“The problem with digital tools for the field is that most of them were never designed for the field.”
Julia Nikolaienko, Executive Director at Fluix, shares what it really takes to build tech that frontline teams actually use. And why the office-first approach is still holding companies back.
Photo management in the field can be messy. You use digital cameras, rename files manually, or lose them in shared drives and emails. Critical inspection photos could disappear, forcing costly rework.
Digital forms can make photo management secure, centralized, and recoverable. So even if a file is deleted, you can bring it back.
For teams working in the field, inspection records serve as proof that safety checks were done.
The problem? Paper records are easy to lose, hard to access quickly, and often incomplete or inconsistent. And without a clear system to manage it all, things get messy fast.
