An add-on evidence layer.
The forensic compliance documentation platform for utility infrastructure.
HB 144 plans due January 2027 under the PUCT's implementing rule. Is Your Utility Ready?
AcreSeal is an add-on evidence layer: a GPS-tagged photo becomes a hash-chained record with a tracking link, which a utility can later seal into a signed, timestamped work order. It complements the work-order, GIS and outage systems a utility already runs, and does not replace them. It covers complaint documentation, pole condition records and the annual update (Tex. Util. Code §38.103(c)) — the PUCT reporting Sec. 38.103(c) requires — mapped to the statute.
Check a complaint record at acreseal.com/verify.
No login. No subscription. The SHA-256 hash chain and GPS are checkable; independent time applies to records sealed into a work order.
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Texas HB 144 requires your utility to have a documented process for handling pole complaints. Learn what that means for yours.
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Landowner Reports a Problem
Describe the issue in plain English — type it, speak it, and add a photo. No utility jargon needed. When the report has a location, AcreSeal looks for the nearest pole in a utility's imported inventory within 50 meters; if none is close, or two utilities' poles are, a person routes it.
Utility Receives Structured Data
A utility with an active webhook receives an event for each report matched to it: complaint number, tracking code, category and record digest, with no landowner contact details. Its staff open the full report in the AcreSeal dashboard. Each record supports the complaint-process element of the plan, Tex. Util. Code §38.103(b)(5).
Resolution Joins the Record
When the problem is fixed, the resolution is appended to the complaint's hash-chained audit trail — status, timestamps and any photos linked to the report. A utility can then seal the work order: the complaints' capture-time digests get an Ed25519 signature and an RFC 3161 timestamp, checkable at /verify. The resolution entries are hash-chained, not sealed.
Plan elements in Tex. Util. Code Sec. 38.103(b), each mapped on the compliance guide
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Annual update due each year (Sec. 38.103(c)) — the one recurring filing HB 144 creates
PUCT plan-filing date (16 TAC Sec. 25.63)
Built for HB 144 Compliance
AcreSeal maps directly to the requirements of Texas HB 144 Sec. 38.103. Complaint documentation. Pole condition records. The annual May 1 compliance update. Audit trail.
Complaint Documentation
HB 144 Ref: Sec. 38.103(b)(5)Captures, timestamps, and tracks every landowner complaint about pole condition. Anonymous reporting supported. AI photo triage flags visible damage and suggests a severity for staff review. Supports the complaint-process element your plan must document.
Pole Condition Records
HB 144 Ref: Sec. 38.103(b)(4)Per-pole condition checklists with a required photo, and per-pole inspection deadlines with countdown tracking. Records capture safe, reliable, and extreme-weather determinations. The timeline element of your plan is yours to set; AcreSeal records what was done against it.
PUCT Compliance Reporting
HB 144 Ref: Sec. 38.103(c)The annual update due each May 1: poles inspected as a count and a share of your census, per-pole remediation and replacement status, and actual costs by compliance year. Maps to Sec. 38.103(c). Format updates included when PUCT prescribes the final template.
Forensic Evidence Chain
SHA-256 Hash ChainLandowner complaint records are hash-chained when filed. When a utility seals a work order, each complaint's capture-time photo digest becomes a leaf of a signed, timestamped seal, checkable at acreseal.com/verify without an account. Pole condition checklists are recorded but not yet hash-chained or sealed.
Built for Texas Utilities
Designed for the cooperatives, municipal utilities and investor-owned utilities subject to HB 144.
Electric Cooperatives
Member-owned systems subject to HB 144
Investor-Owned Utilities
Plan and annual update documentation at scale
Small Municipal Electric Utilities
HB 144 documentation built for small staffs
Coastal Municipalities
FEMA Public Assistance Cat C & D documentation
See our projected pilot model — 15,000-pole Texas cooperative scenario.
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From the Founder
Lance Hayes is the founder of AcreSeal, building forensic compliance documentation for Texas utilities. Before AcreSeal, he spent over a decade in healthcare IT operations leadership, including time as a hospital IT leader responsible for data-integrity at scale. He builds in San Antonio.
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