Free Permit Clock Audit

For fiber builders with poles on the critical path

Your poles, permitted on the enforceable clock — at audited cost.

Every rejected application restarts a 45-day review clock. Every unwatched deadline forfeits rights the FCC gave attachers on May 7, 2026. SpanReady is the done-for-you permit desk that makes both impossible — complete utility-specific applications, relentless deadline enforcement, and line-by-line make-ready audit. Priced per pole, never hourly.

Get your free Permit Clock Audit See how it works

Give us one live application batch. Within 48 hours you get a dated ledger of every deadline your utility currently owes you — including rights you've already earned and never claimed.

Permits are your critical path — and the pipeline is rigged against small attachers.

Since May 7, 2026 the FCC owes you defined survey, estimate, and make-ready deadlines, self-help on late estimates, and 30-day deemed approval of your contractors. But rights that nobody tracks pole-by-pole, day-by-day are rights that do not exist — and the utility has no incentive to remind you the clock ran out.

Meanwhile a single incomplete exhibit restarts the whole review clock, make-ready invoices arrive unaudited, and the specialists who could handle it post at $25–$41/hr in labor markets where you can't find one. Your BEAD window is four years, total. A defective application is the most expensive typo in broadband.

Where your build schedule and budget leak

  • Clock restarts — one missing exhibit and the utility's review window starts over from zero.
  • Unenforced rights — missed survey windows, overdue estimates, and contractor deemed-approvals you earned and never claimed.
  • Unaudited invoices — the FCC has already sided with an attacher whose utility shifted ineligible costs onto its bill. Only audited invoices get corrected.
  • Latency — a ~180-day cycle against a four-year grant clock, with state worst cases measured in years.
  • Nobody to hire — a lone specialist is a single point of failure who can't accumulate cross-utility playbooks.

What lands on your desk

You keep building. SpanReady never touches a pole — it produces the paperwork, runs the clocks, and audits the dollars, all under your name.

Per batch

Permit packages

Complete, utility-specific applications submitted through the right portal (NJUNS, Alden One, or the utility's own), built to each utility's requirements playbook. First-pass acceptance is our contractual quality bar.

Per pole, live

The clock ledger

A per-pole, per-application state machine of every FCC and state deadline, each with its rule citation. The day a clock is blown, the escalation letter is drafted for your signature — computed by code, never by vibes.

On every estimate

Make-ready cost audit

Estimates reviewed before you accept; invoices reconciled line-by-line against the estimate and FCC cost standards. We only get paid on savings we document.

Weekly

Milestone reporting

A permit-status dashboard your lender and grant officer can actually read — batches submitted, clocks running, rights claimed, dollars recovered.

Five steps, and your crews never change what they do

Intake is a checklist, not a discovery project. First batch submitted within 10 business days of complete intake.

  1. Send us your build data

    Field survey exports (Katapult Pro, ikeGPS, spreadsheets), route maps, and executed joint-use agreements. Your engineers keep stamping loading analysis — we consume their outputs, we don't replace them.

  2. We assemble and gate

    Applications are built per each utility's requirements playbook and pass a deterministic completeness gate. An OSP-fluent reviewer signs every package before it goes anywhere.

  3. We submit and start the clocks

    Every statutory deadline is instantiated the moment the application lands, with the rule citation attached and cross-referenced to your joint-use agreement.

  4. We watch, escalate, and audit

    The day a utility misses a deadline, the correct next letter — reminder, formal notice, self-help election — is drafted for your signature. Every estimate and invoice line gets compared.

  5. You build

    Weekly dashboard, permits in hand, savings documented, and a complete evidence file ready if anything ever reaches your counsel.

Priced per pole and per dollar saved — never hourly

The two things you actually buy are permits produced and dollars recovered. That's exactly what you pay for.

$22–$35 per pole

  • By volume; $2,500 batch minimum. Pilot pricing $25/pole, locked 12 months.
  • Make-ready audit: 20–25% of documented savings — no savings, no fee.
  • First batch submitted within 10 business days of complete intake.
  • An OSP-fluent reviewer signs every package; every escalation letter goes out under your name.
Start with the free audit

Pilot cohort: capped at three builders so first-pass quality holds while the per-utility playbooks are built. The cap is a quality gate, not a countdown.

The guarantee, next to the price

First-pass or 50% back. Any completeness rejection that's our fault earns a 50% refund on that package.

