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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

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

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

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.