Waterworks Product Overview

Waterworks is a camera-first iPhone app for making a photographed map of ranch water equipment. The current field pilot is for one person, one ranch, and one phone.

The problem

Knowledge of a ranch water system often lives in one person’s memory. Paper notes, spreadsheets, and folders of unlabeled photos do not show where equipment is or how it belongs together.

The first useful step is smaller than a complete maintenance platform: walk the property, photograph each piece of equipment, name it, and check its location on a map.

What this build does

• Captures or imports an equipment photo.
• Uses an experimental on-device model to suggest well, tank, trough, valve, pump, or junction.
• Requires the user to check the type before saving.
• Adds the phone’s current GPS location to the record.
• Stores equipment, photos, systems, pipes, and inspections locally with SwiftData.
• Shows saved equipment in lists and on a map.
• Groups equipment into named water systems.

What this build does not do

• It does not back up or sync pilot records.
• It does not share records with another phone or the web app.
• It does not provide accounts or site switching.
• It does not read gauges or assess equipment condition with AI.
• It does not record pipeline trace sessions.
• It is not the sole record for safety-critical shutoffs or emergency procedures.

The daily workflow

1. Walk to one piece of water equipment.
2. Open Capture and take a clear photo.
3. Check the suggested type and correct it when needed.
4. Give the item a recognizable name and assign a system if useful.
5. Save it, then check its pin in Map.
6. Repeat until another person can understand the ranch map.

Pilot success

The pilot succeeds if the user can finish a mapping day with a map they trust enough to revisit, and can explain where the flow slowed down. Model accuracy is useful evidence, but it is not the product promise.

Continue with the Field Pilot guide.