Early access · founding cohort
The cable you draw is the cable the crew pulls.
InstallPath is one project for broadcast and pro-AV systems integrators. Canvas is where the engineer draws the system. Wirelist is where the crew installs it. A cable drawn at 10:00 is on the supervisor's pull list at 10:00: same record, same wire number, nothing exported in between.
- 8 design surfaces one project model
- 8 install stages 12.5% each, per cable
- 0 exports between the two
Some of this page animates. With scripts off it shows the finished state instead, which makes the same point.
One project
Two halves of one record. Each app writes only its own half.
The design half is authored in Canvas: wire number, endpoints, signal, connector, route, drawing. The field half is authored in Wirelist: stage, actual cable type, actual length, photos, notes. Neither app writes the other's columns. That is the whole integration.
Eight surfaces, one model underneath.
Every cable you draw carries a real wire number. Every device you rack is the device the crew will install.
- Cable Diagram
- Rack Elevation
- Console Elevations
- Frame Loader
- BOM
- Room Builder
- Draw
- IP · ST 2110
Eight stages per cable, 12.5% at a time.
Installers mark their own work from a tablet in the rack room. Cut a work order from any selection of cables, and print labels off the same wire numbers the design minted.
- Cut
- Temp lbl
- Term
- Perm lbl
- Tested
- Run
- Landed
- Dressed
Design · Canvas
Wire numbers you never type and never lose.
Draw a cable between two typed ports and the server mints TYPE-TA-RACK-SEQ
from the model. Nobody types it. Re-type a port and the affected cables re-mint. Touch a
cable the crew has already installed and InstallPath raises a finding and drafts a change
order against it, because it is reading the crew's own stage marks on the same row.
However the number moves, the drawing's original number stays on that row forever.
- Ports carry a signal type from the project's engineering standards. 22 canonical signal codes, with an alias table around 130 entries deep, so HD-SDI, GENLOCK and MPEG-TS all land where they belong.
- Rack elevations at RU scale drive the mnemonics. Renumber a rack in one move and the numbers follow physical position, top to bottom, then left to right.
- Frame Loader fills a frame's card slots and keeps the designed population separate from what the field actually installed.
- The BOM reconciles against what is placed and what is drawn. Placed, wired and remaining, line by line.
- ST 2110 senders and receivers, ST 2022-7 pairing and multicast pools on the IP surface. Sold as an add-on.
- Drawings stay on your machine. The AutoCAD plugin reads the DWG where it already sits and posts what it finds there.
Build · Wirelist
Status is a query, not a meeting.
Progress is stored per cable, so anyone can put a question to it. A PM gets the funnel. An installer gets the next cable on their own list. And because the cables arrive from the design, nothing waits on an import: engineering adds three cables and the pull list has three more rows.
- Eight stages at 12.5% each. Landed splits into source and destination and is done when both ends are landed. A STAGED marker caps a run at 90% when you pulled it before the device arrived.
- Select cables and cut a work order: one assignee, priority 1 to 5, a due date, and progress rolled up from the cables themselves.
- Labels print from the wire number the design minted, off shared templates, as a queued print job.
- Comments thread as deep as the argument needs, anchored to the cable they are about, with @-mentions, in-app notifications and photo or PDF attachments.
- Role-gated approvals, and live presence shared with Canvas: who is online, and which cable each of them is sitting on.
The seam
Six mechanisms that only exist because there is no export step.
When two tools say they are integrated, it usually means somebody wrote an exporter. These six work a different way. The design layer and the install layer are the same rows in the same table, at the same time.
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A drawn cable is an installable cable.
Draw it at 10:00. At 10:00 the pull list has it, carrying wire number, signal, connector, both devices, rack and port. There is no file in between.
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An installed cable answers back.
Change a cable the crew has already installed and you get a typed finding on it and a drafted change order. InstallPath can tell the difference because the crew's own stage marks sit on the row it is editing.
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Designed and as-built, side by side.
Canvas writes where a card should go. The field records where it went. The two are stored as matched columns on one row, so a disagreement surfaces as a finding and neither side quietly overwrites the other.
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The pin lands on the cable itself.
The installer drops a pin on the cable in the live design, from the tablet in their hand in the rack room. The engineer opens that same cable and the pin is on it. From there it promotes into a draft work order, or into a field report somebody signs off.
