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RoadSignal — Fleet-Sensed Road Health & Repair Prioritization OS for Public Works Teams

Road maintenance is still run like a partial-information business.

Score73/100
Apr 25, 2026
TAM
€324M — ~9K cities, DOTs, road operators, and maintenance organizations globally × ~€3K/month equivalent spend on road-surface intelligence and repair-prioritization software.
SAM
€63M — ~1.75K early-adopter metros, road operators, and contractor ecosystems in high-traffic markets × ~€3K/month equivalent spend.
SOM
€960K — 16 accounts at ~€5K/month blended software + implementation revenue in years 1-2.
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The Problem

Road maintenance is still run like a partial-information business.

Most public works teams do not have a live, structured answer to questions like:

  • where are defects getting worse fastest?
  • which potholes are likely to create the highest safety or claims exposure?
  • which contractor should handle which repair bundle first?
  • how long did the issue exist before action was taken?
  • what changed after a repair was completed?

Instead, the workflow is usually stitched together across 311 complaints, email threads, manual inspections, GIS layers, spreadsheets, and contractor dispatch systems.

That means cities often fix what is loudest, not what is most urgent.

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