Do more with your inspection.

Harnessing the power of live data streaming from field inspectors gives you unprecedented speed and control over your projects. Everything from scheduling to document control becomes faster and easier.

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Real-Time Reports

Customized Forms

Easy Deployment

Real-time reports keep projects flowing.

Ground Force gives you reports that are updated automatically with live field data, to support you whenever you need it.

Get info faster.

Get the data you need, in the way that you want. See everything from charts and graphs to speedometers and maps. Or get raw data if that’s what you’re in to.

Export reports with a click.

Generating reports for your meetings is now easier than ever. No need to wrestle with Excel or complicated reporting apps. Each report in Ground Force comes with easy export options in the most popular formats.

Make audits easy.

By integrating reporting, documents and mapping, Ground Force makes it easy to resolve non-compliance. And it makes it easy prove the quality of your line.

Use any form.

Ground Force comes with technology that mimics a paper-like look, so your existing forms can easily be loaded in. Or connect a 3rd-party form application via our API.

Meet any standard.

You can use a specific form layout or design a completely new form. Ground Force has you covered. Capture images, barcodes, leverage smart fields, and sign forms via eSignatures. The forms are yours to customize and the options are nearly endless.

Completely intuitive

We provide a mobile form application with a paper-like look, designed to mimic your existing paper forms. This makes everything intuitive and easy to use in the field, regardless of each inspector’s proficiency with technology.

Got your own app?

Ground Force can connect to your existing form technology. As long as the form application has APIs that Ground Force can connect to, then you can continue using your own app, and leverage Ground Force’s powerful engine.

Time is money.

Ground Force is designed to configure quickly and deploy rapidly. We do this with smart processes and state of the art automation.

Train inspectors in minutes.

We don't make your inspectors conform to our standards. By utilizing your existing form designs, we make adoption and training incredibly easy.

High octane automation

Don't spend months paying consultants to configure your system. We've built a massive amount of automation to save you time and budget. Let Ground Force's intelligent engine run the configuration so that you can focus on higher priorities.

Ours, yours or theirs

Ground Force forms can run on almost any iPad regardless of who supplies them. Does your IT team have a stack waiting to be used? Do your inspectors want to bring their own? If not, we can overnight our fleet to almost anywhere in the world.

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Ready for remote areas

Running projects in remote areas? No worries. Ground Force will cache any data collected while out of cell service, and synchronize once a connection to the Internet is active again.

Ruggedized and equipped

Blue Sky can provide iPads with ruggedized cases and all of the accessories needed including an electronic stylus, charger and charging cable.

Use our fleet or yours

We can provide a fleet of mobile devices for your inspectors to use, or you can BYOD (bring your own device) and save on your subscription.

Per Diem friendly

Concerns about protecting an inspectors per diem income are valid. Since we work on almost any iPad, you can allow field personnel to bring their own device and keep the majority of their per diem.

Documents accelerated

Ground Force helps optimize the document control process.

See what you can do with digital

Automatically get clean pdfs and get access to the raw data behind the pdf. This means you can use our API to integrate with your document control system seamlessly.

Never misplaced

Never lose an inspection form or report again. With our best-in-class cloud storage, powered by AWS, your documents are always there for you in your moment of need.

Find the needle in the haystack

Powerful search and filtering features help you to quickly find exactly what you need.

Location matters

Ground Force shows you exactly what's happening and where. Form locations, centerline, and progress are all displayed on easy to use maps.

See where the holdups are

Project bottlenecks have never been more easily understood. Now you can see exactly where things are being held up, and deploy your resources accordingly.

Where's that weld?

Inspection forms are mapped out based on where the inspection took place. Now you never have to spend time trying to figure out where an problem occured.

Get started with Ground Force in 5 easy steps.

  1. See a demo.

  2. Get a quote.

  3. Load your forms.

  4. Deploy devices.

  5. Manage your project tighter with real-time information.

“Blue Sky has great tools, and what sets them apart is that their support team is very responsive and is always flexible in helping us when we need them.”

— Ryan Eastridge, VP, Audubon

Frequently Asked Questions

  • You can use your own internal inspectors. You can use your favorite third-party inspectors. We can also provide inspectors for you. The choice is yours.

  • All of your captured project data is cached when offline and automatically syncs with Orbital once your device is online.

  • Ground Force utilizes your forms so the ramp up period should be very short. Training time will vary depending on the needs of your group. Training can be completed in as little as three days. If you or your team ever need assistance after the training has ended our Customer Success team is always available to assist you anytime.

  • All customers have the option to use devices that we provide or their own corporate devices.