When a tech arrives at a site, the unit's full service history should be in their hand — not in a binder in the machine room or in a retired tech's memory. Zero Double Entry means every field entry becomes a permanent digital record linked to that specific equipment serial number.
Key Finding: Independent workflow analysis indicates that unresolved equipment service history issues in Excavation & Site Prep operations hinder efficiency. Research shows that Technicians spending over 30 minutes searching for past service logs increase callback rates by up to 22% due to missed root causes [1].
Site preparation and general excavation contractors — grading, foundation excavation, utility trenching. Every job starts with an 811 ticket.
40,000+
US Companies
$1.5M–$12M
Avg. Revenue
5–30
Field Crew Size
5.5%
Growth Rate
First shovel = first locate ticket. If your morning routine is printing tickets, sorting by crew, and hoping the locates are done, you're running a paper process in a $30-billion-damage industry.
Objective third-party statistics and research benchmarks relative to equipment service history and excavation & site prep workflows.
An excavator operator arrives to continue a trench job started by a different crew last week. He has no handoff notes on the equipment — specifically whether the hydraulic oil was flagged for service or whether the bucket pins were greased after the last shift.
Equipment handed off without service notes leads to preventable breakdowns mid-job — averaging $1,500–$4,000 in downtime, expedited parts, and rental replacement per incident.
Arriving without unit history adds 45–90 minutes of diagnostic re-work per service call. At $100/hour and 3 such calls per tech per week, that is $15K–$23K/year in wasted labor per technician.
We study exactly where equipment service history happens in your excavation & site prep operation — the forms, the handoffs, the re-entry points.
Not a demo. Not a slide deck. A real, functional prototype that eliminates the pain point and works with your existing tools.
You test the prototype on a real job. If it doesn't eliminate the equipment service history problem, you don't pay.
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