Pillar 03 — Valid8 Control
The system of record for network bring-up.
Tens of thousands of links have to be plugged in, tested and proven good before a fabric carries traffic. Control ingests every scan automatically and turns the flood into one live, trusted burn-down — across every rack, deployment group, phase, contractor and site.
Why it exists
Modern fabrics are cabled at a scale that breaks manual tracking.
A single large cluster runs to thousands of cables per rack. Every link is scanned, often repeatedly, and each scan can surface several kinds of fault. Multiply that by dozens of racks per deployment group, several groups per phase, several phases per site, and several contractors on the floor at once — and "where do we actually stand?" becomes genuinely hard to answer.
- Time. Every day a fabric is not in service is a day very expensive compute sits idle.
- Trust. Leadership cannot act on numbers nobody believes, and different spreadsheets say different things.
- Rework. Faults get re-scanned, double-counted, or cleared in the wrong order — and good work gets overwritten by a stale scan near close-out.
Capabilities
Ingest. See. Govern. Prove.
Every scan, automatically
Scan-tool workbooks are parsed unchanged — no reformatting, no manual upload discipline to enforce on a night shift. Results posted to the project's channel are picked up automatically within the minute.
One live burn-down
Faults rolled up by rack, deployment group, phase, contractor and site — and drillable back down to the individual link. The same view for our supervisors and for you.
Fault clearance with rules
Duplicates collapsed, clearance ranked by what is actually blocking energisation, and stale scans prevented from resurrecting faults that were cleared weeks ago.
Evidence archived as produced
Scans filed to the client document store by project, phase and deployment group as they land, so the handover pack is a snapshot rather than an archaeology project.
Multi-contractor by design
Site supervisors see their own scope; the principal contractor sees everything. Handover snapshots make accountability at a package boundary a matter of record.
Val, the project assistant
An assistant that answers questions against the live project data and raises problems before they bite — scoped to what the person asking is entitled to see.
Fits your stack
It joins the tools already on the job
Control is designed to run alongside what the project already uses, read-only where it needs to be, without asking anyone to change how they work.
Scan tools
Workbooks parsed as they are produced, unchanged.
Slack
Project channels monitored so results ingest automatically on post.
Microsoft 365 & SharePoint
Evidence auto-archived into the client's own document structure.
Export & API
Your data stays yours and comes out in a form your BI stack can read.
Proof
Already running on a live hyperscale bring-up.
Control is not a prototype built for a website. It is in production today on a Tier-1 hyperscale multiplane bring-up, ingesting real scans from a real floor. When we tell a main contractor they get a login on day one, it is because the platform already exists and we already run our own work on it.
Progress you can watch. Evidence you can audit. A handover that was finished before you asked for it.
Next step
Give us one package and a login list.
We will stand the project up in Control, put your team on it, and you will see the burn-down move on the first day our crews are on the floor.