Watch Tower · Applied Intelligence for your Business · Excavation and sitework contractors

An asset register and map for excavation and sitework contractors

The goal: Keep heavy equipment working instead of waiting, finish earthwork on schedule and keep every trench safe.

Your sites, vehicles, equipment and people go into one asset register (Vulcan), imported from the files you already keep, and onto one map of the United States (Talos). Every asset has an owner, and every card and KPI can point to the asset it's about.

Open the free demo A fictional company in your industry, opened in the Console. No card needed.

What you see

Talos map in the Watch Tower Console

An illustration of the Talos map: sample job sites, a site boundary and a storm cell on a dotted map of the United States. — Every site, vehicle and machine on one map of the United States, with your region up close. An illustration with sample data. The demo opens a sample in your industry.

For owners, superintendents and equipment managers at excavation and civil sitework firms

What it looks like for excavation and sitework contractors

The KPIs, cards and questions below are examples of what we set up with you. The names and units are made up.

KPIs, with the assumption behind each

Equipment utilizationHours each machine worked as a share of scheduled hours, per week.Assumption: From hour meter readings logged at day end.

Daily excavation inspections loggedWorkdays with a competent person's inspection logged before work began.Assumption: A missing log counts as not done.

Unplanned downtimeMachine hours lost to breakdowns, per month.Assumption: Counted from the breakdown report to the return to work.

Cards on the work tracker

Move the idle dozer to the subdivision jobEquipment manager · due Tue · Dozer D6-2
Set the trench box before the crew goes below five feet on the sewer runSuperintendent · due Today · Trench box TB-3
Fix the excavator's recurring hydraulic faultMechanic · due Thu · Excavator 320-1

Records you already keep

Equipment hour meter readings
Daily trench and excavation inspection logs
Job-cost reports
Fuel and maintenance records

Assets in the register

Excavators, dozers and loaders
Trench boxes and shoring
Job sites
Operators and competent persons

Questions your team can ask Bifrost

Which machines worked under half their scheduled hours last month?
On which days was a trench entered without a logged inspection?
What did breakdowns cost us in lost hours this quarter?

Bifrost answers from the records in your own workspace and shows how each number was worked out.

How it runs

Asset register and map, step by step

Send the list you already keep: a spreadsheet of sites, units and equipment is enough to start.
We import it into the register and show you what's there and what's missing.
Your sites and assets go on one map, with an owner for each one from your organization chart.
Cards in the work tracker and KPIs on the brief point to the assets they're about, so you can follow a problem to the asset behind it.

The barriers this crosses

Use: What exactly would I use it for? We name the specific uses by role and by industry: the decision, the calculation, the plan, the brief.
Capability: How do I use it, what do I install, and who do I call? We curate the tools, set them up, teach them in plain language and stay reachable.

Rules and facts for excavation and sitework contractors

What the records have to show

Employees in an excavation must be protected from cave-ins by an adequate protective system, except in excavations made entirely in stable rock or less than five feet deep where a competent person finds no sign of a potential cave-in.Source: 29 CFR 1926.652(a)(1), Protection of employees in excavations
A competent person must inspect excavations, the adjacent areas and protective systems daily, before the start of work and as needed during the shift.Source: 29 CFR 1926.651(k)(1), Specific excavation requirements
Trench excavations four feet or more deep must have a stairway, ladder, ramp or other safe means of egress within 25 feet of lateral travel.Source: 29 CFR 1926.651(c)(2), Specific excavation requirements

A summary for planning work, not legal advice. Check the source for the full rule and any state requirements.

Start

See it on a sample company first

Founding 10

$2,000 for setup and the first 3 months of Watch Tower, then $250/month. Ten places. We set up your team, goals and KPIs, asset register, map and work tracker with you, then review it with you every week.

Hardware implementation is quoted separately. Start with the demo; you can order from inside it.Open the free demo

Questions

Common questions

Do the machines need telematics for this?

No. Hour meter readings and daily logs are enough to start. If your machines already export telematics, we can read the export too.

Does the map show GPS positions from our trucks or machines?

Not yet. Positions on the map come from your records (addresses, yards, job sites and the locations you keep). Connected GPS tracking isn't released yet, and we'll say so plainly until it is.

What if our asset list is messy?

That's normal. We import what you have, then give you a written list of gaps, duplicates and assets with no owner, and fix it with you in week 3.

What does Watch Tower cost for excavation and sitework contractors?

Founding 10 covers setup and the first 3 months in one payment, then a monthly price; the numbers are on this page and on the pricing page inside the demo. Hardware implementation is quoted separately.

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