E-Rate Wave watches USAC for every FRN you manage and writes funding decisions straight into Airtable — with an email the morning anything changes. No more checking EPC. Never miss the money.
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Live at a real E-Rate consulting firm since July 2026. Founding cohort — applications open.
First production deployment, July 2026, at an E-Rate consulting firm managing 130+ applicants.
The problem
FY2026 set a record: $3.51 billion requested, and the FCC is fully funding all eligible requests. Funding waves are landing weekly — and every wave means the same question from every client: “Any news on ours?”
Most firms answer it with a spreadsheet and a browser tab. The spreadsheet is out of date the moment it’s saved.
How it works
Send us your client list (or just your CRN — portfolio auto-discovery is rolling out to founding customers). We map every BEN, application, and FRN you manage.
Statuses, funding commitment decisions, wave data — pulled from USAC Open Data daily, plus a “Refresh My Data” button whenever you can’t wait. We write only changed fields, so alerts fire on real changes. No noise, no duplicates.
A funding decision lands → it’s in your Airtable that morning → your automations email your client before they’ve had coffee. Alert log keeps the receipts.
Deployment
Your clients log into a branded dashboard: funding tiles, alert feed, searchable FRN grid, refresh button. Airtable handles logins and mobile. You look like you built a product.
Already built your own tracker in Airtable? Keep it. E-Rate Wave writes USAC data into your existing base and your own views and automations take it from there. Your system, self-updating. No migration, no new portal, no retraining.
Coverage
Pricing
We’re taking 10 firms into early access. Founding customers get 50% off their first 3 months, a direct line to the person who built it, and first priority on the roadmap. In exchange: one 20-minute feedback call a month. When the cohort fills, the deal closes.
No long-term contract during early access. If it doesn’t earn its keep, leave.
Comparison
| DIY spreadsheet | SkyRate | E-Rate Wave | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily auto-sync from USAC | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Works inside YOUR Airtable | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Change-only alerts | ✗ | ? | ✓ |
| Money-left-on-table alerts | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ (founding) |
| Price (consultants) | Free — plus your mornings | $499/mo | $249/mo |
SkyRate pricing as publicly listed at skyrate.ai. Comparison reflects our understanding as of July 2026.
FAQ
Each client runs isolated — separate bases, per-client tokens, failures contained. Your data is never mingled with another firm’s.
That’s Model B — we feed your existing Airtable base. It’s our favorite deployment.
USAC Open Data — the same public source EPC reporting draws from. We don’t screen-scrape EPC and we don’t need your EPC credentials.
No — and neither can anyone else (see the honest limitation above). We’re honest about the edges.
E-Rate Wave is built and run by Eric, a principal software engineer with 25 years of delivery experience across defense and commercial systems. He built the first version for a consulting-firm friend drowning in wave-season EPC checks. E-Rate Wave is operated by E-Rate Wave LLC.
No deck, no webinar. You’ll watch the live system pull real USAC data, alerts and all. (Demo runs on our fictional-data tenant, Summit E-Rate Advisors.)
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