{"id":59254,"date":"2026-11-02T12:08:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sitemate.com\/?p=59254"},"modified":"2026-11-02T12:08:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:08:42","slug":"how-to-use-claude-for-site-photo-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sitemate.com\/de\/mcp\/use-cases\/how-to-use-claude-for-site-photo-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Claude for Analysing Site Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"How to use Claude to read back site photos over MCP: get photos onto digital forms, connect, ask precise questions and check every answer on site.","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"region":[145],"system":[86],"content_type":[170,173],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-59254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-global","system-field-reporting","content_type-ai-landing-page","content_type-llm-use-case-page"],"acf":{"ai_lp_breadcrumb":"How to Use Claude for Site Photo Analysis<\/span>","ai_lp_h1":"How to Use Claude for Analysing Site Photos","ai_lp_intro":"Site photos pile up fast, and a month's worth is impossible to make sense of by scrolling. Claude can do the first pass for you. Connect it to your photo records over MCP and ask which areas changed between two dates, or where the crew stopped taking photos. It answers using the job, area, date and notes on each entry, and you open the photos yourself to check before anything goes into a report.","ai_lp_hero_media":"","ai_lp_body":"
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The short answer<\/p>\n

Claude can sort through your site photos as long as they're logged in a form with the job, area and date. It reads those records over MCP from a system like Dashpivot and answers questions like which areas went quiet last week or how the formwork progressed between two dates, linking back to the entries it used. The supervisor checks those entries against the photos before anything goes into a report or claim.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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How to Get Claude Reading Your Site Photos<\/h2>\n

Reading back a month of site photos by hand means scrolling through every image and trying to remember which area each one came from. Claude can do the first pass if it can reach the records behind them. That needs the photos on digital forms and enough history to compare, plus a connection over MCP so Claude can read the forms. Only that last part is a setup step, and you still check what it finds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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    Step 1<\/p>\n

    Get the work onto digital forms<\/h3>\n

    Claude can only read back what was recorded in a consistent way. A photo dropped into a group chat has no job, area or date attached, and a photo of a paper diary is just a picture, with nothing in it Claude can search. Put the photos on a digital form instead, with the same fields every time: the job, the area, the date, and a short note on what the photo shows. Those fields are what Claude searches and sorts by when you ask it something.<\/p>\n <\/li>\n

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    Step 2<\/p>\n

    Build up enough history to read back over<\/h3>\n

    One week of photos tells Claude very little. The useful questions compare: how far the formwork has moved since last month, which areas keep showing the same defect, where photos stopped coming in. Those need weeks of entries against the same project, filed the same way each time. If your crews only started recording photos on forms recently, start with narrow questions about the last few days and widen them as the history grows.<\/p>\n <\/li>\n

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    Step 3<\/p>\n

    Connect Claude over MCP<\/h3>\n

    With the records in place, your assistant needs a way to reach them. That's what MCP does: it lets an assistant query a system it doesn't own, using the permissions you already have. Depending on which system you use, the process may vary. We cover Sitemate MCP later in this article.<\/p>\n <\/li>\n

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    Step 4<\/p>\n

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    Ask Claude a specific question about the photo records it can now read. Name the form, the job and the date range. Ask for an answer that points back to the entries it used, so you can open the photos and check them yourself.<\/p>\n <\/li>\n

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    Step 5<\/p>\n

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    Check the answer against the photos before anything goes into a report or a claim. Claude works from the fields and notes on each entry, so a wrong area or date on the form shows up in its answer. Correct the record, then ask again.<\/p>\n <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n\n

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    Prompt guidance for analysis of site photos<\/h2>\n

    The prompts that work name the form, the project, the area and the dates, and say what kind of answer you want back. \"What's happening on site?\" gives Claude nothing to narrow on, so it answers in general terms. Ask it to point to the entries it used, so you can open the photos and check what it's telling you before you act on it.<\/p>\n