Excavation & Site Prep
No ReKeying — Every Field Change Order Captured and Approved Digitally
A tech discovers extra scope on-site — a corroded pipe, an unplanned material upgrade, an additional hour of labor. He calls it in verbally. The customer nods. The invoice comes out two weeks later with line items nobody recognizes. No ReKeying means scope changes captured in the field flow directly to the invoice with a digital approval trail.
Uncle Steve on change order management in excavation & site prep
The Excavation & Site Prep Industry at a Glance
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.
Excavation & Site Prep Industry Data & Research
Key statistics shaping the excavation & site prep market today.
- $30 billion annual cost of underground utility damage
- — Common Ground Alliance, 2024
- On-time locate delivery rate is only 30–70% across state 811 centers
- — CGA DIRT Report, 2024
How Change Order Management Actually Looks in Excavation & Site Prep
The Scenario
An excavation crew hits buried debris — old concrete footings not shown on the site drawings — requiring 6 hours of extra excavation and $800 in dump fees. The site superintendent says proceed. The extra is on the invoice. The GC disputes it at pay app.
The Real Impact
Buried obstruction change orders are among the most disputed line items on commercial excavation jobs. Without a field-signed change order and photo evidence, collection averages 60–80 days and is often partially written off.
Does This Sound Like Your Excavation & Site Prep Operation?
- !Customers dispute invoice line items they don't recall approving
- !Verbal scope approvals don't hold up when the customer pushes back
- !Techs add scope without realizing it needs a separate authorization
The Cost of Doing Nothing
Undocumented change orders are the #1 source of invoice disputes. The average disputed amount is $1,200–$4,000 per incident. At 5 disputes per month, that is $72K–$240K/year in contested revenue.
What Excavation & Site Prep Companies Typically Use
These tools are great at what they do — but they don't eliminate the change order management gap. That's what we build.
Excavation & Site Prep Operational Challenges
- 1Every grading and excavation job starts with a locate ticket
- 2Morning ticket distribution is a paper shuffle
- 3No real-time visibility into which locates are complete
- 4Wait time for outstanding locates burns crew and equipment hours
Compliance & Regulations
- A811 mandatory notification before excavation
- BOSHA excavation safety (29 CFR 1926 Subpart P)
- CState-specific locate ticket validity and positive response
- DStormwater/erosion control documentation
How We Fix Change Order Management for Excavation & Site Prep — No ReKeying
Map Your Workflow
We study exactly where change order management happens in your excavation & site prep operation — the forms, the handoffs, the re-entry points.
Build a Working Prototype
Not a demo. Not a slide deck. A real, functional prototype that eliminates the pain point and works with your existing tools.
Prove It Before You Pay
You test the prototype on a real job. If it doesn't eliminate the change order management problem, you don't pay.
Get No ReKeying for Your Excavation & Site Prep Operation — Free Prototype
Tell us about your operation and we'll build you a working solution — no commitment, no credit card.
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