Your heat stress policy,
working automatically.

Mandatory rest breaks every 20 minutes. Reduce intensity. Remove protective gear where possible. Monitor individuals for symptoms.

Cracking Flags turns your organisation’s heat policy from a document into a working tool. A coach, umpire, or community administrator opens the Calculator, picks a ground, and sees a live Heat Stress Risk Index value with your organisation’s recommended action attached. Every check is logged automatically — location, time, weather inputs, calculated risk, policy response — so the compliance record builds itself.

Australian sport governing bodies — state and national — that already have a heat policy and need a way for the people in the field to actually follow it. We’re not a tool for individual clubs, individual coaches, or individual athletes. The buyer is the organisation responsible for policy across hundreds of clubs or competitions, not the volunteer at one of them.

The Sports Medicine Australia heat policy tool is good. It produces a credible category-of-day risk reading for healthy adults, and it’s free. What it doesn’t do is run your organisation’s specific thresholds, surface your policy response, cover players outside the 18–59 adult range, or keep an audit record of what was checked and what was said. Cracking Flags is the layer that does those things. The two tools answer different questions; they aren’t substitutes. Read more →

No. Cracking Flags runs whatever policy your organisation already has. We don’t write the policy, we don’t change the policy, and we don’t add our own thresholds on top of yours. If your association has modifications to a national framework, those modifications are what your users will see.

Every check returns five pieces of information and stores all of them: the location it was taken at, the timestamp, the weather inputs that fed the calculation, the calculated risk index, and the policy response that was returned. The data is queryable in the in-app analytics view and exportable to CSV. The compliance record builds as a by-product of the work being done; nobody has to also keep a log.

Yes. Cracking Flags applies whatever thresholds your organisation specifies for junior competitions, including age-specific thresholds and policy responses if you’ve defined them. The product is algorithm-agnostic — it runs your rules, not ours — so a single deployment can cover seniors, juniors, and any other category your policy distinguishes.

The Calculator includes a manual override. The user can adjust individual inputs — wind, cloud cover, sun exposure — and the risk index recalibrates in real time. The adjustment is recorded as part of the compliance log, so a defensible deviation from the policy stays inside the policy’s own logic.

No. Cracking Flags is algorithm-agnostic. We can run your organisation’s existing thresholds, a third-party model like the SMA methodology if you’re licensed to use it, or the Cracking Flags default index. The product’s job is to enforce your policy in the field and keep a record; the underlying calculation is whatever you’ve decided to use.

Pricing is tier-based, with a bespoke arrangement for state and national governing bodies. The right number depends on your competition scale — grounds, registered participants, individual or shared logins — so the simplest way to get a real answer is a 15-minute conversation.Book a demo

The product is fully responsive and works on a phone browser today, with no app store install required. A dedicated install-to-home-screen mobile experience optimised for outdoor, on-the-ground use is roadmap.

No. The founder pre-loads your policy and configures your account before go-live, working from your existing policy documentation. Onboarding is concierge today, not because it’s hard for you to do yourself, but because at this stage of the business that hand-off surfaces feedback we’d lose if it were self-service.

For every check ever made: the ground, the date and time, the weather data the index was calculated from, the resulting risk index value, and the policy response that was surfaced to the user. The record is queryable across the whole organisation by location, time, or result.

Not a blocker. Cracking Flags can arrange consultation to help your organisation define a heat policy and derive a Heat Stress Risk Index calibrated to your sport, your participants, and your operating conditions, with the outputs deployed directly into the platform on go-live. The product runs whatever policy your organisation decides on; if you don’t yet have one, we’ll help you get there before deployment rather than handing you a generic default.

Yes. We offer a trial licence on a structured timeframe. The simplest way to organise one is a short conversation about what you’d want to test and over what window.Book a demo

Cracking Flags is built for any outdoor sport with a heat policy. Currently live in cricket. The product is sport-agnostic by design: whatever policy your organisation has, Cracking Flags can run it. See how this looks for cricket →