Qflow releases design matches tool to check site deliveries against design specification

Construction data firm Qflow has released a feature called design matches that checks what arrives on site against what the design specified at the moment of delivery, the company said on 10 November 2026.

Qflow said the tool compares each delivered product with the design specification and flags mismatches early. It checks product, specification, certificates and sustainability credentials against design intent, according to the company.

The feature is intended to catch unapproved substitutions, wrong or non-compliant products and drift from the design baseline, Qflow said.

How it works

Qflow's platform captures materials, waste, utility and carbon data at source, using AI document processing on delivery tickets and site records, the company said. It said 70% of the data held in the platform is enriched, with raw fields extracted from delivery tickets making up 30%.

Qflow said compliance evidence for the Building Safety Act, BREEAM and embodied carbon targets is built as work happens rather than reconstructed at the end of a project.

The company said the resulting as-built record gives building owners a verified record of what is in the building and described it as the foundation of a Golden Thread. When a product recall or safety issue emerges, owners can see where it affects their buildings, Qflow said.

Qflow said its co-founders Jade Cohen and Brittany Harris had spoken alongside Autodesk at DevCon about matching site data to design specifications.

The cost of error

Qflow cited UK industry estimates, which it attributed to the Get It Right Initiative, putting the avoidable cost of poor data and rework at £10-25bn a year, or 10-25% of project value.

The Get It Right Initiative's own strategy page says international studies suggest the measured direct cost of avoidable errors is about 5% of project value. The body's stated aim is to improve construction productivity and quality by eliminating error.

Integrations

Qflow said in its announcement that integration with common data environment and construction management platforms brings site data back into the tools teams already use. Its integrations page names Smartwaste and Trackerplus, used for reporting across sustainability KPIs, and an API that lets customers draw their data into multiple systems.

Qflow said in February that it has an existing product collaboration with Autodesk Construction Cloud.

Background

The release follows a £2m strategic investment in Qflow by Autodesk, Inc., announced in London on 2 February 2026. Qflow said at the time that the investment built on the Autodesk Construction Cloud collaboration.

Brittany Harris, co-founder and CEO of Qflow, said in the February release that "Construction teams are being asked to deliver more than ever before: better margins, lower carbon and stronger compliance."

Joe Speicher, Autodesk's chief sustainability officer, said in the same release that "meaningful progress towards more sustainable design and make processes starts with better data".

On 3 March 2026 Qflow announced a partnership with NORR, which it described as a global architecture and engineering firm with 750 professionals across 12 market sectors, on a Toronto workplace project pursuing the Living Future Institute's Zero Carbon Certification. Qflow said the partnership marked its expansion into North America and that its role is capturing real-time data on materials arriving on site.

Qflow's March release said NORR expected the platform to create an auditable trail of as-built carbon data meeting the requirements of zero carbon certification bodies. In its design matches announcement, Qflow said NORR is calibrating embodied carbon models with as-built data on the project.

NORR says the Toronto workplace is one of only three projects in Canada, and 17 globally, registered for Zero Carbon Certification.

Qflow trades as Qualis Flow Limited, registered at 1 Phipp Street, London EC2A 4PS, under the SIC code for business and domestic software development, according to Companies House.

The announcement named no UK project using design matches.