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For engineering & CEI firms

Prove your value to every owner you work for.

Your inspectors work on the owner’s behalf, in the owner’s format, on the owner’s schedule, often for several owners at once. HeadLight lets one team deliver that record for every client, and gives your firm the data to show the quality of its work.

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AgenciesCEI firmsContractorsProducers & labs
The work between you and everyone else

A CEI firm sits in the middle of the job. So does its record.

You send the owner what happened, answer the contractor’s questions, and hand samples to the lab. Each hand-off lands in the same record, so nothing is re-keyed and nothing is lost between organizations.

Your firminspectors, resident engineers, project managers
You sendDaily reports in the owner’s format · inspections and photos · quantities for approval
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You get backStandards and forms · approvals · pay estimate status
Owner agencyresident engineer, district, headquarters
Your firminspectors, resident engineers, project managers
You sendRFI answers routed from the owner · punch lists · observations on the work
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You get backRFIs and submittals · quantities they want to see before pay
Contractorsuperintendent, PM
Your firminspectors, resident engineers, project managers
You sendSamples with location, lot and chain of custody
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You get backTest results checked against spec, flagged at entry
Materials labagency or independent
Your people, day to day

What changes for your people, on every contract.

Inspectorson site for the owner
  1. Capture observations, photos and quantities on site, with or without signal.
  2. Every photo is stamped with time and location automatically.
  3. The daily is done before you leave the site, in the owner’s format.
Uses: Field Inspection
Resident engineers & PMsyour project office
  1. Your inspectors’ dailies arrive in one review queue before they go to the owner.
  2. Quantities go up for owner approval with their photos attached.
  3. Every project across your contracts in one view.
Uses: Field Inspection · Construction Management
Materials samplersfield testing
  1. One chain from the sample you pull to the lot the owner accepts.
  2. The sample plan is your to-do list, by spec year and line item; location, lot and time go with each sample.
  3. Chain of custody travels to the lab with the sample.
Uses: Sampling & Testing
Firm leadersprincipals and practice leads
  1. Every project, inspector and report across your contracts, in one view.
  2. Documentation quality you can show the owner.
  3. Audits and claims answered from the record, not rebuilt from boxes.
Uses: Platform

31,600+ projects in 25+ states run on HeadLight today, from single contracts to agency-wide programs.

60+public agencies
130+engineering and construction firms
30M+field observations captured
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What you get from your own data

Better work for the owner is also a better business.

Win the next contract

Show documentation quality with the record itself: complete dailies, photos tied to every quantity, on-time approvals.

Staff across clients

One platform on every job, configured to each owner’s forms and format, so inspectors move between projects without starting over.

Spend less time on paperwork

The daily assembles itself from the day’s observations, so inspectors finish on site instead of at night.

Hand over cleanly

Closeout is an export, not a scramble: the owner gets the whole record in the format they asked for.

130+engineering and construction firms use HeadLight
30M+field observations captured across HeadLight customers
2,600+working hours one CEI firm recouped in a year on a design-build bridge
HeadLight allows us to digitally capture and record field data, improving the quantity and quality of project information while generating dynamic reports and searchable records.
Aaron FordAssociate Vice President, HNTB
What CEI firms use

The workflows HeadLight runs for you.

Field InspectionObservations, photos and daily reports, online or offline.Sampling & TestingField tests and samples on one chain, from the sample to the accepted lot.Construction ManagementRFIs, submittals and punch lists across every party.Contract AdministrationQuantities and pay estimates, where the owner asks you to run them.

Configured to your standards, with no workarounds: see how configuration works

Questions

What teams ask first.

Can one team work for several owners at once?
Yes. One platform on every job, configured to each owner’s forms and format, so inspectors move between projects without starting over.
Does it work without cell coverage?
Yes. Capture is offline-first, and work syncs when the device reconnects.
How long does it take to get running?
Standard setups are ready immediately. Configured rollouts typically take 2–4 weeks. Large integrated programs are scoped.
Who owns the data?
Your data is yours. Each customer’s data is stored separately, and permissions apply at the record level. You can download your data at any time, and LiveConnect keeps a synchronized copy in your own environment.
How is it priced?
Quoted. Per user, annual term, based on the solutions and edition you choose. How pricing works
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A short walkthrough of the field record, from the inspector’s iPad to the pay estimate.

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