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    Construction field safety · Guide revised September 2026

    Fieldwire by Hilti vs HammerTech: Scope, limits and demo questions

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    Fieldwire by Hilti and HammerTech: pricing, evaluation starting point, scope, what to verify and offline scope. Select a row label to show its full text.
    AttributeFieldwire by HiltiHammerTech
    Published amount; check product and plan
    No amount on record; request quote
    Construction Safety
    EHS Management
    Validate user roles, sites and scale against your proposed deployment.
    Confirm hosting, support languages and contractual coverage for your region.
    See the linked profile's capability evidence
    See the linked profile's unresolved questions
    Partial offline workflow
    Documented offline workflow

    Where the two scopes differ

    The two records start from different objects. Fieldwire's is the drawing: tasks, photographs, checklists and forms sit on a plan sheet, so a finding has a location and a revision. HammerTech's is the worker and the site: orientations, credential review, permits, pre-task plans and inspections, with subcontractor access arranged by the general contractor. A buyer can ask Fieldwire where a defect is and on which revision it was raised. The question the HammerTech record is built around is whether a named worker has been oriented and approved before starting. The Fieldwire record says it is not an enterprise EHS suite, and the HammerTech record lists no drawing management.

    The commercial shapes are nearly opposite. Fieldwire publishes per-user prices by tier (the dollar display shows 39, 64 and 89 per user per month for Pro, Business and Business Plus on annual billing, plus a free Basic tier), and its record warns that inviting a contractor can add a charge to the account owner, since the project owner pays for invited users unless they already hold qualifying paid access. HammerTech publishes no amount, says it does not price per user, and says the general contractor provides access so that subcontractors buy no licence. For a general contractor with rotating subcontractors the question therefore differs. With Fieldwire it is how many invited people become billable and for how long. With HammerTech it is what volume, site and onboarding assumptions the quote makes, and what the contract says about renewal and scope change.

    Forms and disconnected work are treated differently. Fieldwire's custom forms, with statuses, signatures, calculations and plan links, sit in Business and Business Plus, and task checklists keep a timestamp for each checked item but are not refreshed when a template is edited. Offline use is documented for downloaded projects on iOS and Android, including new content, after a prior login. HammerTech's offline claim is narrower: the Inspect app, for inspections and issues, with no offline matrix found for permits, pre-task plans or orientation approval. Neither record establishes a platform control that blocks work; HammerTech's Irongate gate hardware is a separate route to test. Fieldwire's two signature routes (typing another person's name on site, or exporting a PDF for an offsite signer) do not establish identity assurance, and HammerTech's orientation records do not establish competence for a task.

    Fieldwire by Hilti: status on record

    • Trial: Free trial documented.
    • Offline: Partial offline workflow.
    • Pricing: Published amount; check product and plan.
    • Profile record checked 14 October 2026.

    HammerTech: status on record

    • Trial: No free trial established.
    • Offline: Documented offline workflow.
    • Pricing: No amount on record; request quote.
    • Profile record checked 14 October 2026.

    When each is the safer first demo

    Start with Fieldwire by Hilti when

    Fieldwire is the safer first demo when the loss happens between a drawing revision and the crew's instruction. Upload a fictional revised sheet with an ambiguous number, resolve the conflict, then place a checklist and a Business-tier form on it and complete both on two phones. Invite a short-term subcontractor in the same session and ask to see the billing effect, since the record names invited-user charges as a main cost risk.

    Start with HammerTech when

    HammerTech is the safer first demo when the loss happens at the gate. Have a worker submit an orientation with a credential deliberately missing, have the reviewer reject and then approve it, and ask for one named worker's orientation, credential, permit and pre-task plan as a single export. Ask the vendor to say which of the steps work with no connection, because the record documents that for Inspect only.

    A two-week evaluation plan

    Ask Fieldwire by Hilti

    • Name the tier for each form, report and export you need, and state the roles, projects and invited contractors assumed, so that overage and invited-user charges can be estimated.
    • Ask what API, SSO, onboarding and storage-sync arrangements cost, and whether the limited 14-day Business beta, offered to eligible new accounts in the US or Canada, applies to you.

    Ask HammerTech

    • Ask for the quote assumptions in writing: annual construction volume, company size, active sites, onboarding and support, billing term, renewal treatment and what happens if volume changes mid-term.
    • Ask for named connectors, any hardware such as the Irongate gate arrangement and its data responsibilities, and how a subcontractor's worker records can be retrieved after exit and after your contract ends.

    Week 1, the field record. For Fieldwire, download a test project to two phones, replace a plan sheet with an ambiguous revision, complete a task checklist and a Business form offline on each phone, then reconnect them in sequence with a form permission changed in between. Record duplicates, stale content and the final record. For HammerTech, have a test worker submit an orientation with one missing credential, have a reviewer reject and then approve it, and attempt an orientation, a pre-task plan and a permit with the device offline, listing what is blocked. The Fieldwire trial is limited and the HammerTech record establishes none, so request a vendor environment first.

