For CEI & Inspection Teams
Whoever has the most complete documentation wins.
In daily use on state DOT and local government projects across the country.
Instant location. Auto-captured test data. A record that builds itself — so your inspectors spend their day inspecting, not filling out forms.
Inspection teams already running OnStation
By the numbers
Proven on real CEI work, year after year.
OnStation runs on DOT and local-government corridors across the country — the same procurement environment your firm bids into.
Agencies increasingly score digital documentation capability as part of proposal evaluation. OnStation gives you the answer.
The expert tax
Inspectors are experts. Their tools shouldn't be from 1985.
Every hour your senior inspector spends finding a stake or recopying a daily diary is an hour you can't bill for inspection.
15 of 30 min → 5 of 6 min
Per test, gone to location-finding and data re-entry. With OnStation, that overhead all but disappears.
Inspector tasks, measured
Four jobs your inspectors do every day. Faster, cleaner, defensible.
Find your location on the project
Blue dot on the alignment. No paper plans, no wheel, no respray requests.
Document a hazard or utility risk
Drop a flag, snap a photo. Notification fires to the contractor and the agency. Permanent record.
Capture density and instrument test data
Scan QR on a TransTech device. Value flows into a flag. CSV exports to your DWR. No double entry.
See activity across every project, live
Every flag, photo, and form your inspectors generate, aggregated in real-time. Filter by user, contract, or date.
From the field
On a busy day, I'm spread thin and don't have time to write things down. With OnStation, I just drop a flag, take a picture, and add a few notes.
Chris Lundberg · Senior CEI Inspector, RS&H
Inside RS&H
If your firm has lost a re-bid in the last 18 months because the documentation file couldn't defend a quantity dispute — this is the page your competition has already read.
25 years of survey experience. 13 miles of project.
Chris Lundberg, Senior CEI Inspector — RS&H, Tampa FL
Chris's job: capture and organize evidence of every piece of work across 13 miles of central Florida's busiest interstate. Hundreds of work items. The kind of documentation load that, on paper, is impossible to keep clean.
"I just pulled up the app, navigated to the location, clicked on the flag, and saw an accident from three months earlier."
— Resolving a guardrail dispute, in seconds
At the firm level — typical mid-sized CEI engagement
Not just big federal CEI shops
"We're nowhere near the size of RS&H — we're a regional shop running maybe five active corridors at a time. The math still works. Our senior inspectors stopped quitting over the paperwork."
Inspection practice lead · APEX Engineering · mid-tier CEI firm
For finance & leadership
Run the math on your own contracts.
Drag the sliders. Watch the number change. The math underneath comes from the OnStation CEI Buyer's Guide — sourced from firm-reported inspector utilization, DOT contract billing rates, and documentation defense costs.
Reclaimable across the contract
$1.26M
Inspector admin hours converted back to billable inspection, plus documentation defense and re-inspection trip avoidance.
Sources: OnStation CEI Buyer's Guide. Admin-hour reclamation based on ~$35K per inspector per year (15-of-30-min audit). Re-inspection trip avoidance assumes 2 saved trips per project per year at the listed rate. Defense figure extrapolated from a 12-inspector mid-sized engagement.
Built for the practice
A different value proposition for everyone who runs CEI work.
A practice tool, not just an inspector tool — different outcomes for the different people who deliver the contract.
Senior inspectors
Be an inspector again, not a typist.
Twenty years of judgment shouldn't be spent re-keying density readings at 7pm. Drop a flag, snap a photo, dictate a note — the record builds itself while you focus on the work that earned you the job.
Project managers
Stop chasing data. Start using it.
No more Monday-morning Slack hunts for last Friday's density photos. Open the portal, filter by station, export to your DWR. The data is already where you need it, attached to the work it describes.
Practice leaders
Win the next bid. Defend the last one.
Margin on contracts you're already winning. Audit-ready records on contracts that get challenged. A proposal answer when agencies ask about documentation capability. The math works on a single mid-sized contract.
For the champion inside your firm
How to roll this out without an internal fight.
You've read this page. You see the math. Now you have to walk into Monday's meeting and convince three people who haven't. Here's the script.
"Paper's worked fine for 25 years. We don't need an app."
— the senior inspector
Don't argue. Set a 15-minute side-by-side: same density test, paper vs. OnStation. They'll see the photo auto-attach, the station auto-tag, and the time-stamp. Most senior inspectors flip in one session — because the app finally respects their judgment instead of asking them to re-key it.
"The DOT will use this against us in disputes."
— the project manager
Other way around. A station-anchored, time-stamped, photo-attached record is the documentation that wins disputes, not loses them. Ask your PM the last time they got beat on a quantity dispute because the *agency* had better records. That's what changes.
"What does this cut from our G&A?"
— finance
Nothing. OnStation is billable contract infrastructure — the cost travels with the project, your bid team includes it as a line item, and the agency pays for it the way they pay for any other contract resource. The savings shows up as reclaimed billable hours on the inspectors who would have been re-keying instead of inspecting.
Crew on roadway ahead
0.4 mi · Slow to 35 mph
1 in 5 construction fatalities happen in highway work zones.
Active WorkSite™ pushes a real-time alert to drivers through Waze and OEM dashboards the moment your inspector steps onto the corridor — triggered automatically by live jobsite location. Not a generic work-zone sign. The exact spot where your team is standing right now.
Learn about safetyWorks with what you already use
Built into your DWR workflow, not bolted on top.
OnStation feeds your existing daily report process. Test data flows in via QR scan. Form 448 supported via batch CSV export. No double entry.
Implementation
Your first 30 days with OnStation.
No new hardware. No complex setup. Inspectors use the phones they already carry. The OnStation Customer Success team handles the heavy lifting — you pick a contract and we handle the rest.
Day 1
Sign & pick a contract.
Finalize licenses. Pick one active contract to start with — usually the one with the loudest documentation pain.
Days 2–7
Train the team.
One training session with the OnStation team. User accounts created. Project loaded. Inspectors download the app to phones they already have.
Days 7–14
Run it on the job.
Inspectors start using live station, dropping flags, capturing test data and photos. PMs and practice leaders see the data flow in real time.
Days 14–30
Expand from there.
Add more inspectors and contracts. Turn on DWR exports and Form 448 integrations. Most firms hit ROI break-even in the first 30 days.
Real questions from CEI buyers
The five questions every CEI firm asks.
We've heard all of these in sales calls. Here are the straight answers.
Today your inspectors generate fragments and reassemble them at end of day. With OnStation, every fragment is born with station, offset, timestamp, and inspector ID attached. The record isn't reconstructed. It's already built.
OnStation feeds your DWR, it doesn't replace it. Form 448 is supported via batch CSV export. TransTech density readings flow in via QR scan. No double entry.
Inspector hour reclamation alone covers the license cost in weeks. By month three, the firm is netting reclaimed billable hours. We'll run the math on your specific contract on a 30-minute call.
Your firm owns your project data. Export every flag, photo, form, and inspection log to CSV, ZIP, or PDF at any time. If you don't renew, you take everything with you.
OnStation is billable infrastructure — a contract cost that travels with the project, not an internal G&A line your firm absorbs. We'll give you the proposal language and the cost-justification math your bid team needs.
Two ways forward
Your next contract is coming.
Will your team have the record to win it?
A 20-minute walkthrough for your team,
or a buyer's guide for your next strategy meeting.