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Not a product you adapt to. We start every field service app development project by talking to your dispatcher, your crews, and your ops team, then build the exact field service management software your operation needs, whether you run construction crews, trade contractors, or maintenance teams. Every project is different. That is the point.
The same four situations come up on almost every first call. If any of these sound familiar, a custom app is probably the right conversation to have.
Assigning jobs, answering questions about addresses, relaying information that should already be in the technician's pocket. That is not a people problem. It is a software problem, and it is solvable.
When a priority job comes in, you are calling technicians one by one to figure out who is closest. That gap between what is happening in the field and what you can see from the office costs you time and jobs.
Paper forms, photos on personal phones, signatures that never make it back to the office. The job is done but the documentation is not, and that creates billing delays, disputes, and compliance risk.
You bought a platform built for the average field service company, and your team now works around it instead of with it. Your business is not average, and the workarounds cost more than the subscription.
The label is one thing. What the software has to do underneath varies enormously, and knowing which of these you are moves the scope more than any feature on your list.
Plumbing, electrical, HVAC. Reactive call outs mixed with scheduled work, parts on the van, and a quote that often has to happen on site.
Teams rather than individuals, work packages rather than tickets, and sites where the same crew stays for days or weeks at a time.
Recurring frequencies, service history that must be readable on site, and reports that have to satisfy a regulator rather than just a customer.
A fixed set of buildings and assets, requests coming from tenants, and proof of completion that goes to a property manager.
Route order matters more than job detail. Proof of delivery, exceptions, and live position are the whole product.
Utilities and infrastructure. The asset has a history, a location, and a maintenance schedule, and the app is really a view onto that record.
Not a feature list. A description of what your dispatcher's day looks like, and your technicians' day, and yours.
Most software projects fail because the team starts writing code before they understand the operation. We start differently.
Not just the decision maker. We want to hear from your dispatcher about how they assign jobs today. From a technician about what information they need at the start of a job. From whoever chases reports at the end of the day. That is where the real requirements come from.
How does a job get created? How does a technician find out about it? What happens when there is a problem on site? What does a completed job look like in your system? We need to understand all of that before we suggest what to change or automate.
After the discovery call, we put together a scope document that describes the app in plain language, not technical specs. You read it and tell us where we got it wrong. That document becomes the basis of the fixed price quote.
We give you a complete cost and timeline before you commit. Milestone payments tied to working software, not invoices tied to hours. If the scope changes, we talk about it before it affects the price.
On dispatchHow does your dispatcher find out a new job needs to be assigned? How do they decide which technician gets it?
On techniciansWhat does a technician do when they arrive at a job? What information do they need that they do not currently have in one place?
On reportingWhat needs to be documented after a job is complete? Who needs to see it and when?
On the current setupWhat tool do you use today and what is the one thing it cannot do that costs you the most time?
On connectivityWhere do your crews lose signal, and what do they need to be able to finish while offline?
On successWhat would need to be true six months after the app launches for you to consider this a success?
These are the failures we find most often when auditing an existing field app. Each one is invisible in a demo and obvious to your crews within a month.
Caching a job list for offline viewing is easy. Letting a technician complete a job, attach photos and capture a signature with no signal, then reconciling that against a server where the dispatcher also changed something, is the hard part. This is the single biggest technical driver of cost in field service, and the thing most cheaply built apps get wrong.
A crew uploads twelve site photos over one bar of signal. Without resumable uploads and a queue that survives the app being closed, those photos silently never arrive, and nobody finds out until billing.
You update a checklist. What happens to the jobs already completed against the old version, and the ones half filled in right now? Every compliance driven operation needs an answer, and it has to be designed rather than discovered.
Live crew position is the feature ops teams ask for first and technicians complain about first, because naive implementations drain a phone by lunchtime. Getting useful tracking at an acceptable battery cost is a real engineering problem.
Clock in and clock out around midnight, across a daylight saving change, or for a crew working in a different time zone from the office. Storing local time instead of an absolute instant is what turns payroll into a monthly argument.
