Made at the chute
We could not find ranch software that worked where the work happens, so we wrote our own, and then other people asked for it.
Everything on the market assumed a desk. It assumed a signal. It assumed somebody would come in at the end of the day and type up what happened. On our place nobody ever did, because by then there were five other things that needed doing and the notes were on a feed sack.
So the first thing we built was the chute screen, and the rule for it was simple. If it does not work with the phone in airplane mode, in a set of pens, with a glove on, it does not count.
Everything else here came afterwards, in the order our own place needed it. That is why the withdrawal tracking and the lot tracking landed early and the good-looking dashboard landed late.
Three things we will not do.
Put up a number we cannot show the sum for
Every KPI on the report carries the arithmetic it came out of. The cost report leaves eighteen head off entirely rather than print $0.00 against animals nothing has been spent on yet, because $0.00 would be a claim that they were free.
Tell you we read your bottle
The product library ships with 124 cattle products and what their labels say, and every one of them wears a Check the bottle flag until somebody confirms it. That flag is embarrassing on a marketing site and it is staying, because concentrations differ between products with nearly the same name.
Send your records anywhere you did not send them
Every ranch gets its own database. The rainfall lookup is off until you turn it on, and when it is on it sends a rounded coordinate and a date range. The AI features only run if you set them up, and we say so on the pricing page rather than in a policy nobody reads.
Where it is up to.
Headgate is running on eight ranches today. It is a real deployment with real cattle on it. Every ranch is backed up before a release goes out, the restore has been rehearsed end to end rather than assumed, and every release goes through the same test suite first.
The iPhone build is on TestFlight and not yet in the App Store, which we would rather say plainly than dress up as a launch. Sign-up is not open yet either.
If you run cattle and something on this site sounds like your problem, write and tell us about it. That is genuinely how most of this got built.
