The capability graph for critical infrastructure
Megawatts get announced years before anyone checks whether the people exist to energise them. The answer is scattered across licence registers, contractor spreadsheets, agency databases and memory - none of it dated, none of it verified, none of it aware that the same HV-authorised electrician has been counted on three programmes at once.
Poachd builds that answer as infrastructure: capability, evidence and location, kept current by the people and contractors it describes. Delivery contractors licence it to prove they can deliver. Owners and operators licence it to know a programme is staffable before they commit to it.
An A-grade licence tells you almost nothing. The graph holds the eight lines a critical programme actually interrogates, from HV switching authorisation to witness testing, and who holds each one.
Every capability carries how it is known: a sighted ticket, a named project, a supervisor who signed it off, or self-declared. Claims and proof are never the same row.
Where someone lives, how far they will travel, and whether they would relocate. A capability two thousand kilometres away with no relocation intent is not capability.
Who is one ticket away from HV authorisation, and where a crossover pool sits in mining, utilities or heavy manufacturing. Gaps close faster when you can see the near-misses.
HV switching and authorisation
Who can you put on the switching sheet at 11kV and above?
HV cable jointing and terminations
Who terminates the feeders without a specialist subcontractor?
Testing, commissioning and witness testing
Who has actually commissioned a live critical power system before?
UPS, generators and static switches
Who can stand up and prove the backup power train?
White space fitout and containment
Who can build the halls at rate once the shell is handed over?
BMS, controls and instrumentation
Who owns the control system through to handover?
Mechanical and liquid cooling
Who can deliver chilled water and direct-to-chip at density?
Supervision and leading hands
Who runs the crews, and what is your supervisor-to-worker ratio?
Electrical, mechanical and controls contractors bidding critical work.
You already carry the workforce. What you lack is a way to prove it in writing on the day a tender closes - and a way to see your own shortfall before a client does.
The people committing to megawatts and dates.
Your delivery partners tell you they can staff it. They are not lying - they are counting the same scarce people as each other. The graph reads the corridor once, independently.
Requirement profiles built from publicly known campus scale, standards and staged energisation practice.
Canberra / Sydney / Melbourne
Multi-stage sovereign campuses, staged energisation
Security-cleared, sovereign-hosting posture. Expect named personnel, clearance status and continuity of crew across stages rather than a headcount promise.
Sydney / Melbourne / Johor
Hyperscale, several hundred MW per campus, compressed programmes
Speed to energisation is the contract. Expect to prove you can hold peak crew across concurrent halls and mobilise across borders without a rate blowout.
Melbourne / Sydney
AI-first halls, high rack density, liquid cooling from day one
A newer operator with no legacy delivery panel. Capability evidence, not a client list, is what gets you on the panel - which is exactly where a dossier wins.
Fredon
National electrical and technology delivery across data centre, commercial and industrial.
Stowe Australia
One of the oldest electrical contractors in the country, deep east-coast workforce.
Nilsen
Electrical and HV engineering with switchboard manufacture and commissioning in-house.
Companies named here are publicly known operators and contractors, listed as examples of who the graph is built for. Nothing implies a customer, contract or commercial relationship.
Tickets expire. People move. Projects finish. The graph is refreshed by the people in it and by the contractors who load their workforce, so a statement dated today means today.
Everything exported carries the date it was true. A tender response you can stand behind is a snapshot, not a claim.
Loading your people does not publish them, list them, or expose them to anyone else. No one is contacted. You see your own graph.
Reading the graph against your own workforce is free, and it stays free - we would rather the capability in APAC was mapped than licensed in small pieces. You pay only when Poachd closes a gap for you and someone is on the tools, at a few dollars an hour for the hours they work. No subscription, no seat fees, no card to see your first dossier.
Send the programme or the workforce - either end works. We will come back with the capability read, the gaps and the cities, dated, at no cost.