WE BUILT THIS BECAUSE
THE INDUSTRY DESERVED BETTER.
CraneOp is the operating system for crane companies in the United States. It replaces the spreadsheets, the binders, the missed calls, and the disconnected tools with one platform that runs the entire back office of a crane company. LaSean Pickens ran cranes for six years before he built it. This did not come from a focus group or a market study. It came from the seat.
EVERY CRANE COMPANY
IS RUNNING ON SYSTEMS
THAT WERE NEVER BUILT FOR THEM.
Most crane companies in America today run on QuickBooks, a whiteboard, three spreadsheets, a text chain with the dispatcher, and a paper field ticket that gets re-typed into an invoice three days later. The software that exists was built for HVAC, plumbing, equipment rental, or general construction. None of it understands what a pick is. None of it knows what an annual inspection means. None of it gates an uncertified operator off a 200-ton.
LaSean Pickens ran cranes for six years. He did not learn this from interviews or a market study. He lived it: the yellow pad, the pencil, the certs chased at the kitchen table, the 200-ton job that hinges on whether one operator's card is current. He built CraneOp at Kaldr Tech because he knew exactly where it hurt and no one had built the thing that fixes it.
The numbers only confirmed what he already knew from the seat. Construction subcontractors wait 83 days on average to get paid. OSHA's max willful fine in 2025 reached $165,514 per violation, per crane, per day uncorrected. The phone keeps ringing while the owner is on a pick. The 24/7 Receptionist that never sleeps did not exist.
So he built it. One platform. Every piece of the company. No paper. No spreadsheets. No more nights at the kitchen table chasing certs that should have been sorted on Tuesday.
Sources: Construction industry DSO via Construction Financial Management Association (cfma.org). OSHA 2025 maximum willful violation per US Department of Labor announcement, January 14, 2025 (osha.gov/news/newsreleases/osha-trade-release/20250114).
THE COMPANY RUNS.
YOU GET YOUR LIFE BACK.
WE DIDN'T BUILD A TOOL.
WE BUILT THE WHOLE OPERATING SYSTEM.
Most crane software is a dispatch board with a billing module bolted on. CraneOp replaces every system in your office. The dispatch software. The accounting bolt-ons. The lien filing service. The voice answering service. The GC portal. The worker app. The compliance tracker. The HR system. One platform. Built for cranes.
Owner back office, field worker mobile, branded GC client portal, and platform operator HQ. One company. Four user experiences. All in sync.
Dispatch, equipment, GPS, jobs, lift planning, quotes, proposals, invoicing, collections, HR, payroll, timesheets, compliance, permits, procurement, and 45 more. Every workflow a crane company runs is covered.
Certification expiration alerts, lien deadline alerts, dunning sweeps, voice cap resets, pre-shift inspection reminders, monthly audit hash anchoring. The system works while you sleep.
Top 10 US states integrated for direct electronic filing via Simplifile. Most crane shops file 1 to 3 a year and recover six-figure AR. Built in, not bolted on.
Inbound voice agent answers every call, qualifies the caller, takes detailed messages with caller info, jobsite, crane size, dates, and books straight to your dispatch board. Your number. Your greeting. Your price floors.
Every administrative action logged to an immutable hash-chained ledger. Monthly Merkle root anchored for tamper-evidence. When OSHA, a GC, or a lawyer asks, the answer is one click and unforgeable.
That's how long construction subcontractors wait on average. Your money sits in the GC's bank while you float payroll. (PwC via CFMA)
Per violation. Per crane. Per day uncorrected. The "willful" classification follows you into next year's insurance renewal. (US Department of Labor, January 2025)
What the average small business loses per year in unanswered calls, factoring lifetime customer value. The receptionist that doesn't sleep already booked you 6 jobs today. (Industry estimates via Dialzara, DocJoist)
The 58th consecutive quarterly increase. Crane carriers are the line getting hit hardest, driven by social inflation and nuclear verdicts. (CIAB Q4 2025)
Sources: cfma.org . osha.gov/news/newsreleases/osha-trade-release/20250114 . ambscallcenter.com/blog/cost-of-a-missed-call . ciab.com/resources/news-release-q4-2025
WE'RE NOT HERETO ADD ANOTHER TOOLTO YOUR PILE.
We're here to clear the pile. One screen. The whole company. So the owner stops being the bottleneck and starts being the CEO of a crane company that runs whether he's there or not.
I ran cranes for six years. Not for a season, not as a side thing. That was the job. I know what it is to finish a pick, climb down, and still have a night of paperwork waiting. The cert that almost lapsed. The field ticket re-typed into an invoice three days late. The call that went to voicemail while I was in the seat. I did not study this industry. I worked in it.
Then I started building software, and I went looking for the tool that would have fixed all of that. It did not exist. Crane companies run a precise, high-stakes business on the same back-office systems a plumbing shop used in 1998. The lifts are precise. The certifications are precise. OSHA is precise. The load chart math is precise. The software never was. So I built CraneOp. Built for crane companies, by someone who actually ran the cranes.
THE COMPANY RUNS.YOU GET YOUR LIFE BACK.
You started this to run a crane company, not a billing department. You wanted equipment that earns while you sleep, not a phone that won't stop. Let CraneOp run the office. You run the cranes.