They capture the field.POD reads the project.
Rhumbix is a field data-capture tool: digital timekeeping and timecards, daily quantities, T&M tracking, and union compliance signatures, with labor productivity tracked from the hours. It captures the field, and does it well. POD reads the whole project, the labor export along with the schedule, budget, pay apps, and photos, and turns every file into one project brain: a productivity index, labor velocity by trade, earned value, predictive safety, and a morning brief before the huddle.
Rhumbix is a field data-capture product for timekeeping and labor productivity: digital timecards, daily quantities, T&M tracking, and union compliance on the timecard. POD is the intelligence layer that reads that labor data together with your schedule, budget, pay apps, and photos and computes what the field data alone cannot: a true productivity index, labor velocity by trade, CPI and SPI, predictive safety, and an AI-written morning brief. Keep the timekeeping app if your crews like it. Add the read. No sales call, no rollout.
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The field captures it. POD reads all of it.
A data-capture tool stores what the crews report. This is what happens when those files meet the rest of the project.
Same timecards, same quantities. POD adds the schedule, budget, pay app and photos, reads every one, and the job lands a productivity index of 76 against an 80 target, with labor velocity at 96% of baseline and steel erection at 82 and slowing, before the month closes.
Which one earns its place with you?
No spin. If the left describes you, a dedicated field data-capture tool is the right buy. If the right does, the hours are already captured and what you are missing is the read.
Rhumbix fits when…
A dedicated field data-capture tool earns its place here
- Your crews need digital timekeeping and timecards, and that is the whole question
- Union compliance and signatures have to live on the timecard itself
- T&M tracking and daily quantities from the field are what the office is waiting on
- You want a dedicated labor-capture app with a vendor to call
POD fits when…
You need the whole project read, not just the field captured
- You already produce pay apps, budgets, schedules and photos and want them read together
- You need productivity, labor velocity, and CPI without building a report
- The field will speak a report but will not type one
- You want a morning brief that says where the job is heading, and why
What the Timecards Were Trying to Tell You
Computed from the same crews and quantities a data-capture tool stores, read with the schedule, budget, and pay apps. The productivity index across four weeks; labor velocity by trade against baseline.
What each has. You decide.
On everything you both do, POD does more or better. Where Rhumbix stops at field labor data, POD reads the whole project. The one Rhumbix figure on this page links to its third-party source.
| Capability | RhumbixField data capture: timekeeping & labor productivity | Plan of DayConstruction project-intelligence platform |
|---|---|---|
Everything you both do — POD does it better | ||
| Field labor capture | Digital timekeeping & timecards from the field | ▲ BETTER 60-second voice reports, offline, AI-structured; crews, hours, quantities, weather & safety in one pass |
| Production & quantity reporting | Quantity & production reporting from the field | ▲ MORE Quantities read from dailies AND the schedule; labor velocity by trade against baseline |
| Labor productivity | Labor productivity & daily project-profitability tracking | ▲ MORE True productivity index: labor, equipment, material flow & rework loss in one score, trended weekly |
| T&M tracking & change orders | T&M tickets & change-order tracking from the field | ▲ MORE T&M feeds a PCO pipeline & change-order log, reconciled against budget and pay apps |
| Dashboards & reporting | Labor & production reports | ▲ BETTER Hundreds auto-generated + AI insight & a morning brief, no report builder |
| Ask POD & Tell POD | — | ▲ BETTER Ask POD any question about your project; Tell POD an update by voice |
Where POD Goes Further Rhumbix captures field labor and production data, and does it well: timecards, quantities, T&M, union signatures. POD reads that data together with everything else the project produces, the schedule, the budget, the pay apps, the photos, and turns it into one project brain. None of it requires changing how the crews clock in. | ||
| AI project analysis & narrative insight | — | ▲ MORE Every file read by AI; a morning brief that says what changed, and why |
| Earned value & pay-app reconciliation | Labor-cost focus | ▲ MORE CPI / SPI, EAC; pay-app lines reconciled against budget & change orders |
| Schedule intelligence | — | ▲ MORE Reads your P6 (XER) and MS Project (XML) schedule; SPI, float & delay attribution |
| Predictive safety | — | ▲ MORE Fatigue index, new-worker risk window, schedule-pressure safety index |
| Photo intelligence | — | ▲ MORE Site photos read for safety findings and progress, not just filed |
| Timeline playback | — | ▲ MORE Scrub any day of the project and watch the KPIs move |
| Scope of the read | Field labor & production data | ▲ BETTER Schedule, budget, pay app, photos, dailies and labor, read into one project |
The facts | ||
| Pricing model | Quote-only; tiers listed without prices | Public — $299 → $2,499/mo, self-serve |
| Free trial | Not published; contact vendor | Yes |
| Speed to value | Routes to a sales call to start | Minutes — you just upload POD files every document, then reads each one — labor and production exports, pay apps, budgets, schedules, dailies, photos — to build your productivity, velocity, EVM, reports and safety picture automatically. No cost-code setup, no data entry. |
| Payroll & union compliance | Union compliance & signatures on the timecard | Not a payroll tool; keep yours, POD reads the export |
| User rating | Capterra 4.1/5 146 reviews(source) | — |
Rhumbix lists tiers on its site without prices; this page states none of it. The user rating is from the linked third-party review site (Capterra) as of the date below and is not vendor-confirmed. Capability descriptions reflect Rhumbix’s own public positioning. Comparison based on publicly available information. Rhumbix is a trademark of its respective owner; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by Rhumbix.
