AirOrchestra
AirOrchestra · a Torspan product
AirOrchestra — What it costsHere's the number.
$400
a month, for a crew. Fifteen hundred for the whole shop.
A crew is a foreman and whoever works for him. We don't count them. Put a guy on Monday, take one off Friday, run four jobs at once — same four hundred.
- Monthly. No term, no minimum, no annual contract, and the first month has no invoice.
- Cancel by writing one sentence to admin@torspan.com. No notice period, no retention call, no offboarding fee. Billing stops at the end of that month.
- Export is free, any day, cancelled or not — everything the crew said and everything it made, in files that open without us.
- And the computer is yours. You buy it from Apple, in your company's name. If you fire us, the software keeps running on the machine you own.
The whole price list.
Three lines. There isn't a fourth one, and there isn't a page behind this one.
$400 a month
One crew. A foreman and whoever works for him. Any number of jobs.
$1,500 a month
The shop. Every crew you run, up to sixteen crews.
$3,000 a month
Past sixteen crews. A second computer and a second fifteen hundred. Seventeen crews and thirty-two crews are the same three thousand.
You pay whichever of the first two is less. Three crews is twelve hundred, so you stay on the crew price. Four crews would be sixteen hundred, so you're on the shop price and you pay fifteen. We do that arithmetic and tell you which side you're on before the invoice, not after.
And the third line is a machine, not a meter. One computer holds the whole shop’s records and answers up to about sixteen crews; past that it runs out of memory, so there is a second computer sitting in your office, and a second computer gets a second subscription. The step is counted in crews, never in men. And it is a real step, so we will say the number rather than let you find it: sixteen crews is fifteen hundred and seventeen crews is three thousand. It steps once, at a second machine you can walk up to, and then it stops — and it never goes up because you hired somebody.
Nothing on this page is per seat, per login, per photo, per sheet, per report, per gigabyte, or per export. There is no question allowance and no question counter — not on this page, not in the app, not in the contract.
Prices are in US dollars, per month, and they are the same in every state. Sales tax where it applies, on its own line on the invoice, never folded into the price.
Four people get paid. One of them is us.
This is the part every other vendor in the category hides inside one number, and it's the part that decides whether the thing is actually yours. So here it is as a list before it's a total.
There is no setup fee, no implementation package, no training fee and no migration fee, and there won't be one later. You are already buying a computer before month one; putting an install charge on top of that would just make the wall taller.
The computer is the setup fee — and it buys you an asset instead of buying us a margin.
Every competitor on this page keeps the computer. That is why leaving them costs you everything you paid.
The whole machine — what runs on it, what leaves it, and what doesn't → Your computer
The computer you buy, once.
A Mac, sized to how many crews you run. It sits in your office. Every record, every drawing, every photograph and the model that reads them live on that disk — which is the reason none of it is on somebody else's rented server, and the reason nobody outside your company can reach it, including us.
Mac mini
Mac Studio
Mac Studio
Those are Apple's own starting prices for those machines, not ours, and Apple moves them. The memory and disk we spec are above the starting configuration, so your real number is higher than the one in the box above it — and we are not going to invent it for you. Read them off Apple: apple.com/mac-mini/specs · apple.com/mac-studio/specs.
How the number actually gets settled
- We open the Apple Store with you and build the basket on the call, while you watch the total. You place the order on your own account, with your own card, in your company's name. Nothing routes through us and there is nothing for us to mark up.
- Three more things go in the same basket, and they're yours too: AppleCare+, a second disk for the nightly backup copy, and a small battery backup so a power blink doesn't take the office down mid-write.
- Your start date is set from the day the machine lands, plus five business days. Apple's delivery time isn't ours to promise, so we don't promise it — we date your start off the delivery, and it says that on the order form.
- Ask your accountant one question: is this a Section 179 item for us this year? That's a question, not advice — we don't give tax advice and we're not going to start. But you buy equipment every year and you already have a process for it, and a computer is equipment.
A configured Mac mini costs less than a set of tires for a service truck, and you buy those without a meeting. What's different here is what it buys: the one piece of this arrangement that survives us.
