This page is our honest map: where Nail & Tally started, where it is right now, and where we hope to take it. We keep it dated so you can always see how fresh it is. Plans change, and when ours do, we update this page and move the date. Nothing here is a promise of a ship date; it's the direction we're building in, in the order we think makes sense today.
Nail & Tally began as one person's problem. The job: pulling tools, material, and equipment, hauling them to the job site, dropping them off, collecting whatever had to come back, and putting it all away in the shop or yard, and then, too often, not being able to find a tool when it was needed. Barcodes and tags asked for a process no busy crew has time for. Spreadsheets went stale by lunch.
So the first goal was simple and stubborn: track every tool across every job site with nothing but the phone already in your pocket: no barcodes, no tags, no extra device. That idea is still the whole point of the product.
Today Nail & Tally is a working app built around that idea:
For the day-to-day work: logging counts, photographing items, recording where things are and where they're going, and transferring tools between locations.
To view inventory on a bigger screen, build pull lists, and manage locations and the item list.
So a tool isn't just "at the shop": it's on a specific shelf, bin, truck, or job site.
Upload what a job needs (spreadsheet, CSV, or PDF) and turn it into a list to pull against.
We're putting it through real-world testing now to make sure it holds up the way a job site actually moves, before we open it up more widely.
The direction we're working toward. These aren't finished features yet, and we'd rather say so plainly than oversell:
We'll only describe these as "done" once they actually are.
How we think about the journey, stage by stage. We're early on this ladder, and we're saying so:
Every tool, every job site, tracked from the phone. This is what the app does today.
Drive down the time and taps to keep counts accurate, including photo-assisted entry. Actively building toward this.
Turn tracked data into clear reports and alerts. Planned.
Tools, material, equipment, and the moving of it all, across every site and crew, in one honest picture. Where we're headed.
We'll update which level we're at as we get there, and we'll be straight about it, including when something takes longer than we hoped. Nail & Tally™