Built by someone who has been in the room
FieldCon was not built by a software company guessing at what the trades need. It was built by Ryan Englin, who has spent 15+ years helping field service and construction companies hire, develop, and keep their people, and who got tired of watching performance reviews fail the same way at every one of them.
Who is behind FieldCon
Ryan Englin has spent more than fifteen years inside operations-heavy companies, the kind that run crews in the field rather than sit at desks, helping owners and managers build the systems that hire, develop, and retain good people. Along the way he wrote Hire Better People Faster, hosts the Titans of the Trades podcast, and built the Core Fit Blueprint, a methodology now used by hundreds of trades and field service companies.
That background is the whole point. The work behind FieldCon was tested in the field, not theorized in an office.
Why we built FieldCon
The same problem showed up in every operations-heavy company Ryan worked with. The owner knew reviews mattered. The managers knew reviews mattered. But nothing on the market fit how their teams actually worked, so reviews either did not happen or they turned into a checkbox that told no one anything.
It was never a discipline problem. It was a tool problem. The review software was built for office teams who live in software all day, and it asked foremen and superintendents to do the one thing they hate: sit down and type. So we built FieldCon to remove that friction, managers talk instead of type, and employees self-assess on their phone, so the reviews finally get done.
Where the questions come from
FieldCon does not hand you a blank template and wish you luck. The review questions are built from a methodology tested across hundreds of trades companies, so a review of a crew lead is not the same as a review of an apprentice, and the skills you measure are the ones that actually matter on the job. Features like skills gap analysis, challenge questions, and career path conversations exist because Ryan has sat in the room during thousands of reviews and seen what works.
The promise
FieldCon does one thing, performance reviews for field teams, and it does that better than anything built for a desk. The expertise is the difference. AI does the heavy lifting, the transcribing, the drafting, the surfacing, but the judgment behind it comes from someone who has done this work for fifteen years.
Built by someone who has been in the room. Not someone who read about it.