A real-estate CEO with zero developers shipped a live construction app in 5
A non-technical CEO built a live app where site teams tap a floor plan to log incidents, with a full approval workflow, in five weeks.
The CEO of a Spanish real estate developer had a 40-home site, scattered incident reports and no developers. In five weeks they shipped a production app their builder, site director and architect now use. It shows that what you need is method and discipline, not a technical background.
Maia Obra: construction incident app for Vive Ginkgo
Before
On the Vive Ginkgo site in Valencia, 40 homes were going up, and incidents arrived by WhatsApp, email or word of mouth. Nothing could be traced or pinned to a floor plan. When defect disputes came after a sale, that scatter became a real liability risk. They had no developers to build a fix.
“On our 40-home construction site (Vive Ginkgo, Valencia (Spain)), incidents were reported via WhatsApp, email or verbally — scattered, untraceable, impossible to reference on floor plans, and a liability risk when post-sale defect disputes arise.”
In their own words
The turning point
They took a spec-first path: Dream, Design, Develop. Before building anything big, they tested the riskiest idea with a one-screen prototype where you pin a spot on a plan. Then they built in buckets that only closed once real users had tested them, with Claude Code writing all of the code.
“Golden rule: everything that varies is CONFIGURATION in Airtable, never code — trade catalogs, approval chains, teams.”
In their own words
After
Now they run a live web app where anyone taps the exact spot on one of 46 real floor plans to log an incident, numbered, photographed, assigned and dated. An approval chain runs from builder to site director to architect, with a signed audit trail, designed with the real team. They have named it Maia Obra and see it as a future platform for other developers.
What it lets people do
Site teams log every incident in one place, tied to the exact spot on a plan, with photos and documents filed automatically. Each person sees what is waiting for them, and the company keeps a clear record when defect questions come up later.
What they learned
They learned that AI proposes and humans decide, and that studying real documents first shapes a better design: 35 real meeting minutes reshaped their data model. Most of all, they found a non-technical leader can ship production software with method, real-user testing and good version control habits.
“AI proposes, humans decide (validations, liability attribution).”
In their own words
Maia Obra: construction incident app for Vive Ginkgo was built during AI Mastery.
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