What Your Field Data Platform Is Actually Costing You: A Total Cost of Ownership Conversation for Engineering Firm Leaders

You won the contract. You staffed the crews. Now, months into delivery, the margin you forecasted is quietly disappearing – and your software subscription isn’t the line item to blame.

For engineering service providers running overhead programs, the real cost of field data collection technology almost never shows up where you’d expect it. It hides in crew structures that require two people to do what one should, in field recollections your bid never accounted for, and in the hours your back-office team spends cleaning, reformatting, and manually bridging data into downstream applications – GIS platforms, pole loading analysis tools, permitting systems – before a single client deliverable can be produced. Then there are the vendor support fees charged every time that handoff requires a custom export or an integration your platform should have included.

In this session, IKE walks through a live Total Cost of Ownership analysis – built around the actual inputs from programs like yours – to show you where the margin leakage is happening and what it’s worth in dollar terms your leadership team can act on.

In this webinar, you’ll see:

• A cost-per-pole analysis that accounts for crew labor, equipment, rework, recollections, and vendor access fees – not just software subscription price.
• How a two-person crew requirement, at a fully burdened rate of $30/hour across five concurrent crews over a 40-week program, quietly adds more than $240,000 in unrecovered labor.
• What back-office rework and field recollections are actually costing you in analyst hours and truck rolls – with conservative, realistic inputs from field programs of your size.
• How PolePilot™, IKE’s AI-powered annotation assistant, reduces back-office measurement time by up to 30% – and what that’s worth annually against your current headcount.
• How IKE’s full API access, unlimited solution engineering support, and growing library of standard integrations and exports replace what other platforms bill at $150/hour – so getting your data into GIS platforms, PLA tools, and client deliverables never costs extra.

We’ll run a live walkthrough of IKE’s TCO calculator – building the analysis in real time using realistic program inputs so you can follow the math, challenge the assumptions, and see what the numbers look like for a program of your size. You’ll leave with the calculator link and a framework you can put in front of your leadership team the same day.

Who should attend: VP of Operations, COO, VP/Director of Engineering, Director of Field Services, Senior Project Managers, and BD/Proposal leads at Engineering Service Providers, EPCs, and Field Data Contractors serving electric utilities and communications companies.