Ridge is the operating system for businesses that run machines. Excavation, hauling, trucking, aggregate and farm.
An excavator earns money by the hour. Every hour it works is written on a paper slip, and that slip rides in a truck door until Friday night. Some of them never make it to the kitchen table. The hour was worked, the fuel was burned, the operator was paid — and nobody ever billed for it.
Every other industry solved this thirty years ago. The companies that move the physical world got left with carbon paper, because software companies build for offices, not for cabs. So the tools that do exist are priced by the seat, assume a desk, and fall over the moment the signal drops.
Ridge starts where the work happens. A record is made in the cab, in thirty seconds, with gloves on. Everything after that — the proof, the invoice, the margin on the machine — is built from that one record, and nothing gets retyped.
Ridge is early. We are building it with the first operators who run on it, and we would rather have a hundred companies who could not work without it than ten thousand who forgot they signed up.
If you run machines and something here is wrong, tell us. That is genuinely the fastest way to change what gets built next.