Pre-site safety readiness for construction

Workers arrive ready.
Briefings take minutes, not hours.

Astutely replaces 3-4 hours of daily safety briefing overhead with a 10-minute pre-shift check workers complete on their phone before arriving on site. You see who's cleared before the shift starts.

10 min pre-shift check Sent by text, no app Multilingual Per-worker pass/fail 24-hour recall check
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Send us one of your safety PDFs. We'll build a module from it and show you in 20 minutes.

Coordinator Dashboard
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Upload your safety PDF
Pre_Shift_Hazard_Briefing.pdf
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AI builds interactive module
2 modules ready in ~30 seconds
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Send by text before the shift
21 workers · complete by 7:00 AM
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See who's cleared for site
18 of 21 cleared · 3 pending
5:47 AM •••••
Complete your pre-shift safety check before your 7:00 AM shift. Takes about 10 min.
Language: EN · ES · FR · PT
Done. Cleared for site.
Pre-Shift Check · Scenario
Your crew is behind schedule. The foreman says skip the buffer zone setup. What do you do?
Start work without the buffer zone
✓ Explain the buffer zone is required before any work begins and offer to help set it up
Wait for someone else to make the call
"The delivery methods are just hard to do. The material is fine. It's the delivery that's the problem."
Robert
VP Health & Safety, National Traffic Control Co.
"Send me this. Onsite briefings are a pain in the ass. Could save a ton of time."
Matt
Senior Project Manager, Major GC (Toronto)
"This is like a toolbox talk. So much better than clicking through slides."
Phil
Independent H&S Consultant
"3-4 hours of daily briefings are brutal. This would be great. The interaction is good for guys."
Adam
HSE Coordinator, Large GC (Calgary)
The Problem

Your foremen are running 200-person toolbox talks every morning. That's not sustainable.

Site superintendents and safety coordinators spend 3-4 hours every morning on repetitive briefings. Workers arrive without PPE. New hires and staffing agency rotations need to be briefed from scratch every time. And there's no record of who actually understood the hazard.

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3-4 hours of daily briefing overhead
Your safety coordinator or foreman delivers the same toolbox talk every morning. At $60-80/hr, that's $45K-$80K per year in briefing labor alone.
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Workers "grudge shut off" from repetition
Experienced workers stop listening when briefings are repetitive. Complacency sets in. "Don't tell me how to do my job" becomes the default response.
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Multilingual crews, English-only briefings
Multiple languages on a single site is common. Current briefings are in English and everyone nods. That's not comprehension.
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No way to verify who actually understood
Your current tools track that safety processes happened. They don't tell you if the worker standing on your site right now understood the hazard they were briefed on.
750+
hours per year your safety coordinator spends on repetitive daily briefings. At loaded rates, that's $45K-$80K in overhead before the work even starts.
$40K
average cost per medically-consulted workplace injury
3x
higher injury risk in the first month on a job — mostly due to ineffective onboarding
How It Works

Upload your safety content. Workers arrive ready.

You don't rebuild anything. Astutely takes your existing safety PDFs and turns them into interactive pre-shift checks workers complete on their phone before arriving on site.

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Upload your existing safety content
PDFs, slide decks, toolbox talk documents, SOPs. Astutely reads them and builds interactive modules with scenarios, comprehension checks, and recall questions in about 30 seconds.
PDF PowerPoint Word doc SOPs
📄 Pre_Shift_Hazard_Briefing.pdf
✅ 2 modules ready in 30 seconds
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Workers complete a pre-shift check by text
Workers get a text link before their shift. They choose their language, go through real jobsite scenarios, and must make actual decisions — not just click through slides. Done in about 10 minutes on any phone.
Scenario decisions Comprehension checks Voice responses 24hr recall
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You see who's cleared before the shift starts
Before workers arrive on site, you see who completed, who passed, who failed, and who hasn't started. Automated reminders go to anyone incomplete. The results screen tells you exactly who is ready for site.
Per-worker pass/fail Pre-shift clearance Fix Issues CTA
✅ 18 of 21 cleared before 7:00 AM
⚠ 3 workers flagged — auto-reminded
The Results Screen

The answer to "who's actually ready for site?"

Every person who sees this screen names it as the most valuable feature. It's the first thing coordinators check before the shift starts.

