00Field & marine operations
Turn a field reading into a signed report without re-typing it.
Aptixx builds field capture, calculation, and reporting systems for work that happens on a dock, a boat, or a job site. A marine draft-survey platform built this way is in production on the BC coast today.
01The problem
Paper in the field becomes a spreadsheet no one trusts.
- 01Field readings get written on paper or in a notebook, then re-typed into a spreadsheet back at the office.
- 02Calculations run on one person's formulas — nothing gates an out-of-range reading before it becomes a certificate.
- 03Certificates and reports get built by hand, one at a time, from whatever the spreadsheet says that day.
- 04When a customer or regulator asks for evidence, someone has to reconstruct it after the fact.
02Proof, in production
Two decades of Excel, now software the survey team runs.
Aptixx built a draft-survey platform for a marine surveying firm on the BC coast, replacing a survey workflow that had run on Excel for two decades. The client's survey team uses it in production today.
20 years
of Excel workflow one client retired in a single build
$0.00
variance reproducing a signed, money-bearing certificate
1,630
automated tests behind one delivered system
17
barges covered by one fleet audit
- 01Six-point and four-point freeboard reading modes, selectable per survey stage.
- 02Freeboard-indexed hydrostatic interpolation with hard out-of-range gates, plus bilinear freeboard-by-trim interpolation.
- 03Dock-water density correction, using each barge's own table density.
- 04Branded, signed PDF survey certificates and daily production reports, generated by the system itself.
A fleet-wide hydrostatic audit ran read-only against production across all 17 barges — and the engine reproduced a previously issued, signed survey certificate to the cent.
03The pattern
Capture once. Calculate the same way every time. Report without re-typing.
The same three moves work anywhere field data has to become a document: capture it once at the source, run it through calculations nobody can quietly override, and generate the report from that same record.
Capture
Field data enters the system once, at the source, in the format the calculation needs.
Calculate
Domain rules run the same way every time, with hard gates on anything out of range — not a formula only one person understands.
Certify
Reports and certificates generate from the same record that was captured and calculated, not a re-typed summary.
04How Aptixx designs for the field
Designed for a phone at a dock, not a browser at a desk.
Field work happens away from a desk and away from a stable connection, so mobile capture and weak-signal tolerance are design constraints from the first sketch.
This is part of the broader operational software Aptixx builds for teams running complex work outside an office.
05How it starts
The field workflow gets mapped before the build is priced.
A paid discovery sprint maps what your crews capture, what has to be calculated from it, and what has to hold up later as evidence. You keep the map, the prototype, and the build definition either way.
The fit call takes 20 minutes and costs nothing. Bring one survey, one route, or one inspection form and you leave with a read on whether it is worth building.
Next step
Start with the reading your crew takes first.
A 20-minute fit call on what the field captures today and what it should produce on its own — certificates, reports, or the evidence behind both.