Gate 1 of 9
Design Review
The design is checked for how it will be tested. Test intent is written down now, so nothing later is a surprise.
- Basis of design review
- Test intent matrix
- Single line diagram review
Signed · R. Patel · Dec 27, 2025
Handover intelligence for hyperscale data centers
Find the problem before the power goes on.
GoLiveIQ follows every asset through nine readiness gates, from design review to turnover, and shows what will stop the building going live while there is still time to fix it.
The real problem
The problems that stop a data center going live were built months before anyone noticed.
A cabinet damaged at delivery that nobody wrote down. A torque check skipped at the end of a long shift. A point wired in the field and missing from the controls list. Each one is small, and each one waits quietly for commissioning to find it.
95%
of commissioning delays originate upstream of the test floor.
Michael Donato, Director of Commissioning, Source One Inc.
The nine gates
Follow one asset from drawing to handover.
UPS‑1A is a 15,000 kVA UPS in Hall 1 of Project Meridian. Scroll to walk it through every gate with the real sign offs from the demo project. The hall lights come on one bank at a time as it goes.
Gate 2 of 9
Submittal Approval
The UPS the vendor proposes is checked against the design, and against whether it can actually be tested as planned.
- Approved submittal
- CxA review comments
Signed · M. Chen · Jan 26, 2026
Gate 3 of 9
Factory Test
Tested at the factory before it ships. A fault found here costs a phone call. Found on site, it costs weeks.
- Factory acceptance test report
- Battery discharge test
- Witness sign off
Signed · K. Yamamoto · Jun 1, 2026
Gate 4 of 9
Receiving & Storage
Inspected on arrival and stored in the right conditions. The gate most projects never track.
- Receiving inspection form
- Photo documentation
- Storage condition log
- Battery storage temperature log
Batteries stored hot lose life without showing it. The temperature log recorded here is what explains a failed battery test at startup, nine months later.
Signed · F. Rashid · Jun 19, 2026
Gate 5 of 9
Installation QC
Set, cabled, torqued and terminated. Every joint is checked and recorded before anyone thinks about power.
- Torque records
- Termination records
- Insulation resistance test
- Pre functional checklist
Signed · B. Nowak · Aug 19, 2026
Gate 6 of 9
Startup
Energized for the first time, with the manufacturer on site and the batteries proven under load.
- Startup report
- Manufacturer signoff
- Battery acceptance test
Signed · C. Dubois · Mar 29, 2027
Gate 7 of 9
L4 Functional
Proven to do what it was designed to do, on its own, under real conditions.
- L4 test script, executed
- Functional test results
- Deficiency log
Signed · G. Santana · Apr 28, 2027
Gate 8 of 9 · Today
L5 IST
Integrated systems testing. Utility failures are simulated across the whole power path to prove the building rides through them.
- IST scenario scripts
- Fault injection results
- Witness sign off
Upstream on the same power path, MVSWGR‑A was started up with its load shed relay bypassed. That waiver is due to be closed out at this gate.
In progress since May 4, 2027
Gate 9 of 9
Turnover
Every gate signed, or waived with the risk written down. The evidence goes to the owner as one pack, already built.
- O&M manuals
- As built drawings
- Training records
- Warranty certificate
Not started · target energization Nov 15, 2027
The platform
Know the go live date, and what is moving it.
A short tour of Project Meridian: the forecast, a waiver with its risk written down, a failure test, the turnover pack and site capture.
The go live date, worked out from every open gate, and the assets pushing it back.
Blocker chain
Trace a delay back to where it starts.
UTIL‑B is held at Installation QC by one open RFI about a grounding detail. The blocker chain shows the 77 assets waiting behind it across all four halls, and what it adds to the go live date.
Blocked at G5 Installation QC
RFI‑001 open: utility transformer pad grounding detail.
77downstream
8levels
4halls
+11dto go live
- UTIL‑BUtility feed
- 1MV Distribution
- 4Power Transformation
- 4LV Distribution
- 4Uninterruptible Power
- 8Transfer Switching, UPS
- 24Power Distribution
- 24Power Distribution
- 8Power Distribution
Waivers and close out
A skipped gate is a decision with a name on it.
GoLiveIQ records who waived a gate, why, the risk accepted and where it has to be closed out, and keeps it in front of the team until someone does. On Project Meridian, 11 of 24 waivers are still open.
MVSWGR‑A · G6 StartupWaived with risk
Breaker sequence verification, step 6
Load shed relay bypassed for commissioning mode OK
Marked OK, but a bypass is not a pass. No record shows the relay was put back in service.
- Waived by
- D. Okafor · Mar 9, 2027
- Risk accepted
- If utility power is lost while the bypass is in place, MVSWGR‑A will not shed load and the A side generators can overload.
- Close out at
- G8 L5 IST. Restore the load shed relay, retest it, and attach the record.
Close out open
Site capture
The record is made at the equipment.
Every asset gets a QR label. Scan it on site, pick the gate, take the photos. They land on the gate record and in the turnover pack before you reach the next cabinet.
Turnover pack
Hand over the evidence, not a promise.
One PDF per system with the open items, the waiver register, every gate record, the document index and the site photos. It builds itself from the work the team already did.
Readiness matrix
All 437 assets against all nine gates on one screen, filtered by system, hall or status.
Infrastructure explorer
Every power path from utility to rack. See what a single failure would take down.
Early warnings
What is slipping, emailed to the people who can fix it, while it is still small.
Ask GoLiveIQ
Ask “What is blocking UPS‑1A?” and get the answer from the project data.
The demo project
Project Meridian. A 50 MW campus, modeled gate by gate.
- Assets
- 437
- Gate records
- 3,933
- Signed
- 2,178
- Waived with risk
- 24
- ATS‑2Gate 7 signed · I. Petrov · Jun 14, 2027
- GEN‑14Gate 7 signed · I. Petrov · Jun 2, 2027
- BATT‑3AGate 7 signed · G. Santana · May 27, 2027
- UPS‑1AGate 8 started · May 4, 2027
- SWBD‑1AGate 7 signed · I. Petrov · May 1, 2027
- UPS‑1AGate 7 signed · G. Santana · Apr 28, 2027
- XFMR‑3AGate 7 waived with risk · D. Okafor · Apr 28, 2027
- MVSWGR‑AGate 6 waived with risk · D. Okafor · Mar 9, 2027
- UTIL‑BGate 5 blocked · RFI‑001 open
- UPS‑2AGate 5 blocked · RFI‑008 open
About
GoLiveIQ grew from the observation that most data center schedules slip not because commissioning is hard, but because the work that feeds commissioning was never properly verified. This platform exists to close that gap: force the right check at the right time, with the right owner, backed by evidence.
