The operating system for independent fire protection firms.

Plan, log, certify and invoice the whole job in one place, on site or at your desk. The certificate you put your name to.

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No signup. No card. A working demo with example data.

You know this feeling.

If you run an independent fire protection firm, the paperwork never really switches off.

  • A service date slips, and it's your name on a certificate that's out of date.

  • The records live in a spreadsheet, three notebooks and your head, and only you can find anything.

  • Every certificate gets written twice: once on the pad on site, once at the desk that night.

  • A customer rings to ask when they're next due, and you're flicking through paper to answer.

That's the firm Fred's built for.

The whole visit, from your phone.

Plan the day, log the work on site, sign the certificate and raise the invoice, all from the phone you already carry. One place, built for fire protection firms and nothing else.

Day sheet

Your day, planned around the contract

Every visit with its address, contact and access notes, and the contract behind it: the reference, what it's worth, and the month it renews.

Certificate

Sign the certificate before you leave

Fred fills the BS-standard certificate from the work you logged. Check it, sign it on the screen, and hand it over. No typing it up back at the office.

Invoicing

Invoice from the same visit

Raise the invoice, send it, and see who's paid. Fred handles the invoicing; your accountant keeps the accounts.

Next service

The next service date, set for you

Every asset gets its next service date from the standard it's inspected against, set to the month it falls due. You see what's coming up, and what's slipped, before the customer does.

At a glance

Every site and asset on one board

Compliant, due and overdue across every site you look after. Tap a site to work the round, or a row to see its full history.

Location sheet

Every asset, and where it sits

A clean asset schedule for each site: type, serial, position and next due date. Print it for the folder, or keep it on the phone.

Planned, logged, certified and invoiced, before you leave the site.

Built around the standards you're inspected against.

Fred produces the certificate, you sign it. The authority is in the standard and your sign-off, not the brand on the software.

BS 5306

Fire extinguishers

commissioning and maintenance

BS 5839

Fire detection and alarms

service and certification

BS 5266

Emergency lighting

annual and monthly tests

PAS 79 / BS 8674

Fire risk assessments

review and findings

Fred also tracks signage and escape-route checks as first-class items, the kind the big contractor software leaves off the list.

Software that pays for itself.

Give the evenings back, keep every certificate in date, and pay a fair price for it. Here's the whole cost, in the open.

Two months free

Manager

£55per manager, per month

Desk and field. Everything an engineer can do, plus scheduling the team, money, clients and settings.

Engineer

£35per engineer, per month

Field. Their day sheet, every visit, services logged, certificates signed on site, and quotes.

What would your firm pay?

Set your team and see the whole cost. Change it any time as you grow.

Managers2
Engineers4
2 managers at £55
£110
4 engineers at £35
£140
Total
£250a month

£3,000 a year at this rate, or £2,500 paid annually - £500 less.

No minimum, no lock-in, cancel any time.

Every seat gets the whole of Fred's platform:

  • Asset registers for every site, with statutory due dates set for you
  • BS-standard certificates, signed on site
  • Quotes, invoicing and who's-paid tracking
  • Visit planning and day sheets
  • AI photo and voice capture, pooled across your firm
  • Spreadsheet and register import
  • Certificates and invoices sent from your own email
  • A shareable compliance portal for each client
  • QR-code labels on every asset
  • Reminders for what's coming due
Only active seats
Turn a seat off for a quiet month and you stop paying for it. Turn it back on when they're back.
Subcontractors
An engineer seat, fenced to just the sites you assign them. Same price, no third tier to pick.
Nothing held back
There is no higher tier. Every seat gets everything on this list.

AI capture is included with every seat and pooled across your firm, under a fair-use limit set well above normal working. The imports we do when you join don't count towards it, and if you ever get near it we'll talk to you first.

Try the demo first, no signup and no card. When you're ready to go live, we'll set you up and agree it in writing.

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One-off setup, then you're running

Getting your firm onto Fred is a separate one-time fee, typically £500 to £1,500. It's a single payment when you join, never a recurring cost, and we agree the exact figure with you before you commit.

Lower end

Your records are already tidy in a spreadsheet or another system, so they import quickly.

Higher end

A heavily paper-based firm whose register we build with you, with some time on site.

Whatever the figure, it covers your sites and assets imported, your team trained, and support through your first service cycle.

The questions firms ask.

No. Fred's built for firms that run on pen and paper today. If you can send a WhatsApp, you can use Fred, on the phone you already carry.

Yes. Your firm's records belong to you, they're encrypted, and each firm's data is walled off from every other firm's in the database itself. The demo runs on made-up example data, so click around freely. Our Security page has the detail.

Extinguishers (BS 5306), fire detection and alarms (BS 5839), emergency lighting (BS 5266), and fire risk assessments (PAS 79 / BS 8674). Fred also keeps signage and escape-route checks on the register.

Yes. Fred raises and sends invoices, tracks who's paid, and turns a quote into a job. It handles the invoicing for you; it isn't trying to be your full accounts package.

Try the demo first, with no signup and no card. If Fred's not right for your firm, you've spent two minutes finding out. We'd rather you knew before you committed to anything.

Fred

Why it's called Fred.

Fred is the everyday form of Frederick. The platform is named for Frederick Grinnell, the engineer who perfected the automatic sprinkler and became one of the fathers of modern fire protection.

A serious heritage in a plain, warm name. Same idea, a century on: take the work that keeps people safe, and make it quietly simple to get right.

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