DTCD · Digital Traffic Control Diary

Stop doing paperwork. Start getting paid.

Drive the closure. DTCD captures signs, lanes, and GPS photos as you go, then builds the state-compliant daily diary your DOT expects and generates your invoice from the same data. What took an hour at the kitchen table now takes the drive-through.

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$9.99/user/month all-in · Listed in the USDOT WZDx Federal Registry · Built by a transportation operations professional · SBA-Certified SDVOSB

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Don't take our word for it. Look at the output.

This is the actual PDF diary DTCD generates from a drive-through, and the invoice built from the same closure data. No mockups. Open them.

Sample Closure Diary

Road-snapped map, GPS-stamped photos, device log, daily entries. The document your DOT inspector expects.

Open the sample diary (PDF) →
Sample Invoice

Line items generated from closure data. No spreadsheets, no double-entry, no reconstructing quantities from memory.

Open the sample invoice (PDF) →
Live Federal Feed

Every DTCD closure publishes to the same WZDx feed 511 systems and navigation apps consume. Listed in the USDOT federal registry.

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The Problem

The record that decides your dispute is on a clipboard.

Daily logs on paper. Photos scattered across three phones. Quantities reconstructed from memory at invoice time. When a pay item gets questioned eight months later, the argument isn't decided in the field. It's decided by whoever has the better paper. Right now, that's usually nobody.

How It Works

Three steps. One drive-through.

1

Drive through

AI-assisted MUTCD sign detection captures your setup as you drive the closure. Decision-support only; you verify the output.

2

The app does the rest

GPS, lane configuration, and closure type auto-fill from what it saw. Add photos and notes if you want them.

3

Diary and invoice, instantly

State-compliant PDF diary with map, photos, hours, and entries. Invoice line items from the same data. Submit both before you are back at the yard.

Get Paid Faster

One disputed pay item costs more than a decade of DTCD.

Traffic-control quantities are hard to verify after the fact. Memory fades, photos get lost, spreadsheets disagree, and the contractor without records eats the difference. DTCD documents everything contemporaneously, automatically:

What was installed. Where it was placed. When it went up and came down. Whether it was inspected. Whether deficiencies were corrected. Who approved the setup.

Timestamped, GPS-anchored, photo-supported. When a quantity gets questioned, you answer in minutes with records, not in weeks with reconstructions.

How to keep a record that holds up in a dispute →
Live from the field

Real work zones, published right now

This map is the live WZDx 4.2 / CWZ 1.0 feed DTCD publishes to the USDOT federal registry. Every marker is a real active closure entered by a real crew. No screenshots, no demo data. What you see is what 511 systems and connected vehicles consume.

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Open the dashboard → Raw WZDx feed
Key Features

Built for the cab of a truck, not a desk.

Auto-capture sign detection

MUTCD signs identified during the drive-through.

GPS-tagged photos

Every photo stamped, timestamped, and cloud-synced.

Instant PDF diary

Road-snapped map, photos, logs, and entries in seconds.

Auto-generated invoice

Line items built straight from closure data.

Mobile work zone tracking

The live feed moves with striping and mowing crews. Only on DTCD.

Agency messaging

Two-way communication with DOT inspectors built into every closure.

Plus certification-expiry tracking, a lock-screen closure timer, and multi-format export (WZDx, KML, invoice-ready). See the data platform →

50-State Coverage

Your state already requires this record.

A 50-state review found nearly every state DOT requires some form of daily traffic-control record. The names differ: diary, daily inspection report, work-zone checklist, daily work report. DTCD generates the right output for your state automatically. Tap your state to see its spec.

50-state DOT traffic control documentation coverage
Coverage confirmed, click for state spec Iowa Regulatory Exclusion (see ToS)
View 50-State Coverage → Request Brief
Founding Contractor Program

We launched in 2026. Be one of the first ten.

DTCD is new, and we're saying so. The first ten traffic-control contractors get:

In exchange, you help shape the product and, if it earns it, tell us so publicly.

See the program and apply →
Pricing

$9.99 per user, all-in. Price your crew in ten seconds.

No sales call, no quote request, no per-module upsells. Fifteen minutes of a supervisor's time costs more than a month of DTCD. Every plan is self-serve, and county engineers see every documented closure in their county free, forever.

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About

Built by someone who has stood in the work zone.

PurposeBuilt Systems is an SBA-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business founded by a transportation operations professional. DTCD is listed in the USDOT WZDx Federal Registry and publishes WZDx 4.2 and CWZ 1.0 feeds. We build field-first tools that turn real work into structured, defensible data.

Credentials
SBA-Certified SDVOSB SBA SDVOSB Certified
WZDx v4.2 & CIFS
ASCE 75-22 Compliant
Provisional Patent
Clive, Iowa

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For Agencies

With a DOT or county? Different page for you.

Agencies don't buy seats. You get visibility: every documented closure in your jurisdiction, standards-compliant feeds for your 511 and TMC, and a free county-engineer dashboard.

DTCD for agencies →
Insights

From the Field

Plain-English writing on work-zone documentation, the December 2026 federal deadline, and the data standards that carry work zones to maps and connected vehicles.

Compliance
The 2026 Work-Zone Documentation Deadline
What 23 CFR 630 asks of you before December 31, with a live countdown and a provision-by-provision map.
Founder's Perspective
Everyone Wants Work-Zone Data. Almost Nobody Captures It Where It's Created.
The whole ecosystem is built downstream of a source that mostly dies on a clipboard.
Field Practice
How to Keep a Record That Holds Up in a Dispute
The argument you lose isn't the one in the field. It's the one eight months later, over paper.
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Talk to the founder.
Actually.

No sales team, no SDR sequence. Email or call and you reach the person who built DTCD and answers the support line.

matthew@purposebuilt.systems 515.451.9635