OnStation — For Prime Contractors
For Prime Contractors

Your crew is on the clock.They shouldn’t be hunting for a station.

OnStation runs alongside your job from estimating through closeout. Live station on every phone. Defensible documentation on every pay app. A record the DOT can’t argue with.

Risk-free access period · Up to 25 projects per year · No hardware

Need to make the business case? Jump to the numbers →
OnStation App
Sign Installation - Pole
Station: 1777+37 68R
Time: 10:15 AM · 04/25/2025
Drainage Issue
Station: 1777+66 10L
Time: 2:45 PM · 04/28/2025
Unmarked Utility
Station: 1776+46 23L
Time: 9:30 AM · 04/26/2025
Start Paving
Station: 1778+92
Time: 7:00 AM · 04/29/2025
5 min Setup. Any phone.
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$18K Saved per QC tech / season · Mathy
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30 days To full ROI on most jobs
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500+ Primes & CEIs nationwide
Trusted by primes you compete with
Mathy Hoffman Milestone Brooks + 500 more
Estimating

Bid accurately, without burning $30K in pre-bid staking

The bid is where margin gets won or lost. It’s also where most primes are flying blind — eating survey costs on jobs they don’t win, hedging numbers on jobs they do.

What you’re paying for now

Pre-bid surveys you eat. Or hedged bids that leave money on the table.

  • Driving the corridor station by station to verify quantities
  • Pre-bid surveys you eat if you don’t win the work
  • Utility conflicts you discover on day one of mobilization
  • 5–10% bid hedges because you couldn’t see the whole job

With OnStation

Walk the corridor from your office. Check every station before the number goes in.

Pull plans, aerials, and terrain into the Data Portal. Verify quantities and conditions remotely. Spot utility conflicts and design issues weeks before mobilization.

  • Walk corridors virtually with aerials and design overlays
  • Verify quantities and check site conditions remotely
  • Eliminate $30K+ in pre-bid staking on most jobs
  • Tighter bids, better win rates, margin you can defend at handshake
$32K Average staking and re-staking costs eliminated per job. Source: OnStation ROI analysis · 2024 Buyers Guide
On the job

Live station on every phone. Every photo, flag, and form auto-stamped.

Once the work starts, every minute of location guesswork is paid time you can’t bill back. Every photo without context is documentation you can’t defend.

What you’re paying for now

Crew hours hunting. Photos with no context. Daily reports retyped three times.

  • 15 minutes to an hour per crew member, per day, finding stations
  • Photos that mean nothing without “where was this taken?”
  • Daily reports retyped from paper into the back office
  • Quantity arguments you can’t defend three months later

With OnStation

One tap to drop a flag, take a photo, or start a form — auto-stamped to the exact station.

Live station on the phone they already carry. HCSS, FleetWatcher, Trimble, and TransTech integrations mean field data flows where your back office already lives.

  • GPS-based live station, alignment, and offset on any iOS or Android phone
  • Drop a flag, take a photo — auto-stamped with station and time
  • Works offline. Syncs when back in service.
  • HCSS, FleetWatcher, Trimble, TransTech integrations

Field crew

Their exact station, instantly.

On the phone they already carry. No training. One tap to flag, photo, or form — auto-stamped.

PMs & supers

See the whole crew on the alignment.

Real-time visibility. Flagged issues arrive with location and photo, not phone calls.

Owners

Multi-project visibility, audit-ready.

Every active job in one view. WIP and quantities you can back up when challenged.

Works with the tools you already use

HCSS HeavyJob FleetWatcher Trimble TransTech
$18K

Mathy Construction · Wisconsin

“Saving two hours a day on a technician’s time card is $100 a day. We have 75 QC employees — the numbers add up pretty quickly.”

Derek Frederixson, QC Manager — saved per density tech, per season.

Closeout

Hand over a defensible record. In minutes. Not three weeks of paper.

This is where bad documentation costs real money — and where good documentation pays for the entire year.

What you’re paying for now

Three weeks pulling closeout from paper, phones, and email threads.

  • Daily reports scattered across paper, email, and group texts
  • Photos sitting on personal phones with no project context
  • Quantity arguments resolved by whoever has more paperwork
  • Closeout that takes weeks and burns admin hours into next season

With OnStation

The full station-indexed, timestamped record. Exportable in minutes.

Every flag, photo, and form is already station-stamped, time-stamped, and audit-ready — from day one. Disputes become file lookups, not legal reviews. SOC 2 Type II certified.

  • Full station-indexed record, exportable to CSV or PDF in minutes
  • Fully searchable across the entire project
  • SOC 2 Type II certified — audit-ready from day one
  • DOT staff can be granted access from the start — shared record
portal.onstationapp.com
OnStation Data Portal — Project dashboard view showing 22 users, 86 flags, 104 photos, 57 forms
The Data Portal. Every flag, photo, form, and team member tied to its station — searchable, exportable, audit-ready from day one.
9,077 Station-indexed flags captured on a single project — replacing paper records entirely. Source: One state DOT customer · OnStation deployment data
For leadership & finance

The business case writes itself.

Field crews like OnStation immediately. This section is for the person who needs to see the numbers before signing. Here’s the financial reality — in plain language.

Licenses expense to project overhead

OnStation is not a capital expenditure. It comes out of project overhead — same budget line as safety gear and surveying. No capital approval needed.

Most primes recover full cost in 30 days

At a $45/hr blended rate, a 10-person crew breaks even in under two hours of saved location-hunting. Everything after that is margin recovered.

Documentation that protects against disputes

Every flag is station-stamped, time-stamped, and audit-ready. One exportable record can save tens of thousands in a single DOT dispute.

$179K

Net annual ROI for a 100-person team on 7 jobs

Source: OnStation Buyers Guide — WisDOT time study data

$18K

Saved per density technician per season at Mathy Construction

“Saving two hours a day on a tech’s time card…” — Derek Frederixson, QC Manager

$32K

Average staking and re-staking costs eliminated per job

Source: OnStation ROI analysis across active prime customers

What we hear from primes

The four questions every prime asks.

We’ve heard all of these. Here are the straight answers.

Setup takes 5 minutes. Works on the phone they already carry. No hardware. No new login hell. Most crews get past the skepticism on job one because finding a station on OnStation is faster than the old way. Nate Till at Brooks Construction said it went from “why are you giving me this” to “why doesn’t this job have it” inside one season.
Good. Keep using them. OnStation integrates with all three so field data flows directly into the back office. You’re not replacing your tooling — you’re adding the one piece those tools can’t do: live station on a crew member’s phone, with every photo and note tied to it.
Your DOT doesn’t need to ask. Your margin does. The primes winning pay app disputes and protecting change orders aren’t doing it because a DOT mandated it — they’re doing it because defensible documentation is the difference between getting paid and arguing. And when the DOT eventually does ask, you’ll already be there.
One disputed change order usually pays for the whole year. The access period includes up to 25 projects, more than most mid-size primes run in a season. Most customers recover the cost in the first 30 days of field use.
Active Worksite™

Plus: every OnStation project keeps your crew safer.

Active Worksite™ notifies drivers through Waze and OEM systems the moment your crew is on site — triggered automatically by live jobsite location. No ROI conversation required. This is about keeping people alive.

Stop losing margin to guesswork.

5-minute setup. Any phone. No hardware. Risk-free access period — no questions asked.