A letter from the founders
Around 2016, Michael watched a version of the same day more than once.
A DEC inspector walks into a New York fuel site on a Tuesday. Petroleum Bulk Storage. The manager is new. The PBS records are in a paper binder — if they are on site at all. Inventory sheets, tightness tests, walkthroughs, the ATG tape. Someone has to get in a car and drive three hours to stand at a counter and flip pages while the inspector waits.
The day is gone. Everybody in the room feels unprepared. Nobody is a villain. The system is paper, distance, and hope.
New York does not grade you on whether you meant well. It grades you on whether the record is in the building. Missing 10-day reconciliation. A tightness test that exists in a vendor’s email. An ATG that has been in alarm since last shift. That is how a PBS inspection becomes a bad week, and how a bad week becomes a spill you explain for years.
We started Forecourt Inc. because that Tuesday is still normal. Fuel sites are not short on rules. They are short on one place that can tell you, this morning, which tanks, tests, and alarms are actually in order.
Station Panel is that place. Sites. Documents. Testing. ATG alarms. A dashboard you can open before the inspector does.
We are a Delaware C-corporation. We work in New York. We built the product we wished existed when the binder was the system.
Don’t have those days.