Cowstail is built in the UK by a working IRATA technician, with a crew of techs testing every change on real jobs. It is not a software company's idea of rope access.
Rope access technicians are brilliant at the work and buried in the paperwork. Invoices written at midnight in Word, LOLER dates on a calendar in the van, a shoebox of receipts dreaded every January, logbook hours scribbled the week before an assessment. Generic tools do not know what a cowstail is, and spreadsheets never remind you that a thorough examination is due.
So the founder, an IRATA technician running his own jobs, built the tool he wanted: the invoice sent before you leave site with CIS worked out, the ticket wallet that reads your card from the camera, the kit register that nudges you, the logbook that counts hours toward your next level, and a board where the jobs find you instead of the other way round.
Every feature starts as a problem on a real site. It is drawn, tested on a phone by the crew, and only then shipped. The words in the app are the trade's words: IRATA, LOLER, CIS, PAYE, L3 supervisor, deveg, NDT. When a company or a technician tells us something is wrong, it is usually fixed the same week. What's new shows the pace.
Charge technicians for the admin. Take a cut of anyone's day rate. Sell your data. Publish anything that could identify a person or a company from the market numbers. Show a job that asks you for money.
Free for technicians, always. For companies, the hiring and the paperwork between them and their techs, free today, with paid tools for the things a company gladly pays for coming later. The job board grows with every company that posts and every technician who shares what they saw.