In the Trenches · The Thorbis blog
Written from the work.
Field guides you can run this week, straight talk about the industry, and progress reports on the product, held to the same rule as the rest of this site: every claim checkable, every number sourced, or it doesn't print.
The archive
Every post earns its slot.
Field guideAugust 26, 2026
Flat rate without the religionFlat rate and time-and-materials are tools, not identities. What each is actually good at, when to run both, and how to build the first fifty book entries from jobs you have already run.ProgressAugust 26, 2026
Building in the openWhere Thorbis actually stands: the loop we are finishing first, what Minimum Great Product means, what comes next and later, and why the front door is a waitlist.IndustryAugust 26, 2026
What to demand from field-service softwareA demo checklist for buying any field-service platform, including questions we do not yet have good answers to ourselves. Bring it whether or not Thorbis is in the running.ProgressAugust 26, 2026
One price, on purposeThorbis costs $99 per company per month with $15 of usage included. The reasoning behind that number, what the meter covers, and what the model costs us.
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