FORGE/BY TRADE/DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA · DAS
xiv.FORGE — FOR DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA · DAS CONTRACTORS

The coverage is still the coverage.
The closeout package is what holds the check.

The public-safety DAS that passed the walk test but stalled in plan review because the AHJ wanted a stamped link budget that lived in three spreadsheets. The certified-payroll filing that ate a weekend on a prevailing-wage job. Forge isn't built for DAS yet — it's built to be. The Charter seat for this trade is open, and the operator who takes it shapes the drawer before it ships.

Charter — 0 of 2 seats filled
2 seats remaining. Locked rate forever.
DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA · DAS · CHARTER
Two Charter seats open for distributed antenna and in-building wireless. This vertical is in Charter development — the first operators to sign shape what ships.
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i.The chest — opened for distributed antenna · das

The drawers that matter most
when the truck door opens.

I
Estimating
A · ESTIMATE

BDAs, donor antennas, remotes, fiber and coax runs, head-end racks — priced per floor, per riser, per coverage zone. DAS assemblies are in development; Charter members define the line items their bids actually carry before the drawer locks.

II
Plate · Closeout
B · DOCUMENT

Walk-test maps, link budgets, RF floor plans, AHJ submittals, and as-builts on one document plate, version-controlled. Built to be the package the inspector signs off — the closeout workflow is being shaped with the first Charter operators.

III
Compliance · Payroll
C · COMPLIANCE

Davis-Bacon, prevailing wage, certified payroll, WH-347 — already native in Treasury, the same engine the security and electrical drawers run. DAS operators on public-safety and government jobs inherit it on day one; no in-development asterisk on this one.

IV
Crew · Dispatch
D · SCHEDULE

When the GC slips the riser, the crew flexes and the change-order writes itself off the install delta. The dispatch and Treasury federation is live today; the DAS-specific scheduling templates are what Charter members help tune.

THE ONE NO ONE ELSE HAS
Hyperion — for distributed antenna · das.

Hyperion isn't built for DAS yet — it's designed to be. The same iPad LiDAR instrument that walks a roof is built to walk a building interior: capturing floor geometry, ceiling heights, riser paths, and antenna-mounting locations as ground-truth for RF coverage planning instead of guessing off a PDF floor plan. Forge publishes Hyperion's accuracy as methodology — ±0.8% on flat, low-slope geometry and ±2% on complex geometry, documented at /proof/hyperion-accuracy and graduating to a measured benchmark after independent third-party verification. The DAS drawer is on the bench; Charter members get it first and shape what it captures.

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ii.What Forge replaces — for distributed antenna · das

What a Charter DAS operator is built to consolidate from — the stack these contractors run today.

  • 01 · STACK ITEM
    iBwave Design
    The category leader for in-building wireless and DAS design — RF prediction, link budgets, BOM. It is genuinely the right tool for the heavy RF prediction work, and Forge is not built to replace the propagation engine. Forge is built to consolidate the estimate, the closeout document plate, and the certified payroll that iBwave does not carry. Carrying the iBwave BOM into a Forge estimate is part of what the Charter operators shape as the drawer is built.
  • 02 · STACK ITEM
    Bluebeam Revu
    Submittal markup, AHJ comments, and RF floor-plan redlines. Plate is being built to carry the same workflow inside the project record with version control; Bluebeam stays the right call for operators who use it across other parts of the org.
  • 03 · STACK ITEM
    Spreadsheet link budgets + walk-test logs
    Hand-rolled link-budget math and field walk-test results pasted into Excel. The Plate closeout workflow is designed to hold these as structured artifacts attached to the project, so the AHJ package and the as-built reference the same numbers — this drawer is in development and Charter members shape it.
  • 04 · STACK ITEM
    Manual WH-347 + spreadsheet certified payroll
    Davis-Bacon and prevailing-wage filings on public-safety and government DAS jobs. Treasury already generates WH-347 ready to file in minutes — this is the one piece that is live today, not in-development.
WHEN NOT TO CHOOSE FORGE

If the work is pure RF design with no install crew, no certified-payroll exposure, and no closeout-package burden, iBwave plus a spreadsheet is still the honest answer — Forge has nothing to add there yet. Charter is built for the DAS integrator running install crews, public-safety code work, and prevailing-wage payroll who wants the estimate, the closeout, and the labor record on one chest.

ii.The page that fills itself

The first distributed antenna · das Charter member
writes their own page here.

The quote, the metrics, the photograph — all of it. The Forge team supports every word; the operator carries the page. If you've been waiting for the moment that earns you the badge, this is it.

DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA · DAS · CHARTER · 0 OF 2 FILLED

Two Charter seats open for distributed antenna and in-building wireless. This vertical is in Charter development — the first operators to sign shape what ships.

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iii.Questions a working operator asks

The honest answers,
without the sales gloss.

01.
Is the DAS vertical actually shipping today?

No — and we will not pretend otherwise. Distributed antenna is in Charter development. The platform underneath it is live: estimating, dispatch, the document plate, and certified-payroll Treasury all run today for roofing, security and fire, AV, solar, HVAC, and electrical operators. What is being built is the DAS-specific layer — the assemblies, the link-budget and walk-test closeout workflow, and the RF floor-plan handling. Charter members signing now shape that work before it locks, and get it first.

02.
Does Forge replace iBwave?

No. iBwave is genuinely the right tool for heavy RF prediction and propagation modeling, and Forge is not built to replace that engine. Forge is built to consolidate what iBwave does not carry — the estimate, the closeout document package, the dispatch, and the certified payroll — onto one chest. The federation is the difference: modules share architecture, not integrations. How the iBwave BOM carries into a Forge estimate is part of what the first DAS Charter operators help define.

03.
Will the closeout and certified-payroll work for public-safety DAS jobs?

The certified-payroll side works today. Treasury carries Davis-Bacon, prevailing wage, and WH-347 generation natively — the same engine the electrical and security drawers run. The public-safety closeout package — walk-test maps, link budgets, AHJ submittals against codes like NFPA 1225 and IFC 510 — is the in-development part of the document plate, and Charter members shape exactly what it holds.

04.
What does Charter cost for a DAS operator?

by application: $27,000 prepaid for 36 months (~$750/mo equivalent), locked forever, ten seats. Public pricing is a la carte from Forge Core $499/mo flat plus modules. Two distributed-antenna Charter seats are open; the operators who take them help build the drawer they will use.

iv.The covenant — how to get in

0 of 2 distributed antenna · das seats
filled.

Charter is the operator who builds with the new tools first. Ten seats across all trades. Locked when filled. The rate doesn't move — ever — while the public list rises around you.

DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA · DAS · CHARTER
2 distributed antenna · das seats remaining.
RATE
$750/mo · locked forever
TERM
$27,000 prepaid · 36 months
FULL PLATFORM (PUBLIC)
~$1,999/mo
CHARTER HONORS
Badge · case study · office hours · first-in-line
THE SPINE — RETURN

The needs have been the same for 4,000 years.
Coverage is the newest need in the oldest buildings. Forge is being built into the chest for the operator who delivers it.

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