Legacy software was built for administrators. This was built for the work.
You already know API RP 1173. The problem is the hours you cannot bill. Static matrices. Email chases. Scores that die the day you send them. Shift7 turns the work you already do into a living program your clients pay for. $200 a month per client. Unlimited seats.
An approved element policy is In Service. That is a real baseline. Not a color-coded cell. A standard the crew can be held to.
The spreadsheet was true for one day. After that it was a liability.
You know the cycle. Build the matrix. Chase evidence by email. Color the cells. Send it. Two weeks later a crew changes, a policy sits in draft, and the score you just delivered cannot be defended.
Legacy tools were never built to stop that. They were built to sell a platform to the office. Comprehensive. Integrated. Audit ready. Meanwhile the people who actually do the work are locked out, and the consultant is still rebuilding the same file after dinner.
What they sell
Top-down suites for enterprise buyers.
A tax on every field seat, so the crew never logs in.
Scores someone types in once a quarter.
Compliance as a performance for the next audit.
What actually works
Start with the contractor and the consultant on the ground.
Unlimited users, so the field can actually use it.
The score moves when the MOC closes or training is done.
Compliance as a living record, not a staged one.
Stop donating your hours to a cost center.
Most 1173 work is not advisory work. It is rebuilding the same program, chasing files, and eating hours you cannot invoice. That is how good consultants stay small.
Package the methodology you already have as a monthly service. Isolated client silos. One login. Switch the book from a sidebar. $200 a month per active client, unlimited users on their side and yours.
Your judgment stays in charge
The engine calculates a live score from real work. It also takes the higher of that score or your manual override. Software supports the advisor. It does not replace one.
The bid you lost was not about capability. It was about proof.
Five operators should not mean five versions of the truth and a week of questionnaires. You should not rebuild your safety story for every bid package.
Shift7 is one program mapped across all 10 PSMS elements and 56 API RP 1173 contractor requirements. When a policy goes In Service, an MOC closes, training is verified, or an audit is finished, the score updates. You walk into pre-qual with a number that is still true.
You do not have a program. You have an empty folder.
Charging per field user is not pricing. It is a design choice that keeps the people on the job out of the system. Then the office wonders why the records are late, thin, or missing.
Field hands get a passwordless mobile portal. Magic link. No app to install. Incidents with photos, MOCs, training, and assigned action items. Closed work feeds the score the same day.
Unlimited users is not a promotion. It is the only way a field program actually runs.
If you cannot defend it, the engine will not let you claim it.
Traditional spreadsheets let anyone type a high number. Shift7 will not. No In Service policy, you are hard-capped at Level 2. An audit finding caps the score until the corrective action is closed. Level 5 is never auto-assigned. A person has to stand behind it.
When an operator asks for proof, you do not scramble through email. One click builds a package they can actually read: an executive scorecard, a verification ledger for all 56 requirements, and a corrective action roadmap with real due dates.
$200 a month. No per-head tax. Because the field has to use it.
No seat penalties. No implementation theater. No enterprise runaround. One price for a contractor company, or $200 a month per client if you are running this as a consultant.
Everything required to run, track, and prove API RP 1173 without turning the crew into a line item.
- Unlimited users so the people who do the work can actually get in.
- Living scores across all 56 requirements, driven by field work, not another spreadsheet revision.
- Field Hand portal for incidents, MOCs, action items, and training. No password. No app install.
- Policy-first gating so you cannot claim a mature program you have not formalized.
- Isolated client silos for consultants running more than one contractor.
- One-click proof an operator can read: scorecard, verification ledger, corrective roadmap.
Straight answers
Why no per-user fees?
How do consultants pay?
Contracts or setup fees?
Does this replace the actual work?
Real field data flows up. Compliance becomes living.
If you are a consultant, this is how 1173 stops being overhead and starts being a service line. If you are a contractor, this is how you stop performing a program for the next questionnaire.