A tour of the pilot

Job-level overview: pipe spec and approved procedures, welder-qualification mismatch flags, crew repair leaderboard, open alerts, and recent joint activity.

Look forThe 'Welder qualification mismatches' panel — it shows who is working outside an approved WPS, the kind of thing that drives re-work in the real world.

The joint register: ~4,400 joints across 50 miles of 24" line. Search and filter by line, status, NDT result, and open alerts. Big tap targets, status color chips.

Look forFilter by 'Alert' to find the handful of joints with cross-check failures in seconds.

The digital thread on one page: header facts, the pass timeline (who / which pass / which side / when), visual and NDT panels with a film-strip viewer, the alert banner, and the full audit trail.

Look forThe pass timeline assigns a welder to both the ditch side and the working side — the dual-welder model required on 12" and larger pipe.

Survey tech entry: pick a joint, tap a pass chip (Root / Hot / Fill / Cap), assign the welder on each side, choose the WPS, add a note and field photo. Real-time compliance warnings flag out-of-range procedures before you save.

Look forThe amber compliance warning when a chosen WPS doesn't cover the joint's diameter or wall thickness — that is the same rule that generates a procedure-mismatch alert.

Certified Welding Inspector entry for fit-up, root, and final visual inspections. Every weld must have a visual inspection before NDT.

Look forVisual repairs are charged back to the welder, so the CWI's calls show up in welder strike counts and continuity logs.

Attach RT film, set the disposition (Accept / Reject / Repair), name the inspector, auto-timestamp, and log individual indications with defect code, clock position, and disposition. Links straight to the joint.

Look forThe film-strip preview plots each indication on a 0–12 clock scale as you add it.

Defect-code analytics across the whole job: which codes show up most, which inspectors call them, and how often an inspector's call disagrees with the project-wide consensus. Surfaces the disputed 'Low Cap' calls.

Look forThe inspector comparison — D. Halloran and P. Estrada land on opposite sides of the same Low Cap indications. That inconsistency is what the dispute flow is built to resolve.

The escalation queue. A contractor challenges a call; it routes to a Level III NDT inspector or Senior CWI who upholds or overturns it. Works across NDT, visual, and coating disciplines.

Look forSenior reviewers show up here with upheld-vs-overturned rates instead of field-inspection volume — they don't shoot film, they adjudicate.

Cross-check alerts generated on every save and re-evaluated on NDT entry: missing required passes, NDT before visual, duplicate welder on a pass/side, reject with no repair pass, and procedure mismatch.

Look forMost alerts resolve themselves as the record completes; the ones that stay open are the genuine integrity risks.

Crew roster: joints welded, pass counts, NDT accept rate, and charged-repair strikes. The 3-strike rule terminates a welder after three charged repairs and hires a replacement — both stay on the record.

Look forA terminated welder's card still shows full history and names the replacement who took over.

This-job vs Career tabs, pass breakdown, accept/reject/repair rates over time, continuity log (current / expiring / expired per process and position), approved WPS, and ID-verification status.

Look forThe Career tab — repair-rate trend carried across jobs, not just this one.

A read-only, shareable verification page with a QR code, lifetime stats, and cert summary. No login, no crypto — just a verifiable public record.

Look forAnyone — a regulator, another operator — can open this link and confirm the welder's record without an account.

Roster of NDT, CWI, and coating inspectors with certifications, call-consistency and dispute rates, and career records that follow them job to job.

Look forA pending or expired certification shows a banner — calls made under it need review.

Public verification page with discipline-specific stats: RT dispute rate for NDT, visual repair rate for CWI, coating pass rate for coating inspectors.

Look forEscalation metrics — how often this inspector's calls were upheld vs overturned by a senior reviewer.

Every welding firm on the job gets a scorecard built from attributed records, not self-reported numbers: quality (charged repairs per 100 joints, accept rate), production (joints/day, crew size, welders removed under the three-strike rule), commercial (bid integrity, cost and schedule growth, change-order pattern), and safety (EMR, recordables).

Look forThe bid-integrity score — it measures the gap between what a firm bid and what it actually cost and took. The firm that bids low and profits on change orders shows up here as a low integrity number regardless of how cheap their number looked.

Put up to three firms next to each other across the full scorecard. Each row highlights the best documented value, and a weighted recommendation flags the strongest overall record — quality and commercial discipline counted together, so a cheap-but-sloppy bidder can't win on price alone.

Look forRead the 'Tie-in share' row before you compare repair rates. A firm that took on tie-in scope carries a higher expected repair rate than a pure mainline crew — WeldGuard separates work mix from quality so you don't punish a firm for harder work.

The full dossier behind a scorecard: prior contracts with bid vs final dollars and planned vs actual days, the change-order and backcharge ledger, crew composition, and the welders and inspectors they brought. The record an operator's procurement and integrity teams can pull up during bid review.

Look forThe commercial section breaks change orders into self-inflicted (their own rework or missed scope) versus owner-directed, so a firm can't hide bad execution behind scope changes the operator asked for.