Pole Loading & Make-Ready
Every pole checked before you apply.
The loading check runs on every pole in your design, as it stands and with your attachment added. Each pole comes back clear, needing make-ready, or refused with the missing input named. The Permitting agent drafts the applications and keeps the owner’s clock. By default, your team approves every step.
Product screenshot · C-POL-01 — The Poles desk on the Acme — Queens demo network: every pole’s verdict from the loading check. Demo company; streets from OpenStreetMap, poles generated for the demo.
Engines calculate. Agents draft. Your engineers decide.
Calculated, not guessed
The loading check is deterministic: NESC Rule 250B for wood poles, with no model in the loop. Run it twice and you get the same answer.
Refused, not assumed
A pole with a missing input is neither passed nor failed. It is refused, with the input named, until someone supplies it.
Proposed, not filed
By default, every application step the agent takes waits for a person. The engineer’s seal block is left for your engineer.
Loading
A verdict on every pole, with its reasons.
The check adds up wind on the pole and on every iced cable, wire tension at angles and dead-ends, lean, and the credit of a down guy. A pole clears only when it holds at or under 100% of capacity, as it stands and with your attachment added.
Clears, needs make-ready, or refuses to judge
The governing load and guy utilisation on every row
3D view, to-scale elevation, sag and tension in one editor
Product screenshot · C-POL-02 — The pole editor beside the Poles table. Read-only on the desk; edits happen in the workspace.
Product screenshot · C-POL-03 — Each span’s clearance and the governing load case, on hover.
Inputs
Missing data is named, not guessed.
Only heights a person has confirmed count. When a height is still an AI proposal, a pole falls outside the method, or an input is missing, the check refuses and says what it needs. Every span gets its own clearance at initial sag, and a refused span is never hidden.
Survey photos matched to poles by tag, GPS and sequence, as proposals
Heights measured from a calibrated photo, with a ± band
A person confirms before any number feeds a verdict
Make-ready
Make-Ready options, re-checked and priced.
For a pole that fails, the agent lists the fixes: lower your attachment, lower or remove another attacher’s, or add a down guy. Each fix goes back through the loading check and is offered only if the pole then clears. Prices come from your own rate card. Anything without a rate is marked unpriced.
Every option verified by the same engine
Priced only from your rate card
Committing a fix is always a person’s call
Product screenshot · Make-ready options — How a failing pole’s fixes are produced. Drawn from the product’s rules, not a screenshot.
Product screenshot · C-POL-04 — The Make-ready desk with the four applications seeded on the Queens design’s own poles. Demo company.
Applications
Applications drafted. The owner’s clock kept.
The Permitting agent batches surveyed poles into applications, one owner and one clock each. The desk follows the FCC timeline: 45 days for the owner’s review, 14 for the estimate, 14 for your acceptance, then 60 days of make-ready, or 90 when it is complex. Amber inside 14 days. Red once blown.
A package per application: pole schedule, loading report, make-ready list, route sheets, photos
Follow-ups drafted; self-help only once a window is blown
The owner’s own windows, where your agreement sets them
Control
Nothing reaches an owner without your team.
By default, every step the agent takes is filed as a proposal: batching poles, submitting, following up, accepting an estimate, invoking self-help. A person approves it on the desk or in the Inbox. Committing make-ready and using a measured height are person-only, always.
Proposal by default, one autonomy toggle per step
A submission is recorded in Lux; your team sends it to the owner
Aerial work orders wait until the pole is licensed
Product screenshot · C-POL-06 — A Permitting-agent proposal waiting in the Inbox.
The pole work, ready for sign-off.
A loading verdict for every pole, with its governing load
Clearance for every span, refusals shown
Make-ready options for failing poles, re-checked and priced
An application package per owner, seal block left blank
The FCC clock on every application, amber and red
Construction on a pole held until it is licensed