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How AECs can find margin in the field

May 21, 2026 - 2 PM ET

Sometimes you have no choice: Use the client’s software or lose the deal. Other times, it’s tempting to leverage their infrastructure instead of bringing your own field operations platform. 

But you pay a price for operating solely in your clients’ systems: training overhead, rigid processes, and slow change cycles that force your best engineers into manual data entry. That cost compounds when your field operations platform lives outside your control, leaving you dependent on systems that don’t reflect how your teams actually work.

Billing and audits are harder — and far riskier — without your own easy-to-access, defensible records to catch the gaps when a client’s system fails to record your data. When margins are tight enough, you can’t afford to eat the cost of uncompensated rework just because a project’s “official” system of record lost the evidence.

This webinar reveals how maintaining your own field operations platform gives you defensible records to protect your bottom line and move faster than your competition by eliminating those inefficiencies.

What you’ll learn

Our live session will explore how to:

  • Accelerate billing: Capture executed work in real time and eliminate weeks or months of billing float.
  • Free up engineering talent: Embed safety and compliance into your primary workflows so engineers stay focused on engineering, not paperwork.
  • Bulletproof your audits: Document transient work (emergency repairs, temporary installations) before it’s replaced — making compliance reviews defensible and fast.
  • Differentiate bids: See how delivering direct-to-ArcGIS geodatabases wins more projects than standard spreadsheets.
  • Scale profitably: Learn how agile rollouts and enterprise agreements overcome the hurdles of project-based purchasing.

Stop leaving your revenue in someone else’s database. When a single missing data point can mean digging up finished work or losing a contract, relying on client systems is a risk you don’t have to take.
Join us to learn how maintaining your field operations platform protects your margins, streamlines internal reviews, strengthens your deliverables, and ensures you never have to do the same job twice.

Speakers

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Jake Freivald
Vice President, Product Marketing
Jake Freivald’s 25-year-career in software has covered multiple technology specializations with a focus on data management and analytics. He places particular emphasis on helping business people understand the practical requirements of modernization. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and lives with his family on Long Island, NY.
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