From a day's work to a paid hour.
A recorder comes to your machine and is wired to nothing. You run the machine as you always have. What comes off it is signed, checked, and built away from the machine, and it runs only when a person on a crew chooses it by name. From that choice the hours are counted, and you are paid for every one of them.
The unit in a tactical vehicle's cab · The group's own render
Seven steps, and a person at every one of them.
Read the headings and you have the shape. The rest of this page goes deeper on each part.
Asked for by name
Somebody who has seen you work asks for you. Nobody is picked from a ranking.
Recorded, nothing connected
The recorder comes to your own machine and is connected to nothing, and a photograph of that state goes into the record. You run the machine the way you always have.
Admitted or refused
Every session is signed as it closes. Later it is admitted, or refused with the reason named.
Built away from the machine
A way of working is built from admitted sessions only. A named person signs the release.
Chosen by a person
Before a job, someone on the crew picks whose way of working runs, by name. No default and no last-used.
Counted from the choice
That choice is the authorization, and it is the start of the count.
Paid, and free to end
You are paid for the hours in use, and both sides see the count. You can end it on notice.
Nobody is picked from a ranking.
It starts with somebody who has watched you work. An owner who saw what you did with a wet cut. A foreman who worked beside you for a season. A company that knows your name from a job that went right when it had every reason not to. They ask for you, and they ask by name.
We do not rank, and we do not keep a list you can climb. On blind, wet, soft ground every number you could rank by turns on you. Material moved says nothing about the bank that did not give way. Hours without incident says nothing about the pass that was never made because you saw the ground first. The best operators are known for what does not happen, and there is no column for that.
A name is a claim somebody stands behind. A ranking is a number nobody has to answer for.
It comes to you, and it goes back the way it came.
A kit, fitted to your own machine.
The recorder makes a round trip. It comes to the machine, is fitted to it, records, and comes back to us. The built thing is made from the sessions that were admitted. Nothing of it stays on the machine and nothing of it changes the machine.
What it records is what your hands did, what the machine did back, and what you were looking at when you acted, on one clock, in one signed chain. What the ground did is recorded too. A photograph of the disconnected state travels inside the record where it cannot be swapped out.
- 01It comes to the machineFor one machine, for the stretch of work agreed. It arrives in a case and it leaves in one.
- 02It is fitted, wired to nothingNo harness cut, no controller touched, no power taken off the machine. It runs on its own and reads the dash the way you do, by looking at it.
- 03The disconnected state is photographedBefore the first session, and again when the kit comes off. The photographs go into the record with everything else.
- 04Your controls feel the sameA control has to behave exactly as it did before the kit arrived. A fitting that changed the feel would not be fit to record the feel, and that is checked before anything is fitted.
- 05You workYou run the machine as you always have. Nobody from our side sits in the cab, and nobody tells you how to do the job you were asked for.
- 06It comes off and comes backPhotographed again, and it leaves no mark. The recorder returns to us, and the built thing is made from the admitted sessions, away from any machine.
Nothing about your day changes.
You sit where you always sit. The recorder watches from outside the machine, and it cannot move anything, stop anything, or stay.
The excavator row in the yard, evening · The group's own photograph
Every session is signed as it closes, and admitted or refused by name.
A session is one recording. As it closes it is signed, and from then on it carries its own identifier and its own signature, so it counts itself rather than being counted for you. Later, away from the machine, it goes through a written procedure before anyone learns from it. The procedure has three questions, and a session that fails one is refused with the reason named.
Is the record complete
A field the record needs is missing, or the chain does not verify. The reason names the first span that failed.
Was the consent live
The agreement covering the recording was not in force at the time it was made. Consent is checked at the moment of recording, never looked up afterwards.
Can the set-up be shown
Something was connected that should not have been, or a photograph or a check is missing, or the machine does not match its profile.
Refused is not a criticism of you. Every reason is about equipment or paperwork, and no check anywhere grades how you worked. A refused session is kept with its reason rather than thrown away.
The learning happens off the machine, and a named person signs what goes back on.
A way of working is built from admitted sessions only. A refused session never reaches it. The building is done away from any machine, on our instrument, by our people, and what comes out is ours: the built thing, made from a record that stays yours.
What reaches a machine is a release. A named person signs it, and their name stays on it for as long as it runs. When somebody later asks where a way of working came from, the answer is a set of admitted sessions, each with its consent live at the time, and a signature under the release.
Your sessions stay yours
Information about an identifiable person, held under licence, withdrawn at will. We never acquire them and we do not sell them on.
The built thing is ours
Our instrument, our work, our checking. It is what a machine or a model runs, and it is what we answer for.
A person chooses by name, and that choice starts the count.
A person chooses
Before a job, someone on the crew picks whose way of working runs: the basics the machine came with, the way their own operator taught it, or a specialist by name. Their own name goes on the choice. No default and no last-used, because a machine that picks up yesterday's choice on its own has moved on nobody's authority.
The choice is the authorization
Nothing runs until it is made. The act that clears the machine to work under a way of working is the same act that starts the count, so the clearance and the invoice come from one record, and neither can be quietly adjusted without the other.
Both sides see the count
The hours are written from the moment of the choice. The owner sees them, and so does the person whose way of working it is. Payment is for hours in use. The rate is stated once, on the covenant.
A way of working proposes. It never authorizes.
A technique that has been loaded has no authority of its own. Nothing moves because a way of working was loaded, and nothing moves because it ran yesterday.
Safety limits outrank everyone
Hard safety limits outrank every person, and every person outranks the software. A way of working is software, and it sits at the bottom of that order.
Cleared is a person's word
Fitted and ready are states a machine can reach on its own. Cleared to work is given by a person, on the day, after the walk-around, with their name on it.
Nothing of ours is wired in
While a person works, nothing of ours is connected to the machine. The recorder cannot move a machine or stop one, and no part of a safety case rests on it.
You can end it, and ending it costs you nothing.
Give notice and your way of working comes out of service. No penalty, no clawback, no fee. From the day the notice arrives, no new job starts under it. A job already underway finishes, because stopping a machine mid-pass is its own hazard, and that is the one delay in it. The owner running it is told the day your notice arrives, and their next job goes back to their own operator's way or to the basics the machine came with.
Taking it out of service and deleting every copy are two different dates, and you are told both. The shorter one is never allowed to stand in for the longer one.
Talk to us.
If you are the operator somebody asks for by name, or the owner who wants to ask, write to us and we will walk you through the sequence for your machine.