This is what custom development means in practice. The same category of business, field service, but three different operations that needed three different solutions.
They ran repair and installation crews across active construction sites and needed to assign urgent jobs quickly rather than working through a phone chain to find the right crew. We built the coordination side of their operation first. Everything else came in later phases, after they had seen how the core worked.
Every building had a scheduled inspection frequency and a service history that technicians needed to reference on site. The problem was not dispatch. It was that technicians had no access to that history in the field. We built around that first.
They were losing contracts because completed work could not be proved fast enough. The app we built focused on one thing: making finished work provable the same day it was done, straight from the site to the property manager. Everything else was secondary.
Field service is the category most likely to be overbuilt, because the operation genuinely is complicated and every department has a wish list. Here is roughly where we draw the line on a first release.
That is exactly what the discovery call is for. You describe your operation, we ask questions, and by the end of 30 minutes you will have a clearer picture of what the right software looks like for your business.
The client managed technicians across multiple job sites and ran the whole operation through phone calls and a shared spreadsheet. They did not come to us with a feature list. They came with a problem: coordination ate too much office time and job documentation came back too slowly for billing. We mapped their workflow, identified the two things that would have the most impact, and built around those first.
The cost of building is visible on a single invoice. The cost of the status quo is invisible, spread across daily friction that never shows up in one place. We are not going to invent numbers for your operation. Measure these four for one week and you will have a business case nobody can argue with.
Bring those four numbers to the call. We will work through them with you against a real scope and a real fixed price, and if the arithmetic does not support building something custom yet, we will tell you that instead of selling you a project.
Book a Free CallField service sits in the complex tier of our pricing, because offline writes, three user roles and an integration are the norm rather than the exception. A focused first version starts at $35,000 and a full system connecting more of the business runs to around $60,000. You get one fixed number after the discovery call, not a range.
Timeline moves with scope. A deliberately narrow first version, built around one workflow, lands in 10 to 14 weeks. A full field service system with dispatch, offline reporting and an integration into what the business already runs on takes 14 to 22 weeks.
If what you are actually scoping is a first version rather than a full system, the way the number is built up is worth reading first, because for field service the offline requirement moves it more than the feature count does.
We talk to your team, map how dispatch and reporting work today, and identify the highest impact things to build first. You get a scope document in plain language that describes the app before we write a line of code.
We turn the scope document into a fixed price with milestone payments. You know the full cost before anything starts. If the scope changes during the project, we agree on it before it affects the price.
We build in stages and demo working software at every milestone. You review, give feedback, and we move on. No surprises at the end. The app you see at launch is the one you have been reviewing throughout.
Field apps live or die on adoption, so we put the app in front of one crew on real jobs before rollout. What they change in that fortnight is usually worth more than a month of office review.
We handle App Store and Google Play submission, run a training session with your dispatch team, and hand over the complete source code and documentation. Post launch support is included. You own everything.
We scope the work, agree a fixed price with milestone payments, and deliver a complete, production ready app. Best for operations teams with a clear problem who want a defined outcome on a defined timeline. No hourly billing, no open ended engagement. More on how fixed price delivery works.
A senior Flutter or React Native developer embedded in your team, full time or part time. Best if you already have an app or internal engineering team and need an experienced developer to extend, maintain, or improve it on an ongoing basis.
What operations leaders ask us before the first call.
The rest of what we have written on scoping, pricing and picking a partner.
No slides, no discovery questionnaire to fill in beforehand. Three things happen, in this order.
How work reaches the field today, where it gets stuck, and what your crews and dispatcher actually do. Twenty minutes of this is usually enough for us to see the shape of the problem.
In plain language, on the call. Which workflow we would start with, what we would deliberately leave out of version one, and why.
A real range on the call, and a fixed number in writing after we have put the scope on paper. If the numbers do not justify building yet, we will say that.
Book a 30 minute call, walk us through your dispatch and reporting setup, and we will tell you what a custom field service app would look like, how long it would take to build, and what it would cost. No commitment, no pitch deck.
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