Cancel a cloud product and everything you paid for three years is gone the day you leave, along with the records. Cancel this one and the computer is still in the corner of your office with your records on it, still running.
What we install on it, and how the first week goes → Setting it up
The outside reading account, in your name.
The model on your machine does the work of the day — the messages, the hours, the plans, the photographs, the reports. When something is genuinely hard to read, a dense drawing sheet or a bad photograph of a nameplate, that one page can go out to a bigger model. That trip is metered, and the meter is yours.
How it works
- The account is opened in your company's name. We set the key on your machine at install and it stays on your machine.
- That vendor bills you directly. We are not a party to it, we don't resell it, we don't mark it up, and we never see the invoice.
- You set a ceiling. The app warns the office at sixty, eighty and ninety-five percent of it, itemised, with what spent it. At the ceiling the outside reading stops for the month and the machine in your office keeps working for everybody straight through.
- Every trip out is written down where you can read it — what went, why, and what it cost.
Roughly how much
For a four-crew shop we'd expect this to land in the tens of dollars a month, not the hundreds. That's an estimate and we're telling you it's an estimate — it depends entirely on how many hard pages your jobs throw off, and a month when a job releases its whole drawing set is a bigger month than a normal one.
The number we can promise you is the ceiling, because you're the one who sets it.
Here's the arithmetic so you can do your own. The published rate for the heavy model is $5 per million tokens in, $25 per million out — a token is about three-quarters of a word. A dense drawing sheet read end to end lands in the cents, not the dollars. A normal message from a foreman never leaves your building at all.
Rates quoted from platform.claude.com, checked 24 August 2026. It's their page and their number; we don't control it and we don't add to it.
A vendor who pays for the reading has a reason to send less. A vendor whose customer pays has a reason to send less and no way to hide it.
And the power bill
One computer, on. Apple publishes the maximum continuous power it can draw: 155W for the Mac mini and 480W for the Mac Studio. Put your own commercial rate against that and you have the worst case, because that's the machine flat out, twenty-four hours a day, which it never is — it's idle between the morning and the afternoon. We're not going to quote you a monthly dollar figure for electricity we haven't metered in your building.
Power ratings quoted from apple.com/mac-mini/specs and apple.com/mac-studio/specs.
The count is where the holes come from.
Say a login costs thirty-nine dollars. You've got fourteen hands. Somebody in the office buys eleven, because eleven is what the number felt like at the time.
The three without a login are the apprentice, and the two who started this month.
Nothing looks wrong. The hours still come in — by text, to the foreman, on Friday, from memory. The photos still get taken, on somebody's own phone, and they stay there.
Then eighteen months later a question arrives about one week in March, and it's about one of those three. That's not bad luck. That's the seat count, showing up on schedule.
A price that counts men will always be paid by leaving some out.
So we don't count them. Not the foreman, not the apprentice, not the guy who started Monday, not your bookkeeper, not the PM, not the safety man, not the owner. Everybody who needs to be on it is on it, and the number on your invoice doesn't move.
That isn't generosity. It's the only way the record comes out whole, and the record is the thing you're buying.
Procore is the one big company that got this half right. Their own pricing page says: “We'll never charge you for adding more users to Procore,” and the contract covers “unlimited users, unrivaled support, unlimited data storage, and product enhancements, at no additional cost.” That's correct, and it took a large company to say it.
Then the same page says how they price instead: the fee is annual, by product, and based on how much construction you did — the aggregate dollar value of the work across your projects. So the software costs more because you had a bigger year. And the page carries no dollar figure at all — it asks what type of company you work for and offers a custom quote.
We're doing both halves. Flat, and a number on the page.
Read from procore.com/pricing, checked 24 August 2026.
Your good year is yours. It isn't an input to your software bill.
What's in the four hundred.
Everything. This list is here so you can check it against the invoice, not because any of it is an upsell somewhere else.
Everybody
- Every man on the crew. The foreman. The apprentice who started Monday.
- Your bookkeeper, your PM, your safety man, you. Office logins cost nothing.
- Anyone you take off, any day. Nothing is prorated because nothing is counted.
Everything they say
- Messages, in whatever language the man writes in.
