The inspector shows up early.
The permit is on the job. Pull it up on your phone, show it, keep working. Nobody has to call the office and hope somebody picks up.
SeaBeam · for the trades
The paperwork keeps up with the crew.
You don't ask it questions. It asks you what you want, then does whatever needs to be done to deliver. SeaBeam makes the SS SeaBeam, the ship where the business side of field work lives, and the dogs that work it: Scotty, your own dog and your coach, who reads your messages so you don't have to; the Skipper, who came with the ship and gets your company aboard; and a crew, one dog per job, that you let loose when you need them. Built for roofers, electricians, plumbers, GCs, and the people who run their offices.
See how it works
Launch: December 1, 2026, noon Mountain.
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The SS SeaBeam is the ship. The Skipper came with it, Scotty is your coach, and the crew works it: Barry, Reveille, Dot, Tally, Sarge, Beagle, Otto, Frank and Bruno. You let them loose when you need them.
The SS SeaBeam · the ship
Every job, on the record. Without anyone keeping the record.
The ship is where the work lives: jobs, permits and papers, crews and subs, photos and documents, a chat room for every job and every crew. Every company gets its own ship, named after it: the SS Acme, the SS Your Company. You don't buy the ship, you buy the crew that works it. The Skipper came with it and is always aboard. Barry starts on duty, because on a job site safety is not a choice; Frank comes with it, because your customers are not a choice; so does Reveille, because a company has to have a mind and a memory. And it is not your grandfather's form-based software, the kind that's only worth something if you spend hours filling it in and then keep razor-sharp discipline to keep it that way. Scotty does most all of the work. Seriously.
The old way
Software that's right on day one.
- Forms. Fields. A dropdown for everything, and somebody has to pick from it.
- The binder in the truck that nobody has updated since spring.
- The system is perfect the week you set it up. Then the first job goes sideways and nobody has time to type.
- The office manager, at 5:30, texting the crew: what happened out there today?
- Six weeks later, the record says one thing and the job site says another.
On the ship
The job gets recorded because it happened.
- The text, the photo, the permit, the change in the plan: they land on the job because that's where they came from.
- Scotty files it. Nobody opens a form.
- When something's missing, Scotty asks the one question. "Was that the north side or the south?" You answer in a word.
- Nothing gets overwritten. A correction is a new entry next to the old one, with who and when.
- It stays right without anyone maintaining anything. That's the whole point.
The ship is where the work lives. Scotty is who keeps it current.
The sub isn't answering.
Every crew and sub is on the job, in their own room. See who confirmed for tomorrow and who went quiet, and muster the crew without a group text that half of them mute.
Which one was Tuesday's?
Photos sent to the job, or to Scotty, file against the job. Find the one you need by job, by day, or by who shot it, not by scrolling a camera roll in the driveway.
Somebody changed the number.
Nothing on the ship gets overwritten. A correction is a new document filed next to the old one, with who made it and when. Six months later, you can still see what was true on the day.
The crew
The crew. Let them loose when you need them.
The Skipper came with the ship and is always aboard; he gets your company set up and is the one to tell when something's wrong. Scotty is yours, your coach. The crew belongs to the company, one dog per job. Barry starts on duty; the rest stay in the kennel until you say so. Nothing lands on your plate until you want it there.
The Skipper
Came with the ship. Gets you aboard, holds the keys. Have a problem with SeaBeam? Tell the Skipper.
Barry
The safety dog. Starts on duty; kennel him only if you never work a job site.
Reveille
Your CEO and CFO. Reads the books, sees the pattern, and tells you what it means.
Dot
Your office manager. Keeps the paperwork and the books running.
Tally
Finds the work. You decide if you want it.
Sarge
Knows who's on it. Keeps the board the way you told him.
Beagle
Gets it stamped. 811 locates first, permits next, every one held for your thumb.
Otto
Keeps the iron running, and knows what it's worth.
Frank
Looks after your customers. One Frank, every customer has their own conversation with him.
Bruno
Looks after you with the people you pay: suppliers, rental yards, subs.
Why dogs
Why the crew are dogs.
For the whole of human history, the only thing you could have a real back-and-forth conversation with was another person. That stopped being true a few years ago. Nobody has instincts for it yet, and the software hasn't earned any. So when something that isn't a person talks to you all day, it needs a shape you already know how to deal with.
You don't ask it questions. It asks you.
Most people's AI is a box you type questions into. This is the other way around. A dog asks you what you want, then does whatever needs to be done to deliver it, and comes back only for the decisions that are yours. You're the executive. They work for you.
A chat box pretends to be nothing.
And gets treated like a person anyway. You don't know what it is, what it wants, or whose side it's on. A fake human is worse: it's lying to you from the first word.
A dog is the honest version.
Loyal. Has a job. Pays attention. Tells you when something's wrong. Never pretends to be you or your boss. You already know how to work with a dog: say what you want, in plain words, and he gets on with it. Those are the traits you need from something that reads your messages and pulls your permits.
Enough character to work with. None of the pretense.
Scotty isn't a person and won't act like one. He doesn't get offended, doesn't want anything from you, doesn't have a view on your life outside the job. He's a dog with a job. That gives you what you need from a working relationship without the part where you're being fooled.
Where the dogs came from.
While the founder was experimenting with AI, he was trying to put a name to what it and he were to each other. Not a tool. Not a colleague. Not a person. The AI suggested it was closest to the relationship between a man and his dog. That was right, and it stuck. Everything on this page follows from it.
About
A tech guy from a blue-collar family.
From SeaBeam's founder. I've spent my working life in software: networks, security, cloud, and lately the systems that let AI do real work. But I come from people who worked with their hands, and I've watched every wave of "productivity software" land on them as one more form to fill out.
What I'm after.
The part of AI that's changing how my kind of work gets done ought to reach the average Joe. The roofer, the electrician, the office manager keeping a crew's paperwork straight. Not as another app somebody has to maintain. As a hand that shows up and does the work.
The founder · hello@seabeam.net
How it works
One Scotty. As many companies as you work for.
You have a personal account. Your company may have its own ship. The two stay separate, and Scotty is the one who moves between them.
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Sign in as yourself.
Use your Apple or Google account. That's your personal SeaBeam account. It belongs to you, not to any job.
Personal -
Meet your Scotty.
He comes with your account. He learns your rules, reads your messages, and reports to you. Nobody else.
Personal -
Join your company's ship.
If your company is aboard SeaBeam, you also sign in as a member of that company. Work for more than one? Switch between them. Your Scotty stays the same.
Company -
Scotty works across both.
He can find the permit on the ship and answer your brother-in-law's text, in the same minute. Personal stays personal. Company stays company.
Both
Your personal account
Scotty, your rules, your messages, your approvals. Comes with you if you change jobs. Your employer never sees it.
Your company's ship
Jobs, permits, crews, photos, the record. Belongs to the company. You're a member while you work there.