FieldDay Planner
A small-business app for landscape crews, roofing contractors, and outdoor event vendors in central NC that scores the next 7 days as 'go / push / cancel' based on NOAA severe risk, heat index, and lightning probability.
owners of outdoor service businesses (landscaping, roofing, event rentals) in the Raleigh–Fayetteville corridor
- 7-day outdoor-work score per zip, color-coded, with the exact weather metric that drove each score (heat, lightning, wind, hail)
- Crew messaging: tap to send 'we're pushing Tuesday's mow to Wednesday' with a one-click reason and reschedule
- Auto-generated customer texts when a job is rescheduled for weather, branded with your business name
- Monthly recap showing how many weather-driven reschedules you had and what they cost — for insurance and pricing conversations
WRAL just confirmed July has had 18 of 28 days with severe risks in the Triangle, meaning outdoor crews are losing days weekly — and most still plan with a generic weather widget.
WRAL confirms severe weather disruptions and hottest July on record in Triangle in 2025, validating the pain — but the target is a narrow geo (Raleigh–Fayetteville) × narrow verticals (landscaping, roofing, outdoor events), capping TAM.Severe weather leads to fallen trees, car crashes, and flooding around the Triangle ↗Tracking dangerous heat: 2025 is hottest July on record in the Triangle ↗
Market is crowded with near-exact competitors: DecideWeather (Go/Caution/Stop recommendations per operation for roofing/paving/sealcoating), WorkDayWeather ('Stop Losing Days to Rain' for roofing/landscaping/concrete), WeatherQuick (weather intelligence for landscapers), and OPS ($79/mo roofing weather scheduling). The proposed 'go/push/cancel' framing is already taken.DecideWeather – Weather App for Contractors & Golf Courses ↗WorkDay Weather – Schedule Around the Forecast ↗WeatherQuick – Weather App for Landscapers ↗OPS – Roofing Contractor Software with Weather & Crew Scheduling ↗
Adjacent field-service software (Jobber $29–$529/mo, OPS $79/mo) shows outdoor SMBs do pay for scheduling tools; DecideWeather monetizes via paid app + free 2-week trial. But a regional-NC niche with established incumbents makes customer acquisition costly and price pressure high.Jobber Pricing: Plans Starting at $29/Month ↗DecideWeather – built by a meteorologist, free 2-week trial ↗
Weather-dependent outdoor work is structurally durable; NWS/NOAA data feeds remain free and stable; regulatory/insurance pressure (heat illness, lightning) is only increasing, so per-operation thresholds will stay valuable year over year.
Buildable with free NWS/NOAA APIs plus standard forecasting blends — DecideWeather already proves the architecture (multi-model blend + per-site thresholds + push alerts). No data moat or hard-tech barrier; an MVP is reachable in weeks.DecideWeather data sources: NWS, multi-model blends, custom algorithms ↗