I run rigs for my own mine
Your drilling record, approved by your people.
- Review and approve shifts. Problems are flagged to you, not buried.
- Budget vs actual metres per rig, per month.
- Programs, holes, surveys and progress on one map.
Drilling management software
One shift record.The office bills from it, the client trusts it.
Logged on an Android tablet at the rig, even without signal. Checked in the office, approved by someone else, then locked. Invoices, budgets and reports all come from that one record.
Free 30-minute demo on your own program. Pilot: one rig, eight weeks, success criteria agreed before day one.
One shift, three desks Sample data
At the rig · saved on tablet, queued 13 Aug · Night · NF-26-0418 · DD-07 · 186.4 → 216.1 m
29.7 m
Approved · locked Submitted: driller 06:12 · Approved: supervisor 08:41
29.7 m
On the invoice · INV-2026-0143 Diamond metres · 29.7 × 118.00 = 3,504.60 ✓ ties to shift
29.7 m
The number doesn't move. Only who has signed it does.
One shift. Three copies. Three numbers.
The driller's sheet, the office spreadsheet and the invoice each carry their own copy of the shift. By month-end nobody agrees which one is right, and the retyping never stops.
Paper PLOD 29.7 m
Office sheet 31.2 m
Invoice line 30.0 m
On the rig, in the drillers' hands.
Photos from a client drill site: a crew learning the tablet at the rig, then logging a run from inside the cage. Same app as the screens on this page.
Where do you sit in the drilling contract?
Record · NF-26-0418 · 29.7 m
I hire drilling contractors
Know what each contractor delivers, and what you're billed.
- Approve contractor shifts before they reach an invoice.
- Metres per rig against budget, every month.
Contractor scorecards, invoices checked line by line, rate cards with effective dates, contracts in one place.
Contractor management → I drill for clients
Bill from the shift your client can read.
- Invoices drafted from approved shifts at your rate card.
- Bits, consumables and stock tracked to the hole and the site.
- PLOD PDFs with both names printed on them.
Logged once, at the rig.
One shared Android tablet per rig. Each crew member picks their name at handover. Timed activities, from/to depths, core loss, bit changes, consumables, surveys and photos go in once.
- No signal? Saved on the tablet, uploaded when coverage returns.
- Wedges logged offline without double-counting the mother hole.
- Suggests the next run's depth from the hole's history.
Flagged, not bounced. Approved, then locked.
- Overlapping depths, wedge kick-off errors and core loss longer than the run are accepted from the driller and flagged for the office.
- Those alerts block approval until someone settles them, so contested metres can't reach an invoice.
- Whoever submits a PLOD can't approve it.
- Once approved, it's locked. Reopening takes an admin and a reason, and both names print on the PLOD PDF.
Also checked on every shift: mis-dated shifts, the same rig or crew on two shifts, implausible hours.
AI reads the drillers' notes against the numbers.
Mistakes caught while the shift is still fresh.
About 35 rule-based checks look at every PLOD: depths that overlap a run already logged, a night shift dated a day late, the same rig or crew on two shifts, a gap between runs, hours that don't add up. Some block approval until they're settled; the rest warn.
Every flag shows the shift, the field and the reason. Nothing is rejected at the rig; your supervisor decides.
Checks · DD-07 · 13 Aug night Sample data
Depths overlap a run already logged Blocks approval
NF-26-0418 · 212.0-216.1 m already on an approved shift Shift date looks wrong Warns
Night shift dated 14 Aug · tablet clock says 13 Aug Note doesn't match the record AI
“changed bit at 212.0 m” · no bit change logged Resolve or dismiss. A person always decides.
The invoice is built from the approved shift.
Rate cards per client: metres by drilling method, drilling and standby hours, mobilisation, supervisor day, pass-through. Draft, send, mark paid. Export import-ready files for QuickBooks and Xero.
A shift already on an invoice is refused on the next one, unless an admin bills it again on purpose.
Bring one week of PLODs. We'll show you the invoice they make.
Book a demoBoth sides read the same shift.
