Why reill
Built for the island. Not adapted from UK.
Three structural facts about IOM trade work that off-island software gets wrong. reill gets them right because we're standing in the same yards you are.
01
Steam Packet
The freight bottleneck no off-island competitor will ever solve.
Materials don't take 'a day longer' to reach the island. They get bumped, cancelled, or queue against fuel and food trailers. Lead-times on non-stocked items run 1–3 weeks. reill bakes Steam Packet sailings into job cards: order materials inside a job, see live sailings + cancellation history, get auto-flagged when tomorrow's 02:15 cancels.
- ·~65 trailer slots per sailing on the Heysham route
- ·Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri pattern, with weather/technical disruption regular
- ·No competitor on or off island integrates the timetable into ops software
02
IOM Building Regs
Same regulator family. Different documents. Different cert numbers.
IOM Building Regs are NOT identical to UK Approved Documents. Gas Safe Register applies under IOM-specific Gas Safety Regulations. CIOM accreditation is the local stamp. HETAS and OFTEC are recognised. UK-anchored software stores 'NICEIC number' fields and calls it done — they don't know what a CIOM number is, and they can't surface the IOM-specific OFTEC quirk where non-OFTEC oil installs trigger a Building Regs application. reill does.
- ·IOM Building Regulations 2014, consolidated 2020 — distinct from English ADs
- ·CIOM accreditation, Gas Safe, HETAS, OFTEC, NICEIC stored per-company + per-tradesperson
- ·IOM VAT issued under Customs & Excise — same regime as UK, different authority on the document
03
Manx weather
Wind in Ronaldsway averages 36 km/h in December. Plan around it.
For roofers, scaffolders, groundworkers, external joiners — IOM weather creates real schedule churn. reill scores every outdoor visit against postcode-resolved forecasts. >50 km/h day on a Ramsey roof? It's red, and the scheduler suggests indoor swaps from your queue.
- ·~1100mm annual rainfall, high wind exposure (Ronaldsway long-term averages)
- ·Per-trade rules: builders red-line at 31mph (HSE scaffolding guidance), joiners want near-dry conditions
- ·Powered by Open-Meteo with Met Éireann fallback — no key required, IOM coverage adequate
How we compare
What's missing from off-island software.
The tools most tradies reach for are built elsewhere — the UK, Australia, the US. All competent. None know the island.
| Off-island software | reill | |
|---|---|---|
| Freight | No Steam Packet awareness — materials are just 'a day or two late' | Sailings + cancellations baked into job cards |
| IOM Building Regs | UK 'NICEIC number' fields; no idea what a CIOM number is | CIOM / Gas Safe / HETAS / OFTEC, IOM-specific |
| Weather | Generic forecast, if any — not tied to the visit | Postcode work-windows + indoor-swap suggestions |
| Pricing | Per-user or per-job, often in foreign currency | £39 / £79 / £149 flat, in sterling |
| Built for | Adapted, then sold here | The island, from the island |
We're not knocking the off-island lot — they're built for a bigger, flatter market. reill is built for this one.