Why we built Werk

Every Sunday, one of two partners who install solar panels sits down at the computer, rearranges every card on their Trello board and sets up the week. By Monday afternoon the board is already behind.

We built Werk for the rest of the week.

Where the week really happens

Keeping a board current means stopping work to find a screen, and the partners spend their days on roofs. Nobody touches it until the next Sunday, so they never really know how the work is going.

Their week runs on WhatsApp instead. They ask each other how a job went, send a photo, say it is done. The chat is always at hand, but it does not know who has each job or how it is going, and by Thursday nobody can find Monday's photo.

This is not an isolated case: according to a June 2026 study by Workvivo by Zoom, about half as many people use AI in field work as in the office.

Someone running your project all day

Werk is intelligence applied to organizing your business, on the phone you already carry. It is like having someone on hand all day to record the progress of every job, show you what is still pending and answer when you can't remember a detail. You don't have to sit down and organize anything: you tell it what happened, the way you would tell a teammate, and Werk puts it in order.

Send it a voice note. From the roof, one partner says: "the panels at the Garcia house are in, we're waiting on the inverter." Werk finds that job, moves it to waiting and notes the inverter.

Send it a photo. The photo of the finished install goes onto that job's card, and Werk reads what it shows, like the model of a unit or a label.

Give it a document. The inverter's PDF manual or the customer's spreadsheet stays with the job, and when someone asks for a detail, Werk looks it up in its pages.

Everything stays in sync. The other partner sees how each job is going without asking, and when a new one comes in, either of them assigns it to the other. The board is current all week, not just on Sunday.

When Werk asks, and when it doesn't

For all of that to work, Werk has to understand a hurried message the first time, and calibrating it for that has been the hardest part of building it. An assistant that asked to confirm every change would be safer, and one more thing to answer with a drill in your hand.

So Werk does what it is told, and asks only when it truly cannot tell which job, person or date is meant: if the team has two jobs at the Garcia house, it asks which one.

That difficulty is ours on purpose, so the person on the roof never has to confirm anything. Every change Werk makes is written out in its reply and can be undone, so a wrong move shows up in the next message.

The best update is the one nobody had to stop working to give.