StandbyKnow who's ready.
Right now.
The operational readiness platform for volunteer emergency services. Availability, currency, equipment and incidents — one live picture an officer-in-charge can read at a glance, at 3am, in the rain.
Duty / availability
Watch the board: a responder's currency slips to expiring, then a second crew is tasked to the call-out. No refresh — the board is the live state of the unit.
When a call comes in, the question is never "how many volunteers do we have". It's who can go — right now.
Availability lives in group chats. Currency lives in a spreadsheet that's three weeks old. Who's on leave is in someone's head. The officer-in-charge stitches it together under pressure — and tasks a crew member whose first-aid cert lapsed last month.
Currency goes stale silently
Qualifications expire with no warning. Nobody knows until a crew is tasked who shouldn't be.
Availability is guesswork
On-call, on leave, off-area — scattered across chats and memory, never in one place.
Compliance is a fire drill
Audits mean weeks of chasing paper across units that all do it differently.
The field keeps the board honest.
No double entry, no chasing. The people doing the work update their own state — Standby turns it into one operational picture.
The field updates itself
Availability, equipment inspections and post-exercise reports — all from the phone in their pocket, in minutes, between jobs.
Standby keeps the picture current
Currency recalculates from logged hours. Leave, equipment status and call-out state flow straight onto the readiness board.
Officers task with confidence
One glance shows who is ready, current and available — and the system blocks tasking anyone whose currency has lapsed.
Four modules, one operational picture.
Each module feeds the readiness board. Field returns from volunteers update currency, equipment status and availability automatically.
Availability & leave
On-call toggles, leave requests and approval chains. The board reflects who can be tasked the moment a volunteer changes state.
Training & currency
Tri-state currency per category — current, expiring, lapsed. Qualifications, hours and expiry, tracked against requirement.
Equipment & defects
Asset register, QR-scanned inspections and a live defect register. A grounded asset shows on the board, not in a binder.
Incidents & payments
Call-out logs, post-exercise reports and attendance — feeding currency, and the allowance and mileage payment runs.
From "let me check" to "go" — in seconds.
Read the board, confirm currency, task — without a single phone call.
Every qualification, every category, every unit — current, expiring or lapsed, in real time.
One system replaces the group chats, the shared sheets and the paper currency logs.
Indicative of a configured unit on Standby. Actual figures depend on your readiness model and roster.
One platform. Every organisation runs its own.
Each organisation gets its own tenant — its crest, its units and sectors, its roles and reference data. Role scope decides what you see: an officer sees their unit, a sector manager their sector, a national manager every unit.
The one thing that never changes between tenants is the safety status system — current, expiring, lapsed — because readiness means the same thing everywhere.
Built for organisations that are held to account.
Information security management aligned to ISO 27001 controls.
Data resides in the EEA. Tenant data is isolated and encrypted at rest.
OIDC single sign-on, with email fallback and role-based access.
Every state change is logged with timestamp and actor for traceability.
See your station on Standby.
A 30-minute walkthrough with your readiness model, your units and your currency rules. We'll seed a test tenant so you can see your own board.