The workbook that breaks when two people open it.
Plenty of businesses run dispatch, pricing or the schedule from one workbook that one person fully understands. It works until two people need it at once, or someone needs it in the van. We turn it into an app with logins, a history of every change, and a phone screen the crew can use.
The rest of what separates the app from the workbook isn’t a number, so it isn’t drawn here: logins, two people in it at once, and everything readable while the van has no signal, with changes held on the phone and synced when it reconnects.
Six things, and what each one gets you.
Custom app development
The same records the workbook holds, with logins, permissions and a history on every field. Nobody has to remember not to sort the sheet while someone else is typing in it.
UI/UX design
Two views of one set of records. The office gets the board it needs. The crew gets big buttons and no tables, sized for a phone used outdoors.
iOS and Android development
On the phones your people already carry, usually as a web app they install from a link, so a bug fix never waits in an App Store review queue. We test on a mid-range Android with a weak signal, because that’s the phone it’ll run on.
Integrations with what you already run
A job that gets invoiced lands in your accounting package without anyone retyping it, and the schedule the office changes is the schedule the crew sees. If something won’t connect, you hear about it in week zero.
QA and testing
Including the awkward case: two people editing the same job while one of them has no signal. Everything stays readable offline, changes wait on the phone and sync when it reconnects, and a test proves it.
Support and maintenance
Optional. The app runs in your own cloud account, your data exports to CSV whenever you want it, and nothing stops working if you stop paying us.
$18,000 to $40,000 to build, and you own it.
| Build | $18,000 to $40,000 depending on how much the workbook does. Yours varies with the project, and the price is fixed once quoted |
|---|---|
| Running | $60 to $220 a month, on your own cloud account |
| Us, after | $0. No retainer and no licence. Support is there if you want it, priced per piece of work |
| Not included | Rugged devices, if you decide you want them, and any per-seat licence you don’t already hold. Everything else is in the fixed price |
We read the workbook
Every sheet, including the ones nobody mentions and the hidden columns. The rules that live in someone’s head get written down here, and that’s often the most valuable week of the project.
The office view first, beside the sheet
The workbook stays in use the whole time. Nothing moves over until the app has handled the same week of real work and given the same answers, twice.
The crews, on their own phones
The field view ships after the office view, to the people who’ll use it on site. Week nine runs both side by side, then the sheet goes read-only.
What people ask before they start.
The spreadsheet works. Why replace it?
What happens to the years of history in it?
Our crews aren’t technical, and half of them dislike change.
Why does this cost more than an off-the-shelf app?
Tell us what the app has to do.
Describe the work it should take over, who’ll use it, and what does that job today: a spreadsheet, paper, or nobody. We’ll reply with how we’d build it and what we’d need from you.