About
Built on site, not in an office.
Most job software is drawn up by people who have never held a shifter. CrewBase was started by someone who spent fifteen years on the tools first, and it turns up in small decisions you only make if you have stood there.
- Clock-ons and hoursOff the phone the crew already carry
- Pre-startsSigned on the machine, before it moves
- Plant and servicingHours, intervals, and who had it last
- The morning as it runsOne screen instead of six phone calls
Who builds it
Fifteen years on the tools first.
CrewBase was started by a mechanic and machinery operator with more than fifteen years across civil works, main roads and mines. Not a software career that discovered construction. A construction career that got sick of the paperwork.
The problem was never a mystery from the inside. Everyone on site already knows the job lives in six places and that the hours are half a guess by Friday. Knowing it from the inside changes something else: it decides which corners you are willing to cut when you build the thing. There are corners in here nobody would have left alone who had not stood in the mud waiting for a form to load.
That mechanic is Adam Perry, CrewBase's founder.
What that changed
You can usually tell who a thing was built by.
Not from the front page. From the three or four decisions that only go one way if you have done the job yourself.
A clock-on never waits for a satellite
The phone tries for a location fix for a second and a half. In a cutting, under a shed, or with one bar, it does not get one and the clock-on goes through anyway with nothing attached. Nobody stands in the rain waiting for a screen.
Written by a mechanic, this bit especially
Hours, service interval and next service sit on the machine's own record, and it tells you a service is coming before it is overdue. Not a history split between the book in the cab, a mechanic's head, and a text message from March.
Payroll gets hours, not a guess
The week builds itself out of the clock-ons as it goes. You approve it, it freezes, and that is the number that leaves. The argument on payday is about something else for once.
For the crew
If a bloke needs training to use it, we built it wrong.
One screen. What is on it depends on whether he is on the clock, and there is never more than a handful of buttons on it at once. No menus to learn, no pop-up boxes to get out of, nothing that needs a second hand or a good signal. That is the brief for the crew's side and it does not move to make room for a feature.
Where it stops
Three things it deliberately doesn't do.
A product that does everything is a product nobody finished. These are decisions, not gaps, and it is better you hear them here than find them in week three.
It doesn't work out what anyone gets paid
CrewBase holds no pay rates and puts no dollar figure on a week. It rolls up the hours, you approve them, and they go to whoever does your pay run the same as they always did.
It doesn't quote and it doesn't invoice
Nothing in here is about winning the work or getting paid for it. It picks the job up on the morning it starts and puts it down when the hours are approved.
It doesn't talk to your machines
Hours come off the meter and get typed in by the bloke who read them. There is no box to fit, no subscription to a machine brand, and it works the same on a 1998 excavator as a new one.
If you need one of those three, CrewBase sits alongside what you use for it rather than replacing it.
Straight answers
What people actually ask.
It was started by a mechanic and machinery operator with more than fifteen years across civil works, main roads and mines, and there is a development team on it now. It is not a side project and it is not somebody else's software with a new name on it.
Yes. It is built for Australian civil and earthmoving crews, the plans are priced in Australian dollars, and the words on the screens are the words used on site. It does not hold anyone's pay rate and it does not work out what a week is worth, so whoever does your pay run carries on doing it.
Yes. There is no call centre and no ticket queue behind CrewBase. The contact page says how to reach us and what is worth putting in a first message, and what comes through it is read by the people who decide what gets built next.
No, and be careful of anyone who says theirs is. It is in use on real sites today and it is still being built on. If you ask whether it does something and it does not do it yet, you will be told that rather than given a date.
Have a look before you talk to anyone.
Seven days, your own jobs, your own crew. If it does not suit the way you run, you will work that out faster on a Tuesday morning than you ever would in a demo.
7 days free. No card, no contract.