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The label and the drawing are one string.
The string printed on the shrink-wrap and the string on the drawing are the same string. Nobody typed it twice, so there is nothing to keep in step.
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The BOM is a live scorecard.
Placed, wired and remaining, line by line, reconciled against the design and against the field. A device in an elevation that no BOM line accounts for shows up as a finding. A standalone BOM is a spreadsheet somebody has to keep current.
A day on the job
One cable, four people, one record.
What the seam feels like on a Tuesday. Everything below happens on AA-01-07-031, and nobody opens a spreadsheet.
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engineer in Canvas
Draws a cable from AIF-01.02 OUT 3 to PP-01.03 port 12 on TA01-G601. Signal and connector come from the ports. Nothing typed.
- AA-01-07-031 minted · wirelist row created · AA · XLR-3 · tray A · 31 m
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field supervisor in Wirelist
It is already on the RK-07 pull list. Selects the rack's audio cables and cuts a work order for the lead installer.
- WO-118 · P1 · 18 cables · R. Okafor · labels queued
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installer in Wirelist, on a tablet
Lands the destination. Port 12 is occupied, so lands on 14, drops a pin on the cable in the live drawing and photographs it.
- landed · dst · actual 34 m · 13:40
- redline open · pin on AA-01-07-031 · 1 photo
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engineer in Canvas
Opens the pin on the cable itself and confirms port 14. The cable is already installed, so InstallPath raises a finding and drafts a change order against it.
- CO-014 drafted · in-app notification raised · wire number unchanged · label unchanged
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PM in either
Reads the change order with the photo on it and closes it out. Design and as-built both say port 14 now, and the finding goes with it.
- finding closed · designed = as-built
- audit log: 5 events · 4 people · 1 record
Read it instead (full transcript)
- A day on the job: one cable, five people, no reconciliation.
- 09:12. The engineer draws a connection in Canvas.
- AIF-01.02 OUT 3 to PP-01.03 port 12. Signal and connector come from the ports.
- The wire number AA-01-07-031 is minted. Nothing is typed, nothing is exported.
- Same minute. It is already on the RK-07 pull list.
- The field supervisor cuts work order WO-118 and queues the labels.
- 13:40. The crew walks the eight stages, twelve and a half percent each.
- Port 12 is occupied, so the installer lands on port 14.
- He pins the cable in the live drawing and photographs it. Closeout wants proof.
- 13:52. The engineer sees the pin on the cable, not a photo of a print.
- The cable is labelled, so the move raises change order CO-014. The wire number does not change.
- 14:05. The PM reads the change order with the photo attached and closes it.
- Designed equals as-built. The divergence finding closes itself.
- One record. Five people. Never reconciled.
Without the seam, that afternoon is a red-pen photo in a group chat, a wirelist that still says port 12, and a label that may or may not match either.
Request an invite →Early access · onboarding our first crews
We turn it on with you, one crew at a time.
InstallPath is new. We are letting in a small group of broadcast and AV cabling teams first, and we sit with each of them through a real job rather than handing over a login and hoping. You get a say in what gets built next, and your price stays where it started for as long as you stay.
- Founder pricing, locked for as long as you stay
- A direct line to the people building it
- Your jobs set the roadmap
No commitment. Bring a drawing set from a job you are on and we will walk it through with you.
How it is sold
Each half stands alone. Together they stop being two tools.
Both are real products on their own. Wirelist works from published PDFs, whatever CAD drew them. Canvas replaces the drawing-and-spreadsheet pair an engineer keeps in step by hand. One activation key carries the entitlements for whichever you buy.
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InstallPath Canvas · early access
Design it.
Eight design surfaces, licensed together or switched on one surface at a time.
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InstallPath Wirelist · shipping
Build it.
Eight-stage tracking, work orders, label printing, and the whole crew live on one project.
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InstallPath Suite · recommended
Both, at a bundle price.
Both halves under one activation key, and every round-trip on this page working. Title blocks, drawing frames and label templates carry your branding, set once.
Canvas is a separate entitlement. Wirelist does not turn it on, and IP / ST 2110 and Inventory are separate again. Nothing is switched on until you ask for it. That is why early access starts with a conversation.
Stop reconciling your drawings with your job.
Wirelist is shipping and Canvas is in early access. Tell us what you design and what you install, and we will show you the seam on a drawing of your own.