No savings, no audit fee. The make-ready audit is paid only out of dollars we document you recovering.

After the free audit: you get a dated ledger of every deadline your utility owes you on one live batch — yours to act on whether or not you hire us.

Proof of work, not testimonials

SpanReady is newly launched and says so. There are no clients to quote yet — so the proof we offer up front is the free audit run on your own live batch. These slots fill with real results as the pilot runs.

Fills when the first pilot batches clear

[PLACEHOLDER — first-pass acceptance rate]

Measured share of submitted packages accepted without a completeness rejection, versus the industry norm of clock-restarting rejections.

Fills when the first estimates are audited

[PLACEHOLDER — make-ready dollars recovered]

An anonymized line-by-line reconciliation showing ineligible costs removed from a utility invoice.

Added only with written client consent

[PLACEHOLDER — pilot references]

Named references from the first cohort, published only after the client agrees in writing.

The questions builders actually ask

Are you lawyers or engineers?
Neither, on purpose. SpanReady performs administrative document preparation, project management, cost analysis, and business correspondence. Pole loading analysis and make-ready design stay with your licensed PE — we consume their stamped outputs. FCC or state complaints and agreement negotiation stay with your telecom counsel; we hand them a complete evidence file. Our engagement letters state this plainly.
Which poles and states do you cover?
FCC-jurisdiction states (the default federal regime), the 23 reverse-preemption states plus DC that run their own rules, and the co-op and municipal poles newly covered by NTIA's January 2026 BEAD terms. Every clock determination cross-references your executed joint-use agreement.
What does it cost?
$22–$35 per pole depending on volume, with a $2,500 batch minimum. The make-ready audit is 20–25% of documented savings — no savings, no fee. Never hourly. Pilot pricing is $25/pole, locked for 12 months.
Who does the work — AI or people?
The desk does the extraction, assembly, deadline tracking, drafting, and reconciliation. A named OSP-fluent reviewer approves every package before submission, and every escalation letter is human-approved and sent under your name. Nothing leaves the desk unsigned.
Do you have references?
We're newly launched and our pilot cohort is capped at three builders. What we offer up front instead is proof of work: the free Permit Clock Audit shows you exactly what the machinery finds on your own live batch before you pay anything. Named references will be added only with written client consent.
What happens when the utility just ignores a deadline?
The ledger records the breach with its citation, we draft the escalation — reminder, then formal notice, then self-help election or meet-and-confer request — for your approval, and if it ever reaches complaint territory your counsel receives a complete chronology, correspondence archive, and invoice reconciliation instead of a shoebox.
Is our build data safe?
Customer-scoped storage, access logging, NDA-backed handling, and no cross-client disclosure of identifiable utility data. Infrastructure route and pole data is sensitive; we treat it that way.

Claim one of this month's Permit Clock Audits

Free, 48 hours, capped at 10 a month. Here's the whole ask:

  • You send: one application batch already in flight — survey export, route map, and the executed joint-use agreement.
  • You get back: a dated ledger of every deadline your utility currently owes you under FCC 25-38 or your state's rules, including rights already earned and never claimed.
  • Then, if it's worth it: a pilot slot — three builders per cohort, $25/pole locked 12 months.
One email with the intake checklist follows — no obligation. [PLACEHOLDER — connect form endpoint before campaign traffic]

Request received.

Watch your inbox for the intake checklist. Your clock audit lands within 48 hours of us receiving your batch.

The boundary, stated plainly

SpanReady provides administrative document preparation, project-management, and cost-analysis services. SpanReady is not a law firm, does not provide legal advice or legal representation, and is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. SpanReady is not an engineering firm and does not perform pole loading analysis, make-ready design, or any service requiring a licensed Professional Engineer. Deadline computations reflect published FCC and state rules and your executed agreements; they are informational and do not constitute legal conclusions. Make-ready audit findings are documentation and cost-analysis observations for you and your advisors to evaluate. Engagement of SpanReady does not create an attorney–client or engineer–client relationship.

Regulatory figures on this page reference FCC 25-38 (effective May 7, 2026), 47 C.F.R. § 1.1411, and NTIA's January 2026 BEAD program terms; cost ranges are from published industry sources (Katapult, NCTA, Pew) and are illustrative, not a quote. This page makes no earnings or outcome guarantees; pilot targets are stated as goals under measurement.