FIELD NOTE 01LEAD CAPTURE
The phone rings while your hands are full.
The current job should not cost you the next one. Capture who called, why, and what needs to happen next.
CALL→CAPTURE→OWNER→CALLBACK
See missed-call capture A WEST TEXAS WORKSHOP FOR THE PARTS OF REAL WORK THAT KEEP FALLING THROUGH.
ONE HOVEL.A LOT OF ROOMS.
The phone rings. The field notes vanish. The estimate gets rebuilt. The room was supposedly checked. Hovel builds small systems around those exact moments so the work keeps moving.
THE BUSINESS RULECapture once. Keep ownership visible. Let a human approve the truth.
PERSEPHONE / HOVEL DIGITAL FRONT DESKTell her the messy version.
She will help name the problem, point to a relevant Hovel workflow, and get the useful part to Tom.
HOVEL / FIELD PROOF BOARDWORKING EXAMPLES
FIELD NOTE / 01The phone rings while your hands are full.
CAPTUREDINPUTINBOUND CALL
→CAPTURED
→- CALLER
- REASON
- CALLBACK
OWNERTOM / OWNER
→NEXTRETURN CALL
CAPTURE ONCEKEEP OWNERSHIP VISIBLEMOVE THE WORK FORWARD
FIELD PROOF / THE PART OF THE DAY THAT KEEPS BREAKING
Start with the moment. Not the software.
Hovel is useful when somebody can point to a real part of the day and say: “That. That is where we keep losing time, money, proof, or the next customer.”
FIELD NOTE 02FIELD-TO-CASH
The job is done. The paperwork is still three days behind.
Capture the scope, photos, proof, and context once so the same job record can move into estimate, approval, and closeout.
FIELD→SCOPE→APPROVE→CLOSE
See field-to-cash FIELD NOTE 03ESTIMATING
The roof gets walked twice because the first notes were useless.
Keep the photos, measurements, damage notes, and scope together long enough to become a clean estimate draft for human review.
ROOF WALK→SCOPE→DRAFT→APPROVE
See scope-to-estimate FIELD NOTE 04VERIFICATION
Everybody thinks the room was checked. Nobody can prove it.
Make done, late, assigned, and needs-attention work visible with a timestamp and a real owner.
CHECK→STAMP→ASSIGN→RESOLVE
See operations verification Some handoffs matter for reasons bigger than money.
SafeSchool / CELA explores a closed-loop support path: somebody asks for help, an adult owns the next step, and the status stays visible until the loop closes.
See the school workNot every thing Hovel makes is software.
West Texas fiction, grief, faith, family, memory, and the other work that belongs in the same house because it starts with something human worth making visible.
Open the reading table06 / BOOKS
The reading table.
Covers that exist, for stories in progress. Tap a book to pull it forward.
The Covey
A story about what gathers, what scatters, and what refuses to leave the field.
Open The CoveyTHE HOVEL METHOD
Different rooms. Same operating system.
Hovel is deliberately broad. The discipline is not staying in one industry. The discipline is staying close to the human problem.
Notice.
Start with the human moment, not the software category.
Find the crack.
Where does ownership, proof, meaning, time, or trust get lost?
Make it real.
Build the smallest thing somebody can actually use, hold, read, play, or react to.
Let reality vote.
Keep what earns its place. Change what does not.
THE MACHINE CAN HELP.The human still matters.
Software may organize, remember, route, summarize, or generate. People keep judgment, authorship, responsibility, grief, humor, and meaning.
WHERE THE STANDARD CAME FROM
Before the products, there was the habit of making.
Hovel is not held together by one market. It is held together by a way of seeing: notice what needs doing, use what you have, make something useful, and care about the people who have to live with the result.
SEE.USE.MAKE.CARE.
Different rooms. Same house.Tom Mitchell / Hovel IdeasBRING SOMETHING INTO THE HOVEL
Mess.
Idea.
Obsession.
Do not bring me a feature list. Show me the part of the day that keeps breaking, getting repeated, disappearing, or depending on one person remembering everything.