Built by a Boardman. Literally.
I'm Colton Boardman. I've never looked at anything and seen it as broken — I see something that can be fixed and made better. That's been true since I was a kid growing up in Folsom, California, and it's the reason this platform exists.
I spent years as a technician myself, staring at the tools we were handed and asking the same question on every job: why can't this thing just do what we need? On site, I was the in-and-out guy — fix it right the first time so nobody rolls a truck back out. Customers asked for me by name. At the shop it turned into a saying:
I've never once said "I can't do this," and I wasn't about to start with software. So I built Boardman — nights and weekends, after the kids were down — and ran it inside a real service operation before I ever showed it to anyone. Every screen exists because a dispatcher, a tech, or an owner actually needed it. My father's an engineer; I come from people who build things that have to work.
Today I live in the Carolinas with my wife and our three kids, after leaving the California rat race for a life where the work still runs hard but the people matter more. When you sign on with Boardman, you're not opening a ticket with a billion-dollar platform — you're talking to the guy who built it, and the feature you need next might be live by Friday. Transparency and communication aren't values on a poster to me. They're the product.