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Make Ready Cost Sharing: Who Pays for What on the Pole?
You submitted your attachment application six months ago. The survey came back. The engineering is done. And now you're looking at a make ready estimate with pole replacements that will blow your project budget. Half those poles were already in rough shape before you showed up. So why is the full replacement cost landing on your invoice? If you're on the utility side, the math looks different. You weren't planning to replace those poles this year. Your capital budget didn't a
Apr 713 min read


Field Foundation: How Unbeatable Engineering Services Are Built From the Ground Up
Here’s an inside look at how our engineering team harnesses killer field services as a competitive advantage. From KPIs and throughput to hiring, onboarding, weekly rhythms, safety, and more, we sat down with Seth Morris, our Field Services Team Lead, to better understand how your team can level up. You already know data collection can make or break a project. Clean data from the field means clean designs, clean submissions, and clean margins. Bad data means rework, rollbacks
Mar 266 min read


Extending Your Competitive Advantage: A Deeply Digital Case Study
How one team used Katapult Pro’s API to feed their custom application that manages engineering workflows, automates team assignments, tracks KPIs, and turns work-in-progress into operational intelligence.
Mar 175 min read


v26.3 Katapult Pro Release Notes - Featuring Target Detection and Improved Mobile Uploads!
Check out what's new in the March 2026 release of Katapult Pro! Featuring machine-assisted Target Detection for photo calibrations.
Mar 51 min read


Enhancing Project Visibility: New Features That Transform Asset Discovery and Workflow Management
Finding specific assets in massive datasets and managing complex attachment workflows are persistent challenges in utility operations....
Sep 3, 20252 min read


The Hidden Cost of Outdated Work-in-Progress Systems in Utility Distribution
Managing utility projects without modern work-in-progress systems is like navigating without a map. Between aging infrastructure, growing...
Aug 29, 20252 min read


Continuous Improvement Hours
What are they? Continuous improvement hours are allotted time you can spend to push what’s possible for you in Katapult Pro – with our...
Aug 26, 20254 min read


Why the Best Software Solutions Keep Evolving
Here's something we've learned after years in the utility industry: the biggest efficiency gains happen after implementation. Every...
Aug 25, 20252 min read


Streamlining Data Management: New Features That Transform How Teams Work with Large Datasets
Managing large, static datasets is a major bottleneck in utility projects. Teams waste time hunting for reference data, duplicating work across organizations, and dealing with clunky interfaces that slow down critical field operations.
Aug 8, 20252 min read


A Record-Keeping Reality Check
Looking at the average pole, you might see anywhere from one to half a dozen attachments, power lines, secondaries, a neutral, a...
Jul 22, 20253 min read
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