Excavation & Site Prep
Your 811 Locate Records Are on Paper. That Is a Liability Problem.
Every dig starts with an 811 ticket. But between the ticket and the field, the digital thread breaks — locate verifications, bore logs, and as-builts end up on paper, in camera rolls, or in filing cabinets.
Uncle Steve on locate documentation 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 Locate Documentation Actually Looks in Excavation & Site Prep
The Scenario
A grading crew shows up at 7 AM. The foreman has a stack of printed 811 tickets. He calls the office to ask which locates are complete. Nobody knows. The crew waits.
The Real Impact
Idle crew time at $500–$2,000/day while waiting for locate confirmations. No digital record of which marks were verified before excavation began.
What the Research Says
“On-time locate delivery rate is only 30–70%. $30 billion in annual utility damage costs nationally.”
— CGA DIRT Report, 2024
Does This Sound Like Your Excavation & Site Prep Operation?
- !Locate tickets printed and sorted by hand each morning
- !Locate verification photos stored in personal phone camera rolls
- !No system tracks ticket expiration — missed update/remark windows
- !Damage claims require weeks of paper reconstruction
The Cost of Doing Nothing
Underground utility damage costs $30 billion/year nationally. Digging on an expired locate ticket means full repair liability ($10K–$200K+), statutory fines, and voided insurance.
What Excavation & Site Prep Companies Typically Use
These tools are great at what they do — but they don't eliminate the locate documentation 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 Locate Documentation for Excavation & Site Prep — No ReKeying
Map Your Workflow
We study exactly where locate documentation 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 locate documentation problem, you don't pay.
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