The daily log is the first thing that slips when the job gets busy. The super means to write it after the crew leaves, a call comes in, and three days later nobody remembers who poured what. The messages were all in the thread. Nobody turned them into a log.
The texts the crew already sends can become the log
On a 20-unit garden apartment job, the foreman texted the super all day: slab poured in Building C, framing inspection passed on the second floor, two electricians sent home when the panels did not show. Those three texts are a daily log. The super used to retype them at night from memory and lose half of it. Now the messages get pulled into a draft by date and trade, so the pour, the inspection, and the no-show are written down before he sits down to review.
A draft still waits for the super to read it
The risk with any AI draft is that it fills gaps the field never reported. On a medical office build, a draft once said the ceiling grid was hung because a sub used the word grid in a text about material. The grid was delivered, not hung. The super caught it in ten seconds because he had walked the floor that morning. The rule on that job: the draft lists only what somebody actually reported, and the super reads every line before it is filed.
Log what was reported, not what was planned
A look-ahead says drywall starts Tuesday. That does not mean it started. On a tenant improvement, the plan had taping on Wednesday, but the mud never arrived and the crew stood down. A log that copied the schedule would have shown taping in progress. The draft built from the day's texts showed the truth: material late, crew idle, half a day lost. When a delay turns into a claim months later, the log that matches the texts is the one that holds up.
Start with the messages the crew already sends. Let the draft gather them by date and trade, then read every line before you file it. Punchlists can build that draft, but the super signs off on what is true.