It’s 6am. A crew lead just called out, his truck isn’t rolling, and three jobs need new homes before anyone leaves the yard. At most landscaping companies that gets fixed with a whiteboard and twenty minutes of phone calls. Fieldbase is built to get it done in about thirty seconds.
It’s for trades businesses with 20 to 75 people in the field, big enough to have a dispatcher and small enough that the owner still feels every broken morning. Try the morning yourself.
Needs a crew 3
Pencil and ink
The board opens every morning already filled in, proposed from each crew’s own history. Proposed work is drawn in pencil: dashed borders, washed out photos. Nothing turns to ink until the dispatcher publishes the day. That one rule lets the system guess aggressively without ever passing a guess off as a decision.
Amber means something’s actually wrong. A guess isn’t a wound, so it never gets amber. Small rules like that are most of the design work here.
The crew side
Crew seats are free, which means the Field app has to earn its spot on an old Android in direct sunlight, held by someone wearing gloves. It’s light first, every target is at least 44px, and Spanish gets the same care as English. A crew member should be able to open it, see where they’re headed, and put the phone away.
Mechanics get their own surface. They claim repair tickets from a queue, and crews can file those tickets by voice, in Spanish if they want, because typing is the wrong input when your hands are covered in grease.
What it won’t build
Some competitors sell owners a way to “see what your guys are really doing.” Fieldbase keeps no location history and does no productivity scoring, and it’ll never have a leaderboard. The Field app shows each worker exactly what the office can see about them. That’s product policy, so no customer gets a toggle to turn it off.