Fieldline

Nineteen a seat. That is the whole page.

One plan, every feature, no call required. The rest of this page is us showing our working — you already know what it costs.

  • Every instrument, no tiers
  • Unlimited yards and crews
  • Full history and exports
  • Support from people who ran yards

$1919

per seat / month

Billed monthly, cancel from the settings page, exports work after you leave.

Fieldline · the arithmetic

Where your nineteen dollars goes.

We would rather show the split than defend the number. These are rounded, and they move by a point or two each quarter.

$1919per seat / month

  • People who answer

    41%

    Support and field staff who have run a yard, on shift from five in the morning.

  • Building it

    29%

    Six engineers and a designer. No growth team, because there is nothing to grow yet.

  • Running it

    18%

    Servers, backups, and the second region that exists purely so an outage is boring.

  • Keeping the lights on

    12%

    Accounting, insurance, and the audits our customers make us pass.

Rounded to whole points, so the column may read a point off the price. Updated each quarter from the same ledger our accountants use.

Fieldline · fit

Who this is for, and who it is not.

Both lists are real. The second one cost us three deals last year and saved us six refunds, which we consider a good trade.

Built for

  • Teams who want the price before the call

    It is on the first screen, and the second screen shows where it goes. Nothing below contradicts either.

  • Anyone who has been burned by a quote

    One number, no seats-versus-usage arithmetic, and no discount that expires if you think about it.

  • Buyers who read the incident log first

    Ours is published in full, including the fortnight we would rather forget.

Not for

  • Anyone needing a bespoke contract

    We have one agreement and we do not redline it. That is what keeps the price the price.

    You want a vendor with a legal team, and that is fine.

  • Procurement that requires three quotes

    We will not pad a number so yours looks competitive against it.

    Put us in as the fixed-price option.

  • Teams who want the roadmap in writing

    We publish what shipped, not what might. A roadmap we could promise is one we would break.

    Read the changelog and judge the pace.

If you are on the right and think we are wrong about you, say so — we have been wrong before, and we would rather hear it now than after you have paid.

Fieldline · what it does

Six things, stated plainly.

No demos in this section. If any of these matter to you, the rest of the page shows them working.

  • One record

    Every yard writes to the same lineage, so there is never a second version of the morning.

  • Plans that explain themselves

    Each board carries the constraints it was cut under, in language a crew reads at a gate.

  • Changes that propagate once

    A reshuffle updates every board that shares the constraint. Nobody re-keys anything.

  • Built for gloves

    Large targets, high contrast, and nothing that needs a second tap to confirm.

  • Exports that hold up

    Audits are answered from files, not screenshots, and the files carry their own provenance.

  • Leaving is a workflow

    Your history is yours. Export it whole, on your own schedule, without asking us.

Fieldline · how we decide

Four rules, and what each one costs us.

These settle arguments internally. We publish them so you can hold us to them, and so you can tell when we have broken one.

  1. The gate before the office

    Every feature is designed for the person standing outside in the weather first, and adapted for the desk afterwards. Never the other way round.

    What it costs us

    Office reporting is plainer than our competitors', and that is a choice, not a backlog item.

  2. A plan that cannot explain itself is not published

    The scheduler withholds any board whose reasoning it cannot state, and flags it for a person instead.

    What it costs us

    About one morning a fortnight arrives with a flag rather than a plan.

  3. Leaving is a workflow

    Export everything, any time, without asking. Cancellation is a settings page, not a phone call.

    What it costs us

    We lose accounts we could have kept by making them hard to leave.

  4. Small enough to name

    You should always be able to find out who made a decision about the product you rely on.

    What it costs us

    It caps how fast we can grow, which we have decided we can live with.

Fieldline · what went wrong

Every incident of the last year.

Written by the person who fixed it, published whether or not anyone noticed. If this list were empty we would not expect you to believe it.

33
incidents, last 12 months
433433
minutes affected, total
  1. 14 Jan

    Boards slow to cut for 41 minutes

    degraded
    What happened
    A migration held a lock on the planning tables longer than we had tested. Boards still cut, but some took over a minute.
    What changed
    Migrations now run against a copy first, and the planner reports its own latency to the status page rather than to us.
  2. 2 Nov

    Gate view unavailable, 12 minutes

    outage
    What happened
    A bad config reached production because the deploy gate only checked the primary region. Two yards saw an error page at shift change, which is the worst possible minute.
    What changed
    Config changes now roll region by region with a five minute soak, and the gate view falls back to the last cut board offline.
  3. 8 Aug

    Exports delayed overnight

    degraded
    What happened
    A queue backed up behind one very large export and nothing shed load. Nightly exports landed at 06:40 instead of 23:00.
    What changed
    Large exports run on their own lane, and anything late now tells the customer before we notice.

Fieldline · said elsewhere

Things people said when we were not in the room.

None of these were requested, edited, or paid for. We have kept the unflattering one because removing it would make the other three worthless.

  • Port operations mailing list· 12 Jan

    We are two months in. The thing I did not expect is that the arguments moved from the radio to the constraint list, where they are at least written down.

    a terminal supervisor

  • Marine engineering forum· 3 Feb

    Setup was longer than they say if your TOS is old. Worth it, but budget a week not an afternoon.

    a shift planner

  • Crew WhatsApp, forwarded to us· 20 Feb

    board's up already lads, crane 2 is ours till two

    a crane operator

  • Logistics subreddit· 28 Feb

    Their incident write-ups are the most honest I have read from a vendor this size. That is most of why we signed.

    an operations manager

Collected from public posts and, in one case, a screenshot a customer forwarded to us. Handles and names are withheld deliberately — we did not ask permission to quote, only to reproduce.

P.S. — Everything above gives something away: the price, where it goes, who we are wrong for, and every outage of the last year. We do it because the alternative is asking you to take all of it on trust, and we would not.

M. AldanaFounder, Fieldline