I built SodaDesk because I lived the problem.

SodaDesk didn't start as a software idea. It started with two field businesses and the same headache in both.

I ran a cleaning company. The cleaning was never the hard part — the hard part was knowing what actually happened on a job when I wasn't there. So we needed before-and-after photos and a check that every tool and piece of equipment was accounted for at each site. My wife runs an air-conditioning company, and it was the exact same story from a different trade: techs needed to record the checks on each AC unit, and capture before-and-after photos — because without that proof, a callback or a "you damaged it" dispute is your word against the customer's.

Two completely different trades, one missing thing: proof of what happened on site. The tools we looked at were all built for something else — big field-service platforms that wanted to run quoting, scheduling, dispatch, and invoicing. Huge, expensive, and aimed at companies far bigger than ours. All we really wanted was simple: did the work get done right, is there evidence, and how long did it take?

So I built it — and we used it in the field, on our own jobs, before it was ever a product. SodaDesk gives small contractors the accountability layer the big platforms bury: techs check in, work through a photo-backed checklist, and check out. You get GPS-verified arrival times, timestamped before-and-after photos, a completed checklist, and a signed sign-off — without babysitting every job.

I'm building this in the open and I'm easy to reach. If you run a field business and any of this sounds familiar, I'd genuinely like to hear from you.