Buildots acquires Genda: Accelerating our journey to productivity intelligence
A note from Roy Danon, our CEO and co-founder
Big news today. We’re excited to share that workforce and safety management platform Genda has officially joined the Buildots family.
This is a real milestone for our business. Seven years ago, we were building this company from a basement office. Fast forward to today, and we’ve reached a point where 1) Buildots is trusted by some of the world’s largest contractors and 2) is in a position to acquire a truly innovative company like Genda to strengthen our offering.
We now have a lot more work to do. With Genda onboard, we plan to accelerate Buildots’ path to combine progress and workforce insights to deliver true ‘productivity intelligence’. I'd like to take a moment to provide some context behind this vision.
Stronger together
The truth is, this acquisition has been in the making for a while and stems from a shared frustration.
For years, Erez Dror (Genda’s co-founder and CEO) and I have regularly bumped into each other while dropping our kids off at school. The core of our conversations was the construction industry's struggle to make data-driven decisions, which stemmed from a lack of visibility into what’s happening in the field. And, of course, we always talked about how our two companies planned to solve that problem.
We realized early on that Buildots and Genda share the same fundamental DNA – a commitment to starting with objective field data and applying AI to generate actionable insights. We simply approached the same problem from different angles. Buildots mastered progress tracking and predictive analytics, while Genda mastered production insights via workforce and safety management.
The missing piece of the productivity puzzle
Why did we feel the need to join forces? Because truly solving productivity requires connecting the what (progress) with the who (workforce).
Despite all the progress our industry has made, critical progress and labor insights have always been fragmented and siloed – if this data was tracked at all.
This fragmentation created a massive barrier to holistic insight, making it tricky to answer critical business questions like, “How do I know which of my delay mitigation efforts actually made a difference?”
By acquiring Genda, we’ve eliminated that technical barrier. Genda's platform – trusted by leading GCs like DPR, Hensel Phelps, Clark Construction and JE Dunn – brings best-in-class labor and safety intelligence into the Buildots ecosystem.
Productivity intelligence
This move immediately accelerates our vision for operational excellence. It allows us to move beyond fragmented reporting and pave the way for delivering automated, near real-time, productivity intelligence – something no single platform has ever achieved. This will eventually allow contractors like you to do several key things:
- Diagnose root causes: See the relationship between labor activity and construction progress, which will help you isolate the true root cause of inefficiencies.
- Validate decisions: You’ll be able to confirm which delay mitigation efforts actually moved the needle.
- Make each project better than the last: You’ll unlock progress and workforce insights that can inform future planning and drive continuous improvement.
Leading the way
I’m incredibly proud to welcome Erez and the entire Genda team to the Buildots family. We are retaining the team, the leadership, and the expertise that made Genda a great partner, and we’re now supercharging its capabilities with Buildots’ expanded resources and global reach.
Ultimately, we’re paving the way for a future where construction delivery is driven by complete, actionable intelligence on a single platform. This is the next milestone in the industry’s journey, and Buildots is leading the way. We hope you’ll join us on the journey.