- Voice, held down and talked into with a glove on.
- Photos and video, as many as the job produces. No cap, no per-gigabyte line — it's your disk.
Everything it makes
- The hours, with the sentence they came from.
- The weekly time record, one PDF per man per week — on our year. Today those days, hours and sentences come out in the payroll file below it.
- The payroll file, in the shape your bookkeeper already keys.
- The pre-task plans, and the acknowledgements under them.
- The day's account, rewritten as the day changes.
- The daily report as a PDF, with the photos in it.
- Material requests, foreman questions, equipment progress.
Everything it reads
- Drawings, cut sheets, submittals, spec sections, dispatch sheets — as many as the job has.
- No per-sheet charge, no per-page charge, no per-question charge, no monthly question allowance.
- Every answer comes back with the sheet and the revision under it.
- The Read Log, which tells you what it hasn't read yet.
Everything you take out
- The whole account, any day, in files that open without us.
- Photos as files with their attribution beside them. Hours as CSV and XLSX. Documents as documents. Plans and reports as PDFs. The conversation as text.
- No export fee. Not on the way in, not on the way out, not on the way to somebody else's software.
Getting started
- The install is done for you, on your machine, in your office: your jobs, your crews, your drawings loaded and read, your payroll columns named the way your bookkeeper names them.
- No setup fee. No implementation package. No training fee. No migration fee.
- The backup is set up and then rehearsed — restored onto a second Mac while your office manager watches, because a backup nobody has restored is a belief.
Support
Not a queue, not a tier, not a success manager. There is one support plan and it is included: every message read the same day, answered in writing by the end of the next business day.
Nobody connects to your machine without somebody in your office clicking Allow first, every time.
And what ships in the next two years
Your number is locked for twenty-four months, whatever gets built inside them. New features don't come with a new tier and they don't come with a new number.
There is no line item on this page that appears on the invoice and not here. If you find one, you don't owe it.
What the four hundred doesn't buy.
Two different lists. The first is work we hand to somebody else. The second is work we don't do at all.
Things you'll still pay somebody else for
- The computer. Once, to Apple, on your account. The section above has the machines and Apple's own numbers.
- The outside reading. Metered, to that vendor, on your account, under a ceiling you set.
- Payroll. We make the file. Whoever cuts the checks still cuts them and still charges you.
- Your accounting system. The hours land where your bookkeeper already works; the ledger stays where it is.
- Phones and data. It runs on the phone he already has.
Things it doesn't do, at any price
- Estimating. Bidding. Change orders. Scheduling. Project management. Accounting.
- Certified payroll, prevailing wage determinations, fringe calculations, job costing.
- Service dispatch. Ten addresses a day is somebody else's product, and it's a good one.
- Anything that tracks where a man is. There is no location in it to sell you later.
The full list, unhedged, with no “yet” on the end of every line → What it won't do
The terms.
Six of them. None of them are in a PDF you have to ask for.
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01
Monthly. No term, no minimum, no annual contract.
There's no annual price and no monthly price. There's the price. Nothing on this page gets cheaper for signing longer, which means nothing on this page is more expensive for staying free.
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02
You're billed at the end of the month you used.
Not in advance. One invoice by email, one page, one line, the date range on it. ACH or card, and we don't add a card fee. Hardware and the reading account are never on our invoice, because they were never ours to bill.
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03
The first month, there's no invoice.
Fourteen days is the category's number and fourteen days doesn't contain a payroll close. A month contains four payroll weeks, a monthly safety walk, one delivery that showed up wrong, and at least one argument about hours. That's the test. Take the month.
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Your number is locked for twenty-four months.
If it changes after that, you hear it ninety days ahead, in an email from Torspan, with the new number written in the email. Not a link to this page. The number.
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Adding people never changes it.
Not a man, not a crew inside your count, not an office login. If you cross from the crew price to the shop price, we tell you the month before, not on the invoice.
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Cancel by writing one sentence.
To admin@torspan.com. No retention call, no exit survey, no notice period, no offboarding fee. Billing stops at the end of that month. Your export stays open and it stays free — and the computer, the records and the model on it were already yours.
