Tool & material tracking for the trades

Know where
every tool is.

Across every truck, job site, and shop — from the phone in your pocket. No barcodes, no tags, no scanners. Anyone logs a tool when it moves; everyone sees where it is.

Start a free pilot See how it works

BUILT FOR CONSTRUCTION · HVAC · PLUMBING · CARPENTRY

Built by a working tradesman to fix his own truck-and-tools problem — not by a software company that decided tools were a market. Read the story
No hardware, ever.No barcodes to print, no tags to stick on, no scanner guns to buy. The phone is the whole system.
A photo on every item.Nobody guesses which drill. You see it before you go looking for it.
Free pilots, running now.We put it on real trucks with real crews first. Pricing — coming soon.
01 · What it does

Your whole inventory, in your pocket

Tools and material move all day — shop to truck, truck to site, site to the next site. Nail & Tally keeps the count straight without slowing anyone down.

Every location, one answer

Truck, job site, shop, yard — down to the shelf or bin. "Where's the impact driver" stops being a phone chain and becomes a three-second look.

No barcodes, no tags, no scanners

Tag systems die because nobody scans the tags. There's nothing to scan here — logging a tool takes the phone already in your hand and a few seconds.

Your data stays yours

Each company's inventory is private and walled off at the database level. Your counts are your business, nobody else's.

02 · How it works

Four moves. That's the system.

If your crew can send a text, they can keep the inventory straight. No training day, no manual.

STEP 01

Add

Type the name, snap a photo, pick where it lives. That's the whole setup for an item.

About fifteen seconds a tool — done once, standing in the shop with one hand free.

STEP 02

Track

Open the app and see everything you own, with a photo and a location on every item.

Filter by truck, site, or shop. The answer to "do we have one, and where" is just sitting there.

STEP 03

Transfer

Loading out for a job? Log the move in the time it takes to close the tailgate. The count follows the tool.

Whoever moves it, logs it. No end-of-day reconstruction, no "I think it's on Danny's truck."

STEP 04

Pull lists

Line up what tomorrow's job needs — or upload the list from a spreadsheet or PDF — and hand it to the crew.

The crew checks items off as they load. The truck rolls out full the first time.

03 · Who built this
“I'm the guy living the problem while I build the fix for it.”

My job is pulling tools and material, hauling them to the site, and putting them away after — and I was tired of not knowing where things were. Barcodes want a perfect process nobody on a real job has time for. Spreadsheets are wrong by lunch. So I built the thing I actually wanted: tracking that lives on the phone already in my pocket, fast enough to use between loading the truck and pulling out of the yard. Every feature gets the same test: does it survive a real job site, or does it just look good in a demo?

Thomas K.Founder — still loading trucks. Follow the build journal →
04 · In the field

What the crew sees

Big type, big tap targets, high contrast. Built to work with gloves on and sun on the screen.

Every item, with a photo and a location — so nobody guesses which drill.

See what's where: shop, yard, truck, or job site — down to the shelf.

Add a tool in seconds. No tags, no scanner, no training.

Sample data shown — illustrative mockups, not real customer data.
05 · On the desk

A phone in the field, a dashboard on the desk

The phone does the day-to-day out on the job. The web dashboard is the owner's big-screen view: the whole operation, one look.

  • Cross-location inventory at a glance. Shop, yard, trucks, and every job site on one screen.
  • Build and assign pull lists. Line up what each crew needs before they roll out.
  • Manage crew access and roles. Decide who can view, who can edit, and who can move gear.
  • Your company's data, private and separate. Each company's inventory is walled off from every other.
Sample data shown — illustrative mockup, not real customer data.
06 · Who it's for

Shops running crews across job sites

If your gear lives on more than one truck and more than one site, this was built for your exact headache.

Construction

Crews running tools across multiple active sites at once.

HVAC

Gear moving between the shop, the truck, and the customer all day.

Plumbing

Crews who need to know what's on which van before they roll.

Carpentry

Shops where the good tools have a habit of wandering.

07 · Straight answers

What's real today, what's coming

We'd rather tell you what's coming than pretend it's already here. The whole build is public.

Working now

The field app and the manager's dashboard: items with photos, locations down to the shelf, transfers, and pull lists from a file. See the changelog

In development

Photo-assisted logging — point the phone and let the app help identify and count what it sees. Native iOS & Android apps in the stores. Read the roadmap

Pricing

Coming soon — simple and honest when it lands. Pilot crews run free, and pilots are open now.

Put it on a truck

Run a free pilot with your crew

We're onboarding a small group of pilot crews now. Tell us who you are and roughly what you're running — no sales call, we'll just get back to you.

Prefer email? info@nailandtally.com