KATAPULT PRO - BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT

Run your deployment in one place, from desktop design to verified as-builts

A BEAD build crosses multiple pole owners and engineering vendors before a single splice gets made. Katapult Pro gives your team one platform to manage every phase of that build, built on your data and workflow, so you can see where every pole and permit stands and prove what you built when the audit comes.

Start with a pilot project. Month-to-month subscription, annual price increase capped under 2%, and you retain ownership of your data. No long-term commitment.

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The Problem

What a buildout looks like without a connected system

A fiber build under BEAD rarely lives in one place. Routes get drawn in one tool, handed to an engineering firm, and returned as deliverables that don't connect to anything upstream, so changing a route restarts half the process. Different subcontractors collect with different tools and quality standards, which leaves you holding finished deliverables you can't audit or correct before the problems are baked in. Every pole owner runs its own permit process on its own timeline, and without a single view you end up managing a separate workflow for each one.

That fragmentation is what makes the visibility, forecasting, and documentation so hard. When your executives ask where the build stands, the honest answer is buried across inboxes, spreadsheets, and vendor deliverables, so you spend the meeting explaining delays you didn't cause and couldn't see coming. Crew deployment and management is unpredictable, while idle crews drain the budget.

Then construction ends and the compliance documentation has to be assembled from whatever data is scattered across those tools. With BEAD funding tied directly to those records, defensible as-builts are more important than ever.

How It Works

One connected lifecycle, from pre-design to closeout

Broadband Deployment is a configured workflow environment built inside Katapult Pro's Engineering Design module. One fiber project spawns permits across multiple pole owners, each moving on its own timeline, while construction gets sequenced against those permits as they clear. Here is how a build moves through it.

Pre-design

Plan the route before anyone mobilizes

Design routes natively in Katapult Pro, or bring a KMZ, shapefile, or CSV from an outside engineering firm and enrich it inside the platform. Any map with source data becomes a working route, which means field work starts from a plan instead of a blank map.

Data collection

Field data captured to your standards

A two-technician field workflow captures poles, midspans, and anchors with standardized photo types at every location, all geo-located and time-stamped. Your pre-designed routes get confirmed in the field, so the data coming back matches the standard you set rather than whatever each vendor happened to use.

Office processing

Validated against your data model

Uploaded field data is associated, processed, and validated against the data model and field rules you configured. By the time it lands, it has already been checked against your engineering standards, which keeps bad data from traveling downstream into permits and construction, no matter how many subcontractors are working on the project.

Permit management

Every permit, every pole owner, on one dashboard

Submissions across every pole owner move through clear workflow states, from Created and Submitted through Review, Payment Required, and Permit Granted, with automatic notifications when a status changes. A map and project dashboard shows your full portfolio at a glance, so when someone asks where the build stands, the answer is available instantly on one screen.

Construction sequencing

Release work as permits clear

Configurable automation releases construction as permits clear, sequenced down to the individual pole. You decide when handoffs and communication happen, so your crews are deployed exactly when there is work ready.

Data Ownership

Your server, your data, your workflow

Broadband Deployment is configured on a designated instance of Katapult Pro, and you own the data model, the field collection standards, and the complete project record. When a contractor holds the subscription, you're a guest in their environment, and your build data leaves with them when the relationship ends.

The Deployment Bundle puts the power in your hands:

Your vendors work inside your server, on the rails of the workflow you define.

The contractors and engineering firms you already work with have been on Katapult Pro since it became the make ready engineering standard in 2019, so this isn't a new tool for them to learn.

It's your workflow and standards, with all deliverables consistent across every vendor on the build.

Defensible As-Builts

Records that hold up when the funding is on the line

BEAD ties your funding to the records you produce, so an as-built can't just be a folder of photos or scribbled notes from the field. Katapult Pro stores your route design, your permit locations and both a pre- and post-construction photo for your complete record. Future work such as maintenance and upgrades can leverage these evolving records over time, while integrating with your construction management and billing systems. TrueNet Communications configured Katapult Pro Mobile Assessments for post-construction documentation on their own.

A compliance process that had taken six to nine months was finished in under a month.

Photo documentation went from roughly 5 percent of locations to 100 percent.

A two-person field team went from 20 to 30 poles a day to 200.

We didn't start as a software company. Katapult Pro grew out of our own outside plant engineering work, and we still run it on customer projects every day.

The platform has been in production since 2017.

It became the make ready engineering standard in 2019, and now supports more than 400 subscribing companies across all 50 states and Canada, including five investor-owned utilities running joint use management.

And we know what this work feels like because we still do it.

Getting Started

How you get to a working system

Project Setup delivers a fully configured environment within 90 days of your subscription start, and our first Deployment Bundle customer was live in 30. The first 90 days are mostly training and configuration, so your team learns to navigate and maintain the platform while it gets built around the way you actually work.

Server and Model Setup

We configure your data model, field validation, workflow handoffs, and role-based access to your engineering standards, with your team trained hands-on as we go.

Run Your Projects

Your vendors collect to your standards, permits track across every pole owner on one dashboard, and construction sequences against real clearances.

Close Them Out

Every location the build touches becomes a geo-located, time-stamped, verified record you own, ready for federal funding review and the next decade of operational decisions.

See it in action

Bring a route, a pole owner list, or a BEAD project you're scoping, and we'll walk through how the Deployment Bundle would manage it from pre-design to closeout.