The 45 / 14 / 60 clock
Standard-order 45-day survey, 14-day estimate, and 60-day make-ready windows are computed deterministically from the application events — never estimated, never remembered.
The most rigorous 47 CFR Subpart J permit package a fiber build can file.
SpanReady assembles a completeness-checked, utility-specific pole attachment application package — every required field and exhibit, the executed-agreement references, and a live clock ledger of every FCC and state deadline — measured against the letter of 47 C.F.R. Part 1, Subpart J as amended by FCC 25-38 before a specialist releases it.
Every timeline in 47 C.F.R. Part 1, Subpart J45 / 14 / 60 and 90 / 29 / 120 / 180 clocks, computed23 reverse-preemption state regimes + DCNamed OSP-fluent reviewer on every packageFirst batch within 10 business days of complete intake
Why applications bounce
A defective application restarts the utility's clock — and forfeits the rights you never claimed.
An aerial fiber mile earns nothing until every pole under it is permitted. Applications bounce on completeness and restart the utility's 45-to-90-day review; the FCC deadlines that took full effect May 7, 2026 go unenforced because nobody is tracking them; and make-ready invoices of $75 to $450 per pole get paid unread.
Most builders run this from a spreadsheet, staffed by a lone permit coordinator or nobody at all. The rule text has not been read end-to-end since the last batch mattered. That is exactly where completeness gaps and blown clocks hide.
SpanReady exists to close that gap with a single, exhaustive standard applied identically to every application and every pole owner.
$75–$450
per pole in make-ready invoices, most of it paid without a line-by-line read
The benchmark
Measured against the letter of Subpart J — timeline by timeline.
We do not summarize the rules and hope. Every application and every clock is scored against a versioned rule pack tied to the exact text of 47 U.S.C. § 224 and 47 C.F.R. Part 1, Subpart J as amended by FCC 25-38. These are the provisions each package is held to.
Large-order timelines
For orders of 3,001–6,000 poles, the 90-day survey, 29-day estimate, and 120-day communications / 180-day power make-ready windows, plus the 60-day advance notice and meet-and-confer, are calendared with the tier documented.
Self-help and inability notices
Self-help eligibility on late estimates and the 15-day inability-to-complete notice conditions are tracked so an earned remedy is flagged the day it vests, not months later.
OTMR and contractor deemed-approval
One-touch make-ready and the 30-day contractor deemed-approval conditions from the Report and Order — staged through May 7, 2026 — are applied by application event date, not query date.
Reverse-preemption regimes
For poles in the 23 certified states plus DC, that state's rulebook version governs the clock — including overlays such as Virginia's 75-day utility response statute — selected before any deadline is computed.
Subgrantee-owned poles
Where the client is a BEAD subgrantee, the compliance-reporting duties on subgrantee-owned poles are noted as the client's, with SpanReady supplying the underlying data only.
How a package is built
Intake to specialist release, with deterministic gates the AI cannot overrule.
AI extracts, assembles, and compares. Deterministic code — running outside the model — computes every deadline and decides what is complete. A named reviewer signs every release. That order is never reversed.
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Permit Clock Audit
Share one in-flight application batch. Within 48 hours we return a dated ledger of every deadline the utility owes you, with rule citations, and any rights already earned — missed survey windows, estimate overruns, unclaimed deemed-approvals.
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Intake and normalization
Field survey exports (Katapult Pro, ikeGPS, or CSV), route maps, executed joint-use agreements, and your authority-to-act letter are validated and normalized into canonical pole and application records, each field carrying a confidence score.
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Grounded assembly
Utility-specific applications are drafted from your validated data and the per-utility playbook into field-locked templates — required fields, exhibits, and maps — with no engineering judgments and no invented facts.
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Deterministic completeness and clock gates
The completeness gate hard-blocks any MISSING required field; the clock state machine computes every Subpart J and state deadline from the event log, with a nightly independent recompute that stops outbound mail on any divergence.
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Specialist release
A named OSP-fluent reviewer works the exception queue and signs the release before submission. Every escalation letter states facts, dates, and citations only, and goes out under your signature.
