Built on the rig.
Not in a boardroom.
Software for the fire service, written by a working captain and paramedic — and tested on the same shifts it was built for.
Different seats. Different jobs.
Some run on the fireground, some at the kitchen table with your crew, one in the chair across from the promotion panel. Each one was built because the thing that was needed didn't exist.
Incident Command
A tactical worksheet and accountability board for the officer running the incident. Unit tracking, assignments, PAR timers, and a scene record that survives the call — on a tablet, in the front seat, with or without a signal.
Interview Prep
A practice panel in your pocket. Answer real promotional questions out loud, get scored against a published rubric, and find out which competencies you have no story to prove — before the panel finds out for you.
ReadyLine Training
Four solo trainers in one app: run the mayday call you hope to never make, give your first-arriving size-up and progress (CAN) reports out loud, and deal kitchen-table drills for your crew. All reps. No scoring. Everything on your device.
Most fire software is sold by people who have never worn the gear.
It shows. Screens built for billing, not for a 0300 basement fire. Forms designed for compliance, not for the two minutes when it actually matters.
Readyline starts from the other end — from the seat. Every tool here was built by someone who had to use it the next shift, and rebuilt when it didn't hold up.
Incident Command
The tactical worksheet, rebuilt for the officer who is actually running the call.
A grease pencil and a clipboard can't tell you who's been inside for eighteen minutes.
Accountability on a working fire is a memory test that nobody should be taking. Units arrive, get assigned, move, get reassigned. Somebody is supposed to be tracking all of it while also running the incident, working the radio, and thinking three steps ahead.
Incident Command handles the tracking so the officer can do the thinking.
Place units on the fireground by division, group, and assignment. Drag to reassign. The board is the incident.
Know who is where, and how long they've been there. PAR timers call out before the clock becomes a problem.
Structure, MVA, medical, hazmat, rescue. The board reshapes to the call type instead of fighting it.
Capture conditions, actions, needs as they come in — typed or spoken — without losing the board.
Runs entirely on the device. No coverage, no cloud, no excuse. Nothing to log into at 0300.
Export the full scene timeline for the post-incident review, the report, or the training officer.
In field testing. Incident Command is in active use and iteration with a Michigan department. It is not yet generally available. If you run a department and want to see it, get in touch — early departments shape what it becomes.
Incident Command is a decision-support and accountability tool. It does not replace your department's official accountability system, your records management system, or your standard operating guidelines. It supports the officer; it does not substitute for one.
Fire Officer
Interview Prep
A practice oral board in your pocket. Answer out loud. Get graded like a panel grades.
Runs in your browser — nothing to install. On Android, tap your browser menu and choose “Add to Home screen” to keep it with your apps. Coming to Google Play.
You can read about answering questions. You can't read your way into answering them well.
The oral board is spoken, timed, and unforgiving. Most candidates prepare by reading a book, thinking about their stories in the truck, and then hearing themselves out loud for the first time in the room that counts.
Promotional coaching works — and costs $500 to $2,000. This is the version you can afford, and use at the kitchen table at 2 a.m.
Key up like a radio and answer. The app listens, times you, and transcribes on your device.
Four tiers, five dimensions. No black box — the standard is printed in the app, so you can see exactly what moves you up a tier.
Pace, filler words, and length against the target window. The things a panel notices and nobody tells you.
The app maps your anchor stories to competencies and shows you which ones you have nothing to prove. That screen is the point.
Five to seven questions, timed, sequential, no coaching until the scorecard. Exactly like the real chair.
Sharp panels press. So does this. Answer the follow-up while your first answer is still on the table.
Questions and competencies are built on the fire officer duty areas of NFPA 1021 (now consolidated into NFPA 1020) and published officer-development material. The framework is generic and national — it does not mirror any single department's process, and no endorsement by NFPA is implied.
Your scores are practice feedback from an AI assessor, not an official evaluation, and no promotional outcome is guaranteed. Your voice is recorded and transcribed on your phone — the audio never leaves your device. Only the text of your answer is sent for scoring.
Testing this cycle?
Oral Board launches on Google Play. Get on the list and you'll hear the day it goes live — and get the founding rate.
ReadyLine
Training
Four solo trainers in one app — the mayday call, the size-up, the CAN report, and kitchen-table drills. All reps. No scoring.
Coming to Google Play — $1.99, one time. No subscription. No account. New trainers added in free updates.
The skills that matter most get practiced least.
Nobody reps the mayday call. Nobody practices the size-up out loud before it counts. And good crews want to drill, but building one takes prep time officers don't have. ReadyLine Training puts all three in your pocket — solo reps, on your own time, with nobody watching.
Run a mayday from a realistic scenario: key up, give the call out loud, and hear your own voice back. LUNAR, UCAN, Who-What-Where, or your department's own format.
Forty-eight kitchen-table knowledge drills across eight categories. Deal one, talk it out as a crew, and look the answer up in your own SOG — never a generic answer key.
Draw a scene, walk the 360, and give your size-up out loud — then hear yourself back, the way the second-due officer would. As many reps as you want, alone, before it counts.
No AI judging a survival call or your size-up. The reps are yours; the standard comes from your department and your training.
Fully offline after install — basement firehouse, rural district, doesn't matter. Everything runs on your device.
$1.99 once on Google Play. No subscription, no account, no upsells inside. New trainers and content arrive as free updates.
Everything stays on your device.
No server, no account, no tracking. Your reps, your history, and your custom drills live on your phone and nowhere else. Voice in the Mayday trainer is held only in memory for playback and discarded when you leave the screen — never saved, never transmitted.
Who builds this
A one-person company, run out of Michigan, by someone still working the job.
- Mike ObermillerFounder, Readyline Response Solutions LLC
- Captain / ParamedicCareer fire service, Michigan
- Hazmat TechnicianTeam leader responsibilities
- MBAHealth Care Management
- Fire Staff & CommandEastern Michigan University
These tools got built because the shift ended and the problem didn't.
Readyline started the way most useful things do — out of irritation. A command worksheet that didn't fit the call. A promotional process with no honest way to practice for it. The tools that existed were either built for billing departments or written by people who had never had to use them under pressure.
So they got built the other way around: on the job, for the job, and thrown out and rebuilt whenever they didn't hold up on a real call.
Readyline Response Solutions LLC is a Michigan limited liability company. It is independent, self-funded, and not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any fire department or public agency.
Built on shift, not on a roadmap.
Feedback from a working officer beats a feature request every time. If a tool doesn't earn its place in the front seat, it gets cut.
Say what it isn't.
Every Readyline product tells you plainly what it does not do. Fire service software that oversells itself gets people hurt, and nobody in this business has patience for it.
Priced like a tool, not a subscription trap.
Nothing here auto-renews behind your back. You buy it, you use it, it ends.
Get in touch
Department walkthroughs, early access, or just a question — it comes straight to the founder.