Know the week a finished site starts running.
Go-Live Detection watches the sites on your list and flags the week vehicles, yard stock or apron traffic show up, so you can make your call before the incumbent does. We are opening a pilot list.
The job today
The permit says finished. The lot says otherwise.
Every account manager on a multi-site program keeps a list of buildings that are done or nearly done. The signals that fill it are paper: a building permit, a final inspection, a certificate of occupancy, a line in a construction project record, a press release about an opening. Each one tells you the building exists. None tells you when people and freight start arriving.
A certificate of occupancy can be issued weeks before the first shift, and a temporary one muddies it further. So the list sits there, and you call the facilities contact on a guess. Too early and the site may not be ready to talk supplies. Too late and the general contractor's turnover has already gone to a janitorial or maintenance vendor, quite often the one who cleans the customer's other buildings. You hear about it in a call with the customer, weeks after the account was let.
Someone still has to make the first call. The question is which address on the list to call this week.
An image of the lot shows what a permit cannot. Cars in stalls that were empty a week ago, trailers standing at the docks, trucks on the apron. Go-Live Detection reads that change against the empty site and dates it to the pass that showed it.
What you get
What you would get on the pilot list
We are shaping this with the first account teams to join, so it is described here as we intend to run it, not as a finished product.
Go-live alert
Dated flag, per site
A flag with the site address and the week activity crossed the threshold, sent when the alert fires. It lands wherever your team wants it: an email to the account manager, or a row you add to your CRM as a lead.
Watchlist
Your address list
The sites you are waiting on, checked each week. You send the list, and you can add or drop addresses as your pipeline moves.
Activity read
Underlying signal
For each alert, what was seen: vehicles in the lot, stock in the yard, movement on the apron, compared with the empty baseline. You can judge for yourself whether it reads like a site in operation, and you can hold the call until it does.
How it works
Sites in
You send the addresses you are waiting on, commercial or industrial, with the customer name if you want it carried into the alert.
Weekly pass
Each week we look for the next usable VHR satellite or aerial image over each site. Where cloud blocks it, the site waits for the next clear pass.
Read
We compare what is in the lot, the yard and the apron against the empty baseline for that address.
Alert
When activity crosses the go-live threshold, you get a dated alert for that site. Until then, nothing is sent.
Where it fits
Where it fits in your workflow
Upstream of the opportunity
The alert is a reason to make a call. It sits ahead of your CRM's opportunity stage, next to the permit and project-record signals you already use. Use the paper signals to decide which sites belong on the list. Use the alert to decide which one to call first.
It does not tell you who is buying, who holds the contract, or whether the site is already spoken for. Your account manager still finds the facilities contact and runs the conversation. A site visit stays yours too; the alert tells you when to schedule one.
Limits
Weekly, not same-day
Cadence is a weekly target. A site that goes live on Monday may not show up until the next pass that has a usable image, and the alert is dated to that pass.
Cloud cover
Optical imagery cannot see through cloud. When a pass is clouded over, the alert carries to the next clear one. A long overcast spell can hold an alert back by weeks.
Resolution floor
At 0.5 m a car is a small block of pixels. Vehicles, trailers and containers can be told from empty pavement. Their make, what is in them, and whether they belong to staff, contractors or visitors cannot.
Activity, not paperwork
The alert reads what is visible outside. It says nothing about a certificate of occupancy, a lease, a contract or who signed it. Activity from a contractor's crew during fit-out can look like activity from an operator. Treat the pass as a signal to call.
What the sky cannot see
Work inside a building, a covered dock, or a lot screened by trees or buildings is hidden. A site that runs quietly, with staff parking underground, will not fire.
Commercial and industrial only
Commercial and industrial sites with a visible lot, yard or apron. Residential is out.
Who it's for
For
- National accounts and key account managers at facilities-services suppliers, going after service contracts for new sites.
- Account managers at consumables and janitorial-supply distributors who need to reach the facilities contact first.
- Sales operations leads who want a dated trigger to sit ahead of the opportunity stage in the CRM.
Not for
- Anyone needing a confirmed go-live date, a permit status or a signed contract.
- Residential or single-family sites.
- Buyers who want same-day or real-time notice.
- Lead lists of sites nobody has picked yet. You bring the addresses.
FAQ
Questions before you join the pilot list
How soon after go-live will we know?
At the next weekly pass that has a usable image, dated to that pass. If it is cloudy, the alert waits for the next clear pass.
Does this replace a site visit?
No. It tells you when a visit or a call is worth making.
Is this a legal go-live date?
No. It is an imagery-based activity signal, dated to the pass that showed it. A certificate of occupancy or a lease start date is a different document.
What if the site is cloud-covered that week?
The alert carries to the next clear pass. We tell you the pass was blocked rather than sending nothing without comment.
Are residential sites included?
No. Commercial and industrial facilities with a visible lot, yard or apron only.
How do we check it against what we know?
Put on the watchlist a few sites whose go-live date you already know from your own account team. Compare the alert date with what the customer told you, and decide whether the signal is early enough to be worth calling on.
Can it feed our CRM?
We can send a dated flag by email or a CSV your operations lead can import. We do not write into your CRM ourselves.
Who owns the alerts and the imagery?
Ownership and licence terms for the alerts and the underlying imagery go into the pilot agreement before anything is ordered. Ask for them early if your legal team needs to review them.
How is the pilot bought and priced?
Price depends on how many sites you watch and on the imagery source. We scope the pilot to your watchlist and to how your company buys. No figure is given here.
Put your target list on watch.
Send us the sites you are waiting on and the kind of facilities they are. We will say plainly whether the pilot suits your list.