Fred
Fire protection companiesThe operating system for an independent fire protection firm. Every extinguisher, alarm panel and emergency light you look after, what's due when, and the certificate at the end of it with your name on the bottom.
In build with a design partner, an independent Hampshire firm.
Fred's dashboard, shown with example data for a made-up firm.
What it does
- The asset register. Every unit on every site, with its serial, install date, service history and expiry, instead of a filing cabinet and a spreadsheet.
- What's due and what's overdue, worked out for you from the service intervals, so nothing quietly slips past its date.
- Certificates to the standards you work to, generated from the job you just did: BS 5306, BS 5839, BS 5266 and PAS 79 or BS 8674.
- The invoicing around it, so the work you certified is the work you get paid for.
Built for the van, not the desk
The engineer's side is built for one hand, in bad light, with the other hand holding kit. What's on for me today, where's next, what's this unit, one thing to do on each screen.
The office side is a proper desktop tool for the registers and the money, and it works on a phone when you're checking who's paid between jobs.
Who it's for
Independent UK fire protection firms. The four-person outfit and the 35-person regional both fit; we don't build for a headcount.
The Fire Safety Act 2021 and the Building Safety Act 2022 made this work compulsory, and the software still hasn't caught up. Generic field service tools know nothing about fire compliance. The fire-specific ones are enterprise-priced with a five-user minimum. Fred sits in the gap.
Your data
Your sites, your registers and your certificates are yours, and they're the record your firm stands behind. We don't sell your data and we don't share it with advertisers.
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Support for Fred
Write to us and you'll get one of the two people who build Fred. We answer every email ourselves, usually within one working day.
hello@fredfireops.co.ukTell us what you were doing, what happened instead, and whether you were on a phone, tablet or computer. A screenshot helps.
Postal enquiries: Makappen Limited, 33 Boston Road South, Holbeach, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE12 7LR, United Kingdom.
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