About
Built for the operator with three cranes, not thirty
cr4nes exists because of a gap that’s easy to describe and expensive to live with: the crane comes home, and the invoice doesn’t go out for a week.
The software built for crane and rigging work is real, and it’s good — it’s also sold by quote, usually with a four-figure implementation fee, to operations big enough to have someone whose job is buying software.
Below that line there are a lot of companies running three to ten units on paper tickets, a whiteboard, and a spreadsheet of certificate expiry dates that somebody checks when they remember. They’re not disorganised. They’re busy, and nobody has built them anything they can just buy.
That’s the whole thesis. Take the parts of enterprise crane software that actually move money — the portal-to-portal ticket, the rate rules, the certificate expiry warnings, the export to QuickBooks — and sell them at a published price with no setup fee and no demo gate.
The company
- Built by
- JobLane Inc.
- Based in
- Ontario, Canada
- Serving
- Ontario crane & rigging operators
- Talk to us
- hello@cr4nes.com
JobLane Inc. also builds JobLane, field service software for contracting businesses. cr4nes runs on its own infrastructure — your crane data is not mixed in with anyone else’s product.
Where we are
New, and not pretending otherwise
There's no wall of customer logos on this site because there isn't one to show yet. What there is: a finished product, a published price, and a founder who will pick up the phone.
Being early is worth something to you: what gets built next is genuinely shaped by the first operators using it, and the price you start at is the price you keep if the numbers on this site go up later.
How we build
Four rules we'd rather be held to
Publish the price
If a product's price depends on how much you look like you can pay, that's not pricing, it's negotiation. Ours is on the pricing page and it's the same for everyone in a band.
Say what it can't do
Photos and signatures on tickets aren't built yet. It's written on the home page, the features page and in every demo, because you'd find out in week two anyway.
Build for the dispatcher, not the screenshot
The app is dense on purpose: hairlines instead of drop shadows, real information instead of padding. It's an instrument panel someone reads all day, not a landing page.
Warn, don't block
Software that hard-blocks an experienced operator gets worked around within a week. cr4nes tells you a ticket has expired and lets you make the call.
Tell us where your week actually goes
We’re talking to Ontario operators right now — partly to sell them something, mostly to find out what the last mile between a finished lift and a paid invoice really looks like.