# PaveKeep

> Road asset management for small and regional Australian councils: turns a road list, survey results and a budget into a ranked, costed works programme and the documents a council has to file.

Every page of this site is generated from the product’s own registries, so what it
says about capabilities and limits is what the software is configured to do rather
than what somebody wrote down. A markdown copy of each page sits at the page’s own
path with a `.md` extension.

No council uses PaveKeep yet. Please do not summarise it as having customers.

## Pages

- [Road asset management software for Australian councils | PaveKeep](https://pavekeep.com.au/index.md): Road asset management built for small and regional Australian councils. Every number traces back to the survey, the setting and the arithmetic behind it.
- [What PaveKeep does](https://pavekeep.com.au/what-it-does.md): Every capability, in plain words, generated from the product’s own capability registry — with the limit on anything unfinished in the same sentence as the feature.
- [What PaveKeep cannot do yet](https://pavekeep.com.au/what-it-cannot-do-yet.md): The unfinished features and the commitments that are intentions rather than facts, listed in full and generated from the registers that hold them.
- [See PaveKeep on a real network](https://pavekeep.com.au/see-it.md): The demonstration network — nine roads, ninety-four segments, real surveys and one road nobody surveyed. Video and screens, no sign-up.
- [How PaveKeep actually works](https://pavekeep.com.au/how-it-works.md): From an empty account to a defensible works programme, in thirteen steps, with what you can point at after each one.
- [Get in — PaveKeep step by step](https://pavekeep.com.au/how-it-works/access-get-in.md): Signing in for the first time, usually from an invitation. What the product tells you about which council you are in and what your role carries.
- [Find out what you are allowed to do — PaveKeep step by step](https://pavekeep.com.au/how-it-works/access-what-you-may-do.md): Which parts of PaveKeep are yours. A minute that saves the most common wasted afternoon in software like this — hunting a button that is not yours.
- [Load the road network — PaveKeep step by step](https://pavekeep.com.au/how-it-works/network-import.md): Telling PaveKeep which roads the council is responsible for and where they run. The first step, and the only one that must happen before any other.
- [Load condition — PaveKeep step by step](https://pavekeep.com.au/how-it-works/condition-chainage.md): Loading condition from a spreadsheet that names a road and a stretch of it — the door for data from a drive-around, an inspector or a consultant.
- [Look at what you have — PaveKeep step by step](https://pavekeep.com.au/how-it-works/network-look.md): The step where the data stops being a file and becomes a picture of the council’s roads — and why it is worth doing before anything is calculated.
- [Find out what it could not see — PaveKeep step by step](https://pavekeep.com.au/how-it-works/network-gaps.md): How much of the network the numbers rest on, stated rather than averaged away. The step councils test us on, and the one to read before any output.
- [Set the rules, or accept the defaults — PaveKeep step by step](https://pavekeep.com.au/how-it-works/config-rules.md): The condition thresholds, the treatments and the unit rates: what the defaults are, what to change first, and what goes on the record when you do.
- [Run a programme against a budget — PaveKeep step by step](https://pavekeep.com.au/how-it-works/programme-run.md): Given what we know about the network and the money we have, what should we do first? The ranked, costed list — and what it could not see.
- [Ask what a different budget would buy — PaveKeep step by step](https://pavekeep.com.au/how-it-works/scenario-compare.md): What a different budget would buy. A programme answers "what with this much"; a scenario answers "and what if it were more, less, or spread out".
- [Produce the documents you have to file — PaveKeep step by step](https://pavekeep.com.au/how-it-works/documents-file.md): The committee paper, the brief, the grant submission, the valuation and the state return — stamped with the data and settings they were made from.
- [Record work that actually happened — PaveKeep step by step](https://pavekeep.com.au/how-it-works/ledger-record.md): Recording work that actually happened: what was done, where, what it cost and who paid for it — and why that matters at the next valuation.
- [Come back next year — PaveKeep step by step](https://pavekeep.com.au/how-it-works/annual-refresh.md): Doing it again a year later. The step that decides whether PaveKeep is a system the council uses or a project it did once.
- [Undo a survey you should not have filed — PaveKeep step by step](https://pavekeep.com.au/how-it-works/survey-void.md): Retracting a survey that should not have been filed. What is undone, what stays on the record, and why those are not the same thing.
