What we kept hearing

Tired of radio-first tools and hidden pricing?

Some dispatch tools were built around push-to-talk radios and GPS dots on a map. Others need a sales call before they'll tell you the price. CritiCall Ops is a dispatch desk and field app for the shift you actually run — with prices on the website, not hidden behind a sales call.

CritiCall Ops CAD dispatch console — live incident queue and resource columns

Permanent control rooms from under £2 a day (£49/month) — full CAD, MDT, messaging, map, wallboard, and record of who did what. Events from £10 per event date after a live demo. All modules included on the live demo. See pricing.

Where older dispatch suites fall short

Not every tool was designed for a shopping-centre desk, a festival medical tent, or a Travel Safe roster that runs 365 days a year. These are the gaps we kept hearing about — and what we built instead.

Radio-first portals

Voice and tracking, bolted on

  • Dispatch treated as an add-on to push-to-talk
  • Job assignment without a proper incident queue
  • Medical triage, handover, and wallboard need custom work

CritiCall Ops: dispatch-first — live incident queue, resource columns, messages on one timeline timeline, and MDT on the same references as the desk.

Hardware estates

Proprietary handsets and contracts

  • Per-device licences and replacement cycles
  • Field teams tied to one vendor's radios or apps
  • Airtime and gateway hardware billed separately

CritiCall Ops: Browser-based. Any modern browser on the desk; installable MDT on phones and tablets you already own. Your radios stay — we log traffic and message alongside them.

Opaque pricing

Call us for a quote

  • No published tiers for control rooms or events
  • Per-seat or per-handset maths that grows with headcount
  • Feature requests priced as bespoke development

CritiCall Ops: Prices on the website. Site licence from £49/month; events £10 per date. Free live demo. Setup £99 once on the first invoice.

Event-only mindset

Built for the weekend, not the desk

  • Strong on festival GPS and voice; thin on permanent ops
  • No monthly model for shopping centres or transport control rooms
  • Planning, fleet, and structured handover often missing

CritiCall Ops: Same platform for Glastonbury weekend and Tuesday's shopping-centre desk — dispatch CAD plus optional Centre Management for patrols, bans, maintenance, alarms, and visitor passes; planning templates, handover, fleet, forms, and documents on one tenant.

Always-on connectivity

Assumes the mast stays up

  • Field updates lost when signal drops on lower-ground floors or in muddy fields
  • Controllers reconstruct the shift from voice and texts
  • Resilience sold as an extra tier or not at all

CritiCall Ops: Low-bandwidth MDT mode queues status and messages locally, then syncs when you're back online — standard at every tier, not a bolt-on.

Compliance gap

Tracking without operational evidence

  • GPS dots and SOS buttons — little structured incident record
  • No record of who did what for who assigned what during an evolving situation
  • Martyn's Law coordination left to spreadsheets and memory

CritiCall Ops: Full incident timeline, resource assignment, messaging log, and record of who did what — the operational layer behind public protection procedures. See Martyn's Law guidance.

Demo-first tools

Built to impress in a meeting

  • Flashy map and tracking; thin incident workflow
  • Handover, triage, and audit as “future roadmap”
  • Opaque pricing until you've sat through a call

CritiCall Ops: Live incident queue, assignment, messaging timeline, and record of who did what on the platform—not on a slide. Free live demo on the full platform; pricing published before you enquire.

Build your own

You can — then you own everything

  • Hosting, SSL, backups, and keeping it up when signal—and patience—runs out
  • Bug fixes and security patches land on your team, mid-shift
  • Open-source patches and in-house builds — no one to ring at peak load

CritiCall Ops: Software on UK servers we own and operate, with updates and support. Your controllers run the shift — not the server stack, the deploy pipeline, or the 2 a.m. outage.

One platform, not five apps

Where older tools stop at voice, map pins, and basic job assignment, CritiCall Ops carries the whole shift — licenced per tenant so you only pay for what you use on paid plans.

CAD dispatch console

Incident queue, resource columns, Criteria Based Dispatch medical coding, and live communications log.

MDT responder app

Full-screen allocation, status controls, and speech requests — install from the browser.

Planning & handover

Operation templates, rostering, and structured shift handover — not a WhatsApp dump.

Fleet & assets

Vehicles, equipment, defects, and who signed kit out — in the same system as dispatch.

Event planning

Operations module — venues, rostering, templates, then go live on the same event as dispatch.

Workforce management

Staff bank with SIA, DBS, training expiry, and skills — roster compliant cover before the shift.

Medical module

Triage, crew assignment, and handover for event medics and standby cover.

Forms & documents

Build incident forms, store run sheets and site plans with version history.

Wallboard & map

Shared everyone sees the same map for supervisors and multi-desk control rooms.

Our UK servers & audit

Platform on infrastructure we own and operate — multi-tenant isolation, role-based access, daily backups, and GDPR-aligned handling.

UK-built. Operational tone. No per-seat fee creep.

Shaped by people who've worked control rooms and field shifts — not a radio vendor selling you another handset contract. Transparent tiers, everything included on the live demo, and common tasks within three clicks.

See it on your next shift

Start a live demo on a real operation — festival, shopping-centre weekend, Travel Safe roster, or permanent desk. We'll show you CAD, MDT, and the modules that fit your sector without a 47-slide deck or a mystery quote.