What we are building, and where it stands
Two tools over one propagation engine: predicted coverage for a transmitter you already have, and site planning for one you do not have yet. This page is the build status — what runs today, what is being wired now, and where each piece is going.
Where each piece stands
Coverage
Where does this transmitter reach? Longley–Rice prediction over real terrain. In operation now; what is missing is the way for someone outside the group to run one.
In developmentSite planner
Where should a new site go? Candidate search, free-height measurement and covering-set selection work. Holding a scanned area to refine it does not yet.
In developmentUse from your AI
Drive the planner from your own AI assistant. Most of the tools are wired; it follows the planner, so it lands when the planner does.
Being built right now
- Accounts and the customer portal. Sign-in, balance, usage history and receipts. Built and talking to the server. Next: reachable from this site.
- Metering. Every finished render is recorded against a ledger, so a bill can be explained line by line rather than asserted. Working today; internal work is not charged.
- Taking payment. The one thing between this and being a product. Not written. Until it is, credit can only be granted by an operator, and the purchase button deliberately refuses rather than quietly crediting nothing.
Where it goes after that
- The planner becomes a conversation. Today it answers once. The work in progress is holding a scanned area so you can correct it — subtract coverage you already have, rule a tower out — and re-render only what changed rather than starting again.
- Your own AI drives it. Ask for coverage in your assistant, get the map and the reasoning back in the same place.
- Self-service. Sign up, add credit, run a render, download the result, without anyone in the loop.
What already runs
These are measured on the hardware in use, not projections.
1 m terrain where LiDAR has been flown; about 10 m across the rest of the country, blended rather than switched.
268 MP in a mean of 152 seconds, over 29 measured renders on the current hardware.
×4 cost per doubling of the output size. Sizing a request against the terrain you actually have.
Who it is for
- Repeater owners and trustees siting or re-siting a machine.
- VHF/UHF operators planning simulcast or voting systems.
- Public-safety and volunteer-emergency groups documenting the coverage they have.
- Engineers who want a terrain-accurate prediction without running the hardware themselves.
What it will cost
Renders are paid for with prepaid credits. The minimum purchase is $30, new accounts receive $20 of free credit, and credits do not expire. The price per credit is not yet set.
A render that fails is not charged — the credit held when it was accepted is returned automatically. Unspent credit is not refunded. Texas sales tax is shown at purchase.
What it is not
A propagation model, not a measurement. It performs no FCC coordination, produces no contour study anyone is obliged to accept, and makes no claim about interference to or from any licensed facility. It does not model in-building penetration, and it will be wrong where terrain and ground-cover data are wrong. It is the cheap prior before someone drives out with a radio — and a field measurement overrules it.