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If you're reading this, your team has probably just signed up for Katapult Pro, or you're doing homework before you do. Either way, welcome! You'll get the login link and the kickoff invite soon. Before all that, we wanted to introduce ourselves, because for the next few months you're going to be working with us a lot, and we've learned a few things about how to make that go well over the past decade. Most of what follows comes from Seth Miller, our rockstar solutions special

On paper, a pole attachment audit looks like a no-brainer. You own the poles, you want to know who is on them and how many attachments each company has, so you hire someone to go look. In practice, these projects stall out constantly: in the RFI stage, in the RFP stage, or in a consulting conversation that quietly dies on the vine. The reason usually has nothing to do with whether the audit is worth doing. Almost every pole owner would benefit from current attachment records.

How two-person, photo-based field crews collect faster, collect safer, and produce a record you can defend. Field data collection matters more than any other step in the workflow. Everything downstream depends on it. Make ready engineering, pole loading analysis, permitting, the deliverable a utility actually accepts, the attachment record a joint use team relies on for years: all of it inherits the quality of what came back from the field. Clean field data means clean design

Understanding the two paths the platform offers, and what you need to have ready before you start. Pole loading analysis is one of those corners of OSP engineering where tools, terminology, and expectations get tangled fast. If you're opening Katapult Pro for the first time with pole loading on your project scope, there's a reasonable chance you're not entirely sure what the platform is going to do for you, what information you need from the pole owner, and what falls to you

A new model configuration for double wood resolution, a mobile overhaul for offline data collection, faster load times, and more. This month's release is a big one. The headliner is Transfer Management, our new Katapult Pro configuration for ongoing double wood resolution. Plus a major mobile sync overhaul, faster load times, and a few new tools and bug fixes. Transfer Management Map and Photo View Example Transfer Management is a new Katapult Pro configuration for ongoing do

How TrueNet replaced paper as-built documentation with geo-located, time-stamped field data and photos that compress a 6-9 month compliance process into less than a month. TrueNet Communications is a national OSP engineering contractor and a 1Finity Company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. Founded in 1985, they provide infrastructure planning, engineering, construction, and fielding services across North America. Their fielding division puts boots on the ground to coll

Double Wood Configuration Tutorial from Alex D'Amico Nobody likes double wood. Every pole owner has them. Everyone is trying to clean them up. Two poles standing next to each other, one old and one new, because the transfer never finished. One is a headache, a hundred is a problem, and a thousand is the thing that shows up in leadership meetings and state regulator hearings. Double (and unfortunately triple) wood will continue to show up more and more as BEAD dollars hit and

CCI Systems is a 100% employee-owned telecommunications solution provider headquartered in Iron Mountain, Michigan. Founded in 1955, the company has grown to more than 1,200 employees delivering end-to-end network services, from consulting and engineering design to construction management and field services, across the country. Pole loading analysis and make ready engineering represent one piece of that larger operation. It's a narrow but critical slice of the work CCI's engi

The case for taking permits off your designers' plates, automating the boring parts, and following up at the cadence each agency actually responds to. If your fiber build keeps stalling at the same step it stalled at last quarter, the bottleneck is probably not your design team. It's permits. DOT, railroads, municipalities. These are the gates between your engineering package and construction, and they don't care about time-to-build or ROI. We know this firsthand. Our permits

This is how the SQUAN team configured Katapult Pro to give 150+ users full access to project workflows, job statuses, and permit progress across various clients and thousands of poles every month. At a Glance Company SQUAN - national telecom engineering and construction firm Role Shawn Browning, Senior Engineering Manager Scale 1000s of poles per month Primary Use Data collection, make ready engineering, underground design, and project management Key Result Complete team visi