The outage window won’t open twice. The checklist stayed in the truck.
Line patrols, substation checklists, lockout and grounding permits, commissioning protocols and fault evidence. PAIR digitizes your checklist exactly as it is, your crew fills it out in a canyon with no signal, and every photo carries its coordinates and time.
Today / With PAIR
Five different jobs, and who does them today
| Today |  |
|---|---|
| The transmission line inspector walks it structure by structure with a paper checklist. | Structure patrol and right-of-way clearanceEvery finding on the KMZ line route, with coordinates and GPS accuracy, and the insulator face as one more checklist field, marked on the ridge, not from memory on Monday. |
| The substation technician fills it out on paper, racing the outage window. | Substation bay maintenance checklistThe manufacturer’s checklist digitized as is, on the plan by level (yard, control house, station service), with statistics calculated from the fields, not by reading PDFs. |
| The switching supervisor fills it out by hand in the truck before touching the equipment. | Work permit: lockout, absence of voltage and groundingFive boxes that require a photo: visible break, lock, tag, tester reading zero and grounds actually installed. Boxes and photos work with no signal; the approval is signed with the server’s time, not the phone’s, so it needs a connection. |
| The owner’s electrical inspector and the commissioning manager run it on paper, protocol by protocol. | Commissioning a solar or wind farmThe details that always go missing: start time set by the server, participants signing on the spot, observations as a form field, and the backup photo with its location. |
| The emergency crew heads out that same night and sends photos over a messaging app. | Field evidence of a faultEquipment, as-found condition and switching performed, each with its time, and the photo skips the messaging app, so it arrives full size instead of compressed to a third. Coordinates and time are fields in the record, not metadata buried in the file. |
Smart captureProfessional
Your forms fill themselves with AI.
A photo, the paper sheet or your voice: AI fills each field and marks where it came from. You just review and save.
- PAIR VisionAI Take a photo and AI fills the fields with what it sees.
- PAIR ScanAI Scan the paper sheet and AI moves its data into the form.
- PAIR VoiceAI Speak and AI transcribes and fills the fields.
What happens today
For transmission, distribution, generation, and solar and wind farms. There’s no signal in the canyon, and waiting for one isn’t a plan.
The work permit gets filled out by hand on the hood of the truck, pen balanced on a knee, and the company copy comes back crumpled. The only time on record is the one somebody wrote down.
The patroller photographs the cracked insulator, but later nobody knows if the damage was on the north face or the south, and someone has to hike back up the ridge.
In May, the annual report gets built by reading scans, one shared-drive folder per year and per substation, and the missing sheet is always the one for the job that matters.
What you start with
-
Form 01Electrical work permit: lockout, tagout, absence-of-voltage verification and grounding
-
Form 02Line structure inspection checklist: insulators, hardware, grounding and signage
-
Form 03Substation bay maintenance checklist, with infrared scans of connections and breaker timing
And many more, built around your operation. Ask us.
Demo
Bring us your substation checklist
A maintenance checklist or work permit you use today. In 30 minutes you’ll see it digitized exactly as it is, filled out on a phone up on the ridge, with no signal.
Would you rather look at the plans first? See pricing.