Your department protects the community. Tailboard protects the work behind it. Dispatch's page becomes a live incident — mapped, alerted, on every rig — before the first boot hits the floor. Then the photo-verified truck checks that catch what tired eyes miss, the shift coverage, and the paper trail that proves you're ready. One app built for the fire service.
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A-ShiftTap through each compartment: QR label → photo snaps → next. Tailboard identifies every compartment from the QR code and builds the check record as you go.
Pump start, siren cycle, scene lights, radio check — just say what the truck is doing. "Pump's pulling 150, tank's full, scene lights are up." Tailboard listens, matches your words to the checkpoints, and completes each test for you.
See a problem? Tap to flag it and Tailboard routes the note to your officer with severity. Don't see a problem but Tailboard spots one? The check lands in an Officer Review queue instead of passing silently. Nothing slips through.
Every photo is timestamped and stored. Officers sign off when they want. Auditors get PDF reports with photo evidence. Your department builds a visual record that compounds in value every single day.
Traditional checklist
Tailboard — evidence register
LiveTailboard starts with truck checks because that's the daily workflow every department runs. But every plan includes the full product — checks, incidents, maintenance, scheduling, certifications, and reporting. Not a feature gate in sight.
Photo verification per compartment. QR labels auto-identify each location. Start from a golden check baseline so every future inspection can be compared side-by-side. Every capture is timestamped and stored as proof the check happened.
Tailboard compares every photo against a golden baseline and walks the image to verify each item is present and positioned correctly. When Tailboard flags uncertainty, the check is held for officer sign-off instead of passing silently.
The page that started the call is the record you finish it on. Units, times, positions, narrative — captured because the call happened, not because somebody typed it in afterward. Most of the paperwork exists before anyone sits down to write it.
Tailboard works with the alerts your dispatch center already sends — setup takes minutes, not a project. Every page becomes a live incident and tones out the department in seconds. On the rig: the tactical map — the scene, the route and ETA, every unit's live position, the closest water. The driver taps once for turn-by-turn navigation. And if dispatch has to tone a call twice, the whole department is re-alerted.
Every truck, live — on the station display and in every officer's pocket. Position and status update as trucks move. Every member marks Responding and the department sees minutes-out.
Active wildfire perimeters, incident locations, and satellite thermal detections from the national public feeds — rendered on your tactical map next to your own water sources and hazards, every object stamped with its time and source. The county burn ban answers "are we under a ban?" on the station display every morning. And when a Flash Flood Warning drops, every low-water crossing inside it lights up — including the ones on your route to the call.
No department starts from a blank map. Tailboard seeds your district from public data — the state's low-water crossing inventory, load-posted bridges, area hydrant layers — shown as ghosts until one of your people confirms them on the ground. Flow-test a hydrant and it takes its NFPA 291 color on every map, and the test history builds your ISO paper trail from work you'd do anyway.
Log issues as work orders. Attach photos of the problem and the vendor's invoice PDF when the repair closes. Track out-of-service status so the right apparatus stays off the board. Full service history per unit.
Full member directory with ranks, certifications, and expiration dates. Medical certification tracked per member (Paramedic, AEMT, EMT-B) so coverage gaps surface before the shift starts. Never get caught off guard by a lapsed cert.
Members mark day, night, or full-24 availability. Officers schedule directly from the calendar — one click to add, swap, or remove. A/B/C shift rotation built in so coverage gaps don't sneak through.
Members request time off by type (vacation, sick, trade), officers approve, balances update automatically. Visible on the same calendar as shift scheduling so coverage planning happens in one place.
PDF exports with photo evidence for ISO audits, council meetings, and insurance reviews. Completion rates, issue trends, maintenance backlog — your documentation generates itself. The annual NFPA 1720 report — assembly and response-time percentiles against your demand zone — builds itself from the timestamps your calls already produced.
The second the tone drops, Tailboard pulls down everything the call needs — map, water sources, route, the district's data — before you're out the door. When the road drops into the river bottom and the bars disappear, the screen doesn't care. Checks work the same way, and everything syncs when signal comes back.
Tailboard runs in our secure hosted environment by default. For departments that require full data sovereignty, Tailboard can be deployed on-site — your server, your network, your control. Most PE-backed platforms can't offer this. We can.
Fire service software has always been built by large corporations. Tailboard was built by someone who's been on the truck. Purpose-built for how volunteer and small combination departments actually operate — the stations running on paper checklists and group texts because the enterprise systems weren't built for you.
$99/mo per station. Every feature included — no per-seat fees, no feature gates, no tiers. The rate you start at is the rate you keep, for as long as you’re subscribed.
I'm Dusty — firefighter, paramedic, and flight medic. I built Tailboard because the software my departments were handed wasn't built for us. If your department is still running on paper, spreadsheets, and group texts, this is for you. I read every message from a department evaluating Tailboard personally. I'll get back to you within one business day.
Refer a department to Tailboard. When they convert from their free pilot to a paid plan, your department gets a free month added to your subscription. Referrals stack — spread the word and your plan pays for itself.
Tailboard is a station operations platform for fire and EMS departments. Dispatch pages become live incidents — mapped, alerted, on every rig — and it handles photo-verified apparatus checks, incident records built for NERIS, roster and certification tracking, maintenance and work orders, shift scheduling and leave, and compliance reporting — all in one app built for how volunteer and small combination departments actually run.
$99/mo per station. One station or five, every station is the same $99/mo and that’s it. Every feature is included at every size: no per-seat fees, no per-apparatus fees, no feature gates, no tiers. Self-serve up to 5 stations; 6+ is custom — just contact us. The rate you start at is the rate you keep for the life of your subscription. A 90-day free pilot is available.
Volunteer and small combination fire departments — roughly 85% of U.S. fire departments. Specifically the stations running on paper checklists, spreadsheets, and group texts because the enterprise systems weren’t built for their size or budget.
Tailboard works with the alerts your dispatch center already sends — there’s nothing for the 911 center to install or change. Setup takes minutes, and every page becomes a live incident from that point on.
Yes. Tailboard is offline-first. When a call comes in, Tailboard pulls down the map, water sources, and route before you're out the door — so losing signal on the way doesn't cost you anything. Photos and checks capture without a network connection and sync when the device is back online. Native iOS and Android apps are available.
Yes. Tailboard runs in our secure hosted environment by default, but for departments that require full data sovereignty it can be deployed on-site — your server, your network, your control. It’s the same full Tailboard either way.
Yes. Tailboard is built for NERIS — the national system that replaced NFIRS in 2026. Incidents capture the NERIS core record as a byproduct of running the call: incident types, location, responding units, and response times straight from the response board, plus the narrative. No end-of-month data entry scramble.
Tailboard is built by Dusty Baker at Uplink Research LLC. Dusty is a firefighter, paramedic, and flight medic. Tailboard exists because the software his departments were handed wasn’t built for them.