That is our job, not yours. Every PoleProof finding rests on the actual rule that governs your pole, researched from primary sources, graded for confidence, and checked before it reaches you. Here is how that work gets done, so a finding holds up when you take it to the pole owner, or to your own counsel.
Anyone can add up an invoice. The hard part is knowing which of those charges the governing rule actually allows, and that rule changes with who owns the pole and which state it stands in. A finding built on the wrong rulebook falls apart the moment a pole owner pushes back. So before PoleProof questions a charge, it does the work to be sure the rule behind the finding is the right one, current, and correctly stated.
The same disciplined sequence sits behind every finding, whether the review is done by hand today or by PoleProof's engine as it comes online. Each step exists to keep a finding from resting on more than its source can bear.
Investor-owned utility, cooperative, municipality, or a federally owned entity, and which state the pole stands in. This one step decides which rulebook applies, before any charge is judged.
The actual statute, the FCC rule or order, the state regulation, the commission decision. Not a summary of it, and not a memory of it. If the text cannot be reached, we say so.
A rule read straight from the governing text is treated differently from one resting on a single outside summary. Each is graded, and what is genuinely unsettled is marked, not smoothed over.
Load-bearing conclusions get a second, skeptical pass built to break them, and anything driving a live finding is reviewed by a person before it is relied on.
PoleProof builds a state-by-state record of what actually governs pole attachments in each place it works, because a national average gets the specifics wrong exactly where they matter to your bill.
Pole attachment law is in an unusually active stretch. The FCC rewrote its make-ready timelines in 2026. The BEAD program attached new pole-attachment conditions to cooperative and municipal owners that take funding. The FCC has an open inquiry into whether some older state certifications still qualify. PoleProof tracks the federal and state proceedings that change what a pole owner can charge and updates its research as they resolve, so a finding reflects the rule in force on the date of your invoice, not a version that has since moved.
A finding built on the wrong rulebook, or last year's version of the right one, falls apart the moment the pole owner pushes back, and takes your credibility with it.
The specific charge, the exact rule that governs it, and the gap between them, each tied to a source. It stands up with the pole owner, and with your own counsel if it ever goes further.
PoleProof is an invoice and cost validation service, not a law firm, and the way it handles the limits of its own findings is part of what makes them trustworthy. A finding shows what was billed, what the agreement and the governing rule allow, and the gap between them, with the source cited. Where a charge is clearly inconsistent with the rule, it says so plainly. Where the answer turns on unsettled law or on facts only your team has, it says that too, and points to where a licensed attorney should weigh in. It never claims to be legal advice and never dresses a judgment call as a certainty. That candor is not a hedge. It is what lets a PoleProof finding hold up.
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