Excavation & Site Prep

Your Customer History Lives in Someone's Head

When a repeat customer calls, nobody can find their history. Equipment lists, past invoices, and service notes are scattered across paper files and spreadsheets.

Uncle Steve on customer records 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

Does This Sound Like Your Excavation & Site Prep Operation?

  • !Can't find past work orders for a customer
  • !New tech doesn't know the site's quirks
  • !Equipment service history is in a filing cabinet

The Cost of Doing Nothing

Without accessible history, you lose upsell opportunities and repeat the same diagnostic work — costing $200–$500/incident.

What Excavation & Site Prep Companies Typically Use

BOSS811HeavyJobB2WProcore

These tools are great at what they do — but they don't eliminate the customer records 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
Common roles:Owner/OperatorProject ManagerForemanEquipment Operator

How We Fix Customer Records for Excavation & Site Prep — No ReKeying

1

Map Your Workflow

We study exactly where customer records happens in your excavation & site prep operation — the forms, the handoffs, the re-entry points.

2

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.

3

Prove It Before You Pay

You test the prototype on a real job. If it doesn't eliminate the customer records 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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Customer Records Problems for Excavation & Site Prep Companies | Simply Connected Systems