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Delivery and clock watch
You receive the package plus a live clock ledger and weekly status dashboard mapped to your construction and BEAD milestones — with enforcement correspondence drafted the day any clock is breached, for your approval.
The bar we hold
Rigor you can measure.
100%
Reviewer-released
No package is submitted without a named reviewer's signature.
10 days
First-batch SLA
First batch submitted within 10 business days of complete intake.
First-pass
Contractual quality bar
Completeness rejections attributable to us trigger a 50% fee refund for that application, capped at the batch fee.
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Regulatory regimes
FCC default plus 23 reverse-preemption states + DC, selected by pole owner.
Why SpanReady
Built to be the most thorough option a builder has.
Completeness and clocks, by design
The deliverable is completeness itself — every required field and exhibit accounted for or exception-coded, and every deadline computed and tracked. Nothing is left implicit or remembered.
Deterministic, not vibes
No language model ever computes a deadline or has final say on completeness. The gates are code, verified against the primary rule text, with a nightly independent recompute.
In its lane, on purpose
We prepare documents, manage the project, and analyze costs. Pole loading analysis stays with your licensed PE — we consume stamped outputs. Complaints and negotiation stay with your telecom counsel.
Engagement
Per pole, never hourly. Audit on documented savings only.
Priced in the denominator the build already thinks in — per pole — and aligned to our own work-product quality, not to any utility outcome we do not control.
- A free Permit Clock Audit before you commit — one batch, 48 hours, every deadline the utility owes you.
- Volume-tiered per-pole fee for the Permit Package + Clock Watch, $2,500 minimum per application batch.
- Optional Make-Ready Estimate & Invoice Audit at 20–25% of documented savings — no savings, no fee.
- Optional Managed Joint-Use Desk retainer for continuous applications, transfer notices, and rental true-ups.
FAQ
Questions, answered precisely.
Is SpanReady a law firm or an engineering firm?
Neither, on purpose. SpanReady, a service of Your Deputy, Obuke LLC, provides administrative document-preparation, project-management, and cost-analysis services. It is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice, and it is not an engineering firm and performs no pole loading analysis, make-ready design, or work requiring a licensed Professional Engineer. It consumes stamped PE outputs as inputs.
Do you contact the utility or negotiate on our behalf?
Only as your authorized administrative agent, and only correspondence that states facts, dates, and citations to published rules and your executed agreements — drafted for your approval and sent under your signature. Agreement negotiation, interpretation for advocacy, and FCC or state complaints stay with your telecom counsel, to whom we hand a complete evidence file.
What makes a package 'complete'?
Completeness is defined by the utility's required-field and exhibit list and by Subpart J: every required field present, exhibits attached, the executed agreement referenced, and every applicable clock computed. Deterministic gates hard-block any MISSING field before release.
Which rules do you track?
47 C.F.R. Part 1, Subpart J as amended by FCC 25-38 — the 45/14/60 standard clocks, the 90/29/120/180 large-order tiers, 30-day contractor deemed-approval, self-help, and 15-day inability notices — plus the 23 reverse-preemption state regimes and DC, and the NTIA BEAD § 13.D.1 overlay where you are a subgrantee.
How are you priced?
A volume-tiered flat fee per pole for the permit package and clock watch, never hourly. The optional make-ready audit is 20–25% of documented savings only — savings count when the utility corrects an estimate or invoice in writing — with no legal contingency implied.
See every deadline the utility owes you — before the clock runs out.
Start with a free Permit Clock Audit. Share one in-flight application batch and we'll return a dated ledger of every FCC and state deadline, with rule citations and any rights already earned.
Document-preparation, project-management, and cost-analysis service · not legal or engineering advice · you file and sign every submission.
[PLACEHOLDER] First-cohort make-ready deadline-tracking accuracy — computed against the 30-day contractor deemed-approval and 15-day inability-notice clocks. The real measured accuracy appears here once the first pilot attachers complete a cycle. We refund 50% of our fee on any application rejected for completeness.
[PLACEHOLDER] First attacher reference — added only with a named pilot client's written permission. SpanReady never invents a testimonial or a client name.
[PLACEHOLDER] Total pole-attachment applications processed to date — a live, auditable count once real applications have shipped, never estimated.