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Harbinge.rs builds field intelligence products that reduce operational friction.

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About Harbinge.rs

Built for the people
who do the work.

We make the right action the easiest action — starting with Forager, our RF asset intelligence platform.

Our mission.

Eliminate the friction that keeps asset records wrong. Make compliance the easiest part of the day.

Asset tracking systems fail at the human layer. The technology works fine — the problem is that updating a record takes long enough that busy people skip it. The record stays wrong. Searches take longer. Compliance audits become guesswork.

We build Forager to close that gap. Two taps. Five seconds. The record is right. That's the design goal, and everything in the platform — the RF matching, the offline queue, the one-tap confirm, the beacon hardware — exists to keep that promise.

  • Designed to cut Mean Time-to-Locate by 60–90%
  • ≤ 2 taps to update any asset record
  • Zero building infrastructure changes required
  • Auditable JSON / HTML exports on demand

Why we built Forager.

  • The Problem
  • The Insight
  • The Goal
In every facility — hospitals, warehouses, hotel properties — there are people whose job is partly to know where expensive equipment is. Most of the time, they don't. The system says bay 3. It hasn't been in bay 3 for six weeks. So they walk the floor, ask around, make calls. They eventually find it. Then they don't update the record because they're already late for the next thing.
Asset tracking programs don't fail because the technology is bad. They fail because updating a record is harder than ignoring it. The moment the friction of compliance exceeds the friction of winging it, people wing it. Every time. The software vendors respond by adding more features. We responded differently: make the right action take two taps.
Forager is designed for the field technician who has twelve things to do and zero patience for a system that fights them. We obsess over time-to-update, not feature counts. We build for the floor, not the dashboard. If a tech can't complete an asset update before they reach the next doorway, we haven't done our job.
Harbinge.rs is an independent technology company focused on practical tools for real operational problems. We don't build for demos. We build for the shift.

Principles we build on.

Every design decision traces back to one of these.

Operator speed first

Every design decision is measured against time-to-update. If it adds a tap without adding value, it gets cut.

Privacy by design

Configurable MAC hashing, no PII storage, and transparent RF scoring so your organization controls what gets recorded.

Open and portable

Data you can export. Evidence you can audit. No lock-in to proprietary hardware or walled-garden ecosystems.

Zero infrastructure assumptions

Forager works with what's in the building today. No readers to mount, no networks to reconfigure, no facilities team required.

Offline-first reliability

Confirmations queue locally and sync reliably. A dropped connection never blocks a workflow or loses data.

Explainable intelligence

RF matching scores are visible and auditable. Operators see why a match was proposed, not just that it was.

Harbinge.rs

We build what comes next.

Harbinge.rs builds field intelligence products that reduce operational friction. We started with Forager because we watched asset location data fail in the field — and knew the problem was solvable.

The name comes from Old English: a harbinger is a scout sent ahead to gather intelligence and report back so others can act. Our logo is two ravens — Huginn and Muninn from Norse mythology — Odin's field agents, who flew out each morning and returned with everything they had seen. Ravens, in our product family, are named for them.

The domain is a Serbian ccTLD hack. Founded 2026.

Thaddeus Stepanovich, Founder of Harbinge.rs
Founder

Thaddeus Stepanovich.

Forager was born in hospital hallways, not a lab.

Thaddeus started in healthcare the direct way: fourteen years in emergency medical services, as an EMT and later an EMT instructor at Daniel Freeman Hospital — the nation's first paramedic school. EMS is where healthcare became his passion, and where he learned the standard he still builds to: the work matters when it makes a difference for the people doing the job.

He then spent more than two decades in healthcare technology operations, on both sides of the asset-tracking problem. For over a decade he was a director of healthcare End User Services, leading 3 managers and 114 field technicians across 5 states, responsible for clinical computing equipment across major health systems. In that role he oversaw a third-party asset audit at a major academic medical center — an organization with an explicit "every device, every time" mandate, dedicated tooling, and a motivated workforce. Despite advance notice, preparation time, and accommodating methodology, a substantial share of device location records still failed verification. The lesson became Forager's founding thesis: any system that depends on a human performing a manual step at the moment of equipment movement will fail — structurally, not motivationally.

Today he supports Clinical Imaging application teams at one of the nation's two largest non-profit health systems, where he watches the same records decay from the clinical-applications side. He is also a hands-on systems and RF engineer: before founding Harbingers, he designed and built a multi-node passive RF sensing network from the antenna up — the direct technical ancestor of Forager's location engine.

He founded Harbingers LLC in 2026 in Upland, California, where he has lived for more than twenty years. The motivation hasn't changed since the ambulance: build things that make a measurable difference for the people doing the work.

Ready to deploy Forager at your site?

Tell us about your facilities and asset roster. We'll come back with a deployment scope and a specific number within a week.