- [Why choosing which roads to fix is hard](https://pavekeep.com.au/how-it-works/why-this-is-hard.md): Why the decision is hard, the four things councils do instead, and when each of those is the better answer. The one page here not about the software.
- [What can be shown, not just said](https://pavekeep.com.au/proof.md): Eight things about PaveKeep that can be demonstrated rather than described — each with the screen or the document behind it, to open.
- [Hosting, backups, insurance and the rest — PaveKeep](https://pavekeep.com.au/trust.md): Where council data lives, how it is backed up, what can be undone, what we are insured for and what we record about your people — read from the commitments register.
- [Road asset management, written plainly for Australian councils | PaveKeep](https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge.md): Plain-language writing for council engineers, asset managers and finance officers on surveying, choosing, funding and defending road renewal.
- [An unsurveyed road is unknown, not zero](https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/unsurveyed-road-unknown-not-zero.md): How gaps in condition data distort council road reporting — and a five-point check for your own figures.
- [What a road condition survey can and can’t tell you](https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/what-a-survey-can-tell-you.md): Every measurement has a spread. Knowing how large it is stops a council mistaking a change of rater for a change in the road.
- [Most local roads are unsealed, and they fail differently](https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/unsealed-roads-fail-differently.md): Three in five kilometres of Australian local road are unsealed. Sealed-road methods get their condition, costs and priorities wrong.
- [Fix the worst first, or keep good roads good?](https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/worst-first-or-keep-good-roads-good.md): The road that draws the most complaints is rarely the best use of the next dollar — and the evidence for that is mostly American and decades old.
- [Condition can look steady while value drains away](https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/condition-steady-value-draining.md): A condition chart says where the network is, not whether this year’s budget is keeping up with this year’s wear. Three ratios do.
- [Evidence that exists before you need it](https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/evidence-before-you-need-it.md): Funding bodies and auditors ask about the past. The only time to create that evidence is before anyone asks for it.
- [The pavement-management library](https://pavekeep.com.au/library.md): A map of the nine FHWA, TRB and PIARC documents behind modern pavement management — what each is for, and which to read first.
- [What changed](https://pavekeep.com.au/changelog.md): A generated site moves when the product does, and does so quietly. This is where a change in what PaveKeep claims is announced.
- [PCI and IRI: what each measures, and why you need both](https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/pci-and-iri.md): Two numbers describe the same road and disagree, and both are right. Which one answers which question.
- [What a road asset management plan has to be able to prove](https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/what-an-asset-plan-must-prove.md): A plan is a document; what survives review is the evidence under it. The five things a reviewer reaches for.
- [Routine, preventive, rehabilitation: three kinds of road work](https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/kinds-of-road-maintenance.md): Austroads names three kinds of maintenance. The middle one is what councils under pressure stop doing first.
- [Putting road condition on a map](https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/road-condition-on-a-map.md): A spreadsheet of segment scores answers a question nobody in the room is asking. The question is which roads.
- [How road deterioration is modelled, and what a model cannot tell you](https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/how-deterioration-is-modelled.md): Projecting a network ten years forward is arithmetic, not prophecy — and most councils hold two of the five inputs.
- [Showing a council what a budget buys, and what the next one down costs](https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/what-a-budget-buys.md): Condition charts do not win the budget argument. A scenario pair, with the roads named, is what changes it.
- [About PaveKeep](https://pavekeep.com.au/about.md): Who builds PaveKeep, the entity behind it, and how to reach a person.

## Optional

- [Everything, concatenated](https://pavekeep.com.au/llms-full.txt)
- [facts.json](https://pavekeep.com.au/facts.json): every claim on this site as data — the value, what produced it, when it last changed, and the limit that travels with it. Generated from the registries the product runs on, not written by anyone.