Every utility project loses margin in the same three places. A strike before excavation. Rework during construction. Disputed quantities at closeout. vSite closes all three gaps by connecting your Autodesk models directly to the field crew breaking ground so what was built in the office is visible, verifiable, and documented on site.
vSite integrates directly with Autodesk, making the drawing packages and models your team already created actionable on the job site. No more printing plans, re-staking utilities, or calling surveyors back for a 4-hour minimum fee visit.
"Our industry is evolving, and we are dedicated to staying at the forefront. We must continue to equip our staff with tools, such as vSite, that help our staff perform their work more accurately and efficiently."
AR overlay shows existing utilities — gas, water, sewer, fiber — in real-world context as crews excavate. A single strike costs $50,000 to $100,000 before factoring in injuries, evacuations, or claim paperwork. vSite puts the locate, the depth, and the crossing utility in front of the operator at the moment of excavation — where training and toolbox talks can't reach.
Engineers design in plan-and-profile; reality happens in 3D. ISL's team of 10+ experienced engineers missed a critical design flaw after hundreds of review hours — and caught it in seconds during an AR site walk. One conflict like that, caught before construction starts, pays for the platform many times over. vSite turns design review from a desk exercise into a site walk, with the model sitting on the actual ground.
vSite creates GPS-stamped, time-stamped, 3D-scanned evidence as work happens. When claims are worth $100K to $1M, the documentation asset is the product.
Customer A removed surveyors from cable projects entirely after deploying vSite — crews now lay out and verify their own work. Customer B avoids the four-hour minimum re-stake fee every time the system answers a layout question on site. Surveyor costs on a major utility project run into six figures over a season; vSite returns most of that to the contractor on the first project.
Customer A cut reporting and invoicing from 14 days to 1. For contractors running tight working capital, that isn't a productivity story — it's a cash flow story. vSite captures production data — quantities, photos, scans, redlines — as the work is done, geotagged and tied to pay items. The end-of-week invoicing scramble disappears, and so do most disputes over what was actually done.
A two-to-three-minute LiDAR scan of an exposed utility becomes a permanent project record — accurate to the centimeter, tied to the asset, accessible decades later. The crew that installed the asset documents it while it's still exposed; the city, the owner, and the next designer benefit for the next 50–75 years. The industry has spent decades filing approximate as-builts. This is how that ends.
