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Render Networks Expands Capital Transparency Across Critical Infrastructure Deployment With New Financial and Data Integrations

19/ 02/ 2026

New capabilities connect verified field execution to financial systems, improving cash flow, accountability, and capital efficiency across owners, operators, builders, and contractors

Render Networks, a leader in critical infrastructure intelligence software, today announced expanded financial and data integration capabilities designed to deliver capital transparency across the full infrastructure delivery value chain, from investors and asset owners to operators, builders, and subcontractors.

As investment accelerates across fiber broadband, electric grid modernization, and AI-driven data center infrastructure, capital efficiency has emerged as the industry's defining challenge. Yet capital efficiency is measured differently across the ecosystem. Investors need confidence that capital is deployed predictably. Operators need verified progress to bring assets into service and revenue. Builders and EPCs depend on fast, accurate closeout to optimize working capital and accelerate payment.

Too often, these stakeholders operate with disconnected systems, manual reporting, and latent verification. The result: friction, delayed payments, working capital strain, and an erosion of trust across the value chain. In an era defined by higher cost of capital, tighter margins, and increased scrutiny over every dollar deployed, that friction is no longer tolerable.

Render's latest product advancements close that gap by grounding capital transparency where it starts: in the field, with verifiable proof of work.

Connecting Field Execution to Financial Systems

Render has long supported customer-driven integrations into enterprise financial systems through its APIs, enabling operators and builders to connect verified field execution data into ERP platforms for invoicing, reconciliation, and payment workflows.

Building on that foundation, Render Networks has expanded its integration capabilities with PenguinData Workforce Management to simplify and standardize these workflows for builders and operators seeking faster time to value. The PenguinData integration enables verified work completed in the field and approved in Render to flow directly into downstream cost management and financial processes, reducing manual effort and accelerating closeout.

For builders and EPCs, this creates visibility into costs, progress, and liabilities, improving cash flow predictability. For contractors and subcontractors, it provides trusted, digital proof of work that accelerates payment cycles. For operators and asset owners, it creates confidence that capital deployed in the field aligns with verified outcomes.

"Capital efficiency doesn't start in the boardroom or the finance system. It starts in the field," said Stephen Rose, CEO of Render Networks.

"Whether customers integrate through our APIs or use an out-of-the-box financial integration, the goal is the same: verified execution that creates trust, speeds payment, and improves capital discipline across the value chain."

Extending Capital Efficiency Beyond GIS-Only Workflows

Render's approach also expands capital transparency beyond traditional GIS-driven deployments. Many infrastructure projects still rely on PDFs, site plans, and other non-standard design data during feasibility and construction. Render has delivered new site management functionality that structures disparate design information into a consistent execution and verification framework, allowing teams to achieve accurate closeout regardless of how project data originated.

This enables builders and operators to apply consistent, repeatable processes across the full scope of capital outlay, not just the portion of work that originates in pristine GIS environments. Instead of achieving transparency over 10% of capital deployment, organizations can now extend that discipline across 100% of their capital outlay. The result: greater standardization, reduced rework, increased confidence when scaling deployment programs across diverse project types, and the repeatability required to move from feasibility through construction with efficiency intact.

A Broader Ecosystem for Capital Transparency

These capabilities build on Render's broader strategy to align construction, operations, and financial systems into an auditable single source of truth. Render is continuing to strengthen continuity across how infrastructure is built, verified, operated, and ultimately monetized.

The difference between a profitable build and a margin-eroded one rarely comes down to labor rates or material costs. It comes from the speed and clarity of execution: knowing, every day, where capital is deployed, when revenue can be recognized, and how efficiently construction is progressing. As infrastructure delivery scales and margins tighten, capital transparency across the value chain is no longer optional.

Render's platform ensures every dollar deployed in the field is tied to verified, actionable execution data, creating accountability from the field to the finance office.

Render will be demonstrating these new capabilities live at Metro Connect, February 23–25, at booth F6. Attendees can see how verified field execution becomes an auditable system of record that accelerates closeout, improves cash flow performance, and strengthens capital discipline across operators, builders, and contractors.

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