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TCAPWA EVENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS
Lower East Branch Lunch & Learn By Director David Collins

On Wednesday, March 25th, the City Oversite Showcases Construction
of Chattanooga hosted the Lower East
Branch’s first Lunch and Learn session
of 2026. Oversite was invited to present Inspection Software Recap provided by Marissa Reese
information on its products and software
solutions designed to improve management Oversite, a Nashville-based external parties such as contractors
of projects, inventory tracking and daily construction project management and agency representatives can view
operations. Oversite also provided a platform, presented its field inspection approved inspections, track placed
delicious lunch for the more than 28 and project management software items, and communicate directly within
individuals attending. Employees from the to representatives from the City of the platform, reducing disputes and
City of Collegedale, and the City of Red Chattanooga’s Development Resource improving closeout efficiency.
Bank joined the many City of Chattanooga Center and Transportation Group. The • Pay requests, change orders, and RFI
employees present. session was hosted by David Collins and management — the platform centralizes
After Branch Director David Collins attended by municipal project managers, supporting documentation and includes
gave an update on APWA and Chapter inspectors, and local agency staff. a one-click project closeout export
business, he introduced Oversite’s Marissa Designed for the Inspection Process that packages all inspections, reports,
Reese, Director of Growth and Operations, Marissa Reese, Director of Growth and photos, and certifications into a single
and Matt Houston, CEO. They delivered Operations, and Matt Houston, CEO, led downloadable file.
an in-depth presentation on the platform’s the presentation. Reese opened by noting What’s Coming
capabilities, highlighting its effectiveness that Oversite was built from the ground Houston highlighted ongoing AI-driven
in enhancing project management, up specifically for the unit price contract development at Oversite, including an
documentation, and field coordination for inspection process — a niche that broader AI agent that will allow users to drop a
tracking a wide range of site inspections construction software platforms have contract document and have the system
and construction projects. historically struggled to serve well. The automatically configure the entire project
platform was born out of a collaboration — reading the bid sheet, uploading line
between co-founder Chad Collier, who items, and populating quantities —
owns Collier Engineering in Nashville, requiring only a final confirmation from
and Houston, who saw an opportunity to the user. He also noted that the company’s
build a purpose-fit tool. development velocity has increased
Key Platform Capabilities dramatically with AI-assisted tooling,
The demonstration walked attendees enabling bug fixes and feature requests to
through both the project manager/admin be addressed in near real-time rather than
view and the field inspector view. Notable over weeks or months.
features include: Audience Response and Next Steps
• Voice-to-text and handwritten note Attendees raised questions about
capture — inspectors can narrate integration with existing tools,
observations in the field or photograph including Monday.com, which
handwritten notes, with the system Chattanooga’s team has been piloting
transcribing content directly into for project tracking, and Google
inspection records with high accuracy. Workspace, which serves as the city’s
• Live financial dashboards — real- primary productivity suite. The Oversite
time financial overviews update team confirmed that integrations are
automatically as inspections are increasingly fast to build and expressed
submitted and items are approved, interest in exploring a connection to
keeping the entire project team aligned. Chattanooga’s existing workflows. Several
• Geolocated weather tracking — the attendees flagged use cases around
system automatically tracks weather inspector handoffs, material certification
days tied to the project location, tracking, and denied inspection
eliminating manual counting when documentation as high-priority needs.
contract extensions are needed. The session concluded with plans to
• Custom forms integration — Oversite follow up with key stakeholders, including
has pre-built TDOT forms, including an introduction to Oversite’s pay request
updated traffic control specifications, and reading management specialists, and
and can build additional agency-specific a broader conversation with local CEI
Matt Houston, CEO of Oversite and Marissa Reese, or project-specific forms on request. firms identified as a natural extension of
Director of Growth and Operations. • Stakeholder and contractor portal — the platform’s fit.

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