Tailboard vs Raken.
Raken runs your whole jobsite. Tailboard does one job and finishes it: the talk happens, the crew signs, and the record can be proved two years later. If the second one is your actual problem, you don't need the first.
Different sizes of tool.
Raken's nine areas, from their own feature list. Toolbox talks is one of them. For us it's the whole product.
Side by side
Raken's column comes from their own public pages. No price, because they don't publish one.
| Raken | Tailboard | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | Quote only | $29, $59 or $129, on the page |
| How you start | Book a demo | Card into Stripe, two minutes |
| What you pay for | Per user | Per account — crew who sign are free |
| Proving a record wasn't edited | Not described publicly | Sealed and chained. Anyone can check the code |
| Signing | In the Raken app | Any phone, nothing to install |
| Certification tracking | Not part of toolbox talks | Built in on Fleet |
| Talk library | 100+ | 23, English and Spanish |
| Everything else on a jobsite | Nine areas of it | None |
Why small is the point.
Raken has around 154 staff and private equity backing. We're one person in Kennewick. Here's what that actually buys you.
Your email reaches the person who wrote the code
Not a queue, not a tier-one script. Usually the same day. Ask a 150-person company to change something and you're filing a feature request.
You can see the price before you talk to anyone
$29 a month, on the page. No discovery call to find out whether this is $40 or $400 for eleven people.
Your crew never lands on the bill
Per-user pricing means every new hire costs more. We charge for the office and the foremen. Fifty on site can run on three accounts.
Nothing to install, nothing to roll out
A link and a signature. No app on fifty phones, no onboarding project, no training day.
When Raken is the better buy.
Four cases. If one of them is you, go and talk to them.
You need daily reports
It's what they're built for, and we have none.
You want one app for everything
Photos, equipment, time, incidents, integrations. Four narrow tools is worse than one broad one.
You need a bigger library
100+ talks against our 23. Something unusual next Tuesday, they'll have it.
You have a safety director
Someone whose whole job is safety will use the depth. We're built for outfits where the owner does it between other work.
And the obvious one.
They've been going over a decade with thousands of contractors on them. We launched this month. If you need certainty that your safety software still exists in five years, that's a real argument for them.
So we made sure you're never trapped
Every seal code is emailed to you the moment a record is created, so the proof lives in your inbox, not only on our servers. Export to PDF any time. Cancel and you keep read access for 90 days.
And you can test it before you commit
Run a real meeting with a real crew in the first fourteen days, then decide. You'll know inside a week whether it fits how you work.
Read a full talk before you decide.
One of ours, on the home page, with nothing held back.
Sources: Raken's own product and pricing pages, and their September 2025 announcement of Sverica Capital's investment. Checked September 2026; any of it can change. Something wrong here? Tell us and we'll fix it.