    Week 2, everyone else who touches the record. In Fieldwire, invite a short-term subcontractor, see the billing effect, and test both signature routes for a person without an account against your own acceptance rule. In HammerTech, restrict an external supervisor to one project, trace an Insights trend to its source records, then demobilise a test subcontractor and export one worker's history with signatures and audit trail. If you record injuries for OSHA, ask HammerTech to produce the 300 log, 300A and submission file from existing records, and ask Fieldwire which process would produce them, since its record shows none.

    Worked evaluation scenarios

    These scenarios are hypothetical. They show how to turn the record facts into a demo test and what outcome would change a choice; they are not case studies or customer results.

    Hypothetical: a revised drawing issued the afternoon before a crew starts

    A general contractor issues a revised mechanical sheet at 4 p.m., and a crew starts the next morning. The Fieldwire record describes OCR that names, versions and links sheets, with administrator confirmation of names and a documented conflict workflow, and warns that OCR output can be wrong. The HammerTech record lists no drawing management; its pre-task plans link to hazard analyses, permits and equipment. Upload the revised sheet to Fieldwire with a deliberately ambiguous sheet number and see who must approve it before the crew sees it. For HammerTech, ask where a pre-task plan refers to the current drawing and who controls that reference. If sheet control is your main failure, the two products may cover different layers, and your drawing register may stay elsewhere.

    Hypothetical: a failed inspection item assigned to a subcontractor with no seat

    A superintendent finds a missing guardrail and assigns it to a roofing subcontractor who will be on site for six weeks. The Fieldwire record says the project owner pays for invited users unless they already hold a qualifying paid account, with overage billed to the account owner. The HammerTech record says inspection issues can be assigned to a trade that can manage, dispute or close them through a portal, and that subcontractors need no licence of their own. Run the same failed item through both: assign it, have the subcontractor answer from a phone, close it, then compare the history and the billing effect. A closing route that creates an unplanned charge, or a dispute trail that is not kept, would change the choice.

    Hypothetical: a client audit six months after a subcontractor leaves

    A client asks for proof that a framing subcontractor's workers were inducted and that a stair-edge issue was closed, six months after the subcontractor left the project. The HammerTech record describes retrievable time-stamped inspections and worker records but asks the buyer to demonstrate how subcontractor records are retained after exit and after the contract ends. The Fieldwire record describes forms with signatures and several export routes, says a signature does not by itself prove signer identity, and states that it is not a preconfigured safety control system. Demobilise a test subcontractor in each product, then request the evidence for one worker or one closed task and read what is present and what is missing. Any record that disappears or becomes hidden on exit would weigh heavily.

    What the records do not establish

    Fieldwire by Hilti

    • That the 14-day Business beta is available beyond eligible new US or Canada accounts.
    • Identity assurance or electronic-signature compliance for the sign-as-someone-else and exported PDF routes.
    • A complete incident, occupational health, compliance-obligation or ESG suite, or permit and orientation workflows.
    • The price and scope of API, SSO and storage-sync arrangements, which the record says are discussed separately.

    HammerTech

    • A subscription amount, contract term or renewal formula, or any automatic re-rating by construction volume.
    • Offline permit, pre-task-plan or orientation decisions.
    • Completed OSHA 300 and 300A outputs and the electronic submission file, and which steps are manual.
    • A full-platform trial, or a deployed connection to your own systems.

    Neither product

    • That a completed form, checked item, signature or orientation proves competence or safe completion of the work.
    • Which product reduces incidents or rework: no outcome data was reviewed.
    • Any hands-on result: both records are reviews of vendor documentation.

    Written from the profile records and the decision guide above, not from a hands-on test. Where a record is silent, the page says so instead of filling the gap.

    Evaluate Fieldwire by Hilti

    • Identify the exact product, application and licence.
    • Review the profile's demonstration questions.
    • Run the same task and record unresolved questions.
    See Fieldwire by Hilti profile

    Evaluate HammerTech

    • Identify the exact product, application and licence.
    • Review the profile's demonstration questions.
    • Run the same task and record unresolved questions.
    See HammerTech profile

    Fieldwire by Hilti vs HammerTech | FAQ

    Which product is cheaper?
    Comparable total cost has not been established. Request the same applications, users, sites, configuration, migration, integrations and support period from both vendors. Published entry pricing is subject to the plan conditions shown in each profile.
    How should I compare offline capability?
    Use the exact proposed mobile application and plan. Download required data, disconnect, create a record with a photo, reconnect and inspect synchronization. Record which preparation and tasks require connectivity.
    How should I decide between these products?
    Set acceptance criteria for your actual workflow. Complete the same demo, record observed results separately from vendor statements and resolve remaining questions in a scoped pilot. The linked profiles show the sources and review status for each product.

    Vendor sources and next steps

    Fieldwire by Hilti16 sources, profile checked 14 October 2026
    HammerTech14 sources, profile checked 14 October 2026
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