Orbit Base
The command centre for the whole crew.
Orbit Base is where the manager runs the operation — every worker, site, shift, incident and dollar in one place. It's the other half of the Orbit system: the crew carries Orbit Team, the manager carries Base, and they share one live brain.
- role
- design · engineering
- timeline
- 2025
- platform
- iOS · Android · cloud
- scope
- the manager app
Running a crew,
screen by screen.
From the morning briefing to the month's payroll. Keep scrolling — this is the app a manager running five sites actually lives in.
The whole operation, one screen.
Base opens on a daily briefing — who's on site, coverage, hours, and the one thing that needs attention now. Built so a manager running five sites never has to go hunting.
Every person, where they stand.
The whole roster — on site, late, on break, off — with hours and pay rates at a glance, filterable in a tap. You always know exactly who's working and who's not.
A job that reports on itself.
Per-site geofence, live headcount, progress by block, and labour spent against budget — "$11,340 of $18,000, on budget." The financial truth of a job, in real time.
Scheduling that catches its own mistakes.
Assign, filter and re-order shifts — and the instant two jobs claim the same person, Base flags the double-booking before it becomes an 8am no-show.
One channel to the whole crew.
Broadcast to everyone or talk to a site, right where the work lives — no separate group chat to babysit. "Diego will cover until you arrive," sent in seconds.
When something goes wrong.
Every report the crew sends arrives triaged by severity — emergency, hazard, supplies — each one a tap from a reply or a resolve. Nothing slips through.
Handled, on the record.
Each incident is a threaded conversation with a clear owner and a timeline. Reply, coordinate, and mark it resolved — a paper trail for when it matters.
Payday and the paper trail.
The rest of running a business, in the same app — payroll runs, analytics on hours and earnings, notification thresholds, and settings down to the PIN. Owner-grade, pocket-sized.
The spreadsheet, retired.
Most crews are run out of a spreadsheet, three group chats and a manager's memory. Base replaces all of it with a single command centre — real-time, geofenced, and honest about money. The manager spends the day managing, not reconciling.
01 Live command centre
Every site and worker, updating in real time.
02 Budget & labour
Labour spent vs budget, per job, as it happens.
03 Clash detection
Double-bookings caught at assign-time, not at dawn.
04 Payroll & analytics
Pay runs and the numbers, in the same pocket.