Built by a project manager who was tired of the alternatives

Fieldstream began inside a sign installation business. We ran crews across Australia and kept hitting the same problems: endless phone calls, job information scattered everywhere, no simple way to keep photos with the job, and no clear view of whether a project was making money until it was too late.

Every tool we tried was either bloated with features we’d never use or missing the basics. So we built our own.

The first thing we insisted on was real-time chat inside the job. Texts and WhatsApp threads get buried; chat inside the job keeps the conversation, the people and the files together. Then came the part that mattered most to us as owners: tying quotes, purchase orders, bills, timesheets and invoices to each project, and syncing invoices and bills with Xero, so gross margin is visible while the job is still running.

Today Fieldstream runs the projects, labour and financial reporting across our own national signage, installation and billboard construction businesses. Now we’re opening it to other trade businesses that work the way we do.