For the companies that build and maintain the grid

Protect the margin
between field and office.

Closed bids, change orders, and closeout packages: your record is the baseline. Corvana proves the agent on it before anything touches a live job, publishes it with your PM’s sign-off on every consequential action, and measures what changed.

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Proof of Value first. A fixed fee, known before you commit.

Proof of Value first. A fixed fee, known before you commit.

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Built for work governed by

  • Utility specifications
  • OSHA 1910.269
  • NESC
  • Certified payroll
  • Customer closeout

Who this is for

The companies that
build the grid.

Contractors carry the margin pressure, the labor constraints, and the paperwork of the grid without a utility’s scale. The same discipline applies; the record is different.

  • Utility construction & maintenance
  • Transmission & distribution
  • Substation firms
  • Engineering & inspection
  • Surveying & environmental
  • Vegetation & field service
  • Electrification contractors
  • Renewable-energy services

The operating problem

The work is not
only in the field.

The office re-keys what the field already recorded.

Tickets, photos, daily reports, and timesheets pass through five hands before they become a change order or an invoice. Every hand is a delay and a place to lose a line.

Margin leaks at the handoffs.

The assumption the bid never stated. The change that was never priced. The invoice that waited on a missing ticket. The closeout package the customer sent back.

Nobody has time to prove a tool before betting a job on it.

So the sandbox does not touch a live job. It replays the ones you already closed, and grades the agent against what your people actually submitted.

Where to start

The record is
in the job file.

Every workflow below has a record your company already keeps. That record is the sandbox baseline, and a named person still signs when the agent runs — safety documentation always.

01 / Pursue

Estimating and bid review

The recordClosed bids: won or lost, estimate against actual.
PreparesRequirements, scope comparison, assumptions and exclusions for estimator review.
Who signsChief estimator.

02 / Prepare

Work-package preparation

The recordClosed packages, and which ones came back incomplete.
PreparesDrawings, specifications, permits, and job plans assembled; missing or conflicting inputs surfaced.
Who signsProject manager.

03 / Coordinate

Scheduling and coordination

The recordPast schedules against actual crew days and outages taken.
PreparesDependencies, status, and exceptions consolidated into a review-ready plan.
Who signsSuperintendent.

04 / Record

Field documentation

The recordDaily reports already filed, and what they were reconciled against.
PreparesStructured daily records and progress reports from approved notes, forms, tickets, and photos.
Who signsForeman or field lead.

05 / Protect

Safety documentation

The recordClosed JHAs, tailboards, and audit findings.
PreparesDraft documentation and completeness checks. Never a sign-off.
Who signsQualified safety personnel, always.

06 / Change

Change-order preparation

The recordClosed change orders: approved, rejected, days to approval.
PreparesSource records gathered, the change tied to its evidence, a review-ready package.
Who signsProject manager, then the customer.

07 / Bill

Invoice preparation

The recordPaid invoices, rejections, and days to cash.
PreparesApproved labor, materials, tickets, and completed work reconciled into an invoice-ready draft.
Who signsController.

08 / Close

Project closeout

The recordClosed projects: days to acceptance, punch items, packages sent back.
PreparesAs-builts, photos, test records, warranties, and deliverables organized for the customer’s final review — the package that ends up in their rate base.
Who signsProject manager, then the customer’s acceptance.

The sandbox

Prove it on
closed jobs.

A closed change order already has an outcome, a cycle time, and a cost in the job file. The sandbox replays it and grades the agent against the package your PM actually submitted — before anything touches a live job.

Sandbox result: thirty closed change orders replayed against the packages the project manager actually submitted; twenty-six matched, four were flagged with reasons attached, and no live job was touched. The eleven-day baseline came from the job file, so nothing had to be instrumented first. The contractor sets the bar the agent must clear before publishing.

Illustrative — a sandbox readout for change-order preparation. No client data; no live job touched. Every figure on this page is an example, not a result.

Straight answers

Straight answers
for a contractor.

Faster to start.

No docket, fewer gates. The sandbox needs closed jobs, not system access, so it can run while your IT review is still open.

Same rules.

A named approver on every consequential action. Safety documentation is drafted for qualified people and always signed by them.

The handoff is the deliverable.

A closeout package your customer accepts the first time is measurable: days to acceptance, packages returned, punch items. So is a change order approved without a second round.

Misses named, never hidden.

Three missing tickets and one unpriced scope is a finding, not a footnote. The readout says what the agent got wrong, and why.

The bar is yours.

You set the threshold the agent must clear before it publishes. The sandbox result never promotes on its own.

Built to be audited.

SOC 2 Type II audit underway — complete before anything publishes. The Proof of Value touches no production systems.

Aligned to NIST AI RMF

CEII handled per 18 CFR 388.113

One workflow. Three decisions.

A fixed fee per phase, sized to your company and known before each decision. What you keep is the agent, running inside your systems with its evidence trail. Every phase is a separate decision — nothing promotes automatically.

Proof of Value

Phase 1 · six weeks

Fixed fee

known before you commit

Your closed matters, replayed with the outcome hidden. A readout your team can grade — matches, misses, economics, and the bar to publish.

  • Closed matters only, no production connections

  • The record is the baseline; nothing to instrument first

  • Any agent — a vendor’s, your team’s, or ours

  • Misses named, never hidden

  • The readout is yours whether or not you continue

Publish

Phase 2 · sequenced with your IT review and your customers’ requirements

Fixed fee

scoped from the readout

Shadow first — beside your people, with no authority — then actions, one approval gate at a time, inside your boundary.

  • Shadow run measured against live matters before any action

  • A named approver on 100% of consequential actions

  • SOC 2 Type II complete before publish

  • Audit trail exportable to your compliance systems

  • Measured against the record, in production

Extend

Phase 3 · the next workflow

Fixed fee

per workflow

Every published agent makes the next one cheaper to prove — and the measurement never stops.

  • A console for your team to run and review what is published — handed over with the agent

  • Expected against actual, continuously — you set the bar

  • Same discipline: proof, bar, publish

  • Patterns cleared with your security team carry forward

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Frequently asked.

Do you only prove agents you build?

No. The sandbox grades any agent the same way — Copilot, a vendor’s agent, your team’s build, or one Corvana builds when nothing off the shelf clears the bar. The bar is yours, and the readout can say no.

Our records are messy.

They usually are, and they still exist: tickets, photos, daily reports, timesheets, approved change orders, paid invoices. The sandbox starts from what you already keep. If a record is too thin to replay, the readout says so before anyone builds anything.

Our customer controls the systems.

The agent works on your side of the handoff — the package, the invoice, the change order your customer receives. Nothing connects to a utility’s systems unless that utility agrees to it in its own publish decision.

We’re not regulated like a utility.

You still sign. The named-approver rule is about your project manager, your safety lead, and your controller, not a regulator. Safety documentation is drafted for qualified people and always signed by them.

How big do we need to be?

Big enough to have a repeated workflow with a record. If you close more than a handful of change orders or packages a month, there is a baseline to replay.

Which AI models do you use?

The one that fits the workflow. Corvana is model-agnostic by design — Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT, or the models your IT team has already cleared — and the choice is documented, evaluated, and reported, so it stands up as a decision rather than a default.

What does it cost?

A fixed fee per phase — proof, publish, extend — sized to your company and known before each decision. No per-token billing, no change orders on our side, and no phase starts because the last one ended.

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