The problem. Field services teams got their instructions over email and reported back through spreadsheets. Instructions lived in one thread, context in another, the data somewhere else. Reports came back about 40% complete. Sometimes they did not come back at all. Every downstream report to an owner was built on numbers nobody fully trusted.
What I built. A web tool that replaced the whole chain. Site managers issue structured instructions through it. Field teams report status back through it and upload relevant photos. One place, one format, no reconstruction after the fact.
What changed. Site reporting dropped from 2 to 3 hours per facility to 30 minutes. Report completion went from 40% to 90%. Across a 300+ facilities, that is over 450 labor hours recovered every week. The output became clean enough to put in front of clients without editing it first.
Why it mattered beyond the hours. I did not set out to save time. I set out to make the reports true and make my team's job easier. The time savings were the side effect.