Dovetail Engineering

Make-ready Invoices,
Reconciled Against Each Pole

Over-allocation surfaced before you commit. Overcharges recovered after you're billed.

01
The problem

Buildable Isn't Budgeted

A fiber route can be physically buildable and still blow its budget. Pole attachment fees, make-ready surprises, permitting delays, ROW problems, contractor change orders, and design changes surface after money is committed.

The over-allocation gets discovered after the budget is spent.

02
What it does

Committed ≠ Paid

We surface line-level per-project budget over-allocation risk before money is committed: across POs, contracts, scheduled labor, and materials.

Most systems only show what was invoiced — the part you can no longer change.

03
Who it's for

Built for Whoever Owns the Number

OSP managers, fiber operations, network engineering, make-ready / pole attachment / ROW coordinators, project controls, and the finance teams that own project budgets.

04
Why us

We Studied the Industry From Both Sides

The owner side is served: engineering firms audit the poles, write the estimates, and hold the work orders. But the records that prove what actually happened never reach the attacher. We asked why, and whether the gap could be bridged.

05
The pilot

The Pilot, De-Risked

  1. The first two pilots this quarter are free: 45 days, NDA-first.
  2. We run the method on synthetic data first.
  3. Then on one of your real projects. You see the delta on your own records before committing to anything.
  4. Zero integration, your records stay yours. Your team exports the records once.
  5. If the pilot doesn't surface variance you didn't already know about, there is no invoice from us. Recovery runs on contingency, you keep 75% of every documented dollar you recover that you didn't already know about.
06
The ask

Twenty Minutes

20 minutes with whoever owns fiber project budgets. We'll walk the method on a worked example, the same exhibit a pilot produces, and show exactly what we'd need from your records.