Fire, life and safety compliance
Every inspection, deficiency and dollar in one record.
Sentinel is the compliance and field service platform for fire and life safety. The building owner, the service provider and the program manager work the same job in the same system, and each one sees exactly what they should.
Built by a certified fire inspector and paramedic with 20 years in the field, not by software people guessing at the trade.
The problem
FLS compliance does not fail in the field. It fails in the gaps.
The inspection gets done. What happens to it afterward is where buildings fall out of compliance and budgets go sideways.
The record lives in an inbox
Reports arrive as attachments. Deficiencies sit in a reply. Approvals happen on the phone. When the AHJ asks what was corrected and when, somebody spends an afternoon digging through email.
Nobody agrees on what is open
The owner believes the repair is done. The provider is waiting on an approval nobody sent. Both are working in good faith from different versions of the truth, because there is no shared one.
The cost shows up last
Proposal, not to exceed, change, actual. Four numbers on four surfaces, reconciled after the invoice lands. By then the decision that drove the spend is months old.
How it works
Compliance and cost tracked on the same job, start to finish.
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The work order carries the whole job
Scheduling, notes, the inspection, the deficiencies it found, the repairs that answer them, and every dollar attached to each. One thread, not a chain of forwarded messages.
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Everyone talks in the same place
Notes on the job are visible to the parties who should see them. The provider is not relaying between the owner and the program manager, and no decision lives only in somebody's sent folder.
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Money moves through approvals, not surprises
Proposals are approved or declined in writing. A change to a not to exceed goes back for approval before the work continues. Spend is measured against budget as the year runs, with repairs counted in it.
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The record is ready before anyone asks for it
Inspection records are produced for the authority having jurisdiction as part of doing the work. Compliance status is the current state of the record, not a report somebody assembles at renewal.
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Vendors join without a rollout
A vendor can be dispatched by an emailed link and complete the job without creating an account or being onboarded first. The small shops that will never buy software end up inside the record anyway.
Three roles, one job
The program manager is a real party, not a workaround.
Most platforms model two sides and force the third to borrow a login. Sentinel treats all three as first class, each with its own view of the same job.
Knows where every building stands
Due dates, open deficiencies, what has been corrected, what it cost and what is committed. Across one property or a portfolio in twenty states.
Works without chasing paper
The job, the history and the approvals in one place. Inspection records and proposals come out of the work instead of being rebuilt afterward.
Runs the program with the full picture
The only role that sees both sides of a job, holds the relationships together and answers for the program as a whole.
The price wall
Providers see their cost. Owners see their price. Program managers see both.
This separation is enforced in the database with row level security and role scoped views, not hidden in the interface. A provider cannot query their way to a customer's price, and a customer cannot query their way to a provider's cost, because the data never reaches the session in the first place.
It is the difference between a platform that keeps three parties honest and a spreadsheet with permissions bolted on.
Why Sentinel
What the existing platforms leave out.
The established tools in this space are built for one side of the transaction. That is a reasonable way to sell software and a poor way to run a compliance program.
| Capability | Sentinel | Owner side platforms | Provider side platforms |
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| Serves the building owner | Yes | Yes | Secondary |
| Serves the service provider | Yes | Secondary | Yes |
| Treats the program manager as its own role | Yes | No | No |
| Pricing visibility separated by role at the database | Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| One note thread the parties share | Yes | Within the owner's org | Within the provider's org |
| Compliance status and cost on the same record | Yes | Partial | Partial |
Comparison describes the general shape of owner side and provider side tools in this category rather than any single named product. Capabilities change, so evaluate any platform against your own requirements.
Who builds it
Twenty years in the fire service, now in the software.
Sentinel is built by Will Stevie, a Kentucky certified Fire Inspector II with two decades as a firefighter, paramedic and inspector, and years on the facilities side running FLS programs and holding vendors to them.
Every screen in this platform exists because a real job went wrong without it.
Independent by design
Sentinel does not sell inspections, repairs or parts, and takes no position in the work it records. It is built to represent the owner's interest, which means it has no reason to hide a number from anyone entitled to see it.
That independence is the reason the price wall can be trusted in the first place.
See it against your own buildings.
A short working session with your actual inspection cycle, your deficiencies and your vendors. No pitch deck.
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