Ask us to switch on the client view for a client and they sign in with a link to see their own programs, holes and approved PLODs. Read-only, crew names removed, off until you ask.
Check your contractor's own invoice against your rig log, line by line.
- Invoice PDF
- Lines read
- Matched to shifts
What the record feeds
Mines
Programs, holes and surveys on a map
Boundaries, collars, survey import, progress forecast, read-only Gantt.
Mines
Rig metre budget vs actual
Paste the corporate grid. “Never budgeted” stays apart from “demob”.
Contractors
Bit and reamer life
Metres and hours per bit across rigs and holes.
Contractors
Stock by site
Consumable prices with history, low-stock alerts, transfers; optional drawdown from the shift.
Contractors
Crews and timesheets
Hours from logged activities, exported as CSV. Not payroll.
Both
Read-only REST API
Programs, holes, rigs and shifts. An admin issues the keys.
Both
Reports from approved shifts
PLOD PDF with both names, management report in PDF or Excel, daily operations email.
Both
Scheduled reports
Weekly and monthly, with the charts you pick per client and for management, emailed to the right people.
Mines
Month-end summary per rig
For the budget owner: every figure traced to the shifts, checked before anyone publishes it.
Security
- ISO 27001 certified
- Each company's data isolated; data residency on request
- Google and Microsoft sign-in on Enterprise
- Roles, and no approving your own shift
Where it stops today
- Tablet app is Android only, in English and French.
- Web app in English, French, Spanish and Russian; some screens are still English only.
- Exports are files and a read-only API, not a live accounting sync.
- Your client gets a read-only view of approved shifts.
- Invoicing and user limits depend on the plan.
Questions
We're a mine, not a contractor. Is this for us?
Yes. Drill departments running their own rigs use it to approve shifts, track metres against budget per rig, and keep programs, holes and surveys in one place. If you hire contractors, your people can approve the contractor's shifts too and check the contractor's invoice line by line.
What happens with no signal at the rig?
The tablet keeps working. The shift is saved on the tablet and uploads by itself when coverage returns. Nobody has to switch an offline mode on.
How do approval and reopening work?
The crew submits the PLOD and someone other than the submitter approves it. Some checks, like overlapping depths or core loss longer than the run, block approval until they're settled. Once approved the shift is locked: reopening takes an admin and a written reason, and the PLOD PDF prints who submitted and who approved it.
Which languages, where?
Tablet: English and French, Android only. Web app: English, French, Spanish and Russian, with some screens still English only. The management report is in English. This website: English and French.
What can I export?
PLOD PDFs per shift, a management report in PDF or Excel, CSV from charts, timesheets and budgets, and invoices as PDF plus QuickBooks, Xero, CSV and JSON files. There's also a read-only API. Invoicing needs the billing plan, and these are files, not a live accounting sync.
How do we start?
One rig at a time. First a 30-minute demo on your own program. If it fits, a paid eight-week pilot on one rig and one program, alongside your paper PLOD for the first two weeks and across one month-end, with success criteria agreed before day one.
How is it priced?
Per rig, per month, by plan. We quote after the demo, once we know how many rigs and which modules you need. The pilot is quoted the same way.
Do you supply the tablets?
Yes. We supply rugged Android tablets set up for the rig as part of the deployment, so the crew doesn't have to source or configure hardware.
We're on paper or Excel today. How do we move over?
Programs and holes come in by CSV import. During the pilot the crew runs the tablet alongside the paper PLOD for the first two weeks, so nothing is lost while people switch.
What happens to our data if we leave?
It's yours. Shifts, invoices, timesheets and budgets export as CSV, Excel, PDF and JSON, and the read-only API returns programs, holes, rigs and shifts.
Is it secure?
DrillLogs is ISO 27001 certified. Each company's data is kept apart, roles control who can do what, and nobody can approve their own shift. Google and Microsoft sign-in are on Enterprise. The security page has the details.
See your own program in the record.
30 minutes, on your program. The demo is free; a pilot on one rig is paid and scoped.