18 of 21
workers cleared before their shift
86%
Pre-shift rate
94%
Scenario accuracy
78%
24hr recall
7 workers need a targeted refresher. 5 voice responses need review. One click to action.
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Know who's ready before the shift
See completion, pass/fail, and comprehension gaps per worker before anyone steps on site. No more guessing.
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Target the gaps, not the whole crew
Instead of re-briefing everyone, send a 2-minute refresher to just the workers who missed critical questions. Your morning gets shorter.
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24-hour recall confirms it stuck
A 3-question follow-up arrives by text the next day. If a worker can't recall the key hazard 24 hours later, you know before the next shift.
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Audit-ready documentation
Every pre-shift check is recorded per worker with timestamp, language, score, and response data. COR audits and client compliance checks get easier.
Who It's For

Built for the people who run the morning briefing —
and the people who pay for it.

Champion
HSE Coordinators & Safety Managers
You're the one delivering toolbox talks every morning, chasing compliance, managing COR audits, and running onboarding for every new hire and staffing rotation. Astutely takes the most repetitive daily work off your plate and gives you verified data you can't produce today.
"The material is fine. It's the delivery that's the problem." — VP H&S, national traffic control company
Budget Holder
Project Managers & Ops Directors
Your foremen and site supers are spending mornings in 200-person toolbox talks instead of running the build. You're paying $30K+ a year for safety software that doesn't verify anything. Astutely frees up your field leadership and gives you proof your crews are ready before the shift.
"Onsite briefings are a pain in the ass. Could save a ton of time." — Senior PM, major GC (Toronto)
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Civil Contractors
Road builders, infrastructure, traffic control, heavy civil. High worker rotation, mandatory daily briefings, COR pressure.
Strongest signal
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Residential Construction
Crews of 50-200 across multiple lots. High proportion of staffing agency workers. Multilingual crews.
Strong signal
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High-Rise Construction
100-300+ workers per site. PMs with project-level budget authority. Complex multi-trade coordination.
Growing signal
Why It's Different

Your current tools prove safety happened.
Astutely proves workers understood it.

SALUS and SiteDocs track that forms were submitted. Astutely tells you whether the worker standing on your site right now understood the hazard they were briefed on.

Current Approach
✕ 3-4 hours of morning toolbox talks
✕ Workers click through slides to finish
✕ English-only briefings for multilingual crews
✕ Completion tracked, comprehension unknown
✕ No pre-shift verification — find out after arrival
✕ Same content repeated until workers tune out
✕ Can't target the specific workers who need help
Astutely
✓ 10 min pre-shift check, done before arrival
✓ Workers make real decisions, can't skip
✓ 4 languages — worker chooses at start
✓ Per-worker pass/fail with comprehension data
✓ Cleared before the shift — you see who's ready
✓ Interactive format prevents complacency
✓ Fix Issues targets only workers who need it
Pricing

Less than the briefing overhead it eliminates.

Per-worker, per-year. Annual contracts. No per-module or per-course charges. Pilot available to see real data before you commit.

Pilot
$500/mo
Up to 50 workers
  • ✓ 4-week no-commitment trial
  • ✓ Real crew, real data
  • ✓ Module built from your content
  • ✓ Full results dashboard
Growth
$150/worker/yr
Up to 250 workers
  • ✓ Unlimited modules
  • ✓ 4 languages included
  • ✓ Recall checks + Fix Issues
  • ✓ COR audit documentation
Scale
Custom
250+ workers / multi-site
  • ✓ Volume pricing
  • ✓ Additional language packs
  • ✓ API + HRIS integration
  • ✓ Dedicated support
$45-80K
Annual cost of daily briefing labor at one site
$40K
Average cost per medically-consulted injury
$165K
OSHA max fine for a single willful violation
$15K
Astutely at 100 workers — a fraction of the overhead it eliminates
For Safety Teams

Upload what you have. Know workers are ready.

No rebuilding your safety content. No new software to learn. Upload your existing documents and Astutely builds the pre-shift check.

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Upload your safety document
PDFs, toolbox talk docs, SOPs. Astutely reads and builds interactive modules in ~30 seconds.
📄 PDF, PowerPoint, Word, SOP
⚡ Module ready in 30 seconds
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Preview what workers see
Review every screen, scenario, and question before sending. Edit anything before it goes live.
👁 Full preview mode
✏ Edit before publishing
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Send by text
Workers get a link. Pick their language. Complete the pre-shift check on any phone before arriving.
📲 SMS — no app needed
🌐 EN / ES / FR / PT
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See who's cleared
Per-worker pass/fail before the shift. Automated reminders. Fix Issues targets gaps instantly.
✅ Pre-shift clearance by name
🔄 24hr recall results

Send us a safety PDF.
We'll show you what's possible.

In 20 minutes, we'll build a pre-shift check from your actual safety content and show you what it looks like when workers arrive ready and verified. No commitment. No credit card.

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Pilot available: 4 weeks, one crew, real data — before you commit to anything.