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Winter gritting that dispatches itself — and proves it happened

Upload the nightly road-weather forecast and Field Forge reads it, works out which of your contracted sites need treating tonight, and generates the jobs. Engineers get an ordered route and a geofenced arrival check; every visit — done or correctly skipped — is captured as evidence you can hand to a client or an insurer.

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The problem it solves

A 3am decision with a slip-and-trip claim riding on it

Someone reads a forecast, decides which sites need salting tonight, and it lives in their head or a WhatsApp message. If a claim comes in six weeks later asking why a car park was not treated, there is nothing to show except a memory of what the temperature probably was.

A spreadsheet of sites and zones nobody keeps current

Contracted sites, their ice-prediction zones, and who is covering them tonight live in a workbook that drifts out of date the moment a client adds or drops a site mid-season — so a site gets missed, or gritted twice by two different guesses at coverage.

Retainer and per-visit billing raised from memory

Salting contracts bill differently to a normal job — a standby retainer whether or not a site was triggered, or a charge per visit that actually happened. Reconstructing that at month-end from a mix of job sheets and someone’s recollection is slow and gets disputed.

How it works

  1. 1

    Convert the quote into a salting contract

    Turn an accepted quote into a salting contract covering every site it quoted, with the source quote locked on conversion. Add or remove sites at any point in the season from the contract’s Contract Sites panel — no need to rebuild the contract when a client’s premises change.

  2. 2

    Assign each site to an ice-prediction zone

    Every contracted site sits in one of your company’s ice-prediction zones. Zones can be batch-applied when sites are added, and changed individually when a site moves — the trigger decision is made per zone, not guessed per site.

  3. 3

    Upload the forecast, confirm the readings, generate the run

    Upload the nightly road-weather forecast PDF you already receive and Gemini reads it, extracting a temperature reading and worst colour-state for every zone. A confirmation screen shows exactly what it picked up for you to check or correct — nothing is written until you confirm. One tap then generates a gritting job for every site in a triggered zone, keyed to the operational night rather than the calendar date so work after midnight lands on the right night’s run.

  4. 4

    Dispatch, treat, and prove it

    Engineers see today’s gritting jobs as an ordered route in the field app, with a geofenced arrival check against each site. Deciding a site does not need treating is recorded too, with the reading behind that decision, so a night with zero visits is still a night with evidence. A completed visit — or a full period of them — turns into a proof-of-service pack you can send straight to the client.

What you get

  • Quote-to-contract conversion with the source quote locked on conversion
  • Per-tenant ice-prediction zones, assignable and re-assignable per site
  • AI-read nightly forecast PDF, extracting a temperature and colour-state per zone for you to confirm
  • One-tap generation of a gritting job for every site in a triggered zone
  • Runs keyed to the operational night, not the calendar date, so a double-click or a retry never grits a site twice
  • No-action decisions recorded with the readings behind them — proof a site was assessed, not ignored
  • Ordered engineer routes with geofenced arrival evidence
  • Proof-of-service packs — per visit or rolled up over a billing period — ready to send to the client
  • Billed per completed visit, as a fixed period fee, or as a standby retainer
  • Available to every Field Forge company — not a gated module, no extra licence cost

Winter Gritting & Salting Contracts — frequently asked questions

You upload the nightly road-weather forecast PDF you already receive, and Gemini reads it to extract a temperature reading and worst colour-state for each of your ice-prediction zones. You see exactly what was picked up and can correct it before anything is generated. One tap then creates a gritting job for every contracted site sitting in a zone that triggered — the system proposes the readings, you confirm the decision, and the trigger logic that turns a reading into a job runs deterministically from there.
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