01Built in the open
Everything we release is free software under the GNU AGPL, with the source on GitHub. You can run any of it yourself without paying us a dime, and plenty of people should.
The commercial arm of johnsonfarms.us
We're a software company built on working-life experience: Army heavy-vehicle recovery, wind turbines, agricultural service operations, a towing company. We build the software those jobs always wished they had. All of it is open source. If you'd rather not run it yourself, we'll set it up, host it, and pick up the phone when something breaks.
Everything we release is free software under the GNU AGPL, with the source on GitHub. You can run any of it yourself without paying us a dime, and plenty of people should.
Most businesses don't want to deal with servers, and they shouldn't have to. We'll install your system, host it, keep it updated and backed up, and be the ones you call when something's off.
We only sell what we already use. Everything on this page was built for our own work first and had to prove itself there before we'd ask anyone to pay for it.
The products
Every product here is open-source software at its core, proven in our own operation first. Run it yourself for free, or buy it hosted, installed, customized, or preloaded on ready-to-use hardware.
№ 001Towing & Impound Management: the dispatch desk, the impound lot, and the billing that follows both, in one system. Free to self-host, or we run it for you.
№ 002A fully offline AI librarian. Load Wikipedia, medical references, or your own manuals; ask in plain language; get cited answers. No internet, ever. Custom libraries and preloaded field devices for teams off the grid.
There's always more in the works at johnsonfarms.us.
Everything we make is licensed under the GNU AGPL. You can download it, run it, and change it without ever paying us. That's not a loss leader; it's the point of the license. Some of our favorite users will never send us a dollar.
The business is everything around the code: setup, hosting, updates, backups, and someone who answers when you call. If you've got the crew to run it yourself, go with our blessing.
Source on GitHub →The commercial side
The software is free either way. These are the things organizations pay us to do around it.
We run your system on our servers: updates, backups, and monitoring included. You log in and work, for one predictable monthly bill.
Your hardware, our setup. We stand the system up, move your data in, configure it for your operation, and hand you the keys with everything documented.
We convert your organization's manuals, guides, and references into an offline library your team can question, and refresh it yearly as your documents change.
Devices that arrive preloaded with the software and your custom library. Open the box and hand them out. Built for teams working where the internet doesn't.
Running things yourself? Support hours are always available. Pricing is simple and we'll tell you up front. Just ask.
The experience behind Johnson Farms refuses to specialize. It runs through Army heavy-vehicle recovery, wind-turbine towers, agricultural service management, and a towing operation with its own dispatch desk and impound lot, and lately AI systems. There's even a poetry degree in the mix, because good documentation is writing, after all.
The software started because we needed it ourselves. The tools on the market were built for operations ten times our size, or priced like it, so we wrote our own. Eventually it occurred to us that other outfits are probably stuck the same way.
That's the whole pitch, really: we've done these jobs, so we know where they hurt. And since the source is open, you don't have to take our word for any of it.
Contact
Want a demo, a price, or an honest opinion on whether our stuff fits your operation? Email us.