RDI glossary

Turning a finding into a task, observation, or escalation with a named owner.

Related: Interpretation layer, Escalation path

The verifiable record of how the project was actually built, used in handover.

Related: Handover pack, Quality non-conformance

The state in which evidence required by a regulator or owner can be retrieved on demand.

Related: Regulatory event, Evidence retrieval time

The per-project plan that names what will be recorded, where, how often, and for how long.

A capture plan is built from the workflows the project intends to support, not from a list of available cameras. It records who owns each capture point, what the trigger is, how often the record is reviewed, and what the retention period must be. The plan is revisited as the project changes shape.

Related: Coverage gap

The distinction between RDI and adjacent tool categories such as cameras, dashboards, or BIM.

A category exists when buyers can name what is included and what is not. RDI sits next to cameras, AI dashboards, BIM, and project controls. Holding the boundary keeps each category honest and lets buyers choose between them on merit.

Related: Reality-Driven Intelligence, Command view

The documented hand-off path of a piece of evidence from capture to use.

Each step in the chain answers two questions: who held the record, and what could they have changed. A clean chain reduces the time spent re-establishing trust when an owner, insurer, or court reviews the record.

Related: Evidence grade, Time-aligned record

The body of evidence assembled to support a formal claim or counterclaim.

Related: Delay event, Weather claim

The long-lived evidence archive retained after handover for warranty and disputes.

Related: Handover pack, Audit readiness

The documented end-state of a workflow loop, kept for future reference.

Related: Observation, Escalation path

The portfolio and executive layer where patterns, exceptions, and outcome signals help leaders coordinate action across projects.

The cross-project portfolio view that helps leaders triage exceptions.

Related: Command layer, Pattern of recurrence

The role accountable for project margin, claims, and contractual exposure.

Related: Claim substantiation, Package manager

The published low, mid, and high range around an ROI assumption.

Related: Directional assumption, Risk mitigation credit

A part of the project programme that has no evidence layer, intentionally or otherwise.

Related: Capture plan

A recorded event whose impact on the programme may be claimed for time, cost, or both.

A delay event becomes useful only when its date, location, and duration can be cross-checked. Without that, the event is an assertion. With it, the event is a record that survives independent review by the owner, the contract administrator, and, if it gets that far, an adjudicator.

Related: Weather record, Claim substantiation

Confirming a delivery against its docket, including time, place, and contents.

Related: Gate record, Material trace

The person responsible for digital tools, BIM coordination, and reality data on a project.

Related: BIM deviation, Capture plan

A public assumption used to educate the market until project-specific data is available.

Related: Confidence band

Workflow design that reduces the likelihood of a dispute reaching a formal claim.

Related: Claim substantiation, Risk mitigation credit

A scheduled aerial capture for progress, earthworks, or safety review.

Related: Progress evidence, Capture plan

A signal in the workflow ledger showing how much customer or field evidence supports a workflow definition.

Preparing a clip or record in a format suitable for an owner, insurer, or court.

Related: Chain of custody, Evidence search

Internal grading of a record by completeness, integrity, and chain of custody.

Related: Chain of custody

How long it takes to locate and assemble a specific piece of project evidence.

Related: Evidence search, Manual reporting load

The point at which adding more raw recordings stops improving decision quality.

Related: Capture density, Capture plan

The act of finding the relevant clip or record for a specific decision.

Related: Evidence retrieval time, Evidence export

The practice of preserving, indexing, and curating evidence so future teams can use it.

Related: Chain of custody, Closeout archive

The time period in which captured site reality must be preserved before it stops being useful for a claim, incident, or audit.

The window opens when an event occurs and closes when the project no longer has a credible reason to retrieve the record. A claim window is set by contract; an incident window is set by regulators and insurers; an audit window is set by the owner or by statute. Workflows that lose evidence inside the window force teams to reconstruct events from recollection, which is the failure mode RDI exists to prevent.

Related: Ground truth, Evidence count

Time-aligned, location-aware evidence of what happened on site, created from cameras, 360 capture, drone imagery, records, and related site data.

Related: Evidence count, Reality-Driven Intelligence

The analysis step where captured reality becomes a finding with meaning and ownership.

Related: Action routing, Outcome measurement

The link between a delivery, its location on site, and its installation record.

Related: Delivery verification, Gate record

The evidence assembled before an OAC, programme, or safety meeting.

Related: OAC meeting, Progress evidence

Opportunistic site walks recorded by phone, helmet, or wearable.

Related: 360 walk, Fixed camera view

A tagged finding routed to an owner with an expected response time.

Related: Escalation path, Closeout record

The closing measurement step that records whether the action changed the project.

Related: Interpretation layer, Action routing

Repeated evidence of the same exception across projects, escalated to the command view.

Related: Command view, Portfolio pattern

The evidence that supports or disputes an interim payment application.

Related: Progress claim, Progress evidence

A recurring exception across projects that the command view turns into a programme of work.

Related: Pattern of recurrence, Command view

The agreed reference programme against which actual progress is compared.

Related: Progress evidence, Delay event

An interim or final claim for payment based on quantified work in place.

Related: Payment evidence, Progress evidence

Evidence assembled to demonstrate or dispute the state of physical work at a date.

Related: Programme baseline, Time-aligned record

A construction intelligence discipline that turns captured site reality into ground truth, interpretation, action, and project-level command.

Related: Ground truth, Command layer

An inspection, audit, or finding that requires documented project evidence.

Related: Audit readiness, Closeout archive

A workflow where RDI replaces a manual or third-party service the project already pays for.

Related: Supporting workflow, Manual reporting load

The value attributed to avoiding a low-frequency, high-cost project event.

A credit is sized by the cost of the event, the probability of recurrence, and the share of risk an evidence layer can plausibly remove. Credits are presented with a confidence band rather than as a point estimate, so the conversation stays honest.

Related: Confidence band, Dispute prevention

An interruption to work, recorded so its programme impact can be quantified.

Related: Delay event, Claim substantiation

Verifiable evidence of who was on site, when, and at what package.

Related: Gate record, Access control

A workflow where RDI supports an existing process rather than replacing it.

Related: Replacement workflow, Risk mitigation credit

A record whose timestamps can be cross-checked against schedule, weather, and gate data.

Related: Ground truth, Chain of custody

A compressed visual record of progress at a fixed view, used for reporting and review.

Related: Fixed camera view, Progress evidence

The time-aligned weather data attached to a delay event for substantiation.

Related: Delay event, Time-aligned record

A reusable group of workflows connected by a common site problem, evidence type, decision, and value pattern.