The Blue Collar Plan · Founding customers wanted

Five operations. A full year of Catalyst. Free.

Catalyst was built for the people who keep the place running. Before we sell it to everyone, we're hand-picking five small operations to run it for real — every module, fully set up by us — in exchange for honest feedback from the floor. That's The Blue Collar Plan.

5
founding spots — that's the cap
12
months of full access, free
Top
tier — every module, including time clock & payroll export
50%
founding rate locked after year one

What Blue Collar Plan members get

The whole system, free for a year

Our top tier for 12 months — work orders, PMs, your industry's modules (compliance, fleet, inventory, purchasing), time clock, payroll export, all 43 reports, and the integrations — QuickBooks, Samsara, sensor feeds, Slack/Teams alerts, Google/Microsoft sign-in, and your equipment manuals one tap from every asset. Plus the floor-level tools crews actually use: a shift pass-down log the next crew acknowledges by name, and PM plans your own team writes — approved by your supervisor and your manager before they go live. And Maintenance Copilot, our AI assistant for technicians.

Set up by the founder, not a sales rep

We import your equipment and parts, build your PM program from our template library, and train your team. The person who built Catalyst has implemented CMMS for a living for years — your rollout gets that experience, free.

A say in what gets built

Founding members jump the roadmap queue. If your crew hits friction, it gets fixed — and you'll see your fingerprints on the product. After month 12, your founding rate (50% off) is locked for as long as you subscribe.

What we ask in return

Free isn't the deal — exchange is. In return for a year on us:

Use it for real

  • Your team actually works in Catalyst — daily, not as a side experiment
  • At least 3 active users, live within 30 days of setup
  • One named champion on your side who owns the rollout

Tell us the truth

  • One 30-minute feedback call a month — what works, what's broken, what's missing
  • Bug and friction reports as you hit them, not saved up
  • Permission to publish your story as a case study (you approve the text first) and list you as a Blue Collar Plan member
  • Two introductions to operators you know — only if we've earned them

Who this is for

A strong fit

  • A small operation — a few locations, a lean crew, no IT department
  • Restaurants and food service, distribution, small fleets, schools, nonprofits
  • Maintenance today lives on paper, whiteboards, spreadsheets, or a tool your team hates
  • You feel the pain weekly — missed PMs, mystery downtime, audit scrambles

Not the right fit

  • You're shopping for a someday project — the five spots go to teams ready now
  • You need a free tool but won't put your team on it
  • Large enterprise with a formal RFP process — we're built for the other end of the market, proudly

How it works

1

Apply

Applications open when this site launches on our own domain. A short form: who you are, what you run, how maintenance works there today. Spots go to the best-qualified operations, not just the fastest clicks.

2

A 20-minute call

We talk through your operation, your pain, and whether Catalyst fits. If it does, you're in — the five seats are confirmed in writing, terms and all, no surprises at month 12.

3

We set you up

Assets and parts imported, PM program built, team trained — founder-led, in days. Your crew starts working in Catalyst, not in a training sandbox.

4

A year of real running

Monthly feedback calls. Fixes shipped because you asked. At month 12 you choose: continue at your locked 50% founding rate, or walk away with your data. Either way, you ran a real CMMS for a year for free.

Straight answers

Is it really free? What's the catch?

The catch is printed on this page: your team uses it for real, you give us 30 minutes of honesty a month, and your story helps us sell to the next operation. That's worth more to us right now than your subscription would be.

What happens at month 12?

Your founding rate — half the published price — is yours for as long as you stay subscribed. No free-to-full-price cliff, and it's in the written program terms before you start.

What if it isn't for us?

Walk away. Your data exports with you and is deleted on request. We'd rather learn that in month two than read it in a cancellation survey.

Who owns our data?

You do. We use anonymized, aggregate usage patterns to improve the product — never your business details, never sold, never shared.

Why only five?

Because the founder personally does every setup and every feedback call. Five operations get our full attention; fifty would get a help-desk queue. When the five are gone, they're gone.

Built for blue collar. Backed by five of them.

Applications open with our domain launch. If your operation runs on paper and grit, we should talk.

Apply for the Blue Collar Plan