What POD Adds On Top
The read your field data was missing, without giving up the app your crews clock in on
Minutes, Not a Rollout
Upload a file and see a dashboard today. No cost-code setup project, no device provisioning, no training program, no sales call.
Reads the Files You Already Produce
Pay apps, budgets, labor and production exports, P6 (XER) and MS Project (XML) schedules, daily reports, photos. POD reads them and maps the data to KPIs automatically.
Hundreds of KPIs, Auto-Generated
True productivity index, labor velocity by trade, earned value, CPI and SPI, predictive safety. Animated dashboards with no report builder to configure.
Keep the Timekeeping You Have
POD does not need to replace the app your crews clock in on or the payroll it feeds. Export the labor and production report; POD reads it with everything else.
Voice-First Field Reporting
60-second voice reports the field will actually file, structured by AI in ten languages. Crews, quantities, weather, and safety in one breath.
Public Pricing, Free Sub Access
Every price is published, billed to the company, not the headcount. Subcontractors submit through Upload Links at no seat cost.
The Honest Take
If what you need is digital timekeeping, daily quantities, T&M tracking, and union signatures on the timecard, Rhumbix is a fair buy, and its reviews say so. This page is for the moment after that: the hours are captured, the quantities are in, and nobody can tell you what the schedule, the budget, and the pay app say together. That is the read POD adds.
Is POD your best match?
A short, honest self-check that scores your fit and tells you straight if a different kind of tool would serve you better. No sales pitch, no names, just an honest answer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Either. Rhumbix is a field data-capture tool: digital timekeeping and timecards, daily quantities, T&M tracking, and union compliance signatures on the timecard. POD is a project intelligence layer that reads the files you already produce, labor and production exports, pay apps, budgets, schedules, and photos, and turns them into a productivity index, labor velocity by trade, earned value, predictive safety, and an AI morning brief. Many teams keep the timekeeping app and let POD read its export. Others find POD’s voice daily reports, pay-app form, and change-order log cover what they used, and consolidate. Neither path needs a migration project.
A labor-productivity number tells you how the hours are performing against the units. POD puts that number in context. From the same crews and quantities, plus the schedule, budget, and pay apps, POD lands a True Productivity Index of 76 against an 80 target, breaks it into labor, equipment, material flow, and rework loss, and shows labor velocity at 96% of baseline with steel erection at 82 and slowing. That read comes from AI reading the files, not from a report you build.
No. POD is not a payroll tool and does not collect compliance signatures on a timecard. If that has to live inside your labor-capture app, keep the app that does it. POD reads the labor and production export it produces and adds the whole-project read on top.
POD publishes every price, starting at $299 a month with a free trial, and bills the company rather than the headcount. Subcontractors submit through Upload Links at no seat cost, so the read grows with the job without the invoice growing with the crew. There is no quote to request and no annual contract to sign first.
Keep the timekeeping. Add the project brain.
If capturing the field is all you need, keep the tool that does it. If you want every file read into one project, start a free trial and upload one labor export.
Why Teams Switch to POD
What You Get With POD
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