Inkers at CREDAI NATCOM 2025: Construction AI in the field

CREDAI NATCOM is the once-a-year moment where most of India's top developers are in one room. We took Kaël and Observance to Hyderabad in November to spend three days alongside the people who actually run construction — project directors, planning leads, BIM managers, on-site engineers.

We did not bring a slide deck. We brought working software running on real project data, and a team that could answer the next question after the question.

What we showed

The Inkers booth ran two live stations all three days. The first walked through Observance — scan capture, registration, deviation maps against design intent — using anonymised data from a 12-lakh-sq-ft commercial project that had finished structural works the previous month. The second ran Kaël end-to-end on a residential portfolio, surfacing schedule risk, RERA carpet-area drift, and MEP coordination conflicts the way they actually appear on a Monday-morning project review.

A handful of customer projects came up on screen with permission. Two of them carried genuinely uncomfortable findings. Nobody on the booth flinched — which we think is the point. Construction intelligence is only useful when the answer is the answer, not a softened version of it.

What we heard

Three things came up in almost every conversation.

First, the gap between BIM and the site is the problem worth solving. Developers do not need another modelling tool. They need a way to know that what is on site matches what is on the drawings, today, before the next pour.

Second, the data exists but does not move. Drone scans, total-station surveys, photo logs, RFIs — all captured, none reconciled. People wanted to see how Observance ingests the heterogeneous mess and produces a single ground truth.

Third, AI claims fatigue is real. Most of our visitors had been pitched "AI for construction" by at least three vendors in the past six months. The ones who stayed at the booth long enough to see Kaël running on real project files asked the right next question — "what does it cost to deploy this on a 5-tower portfolio?" — and we had a real answer.

Who was there

Aarav Mehta and Trupthi Mallikarjun anchored the speaking sessions. The BIM and engineering team — Karthik, Sara, and three of our deployment leads — ran the booth in shifts. We met with project leadership from a long list of top-10 developers; several of those conversations are now scoped engagements.

If we missed you at NATCOM and you would like to see the same demo on your own project data, the contact form on this site routes straight to the deployment team.