faster decision-making, emergency preparedness, and operational continuity as conditions change.

From Jobsite Visibility to Jobsite Intelligence

Like human senses, each capability is useful on its own. Together, they create awareness.

FormIQ captures and structures safety information, access control verifies authorization, ZoneIQ shows where workers are, cameras provide visual context, and weather tracks environmental conditions. MCP then lets teams put all of it to work simply by asking.

Connected workforce and safety data can also help teams compare what is happening on site with what was planned, giving safety leaders an opportunity to identify discrepancies and address concerns earlier.

“We use safety observation data heavily. So then I can shift that to say, ‘Hey, this is what we’re observing versus this is the work that’s coming up. Here’s where the discrepancies are going on. Guys, we need to focus on this.’ It helps [to] have those conversations early.”

Customer perspective

Customers are already using workforce intelligence to improve everyday operations.

“Moving 5,000 people on the job site within a 30-minute time frame at 7am in the morning is instrumental to the productivity of our job site.”

Safety Manager, ENR Top 30 Contractor

Another customer emphasized how connecting safety observations with upcoming work helps teams identify potential risks and address them before they escalate.

“We use safety observation data heavily. By comparing what we’re observing with the work coming up, we can identify discrepancies and focus attention where it’s needed. It helps us have those conversations early.”

Customer perspective

This connected view helps construction teams compare safety observations with upcoming work, identify discrepancies, and focus attention where it is needed most. By connecting jobsite data, Kwant helps teams recognize potential risks earlier, support proactive safety conversations, and make more informed decisions before issues escalate.

Kwant will showcase these capabilities at Groundbreak 2026, with live demonstrations of FormIQ, ZoneIQ, MCP, camera and weather integrations.