Gridless · Readiness Score RQ™

Your readiness, scored.

Most people find out they weren't ready at the worst possible moment. Gridless turns how prepared you actually are into one number from 0 to 1000 — then gives you two minutes a day to move it.

Free to download · Your RQ™ is free forever

The Gridless home screen showing an RQ readiness score of 612

Anyone can tap a box that says "I have a first aid kit." Gridless makes you prove it.

The number

One score.
Four pillars.

Your RQ™ is built from four pillars worth 250 points each. It moves the day you act and it decays the days you don't — because readiness you had two years ago isn't readiness.

Skills0/250

What you actually know how to do, tested by daily drills.

Gear0/250

Scored off what's really in your inventory, not what you meant to buy.

Plan0/250

Water, food, power and the meet-up plan, sized to your household.

Practice0/250

Showing up. The part almost everybody skips.

Check-ins move your RQ™ day to day. Verified missions raise the floor it can never fall below. That's the difference between feeling ready and being ready.
RQ™ · Out of 1000
R3·I · CapableVerified floor 120 · locked in
A Gridless daily check-in drill card

The daily loop

Two minutes
a day.

The check-in is the whole system. It's the part that moves the needle, and it's over before your coffee cools.

  1. 1

    Four cards, that's it

    A drill, a real-world task, a quick status check, and one rotating card — water, gear, a skill, a scenario. Never the same four days running.

  2. 2

    Answer honestly

    Nothing here is graded on knowing the answer. It's graded on doing the thing. Say you don't have it and the app builds you a plan to get it.

  3. 3

    Watch the dial move

    Points land the second you finish. You'll see exactly which pillar went up and by how much.

Up to +40 a day across the four pillars. Skip it and the number sits still — then starts sliding.

Proof, not promises

100+ proof
missions.

Water storage, a real go-bag, a family meet-up plan, a power outage run-through. Each one is guided, step by step — and the last step is always a photo.

  1. 1

    Pick a mission

    Over a hundred of them across four worlds, from a fifteen-minute job to a weekend build.

  2. 2

    Do it, then photograph it

    That photo is the proof, and it's yours — it never leaves your account.

  3. 3

    Lock in a floor

    A verified mission sets a permanent minimum on your score. That part can never decay away.

Recreational campingCar camping through backpacking
Wilderness survivalShelter, water, fire, navigation
Disaster prepYour household when services stop
Off-grid livingProduce it instead of buying it
The Gridless proof missions list
The Gridless Mission Wall showing photo-verified missions from other members

Ready together

Being the only
ready one
isn't ready.

Bring in up to six people — partner, kids, parents, the friend with the truck. Everyone keeps their own RQ™, and you see the whole roster at a glance.

  1. 1

    Nudge the slackers

    One tap sends a reminder to whoever's been coasting. It works embarrassingly well.

  2. 2

    Work the wall

    The Mission Wall is every photo-verified mission from every member, in one feed. Claim one, post the proof, watch the household score climb.

Invite someone to your clan and you both get a free month.

Know-how on demand

600+ guides.
No signal
required.

Everything you'd want to look up at the exact moment there's no signal to look it up with. Water, shelter, fire, first aid, navigation, food, security — written to be read at 2am with cold hands.

  1. 1

    Download the whole manual

    One button pulls all of it onto your phone, about 60–90MB. After that it works with no signal at all.

  2. 2

    Point your camera at it

    AI scanners identify plants, tracks, bugs and snakes in seconds. Useful on a trail, essential with kids.

  3. 3

    Keep a Satchel

    Bookmark any article into the short list you'd actually want in an emergency — one tap from the manual.

Knots, morse, natural medicine, checklists and calculators — the stuff you need in ten seconds, not ten minutes.
The Gridless field library and tools
The Gridless home screen with the four readiness pillars and today's check-in

The long game

The next six
months,
built.

The check-in handles today. Your Plan is where the rest gets built.

  1. 1

    Know what you own

    Log your gear, food and water once. The app tracks expiry dates and tells you what's about to lapse before it does.

  2. 2

    Get the real numbers

    Calculators sized to your actual household — how much water, how much food, how long your power lasts.

  3. 3

    Follow a program

    Self-paced programs that take you from nothing to genuinely prepared, a few steps a week.

What it costs

Free to know.
Premium to move.

Your score, every emergency protocol and the SOS beacon are free forever. Premium is the part that changes the number.

Always free

Gridless

$0 — no card, no trial clock

  • ✓Your RQ™ score and the full assessment
  • ✓Every emergency protocol
  • ✓The SOS beacon

Premium · 7 days free

Everything

$9.99/month, or $79.99/year — cancel anytime

  • ✓The daily check-in — the only thing that raises your RQ™
  • ✓All 100+ proof missions and the permanent floors they set
  • ✓The complete field manual, offline
  • ✓Your clan of up to six and the Mission Wall
  • ✓Every field tool, scanner and calculator, no limits
  • ✓Severe-weather alerts for exactly where you are

Hawk Nest customers

A free year
of Premium.

$79.99 value · included with your hammock

Every Hawk Nest Hammocks order comes with twelve months of Gridless Premium. It isn't automatic — you redeem it with the email address you ordered with.

  1. Download Gridless and create your account using the same email address you used on your order.
  2. When the paywall appears, scroll to the bottom and tap "Hawk Nest customer? Redeem your year".
  3. Enter that email. Your year unlocks on the spot — no card, no code.
The Gridless paywall, with the Hawk Nest customer redemption row at the bottom

Questions

Before you download

No. Gridless starts wherever you are — a camper who wants to be sharper in the backcountry scores the same way as someone building a household plan. Pick the world that matches your life and the missions come to you.

Four pillars — Skills, Gear, Plan and Practice — worth 250 points each, for 1000 total. Every point comes from something you did: a drill you passed, gear you logged, a plan you built, a mission you photographed. Nothing moves your score without a receipt.

Because readiness is perishable. Skip enough days and points oxidize — they're recoverable, but they don't just sit there. The exception is the floor set by verified proof missions. That part is permanent.

Yes. One button in Settings downloads the entire field manual — roughly 60 to 90MB — onto your phone. After that it reads fine with no service, which is rather the point.

They stay in your account. They're proof for your own score and, if you choose to post one, for your clan's Mission Wall. Nothing is public and nothing is sold.

Sign up with the same email you ordered with, then scroll to the bottom of the paywall and tap "Hawk Nest customer? Redeem your year". Enter that email and the twelve months unlock immediately. If it doesn't take, email support@hawknesthammocks.ca and we'll sort it.

Find out where you stand

What's your RQ™?

The assessment takes a few minutes and the score is free forever. Most people are lower than they expect — which is the useful part.

7-day free trial on Premium · Cancel anytime