Permit Manager
Proactive jeopardy management
30–50% reduction in avoidable costs
Financial and Operational Risk dashboards, a risk-prioritised permit list, and estimated risk exposure — potential fines visible before they're incurred, not after.
Street Works/ Skewb OPUS · Street Works Pathway
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Customer Centered & Sustainable Street Works
One platform for the entire permit lifecycle — plan, raise, start, stop, register, reinstate. Real-time integration with DfT Street Manager, proactive jeopardy management, and boardroom visibility of every avoidable pound.
~30%
of street works costs are typically avoidable — FPNs, S74s, defects, cancellations and variations
30–50%
reduction in Fixed Penalty Notices & Section 74 charges through risk-based jeopardy management
25–40%
more permits processed per FTE through automated dashboards and single-view permits
£0.5m/ 10,000 permits
compliance risk exposure from new legislation — 2-hour starts & stops, lane rental expansion, waste classification
Every promoter is leaking money in the same five places. All of it is visible. All of it is preventable.
Late starts and stops. Late registrations. Overruns. Defective reinstatements. Permits that should never have been raised. For a typical large promoter that's £2–2.5M a year in avoidable cost — sitting in live data, scattered across Street Manager extracts, spreadsheets, emails and SharePoint.
Designed by street works practitioners. First engines live in days, not quarters. Benefits realisation starts in year one.
Skewb OPUS replaces that patchwork with one street works platform. Synchronous APIs with DfT Street Manager feed pre-configured engines that put every permit, fine, defect, waste load and reinstatement into a risk-prioritised workflow — with the potential cost of failure attached. Your teams stop hunting for information and start preventing fines. Your contractors work to the same jeopardy rules you do. Your board sees one version of the truth, in real time, with no extra reporting licences.
10 min
Street Manager refresh
Days
First engines live
Year 1
Benefits realisation
Featured film
A day in the life of a permit at risk
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What your operation is risking right now
Open on Performance at a Glance — total permit costs and potential avoidable costs, live.
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A permit in jeopardy
Works stop due today, £80 FPN flagged, cost-based jeopardy rule firing in Permit Manager.
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Cleared from the field
Start Stop Manager stops the permit on site, photo captured, Street Manager updated — the risk clears in the back office in real time.
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Finance, automated
Cost & Penalty Manager auto-matches the HA invoice against the rate card, discounts validated.
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One version of the truth
Close on Reporting as a Service — contractor performance and the boardroom dashboard. One platform. Every permit. Every pound.
Nine ways OPUS turns risk into return
Each capability is a working demonstration on live-format data — outcome first, engine second.
Workbench
Right-first-time permits
Typically 40% efficiency in permit operations
Guided permit raising with NSG/OS mapping, HA-specific condition validation, lane rental road detection and collaboration opportunity flags — fewer refusals, fewer variations.
Start Stop Manager
Field starts & stops — including weekends
Eliminates late start/stop FPNs & 2-hour risk
The mobile app starts and stops permits directly in Street Manager, with photo evidence capture and a full back-office audit view.
Inspections & Defects Manager
Defect prevention & closure
15–30% reduction in defect costs
Defect prioritisation by health & safety and cost, automatic allocation to the supply chain, and repeat-defect reporting that improves HA engagement.
Cost & Penalty Manager
Automated street works finance
20–40% more charges processed per FTE
Automated invoice loading, rate-card cost estimation, discount validation and Statement of Accounts by Highway Authority — no copying, no pasting.
Reporting as a Service
One version of the truth
Boardroom reporting, zero extra BI licences
Contractor financial performance, drill-downs by Highway Authority and team, and self-service extracts — typically saving 2–3 reporting FTEs.
Reinstatement Manager · WasteNew
Material classification & waste compliance
Audit-ready for the 2025 SWUK regime
Automated Desktop Risk Assessments, red/green layer classification from site assessments, EWC coding, chain of custody from hole to waste plant, and quarterly SWUK/EA reporting — exported automatically.
Street Works Navigator · OPUS AINew
Agentic workforce
AI agents working alongside your teams
A Cost Avoidance Agent flagging permits at risk, an Accurate Permits Agent checking before submission, FinOps reconciliation, and KPI & Benchmarking agents serving executive insight on demand.
Reinstatement ManagerNew
Reinstatement management
Commercial control + SHEQ assurance
Configurable rate-card and approval workflows for reinstatement partners, interim-to-permanent tracking, SLA and 2/5-year guarantee monitoring, and geo-tagged photo evidence on every job.
Pathway brochure · PDF
Take Customer Centered & Sustainable Street Works with you.
The full pathway in one shareable document — outcomes, capabilities and proof points, ready for your team and your boardroom.
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