By area
Scope it the way you walk it
MLP, G03, G05, G07, or G08 — walkdowns are generated against the area, system, or subsystem you are actually inspecting.
Findings
Become punches, instantly
Anything that fails is raised as a punch from inside the walkdown, with the tag, category, and photo already attached.
Closed
With evidence, not opinion
A walkdown closes only when its punches are resolved and the required roles have signed — then it exports as a defensible record.
The Problem
A walkdown is only useful while the findings are still true.
Six people walk an area with a marked-up P&ID and a camera. The findings come back as annotations on a drawing, a folder of untagged photos, and a memory of what looked wrong near the pump skid.
Somebody spends the next two days turning that into a spreadsheet. By the time it is circulated, three of the items have already been fixed, two were raised on the last walkdown by a different discipline, and one references a tag that does not exist on the register. Nobody trusts the list, so the area gets walked again.
The waste is not the walk itself — it is the transcription in the middle, the duplicated punches, and the readiness status that can never be evidenced when the client asks whether the area is actually ready to hand over.
How it works
One scope, one walk, one live record.
Every finding traces back to the area and walkdown type it came from, and forward to the punch and signature that closed it. There is no transcription step in the middle to lose it.
01
Pick the scope
Choose the area, system, or subsystem to verify and the walkdown type your project uses — MLP, G03, G05, G07, or G08. The scope defines exactly which tags are in play.
02
Generate the walkdown
Deskely builds the walkdown record from your project data rules, so the activities, tag list, and required sign-off roles are correct before anyone reaches the deck.
03
Execute on site, offline
Crews work the activity list on tablet, tick what is verified, and attach photos to the specific item they support. No signal is required anywhere in the walk.
04
Raise punches from findings
Anything that fails becomes a punch on the spot, with the tag, category, photo, and responsible party carried over — and it stays linked to the walkdown that found it.
05
Close out and sign
Resolve the open punches, confirm the required activities and evidence, then complete the sequenced sign-offs and export the walkdown to PDF or Excel.
Result
Area readiness you can evidence
Outstanding findings, resolved punches, and sign-offs are the same dataset the client reviews at handover.
In the Field
The finding is recorded where it is found.
The tablet app is offline-first. The activity list, the tag scope, and the photos taken during the walk all live on the device, so a team can spend a full shift in a module with no connectivity and lose nothing.
Each item is either verified or it is not, and a photo attaches to the specific activity it supports rather than landing in a general camera roll. When something fails, the technician raises a punch from inside the walkdown — the tag, category, photograph, and responsible party carry over automatically, and the punch stays linked to the walkdown that found it.
When the device comes back into range everything syncs at once: the findings appear in the register, the punches appear in the owner's list, and area progress updates without anyone retyping a line.
Assurance
"The area is ready" has to be a claim you can evidence.
Readiness in Deskely is a state the system enforces, not a statement in a progress meeting. The rules below hold regardless of who ran the walk or how busy that week was.
Walkdown templates are generated from project data rules, so the scope matches the tag register rather than a copied spreadsheet
A walkdown cannot be closed while punches raised against it are still open
Every finding is bound to a tag, an activity, and the photograph that evidences it
Sign-offs are role-based and sequenced — nothing can be signed out of turn
Duplicate findings are visible against the tag, so the same issue is not raised twice by two disciplines
Exports to PDF or Excel carry the same evidence the client reviewed in the system
When the client asks why an area was accepted, the answer is a single record: the activities that were verified, the photographs behind them, the punches raised and closed, and the signatures that completed it — produced in seconds instead of reassembled from drawings and inboxes.
Business Outcomes
What this changes for your project.
Fewer re-walks
Findings land in the register the moment the device syncs, so an area is walked once instead of being re-verified because nobody trusts the last list.
Live area readiness
Completion by area, system, and discipline is visible as it happens — including what is holding an area back and who owns it.
No duplicate punches
Every finding is raised against a tag inside a scoped walkdown, so two disciplines cannot log the same defect as two separate items.
Handover-ready evidence
Signed walkdowns, their photographs, and their punch history are already attached to the area they verify. The dossier assembles itself.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
Related Modules
Works seamlessly with other modules.
Punch Lists
Create, assign, and close out punch items with photo evidence and real-time status tracking.
ITR Checksheets
Build templates with sections and steps, issue checksheets, and execute on tablet with evidence capture.
Preservation
Manage Preservation Work Lists with interval tracking, due-date management, and field evidence capture.
