Company
About Halligan Works
One person, one product, and a deliberately small set of promises about what it will never do.
01
The name
A halligan bar is the forcible entry tool — an adze, a pick and a fork on one shaft. It is the thing you bring when the door has to open and there is no time to find the key. Nearly every feature in the platform is named the same way: The Box is the mutual aid box alarm, Size-Up is the first thing an officer does on arrival, The Roll is the list you call. Departments should not have to learn a software vocabulary to use software built for them.
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Who builds it
Halligan Works is Steven Doherty. The platform is designed, built, deployed and supported by one person, which is worth saying plainly rather than hiding behind a plural. It means the person who answers an email is the person who can fix the thing, and it means the roadmap is short and honest.
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How it was built
The platform was built alongside a working rural volunteer department in Texas — around 26 volunteers, over 300 square miles, no hydrants, funded entirely by donations. Every constraint in the product came from that: the offline access records, the page weight, the type size, and the rule that payment status never reaches a crew.
The commitments
These are enforced in the schema and the architecture, not in a policy document. They are the reason to choose this over something cheaper.
We never handle the money
A department is data, not a branch
Rank and duty are separate
Your data is yours
Get in touch
Questions from chiefs, officers, emergency services district boards and county fire marshals are all welcome, including sceptical ones.