We came from inside it.

Pit & Rig wasn't built by a software company trying to understand heavy industry from the outside. We came from inside it.

Our founder, Jean-Pascal Remon, spent 15 years working in mining and heavy industry across Western Canada — from the goldfields of the Yukon and the mines of northern British Columbia to the oil, gas, and mining operations of Alberta. That means we understand the work because we've lived it: running operations, dealing with crews and contractors, signing LEMs, tracking costs, chasing missing tickets, and trying to reconcile what happened in the field with what eventually made it to accounting.

And after enough years in the industry, you start seeing the same problem everywhere.

The contractor has one number. The owner has another. A ticket is missing. A rate is wrong. Standby was billed incorrectly. Nobody can find the signed copy. Accounting is waiting on operations. Operations is waiting on the contractor. And work that everyone agrees was completed somehow turns into hours of reconciliation before anyone can get paid.

The strange thing is, the basic system isn't broken.

The daily LEM is still one of the most important documents in heavy industry. It tells the story of the work: who was there, what equipment ran, what material moved, what rates applied, what PO or AFE the work belonged to, and what the client agreed to.

That part works. What doesn't work is everything that happens around it.

For decades, that information has moved through carbon copies, spreadsheets, emails, filing cabinets, shared drives, handwritten signatures, and accounting systems that were never really connected to the field. Every handoff creates another chance for information to disappear, get re-entered incorrectly, or sit waiting for someone to deal with it.

We got tired of accepting that as normal.

We kept asking the same questions. Why should a foreman enter information the company already knows? Why should accounting re-enter a ticket that was already completed in the field? Why should an owner and contractor spend an afternoon figuring out whose spreadsheet is right? Why should an invoice be held up because someone can't find a signed LEM?

Pit & Rig was built to answer those questions.

Our idea is simple: the field ticket should be the single source of truth.

The LEM is created where the work happens. Labour, equipment, materials, LOA, cost codes, AFE and PO information are connected from the beginning. Rates are applied when the ticket is written. Your client reviews and signs it from wherever they are — a link by email or text, or their own account. From there, that same record carries through approval, PO tracking, reporting, and invoicing without being rebuilt at every step.

We didn't build Pit & Rig because we wanted to make another piece of software. We built it because after years in mining and the patch, we knew how much time, money, and frustration the industry was losing to problems that had become so common nobody questioned them anymore.

Pit & Rig is our attempt to fix that — with software built from the field, for the people who actually do the work.