If you are paying a monthly fee for every technician who carries a phone, that bill grows every time you hire. We build field apps that your company owns instead. The source code, the database, the app store listings, and the cloud accounts are all in your name, and adding the tenth technician costs you nothing extra. Norsoft is in Mankato, Minnesota, and we have been building business software since 1987.
Paper forms and phone calls stopped working a while ago
Your crew is out on jobs. They fill out paper forms, take photos on their own phones, and call the office to ask what is next. Information gets lost between the truck and the desk, and the office spends its afternoon retyping what the crew already wrote down once.
You have probably tried an app or two. They were built for somebody else's business, so they ask your crew for things that do not apply and leave out the one field that matters, and they stop working the moment the signal drops.
What owning it actually means
When we finish, you own the code, the data, and the accounts. Nobody can raise a per-user price on you, retire a feature you depend on, or hold your customer history because you stopped paying. If you want another firm to take it over later, you hand them the code and the documentation.
That matters most in the field, where the app is not a convenience but the way the work gets recorded. A price change on the software should never be a reason to change how your crews work.
Built for a truck, not a desk
Big buttons, simple screens, and fast loading, so it works with gloves on and in the sun. It runs without a signal, saving to the device and syncing when the truck comes back into coverage, because service calls do not stop where the bars do. We build in the camera for photos, GPS where location matters, and alerts when a job changes. iPhone, Android, or both.
What we have built
A field inspection platform that replaced paper. Crews complete reports on a phone, attach photos, and submit from the job site. Reporting time was cut in half.
Fleet maintenance with live telematics. A maintenance system tied to Verizon GPS tracking, designed to pay for itself in under a year by catching problems before they became roadside failures. Read the case study.
This is probably you if
- You are paying per technician every month and the bill grows with the crew
- Your crews still fill out paper and somebody retypes it at the office
- The app you tried does not match how your work is actually done
- Your people work where the signal is unreliable
- You want the photos, the history, and the data to belong to your company
Tell us how your crews record work today and what it costs you per person. We will tell you what building your own would involve. Reach out here or call (507) 388-4748.