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The Frontline Dispatch

Ideas for the frontline-first workplace.

Field notes, playbooks, and hard-won lessons on mobile workforce management, AI at the frontline, and what we're learning from healthcare, hospitality, and industrial leaders.

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The Four Taxes Your Deskless Workforce Is Already Paying

Most organizations think about frontline communication technology as a cost to evaluate, something that might pay off, depending on how the numbers shake out.

14 Years to Build a Rail You'll Never See

Here’s an honest thing to say about 14 years of building frontline software: most of the work is invisible.

Real-Time Employee Feedback Through Surveys

As digital tools have made it easier than ever to gather feedback and aggregate data, employee surveys have soared in popularity in the last few years. The value comes not from the surveys ...

Creating an Efficient Workflow for Paid Time Off Requests

Paper processes for company PTO requests have proven to be inefficient in several capacities: inaccessibility to employees, manually intensive workflow procedures, and data that is difficult to store ...

Algood Food Company Highlighted in USA Today for Pandemic Management with Redeapp

When Algood Food Company reached out to Redeapp in the summer of 2020, they knew they needed a better way to communicate with their employees in light of COVID-19 and pandemic management. Just a ...

Introducing SMART Messages

In the world of agile software development and product management, the ‘user story’ is the guiding light on the path to building the best and most usable product. Or as a colleague of mine likes to ...

5 Dos and 5 Don’ts of Laying off Employees with Compassion and Grace

Layoffs are one of the most painful responsibilities that organizations must manage. Regardless of how well you operate your company, sometimes layoffs are unavoidable. The turmoil caused by COVID-19 ...

Ground Truth: The Word AI Borrowed That the Frontline Has Always Needed

In machine learning, “ground truth” is the verified, accurate baseline a model is trained and evaluated against. It’s the known answer, the data point you can actually trust. Without ground truth, a ...

Why the ROI Conversation for Frontline AI Is Backwards

Here’s how the frontline AI ROI conversation usually goes: someone shows the model, capabilities, accuracy, benchmark results. Someone else asks how much it costs. Then someone asks if it’s worth it. ...

The Silver Tsunami Is Here, and Senior Living Is Running Out of Nurses

“Silver tsunami” has been in circulation long enough that it almost sounds like background noise in healthcare policy conversations. But the wave it describes isn’t background noise for the people ...

The Thing Your Desk Gave You That You Never Noticed

There’s something you got on your first day in an office that nobody handed you deliberately. It wasn’t in the onboarding packet. HR didn’t mention it. But the moment you walked in, you had it, and ...

The $60,000 Problem No One Talks About

There’s a number that floats around senior living operations circles quietly, because it’s uncomfortable to sit with: replacing a single frontline healthcare worker can cost $60,000 or more when you ...

What a Ramp Agent's Safety Question Reveals About Enterprise AI

Simple question: what’s the maximum wind speed to safely cater an aircraft?

Why Good Leaders Keep Deprioritizing the Frontline

This isn’t about bad leaders. It’s about good ones, thoughtful, well-intentioned people, who consistently underinvest in their frontline workers anyway. And the reason has nothing to do with values.

The category we're building

RedeApp is the communication system of record — and the distribution platform for AI — in mobile work.

For frontline ecosystems in labor-forward industries, that record is the ground truth AI operations run on — the context AI reasons from, the channel it acts through, and the instrumentation it's measured against.