OnStation

OnStation provides a digital stationing platform for the heavy highway and road construction industry. Its mobile app, available for iOS and Android and supported on desktop, gives field personnel a GPS-derived live station, alignment, and offset without survey stakes or a GPS rover, with stated accuracy of 2-5 feet (1 foot in ideal conditions). The platform supports station (STA), milepost, linear referencing system (LRS), and latitude/longitude reference formats, and can display engineered design layers on the project map using the project's survey coordinate system and scale factor.

Around the location layer sits a documentation and record-keeping system. Users drop flags, photos, notes, and inspection/testing forms that are automatically stamped with station, offset, date and time, and shared with the project team in real time; the station finder works offline and syncs when connectivity returns. Captured data flows into the OnStation Data Portal, where records are searchable and filterable and can be exported to CSV or PDF or into other systems, with bulk flag import for large events. The company states the platform is SOC 2 Type II certified and that data storage is included in the subscription.

Projects are made available in three ways: engineered CAD submissions digitized by OnStation's engineering team (LandXML, ALG, DGN, DWG, DXF, KML/KMZ supported; two weeks standard turnaround with expedited options), self-serve approximate stationing drawn in the portal for resurfacing, sealcoat, and patching work, and defined-area projects with no stationing that rely on state mile markers, LRS, or lat/long. Product modules listed include the OnStation App, Data Portal, Digital Projects, Jobsite Safety, and Active Worksite.

Business model

OnStation sells annual, per-user licenses to construction organizations, with tiered packages (referenced as All Packages, Management and Data, Office, and Enterprise) that gate features such as the Data Portal, digital forms, and mass flag import. There are no account or project setup fees; optional paid onboarding covers organization configuration, user import, in-app and virtual training, project loading, and tag/PLI/user-group organization. License owners control distribution and can extend licenses to subcontractors, DOT staff, and other partners. Plans can be upgraded or downgraded mid-term with prorated pricing, subscriptions cannot be paused seasonally, renewals can be cancelled at any time with access continuing through the current term and no refunds for early cancellation, and payment is accepted by credit card, ACH, or mailed check.

Recurring subscription revenue from annual software licenses purchased per user by contractor, engineering, and agency organizations, with optional onboarding services; data storage is bundled at no extra fee.

Traction

More than 5,500 projects built across the United States, thousands of users on active jobsites, multiple DOT clients, and over 200 contractors as of mid-2024. Customer-cited outcomes include documentation time reduced from 36 minutes to 6 minutes at RS&H and elimination of GPS rover dependency at APEX Engineering; the company cites $18,000 saved per technician per year and ROI break-even in 1.5 hours.

Latest developments

In June 2024 OnStation closed an $8.5 million Series A led by JumpStart Ventures (NEXT II Fund), with proceeds directed at growth, customer expansion, and platform development. The most recent documented product update is the March 2024 redesign of the OnStation Portal for team license tracking, activity logging, and documentation access.