Nothing here expires after twelve months. Read a competitor's price twice — once for the number, once for how long the number lasts.
This is the whole invoice.
One page. One line. The count that produced it, so you can check it in ten seconds.
Torspan
Torspan LLC · Everett, WAadmin@torspan.com
Invoice · Sample · Issued September 1 · For August 1–31
SAMPLE — NINEBARK MECHANICAL LLC
Attn: accounts payable
AirOrchestra — the shop. Every crew, up to sixteen crews.
Aug 1 – Aug 31
$1,500.00
Crews on it in August: 5 (Ray D., and four others)
Hands on it in August: 54, high-water. 51 at the start of the month, 54 at the end.
Office logins: 6. Not billed.
Documents read this month: 214. Not billed.
Exports run this month: 3. Not billed.
Pages sent out to your reading account: 41. Billed to you by that vendor, not on this invoice.
Terms: due on receipt. ACH or card. No card fee.
You were on the shop price this month because five crews on the crew price would have been $2,000.
Fifty-four hands. Three men joined in August. The number didn't move.
Invented shop, invented crew, invented counts, invented sample. Real records belong to the companies that made them, and those don't go on a website. The tax line is left unpriced because the rate follows the address.
Three years, side by side.
Same shop, same men, thirty-six months. Ours is thirty-five billed months, because the first one isn't billed. Fieldwire's figures are their own published per-user prices, multiplied out — checked on their page on 24 August 2026.
A four-crew shop · twenty hands
| What you'd be paying | Three years |
|---|---|
| Fieldwire Pro · $39 × 20 × 36 | $28,080 |
| Fieldwire Business · $64 × 20 × 36 | $46,080 |
| AirOrchestra · $1,500 × 35 plus one computer, once, from Apple | $52,500 |
| Fieldwire Business Plus · $89 × 20 × 36 | $64,080 |
At twenty hands we are not the cheapest line on this table and we're not going to pretend to be. We sit above Fieldwire Business and below Business Plus, and you're buying a computer on top of that.
A sixteen-crew shop · eighty hands
| What you'd be paying | Three years |
|---|---|
| AirOrchestra · $1,500 × 35 plus one computer, once, from Apple | $52,500 |
| Fieldwire Pro · $39 × 80 × 36 | $112,320 |
| Fieldwire Business · $64 × 80 × 36 | $184,320 |
| Fieldwire Business Plus · $89 × 80 × 36 | $256,320 |
Same fifty-two five. Sixty more men on it and our number didn't move, because it isn't a number of men — which is the whole argument, expressed as a total instead of as a sentence.
Fieldwire's published tiers, read from fieldwire.com/pricing on 24 August 2026: Basic “$0 per user / month”, Pro “$39 per user / month billed annually”, Business “$64 per user / month billed annually”, Business Plus “$89 per user / month billed annually”. Those are their numbers. If one of them changes, write to us and we'll fix this table the same day.
What it works out to per man — which is your arithmetic, not our price
We don't charge per man, so this isn't a rate; it's just what the flat number divides into. Twenty hands on the shop price is seventy-five dollars a man a month. Forty hands is thirty-seven fifty. Eighty hands is eighteen seventy-five.
Every other line on this page goes the other way. Put the new apprentice on a per-seat product and it costs thirty-nine, sixty-four or eighty-nine dollars more, every month, forever. Put him on this one and it costs nothing, which is exactly why he actually gets put on it — and why the week in March he worked is in the record eighteen months later.
One more line belongs in this comparison and it isn't a dollar figure. At the end of the three years on the top table, whatever you paid is gone and the records are on somebody else's server under somebody else's terms.
At the end of the three years on the bottom one, the computer is in your office, the records are on its disk, and the software on it keeps running whether or not you're still paying us.
Do the arithmetic yourself.
Both tables below were read off each company's own pricing page on 24 August 2026. Every figure is theirs. If one of them changed, write to us and we'll fix it the same day.
