The pier you installed today is evidence three years from now.
The best repair in the world is worth nothing you can prove.
Foundation work is the rare trade where the finished product disappears. The piers go under the slab. The lift is measured in fractions of an inch. Once the dirt goes back and the concrete cures, nobody can walk the job and see what you did. All that is left is what you wrote down.
And people ask. The homeowner asks at resale, because a buyer’s inspector wants records. The insurer asks when a claim comes in. Occasionally a lawyer asks, and that is the day a shoebox of crumpled field notes and a few blurry phone photos stops being good enough.
Most crews still capture this on paper, in a group text, or in three apps that do not talk to each other. The pier depths live in one place, the before photos in another, the warranty in a filing cabinet. Pulling it together two years later means somebody spends an afternoon reconstructing a job from memory. That is the gap this closes.
Captured once, kept forever
What the crew captures on the phone.
Pier Installation Log
Log every pier as it goes in: type, depth, torque, PSI, soil type, and GPS coordinates. A quick-add form and a running table sit right on the job and on the Tech PWA, so the record builds pier by pier as the crew works.
Elevation Survey
Take pre-repair and post-repair elevation readings on a grid. The system runs the differential automatically and draws a heatmap, so the lift you achieved is a picture anyone can read, not a column of numbers.
Structural Movement Tracker
Measure the same cracks over time at a property. Each location gets a trend, growing, stable, or shrinking, with a directional indicator, so a monitoring customer sees exactly what their house is doing between visits.
Warranty Transfer Portal
A public lookup page and transfer request form built for property sales. A buyer or seller finds the warranty, requests the transfer, and it lands on your dashboard to review and approve. See how warranties work end to end.
Before / After Documentation
One click builds a report that puts the pre-repair and post-repair data side by side: piers, elevations, and photos, in one document. The proof of the job, assembled from what the crew already logged.
It all lands on the job
None of this is a separate app to reconcile. Every Tier 1 entry attaches to the job record, next to the estimate, contract, and schedule. See the connected job record.
A quarter-inch of lift, drawn so a homeowner gets it.
You know what a two-inch differential across a living room means. Your customer does not, until they see it. The Elevation Survey turns a grid of readings into a heatmap: the low corner in red before the repair, the floor pulled back toward level after. It is the single most convincing thing you can hand a homeowner who is nervous about a five-figure decision, and the single most useful thing to hand an adjuster who was not there.
Because the pre and post readings live on the same job, the before and after are never mismatched. The differential is calculated for you. Nobody is subtracting numbers on a legal pad in the truck.
- Grid readings taken pre-repair and post-repair on the same layout.
- Automatic differential and heatmap, no spreadsheet math.
- Reads at a glance for the homeowner, the adjuster, and the next inspector.
Where field data turns into proof and pattern.
Torque & Depth Compliance Checker
Validates each pier against published ICC-ES helical pier specifications: the Kt torque factor, minimum depth, and torque range. You get a pass, warning, or fail per pier and an overall compliance score for the job, so an out-of-range pier surfaces on site, not in a deposition.
Soil Condition Intelligence
Every pier log carries a soil type. Aggregate them by zip code and you get zone cards: dominant soil, average pier depth, and how many data points back it up. Over time your own jobs become a private map of what is under the ground in your territory.
Engineer Report Builder
One click assembles a structured report: property info, pier summary, elevation data, soil conditions, and compliance results, formatted and ready to download. It gives an engineer a clean, complete starting point instead of a folder of loose files.
Insurance Claim Package
Generates a complete claim package: cover sheet, structural assessment, elevation data, repair documentation, warranty certificates, and photo evidence grouped by phase, before, during, after. The adjuster gets one organized package instead of ten separate emails.
Annual Warranty Inspection Scheduler
A dashboard of every warranty with its next-due inspection date, urgency indicator, and metadata: type, pier count, repair method, and years since the repair. Annual inspections stop slipping through the cracks, which is exactly where warranty disputes come from.
Straight talk on the engineer report
The Engineer Report Builder produces engineering-grade documentation from your field data. It organizes the record. It does not replace a licensed engineer's review or stamp where your state requires one.
Catch the pier that is out of spec before you backfill.
A helical pier has a relationship between installation torque and capacity. Install one that never hit the torque range or the minimum depth, and you have a pier you cannot stand behind. The problem is that you find out later, when someone with a spec sheet reviews the job.
The Compliance Checker runs that review on site. As the crew logs each pier, it checks the Kt factor, minimum depth, and torque range against published ICC-ES helical pier specifications and flags anything short. A pier that reads “review” while the machine is still on the truck is a five-minute fix. The same pier discovered in a claim two years later is a fight.
- Per-pier verdict: pass, warning, or fail, with the reason.
- Overall job score you can attach to the record and the report.
- Checked against a real standard, not a number someone made up.
The same record, four different days it saves you.
The resale
A buyer's inspector flags the foundation. The seller pulls the before/after report and the transferable warranty in minutes, and the deal keeps moving. Warranty management.
The claim
Storm or settlement, the insurer wants proof. The claim package goes over as one organized file: assessment, elevations, repair docs, warranties, phased photos.
The dispute
Someone questions the work. The pier log, the compliance score, and the timestamps are all on the job. You are answering from records, not memory.
The next bid
Soil Intelligence tells you what is likely under the ground on the next street over, so your estimate reflects the depth the dirt actually demands. See the full platform.