The Grid-Safety Network
311 tells a city a pothole exists. AcreSeal links a landowner's report to the specific pole it concerns and hash-chains both into one tamper-evident record — the civic reporting layer, documented alongside the utility's own asset systems rather than replacing them.
Illustrative example — synthetic data, no real report or landownerThe Report
civic reporting layerTracking ID
ACRS-GRID-DEMO
Reported by
M.R. (landowner)
Concern
Structural Lean
Status
Acknowledged
Submitted
March 15, 2026 at 9:25 AM CDT
Capture
Mobile capture, GPS + timestamp embedded
Description
Pole is visibly leaning toward the roadway. Cross-arm hardware appears corroded. Concern about failure over a public road.
The Pole
asset of recordPole Tag
CO-OP-DEMO-0001
Utility
Sample Electric Cooperative (illustrative)
Material
Wood
Height
40 ft
Installed
2015
Last Inspection
May 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Condition
FairThe Chain
Valid · 3 linksReport sealed (genesis)
March 15, 2026 at 9:25 AM CDThash d90b9d9c4d…e1f21b77
Bound to pole CO-OP-DEMO-0001
March 15, 2026 at 9:25 AM CDThash 39e133ce42…325749d9 · prev d90b9d9c4d…e1f21b77
Acknowledged by utility
March 16, 2026 at 4:10 AM CDThash 913d85bfef…07a11da7 · prev 39e133ce42…325749d9
Each link is a SHA-256 hash of its payload plus the previous link's hash, so editing an earlier entry and recomputing its hash breaks the next link. For real landowner complaints, /verify shows the chain and checks that each entry points to the one before it; it does not re-compute entries from their contents.
Why this is one product, not two
Civic reporting alone
Tells a utility a concern exists — but not against which asset, and with no tamper-evident proof.
Inspection software alone
Tracks the utility's own crews — but has no public ingress for what the public sees between inspections.
AcreSeal — fused
Links the public report to the physical asset in one hash-chained record that can be checked at /verify.