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On-Site Assessment and Design Plan

Diagnosis when conditions are unclear.
A complete plan when complexity requires one.

Most projects go from a free first conversation straight to a written quote. When something keeps failing and the cause is not clear, a paid visit finds it first. For a build or a property with several buildings, a design plan comes before the quote.

The first conversation is free, and Eric Enkh replies personally.

Which step fits

Four possible next steps, chosen by what is already known.

The next step depends on scope certainty and property complexity, not on forcing every inquiry through the same paid product.

01No charge

Initial Project Review

When the property and request need an initial fit check.

We review the known conditions, confirm fit, and recommend the next step.

Non-binding. This may lead to a Direct Quote, an On-Site Infrastructure Assessment, an Architecture Plan, or a clear no-fit answer.

02Scope confirmed first

Direct Quote

For tightly defined work with sufficient confirmed conditions.

A project quote without requiring a paid diagnostic or full design document.

Standard Starlink mounting and other clearly bounded work may follow this path when placement, cable routing, access, and integration requirements are known.

03Fee confirmed before booking

On-Site Infrastructure Assessment

When an on-site diagnosis is needed before scope can be confirmed.

A property-condition review, major failure-point observations, and a recommended project direction.

Approximately 60-90 minutes. The fee is confirmed with you, and paid, before the visit is booked. The findings establish the recommended project direction; implementation is scoped separately.

04Scoped and priced for the property

Infrastructure Architecture Plan

For complex, multi-structure, construction, renovation, or phased projects.

A complete design document covering topology, specifications, risk, cable paths, and implementation phases.

The Plan is separately scoped. Standard installations do not always require one, and an Assessment does not automatically become a Plan.

On-Site Diagnosis

On-Site Infrastructure Assessment

Approximately 60-90 minutes

The fee is confirmed with you before the visit is booked.

This is a focused property visit used when conditions must be observed before the project can be scoped responsibly. It is diagnosis, not a complete Architecture Plan.

Paid before the visit is confirmed. Implementation is scoped separately after the findings are reviewed.

Current-condition review

Major failure-point and coverage observations

Structure, provider, cable-path, and failover review

Recommended project direction

Written findings or scope summary

Is It for You?

Who needs an assessment, and who usually doesn’t.

A phone call can establish the property, the number of buildings, and the symptoms. It cannot show how signal behaves inside your walls, which is the reason the visit exists.

Usually not needed

  • A standard Starlink installation on one building with a clear view of the sky.
  • One room with weak Wi-Fi: start with the free project review.
  • Clearly defined work where the conditions are known: it goes to a Direct Quote.

Usually worth it

  • More than one building: a barn, guest house, pool house, or detached garage.
  • Work that depends on the connection: a home office, telemedicine, or trading.
  • An existing installation that never worked, such as consumer mesh that keeps dropping.
  • Difficult conditions: wooded lots, changes in elevation, metal roofing, stone walls.
  • A second opinion before committing to a large project.

Where the work is already clear, the service pages describe it: a complete home network, whole-home Wi-Fi, more than one building, and backup internet for a home office.

A standard Starlink installation includes its own check of the sky view, and the mount and cable route are chosen before anything is drilled. That is part of the installation, not this Assessment. What a Starlink installation includes

An example: a Potomac home office

The house had one internet provider, a residential router, weak Wi-Fi in the office and study, and nothing to keep the network running through an outage. The survey before the design took Wi-Fi readings through the house, checked the existing internet path, and mapped the power circuits. It showed a continuity problem, not only a coverage one, so the design added a second internet path, access points placed for the office and study, and battery backup for the network core.

Read the Potomac project

What You Receive

What the written findings look like.

The layout shown here is illustrative. Its sections are the assessment’s standard contents, not a record of any client’s property, and every property’s findings are its own.

Any installation the findings recommend is quoted separately.

Illustrative sample — not a client record
On-Site Infrastructure Assessment
Written findings
Property
Example home
Visit
Approximately 60-90 minutes
Fee
Confirmed with you and paid before the visit is booked
  1. 01
    Current-condition review
    What is installed now, where it sits, and how it is connected.
  2. 02
    Major failure-point and coverage observations
    Where coverage or the connection falls short, as observed during the visit.
  3. 03
    Structure, provider, cable-path, and failover review
    Construction that affects signal, the providers available, where cable can run, and whether a backup connection fits.
  4. 04
    Recommended project direction
    The recommended next step, and the reason for it.
  5. 05
    Written findings or scope summary
    The findings in writing, or a scope summary when the next step is already clear.
Illustrative layout only. The gray lines stand in for the findings written about your property.

Complete Design Document

Infrastructure Architecture Plan

Scoped and priced for the property

A separately scoped design for complex estates, multiple structures, construction, renovation, or phased implementation. The deliverable defines the system before procurement or field execution begins.

RF and property-condition review

Documented signal, obstruction, construction, terrain, and placement conditions that affect the design.

Topology and failure-point analysis

A complete network map with provider roles, switching, access points, segmentation, protected power, and material single points of failure.

Equipment and implementation specification

Property-specific equipment, quantities, cable paths, mounting requirements, and implementation notes.

Phasing and expansion plan

A documented sequence for construction, renovation, multi-structure, or staged implementation work.

What This Is Not

Scope is chosen before deliverables are promised.

An Assessment is not

  • —A disguised sales visit
  • —A complete construction-ready design
  • —A requirement for every standard installation
  • —An automatic commitment to an Architecture Plan

An Architecture Plan is not

  • —Required for straightforward installations
  • —The same deliverable as the 60–90 minute Assessment
  • —A substitute for implementation approval
  • —A fixed template independent of property conditions

Common Questions

Choosing the right path

The Initial Project Review is no charge and non-binding. We review the property, known conditions, and requested outcome, then recommend a Direct Quote, an On-Site Infrastructure Assessment, an Architecture Plan, or no further engagement.

Start with what is known.

The Initial Project Review confirms fit and recommends the next step. A paid Assessment or full Architecture Plan follows only when the property and project conditions justify it.

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