What twelve men cost, in pieces
Nobody sells the whole day in a single product, so a shop that wants all of it buys three or four things. Here's that stack for a twelve-man crew, using only the numbers those companies publish.
| What you'd buy it for | What they publish | Twelve men, a month |
|---|---|---|
| Photos on the right job | CompanyCam, Crew: “$129/month”, 3 users included, additional users “$29 each” | $390 |
| The drawings on the phone | Fieldwire, Pro: “$39 per user / month billed annually” | $468 |
| The hours | Workyard: “Plans start at $6 per user / month — billed annually” — the only tier with a number on it | $72 |
| The daily report | Raken — pricing page, no plan names, no numbers | Not published |
| Answers out of the documents | Trunk Tools, Document Crunch — demo gate | Not published |
| All of it | AirOrchestra — one crew | $400 |
Each of those products does more than the one job we put it next to, and three of them are very good at what they do. The point of the table isn't that they're expensive. It's that the arithmetic is available for four of the six rows and not for the other two — and that the four you can add up are already past four hundred before the daily report and the drawings answers have a number at all.
What the category publishes
And here's the part that's hard to believe until you click through. These are pages called Pricing.
| Company | Their pricing page | Is there a price on it? |
|---|---|---|
| Fieldwire | fieldwire.com/pricing | Yes. $0 / $39 / $64 / $89 per user per month, billed annually. |
| CompanyCam | companycam.com/pricing | Yes. $63 / $129 / $199 a month, plus “$29 each” past the included users. |
| Contractor Foreman | contractorforeman.com/pricing | Yes. $49 / $105 / $166 / $221 / $332 a month, with 1, 3, 8, 15 and unlimited users. |
| Jobber | getjobber.com/pricing | Yes — and read it twice. Core is “$21/mo for 12 months, then $29/mo.” Extra users are “$29/mo each.” |
| Workyard | workyard.com/pricing | One of four. “Plans start at $6 per user / month.” Pro, Autopilot and Enterprise show nothing. |
| Procore | procore.com/pricing | No. Annual construction volume. First it asks what type of company you work for. |
| ServiceTitan | servicetitan.com/pricing | No. Starter, Essentials, The Works — “Request Pricing” under each. |
| BuildOps | buildops.com/pricing | No. Priced on the number of field and office users. The button says “Get Personalized Pricing.” |
| XOi | xoi.io/pricing | No. Four products, three implementation tiers, no figures. “Request pricing.” |
| Raken | rakenapp.com/pricing | No plan names and no numbers. |
| Torspan | this page | $400. $1,500. $3,000 past sixteen crews. |
Five of those ten have a page called Pricing with no price on it. That has been the top thing software buyers say they want from a vendor for four years running, since TrustRadius started asking in 2023.
TrustRadius 2026 B2B Buying Disconnect Report: “Transparent pricing has been buyers' #1 wish-list item for vendors for four years running, since TrustRadius started asking in 2023.” Source
A number on a page is a promise you can hold somebody to. That's the reason it's the last thing a big company gives up.
Three shops this is wrong for.
Under five hands. Four hundred a month across three guys is a hundred and thirty-three apiece, and on top of that you'd be buying a computer to serve three people. At that size the foreman already knows what everybody did today because he was standing next to them. Keep the four hundred.
Service work. If your trucks hit ten addresses a day and the money question is dispatch, capacity and the ticket, this is the wrong shape entirely. That is a real category with real products in it and we are not one of them.
Somebody who wants to see where his men are. It doesn't collect location and it never will. There is no version of this with a map in it, so there is no reason to start.
If you're not sure which of those you are, the page to read next is What it won't do.
Leaving costs nothing, and it takes one sentence.
Everything the crew said and everything it made comes out whole, any day you ask, in files that open without us. Photos as files with the man and the job beside them. Hours as CSV and XLSX. Drawings as drawings. Plans and reports as PDFs. The conversation as text.
Cancel and keep all of it. Nothing is ever charged for keeping your own records — a record you have to pay rent on isn't yours.
And there is nothing to unplug. The computer is yours, the records on it are yours, the model on it is yours. Stop paying us and the machine in the corner of your office keeps answering. What stops is the updates, the support and the outside reading lane — not your day, and not your file.
