Somewhere in your facility right now, there is a clipboard hanging near a tank entry point. On it is a confined space entry permit. It has the atmospheric readings, the isolation steps, the names of the entrants, and a signature line.
That clipboard holds a worker's life in it. And it is sitting in a stairwell where nobody can see it but the attendant standing next to it.
That is not a criticism of you. Paper permits are what the industry gave you. They are what OSHA accepted in 1993, and they are what most facilities still run on in 2026. The problem is not that safety managers are careless. The problem is that the permit system assumes you can be in two places at once — and you cannot.
That is the problem we set out to solve.
What PermitEdge is
PermitEdge is a confined space entry permit platform built directly around OSHA 29 CFR 1910.146, the federal permit-required confined space standard for general industry.
It is not a general-purpose safety suite with a confined space module bolted on the side. It does one job. It replaces the paper permit binder with a live, timestamped, searchable record that you can authorize and monitor from any device — including from a second facility forty miles away.
The five-step workflow mirrors the sequence your crew already knows:
- Set up your facility once. Every confined space, classified as permit-required or non-permit-required, with its known hazards and acceptable atmospheric thresholds for oxygen, LEL, CO, and H2S.
- Issue permits digitally, from anywhere. Review the hazard assessment, verify lockout/tagout attributed to a named person, confirm the rescue plan, and authorize the entry.
- Guide the crew through pre-entry testing in the required order. Oxygen first, then flammability, then toxics. Initial readings before ventilation, clearance readings after. The permit does not unlock until clearance readings pass your thresholds.
- Monitor the entry in real time. Readings logged with trusted digital timestamps. The attendant tracks who is in and who is out. Conditions change, and the entry supervisor can suspend or cancel from any device.
- Close out and archive automatically. Every permit — completed, suspended, or cancelled — stored, searchable by date range and location, and tagged with its final status.
It runs as a Progressive Web App. No app store, no IT ticket, no rollout project. It keeps working when the signal in your basement does not. You can read the full feature breakdown here.
Why we are telling you before it is finished
Most software companies build in private, launch loudly, and then spend two years discovering what they got wrong. We would rather get it wrong now, quietly, while it is cheap to fix.
PermitEdge was not designed in a conference room. It came out of hundreds of conversations with safety managers, EHS professionals, and plant operations people who carry OSHA compliance on their shoulders every single day. You can read more about that here.
Those conversations changed the product. A few examples:
- The word "Watcher" appeared on early screens. A safety professional pointed out — correctly — that 1910.146 defines three roles with distinct legal duties: Entry Supervisor, Authorized Entrant, and Attendant. Non-standard role terminology in a permit record is a documentation gap. It is now fixed everywhere.
- An early design showed only oxygen and temperature on the monitoring screen. Temperature is not a mandated atmospheric test. LEL and toxic contaminants are. That got corrected before a single prospect saw it.
- The "Complete" button that closes an active permit had no confirmation step. A gloved hand bump could have closed a permit with entrants still inside. It now requires a two-step confirmation and Entry Supervisor authority.
None of those changes came from a product roadmap meeting. They came from people who have stood at a tank entry point.
What early access members get
If you join the waitlist, you get three things:
Early access. You will be in the first group using PermitEdge in a live facility, with direct support from us during rollout.
A real say in the roadmap. Confined space entry is where we started. Hot work, lockout/tagout, line breaking, and excavation permits are on the map. Which one comes next should be decided by the people who need it most, not by us guessing.
Launch pricing that will not exist later. Waitlist members lock in pricing that will not be available once we open publicly.
Who we are looking for
We are looking for safety managers, EHS managers, and owner-operators at facilities with permit-required confined spaces — manufacturing, distribution, food and beverage, agriculture, water treatment, and industrial maintenance. If you run a paper permit binder and you have ever driven back to a site to sign something, you are exactly who this was built for.
You do not need to be a technology person. Sam, the safety manager we designed this around, is not one either. He is skeptical of buzzwords and short on time, and he will adopt a tool only when the payoff is obvious and the screen is simple. That is the bar we are building to.
One more thing
We are not going to tell you that software makes workers safe. Trained crews, calibrated monitors, a real rescue plan, and a supervisor willing to stop a job make workers safe.
What software can do is make it harder to skip a step, impossible to lose a record, and much faster to prove you did it right. That is the whole ambition here.
If that sounds like something you want early, join the waitlist. If you would rather talk it through first, reach out directly — you will hear back from Mike, usually within one business day.
You were not hired to be a paperwork manager. Let us go fix that.