To: admin@torspan.com From: Ray D. Subject: Cancelling
We're done at the end of the month. Send the export.
To: Ray D. From: admin@torspan.com Subject: Re: Cancelling
Got it. Billing stops August 31 — you'll get one more invoice for August and that's the last one.
Your export is attached and it's also in the app under Your records; it'll stay downloadable for ninety days. If you need it after that, write and I'll put it back up.
The machine is yours and it keeps running. I'd close the reading account with the vendor so it stops metering, and I've written down how.
Nothing to sign. Nothing to return.
— Sergei Sysoev
Torspan LLC
That's the whole thing. There's no call in the middle of it.
Invented shop, invented crew, invented emails.
What's in an export, how long records are kept, and what happens to your file if Torspan stops → Your records
The rest of the questions.
- What counts as a crew?
A foreman and the men who report to him. If two foremen split a floor, that's two crews. If one foreman runs eleven guys across three jobs, that's one crew and one four hundred.
- Do I have to buy the computer from you?
You can't. We don't sell hardware, we don't finance it, and we don't take a referral fee on it. You order it from Apple on your own account while we're on the call with you, and the receipt has your company's name on it, not ours.
- What if I already have a Mac sitting in the office?
Tell us what it is on the sizing call. What matters is memory and disk, and what it has to hold is the model plus every drawing and photograph you own. If it's enough, that's the end of the hardware conversation and you've spent nothing.
- Who decides how many crews I have?
You do. You tell us at setup and you tell us when it changes. We don't audit it. If the number in the app and the number on the invoice ever disagree, the invoice moves.
- What if a crew is nine men one month and sixteen the next?
Same four hundred. Sixteen men under one foreman is still one crew. We're not counting.
- Do office people cost anything?
No. Bookkeeper, PM, safety, owner, whoever handles the calls. If they need to see it, put them on it.
- How much is the reading account going to cost me?
For a four-crew shop, tens of dollars a month rather than hundreds — and that's an estimate, not a promise, because it depends on how many hard pages your jobs throw off. What is a promise is the ceiling: you set it, the app warns you on the way to it with an itemised list of what spent it, and at the ceiling the outside lane stops while the machine in your office keeps working.
- Why don't you just include the reading in the price?
Because then we'd be paying for every page that leaves your building, and a vendor in that position starts sending less and telling you nothing. Your bill, from a company that isn't us, is the only version of this you can actually audit.
- Is there a discount for paying a year up front?
No. A discount for prepaying is a charge for not prepaying, and we'd rather have one number.
- Does the price go up when you add features?
No. Twenty-four months, locked, whatever ships in them. After that, ninety days' notice with the number in the email.
- What happens if I stop paying?
You get an email from a person. The account goes read-only, not dark — you can still open everything and still export it, because it's on your machine and we could not take it off you if we wanted to. We do not hold a shop's safety file hostage over an invoice.
- Do you sell my data, or train anything outside my company on it?
No. It doesn't leave the building for us to sell. That's on Your records in plain English and in Privacy in the language a lawyer wants.
- Is there a rate for a training program?
Yes, and it's simple: an apprenticeship or training program pays nothing. Write and say that's what you are.
- What if I run more than sixteen crews?
A second computer and a second fifteen hundred. One machine holds about sixteen crews’ worth of records and answers; past that there’s genuinely a second machine in the room, and a second machine gets a second subscription. It’s three thousand at seventeen crews and it’s three thousand at thirty-two. The price is not negotiated — and it is counted in crews, so hiring a man never moves it.
- Can I pay by check?
Yes. ACH is faster, but yes.
Starting.
A call to size the machine to the number of crews you run. You order it from Apple on that call, on your own account. Your start date is the day it lands plus five business days, and the install — your jobs, your crews, your drawings loaded and read, your payroll columns named the way your bookkeeper names them — is included in the price.
Write to admin@torspan.com.
See it work.
The number above buys a machine that sits in your office, and the page for it says which one, what it draws and who can reach it. → Your computer
And the short list of what it refuses to do for that price, unhedged, with a dated line on what is running right now. → What it won't do
A question about your shop gets a written answer from a person, and there is no form in front of him. → Write to us