FIELD1ST VS INTELEX · 2026
Field1st vs Intelex: A System of Record, and the Layer That Feeds It.
Intelex is a mature enterprise EHSQ platform, owned by Fortive, built to be the corporate system of record for ISO compliance, health, and quality across many sites. Field1st is the field execution layer: the tool crews and subcontractors actually use to capture at the point of work. Here is an honest look at where each wins.
CHOOSE INTELEX IF
You Need One Corporate System of Record
ISO 45001, 14001, and 9001 auditing across dozens of sites, plus industrial hygiene, occupational health, chemical, quality, and ESG in one relational database.
CHOOSE FIELD1ST IF
Per-Seat Pricing Is Starving Your Field Data
High-hazard, multi-employer work where charging for every user quietly gates reporting, and the real goal is getting the whole crew, subs included, to capture in the field.
THE HONEST ANSWER
Intelex Is Built Top Down. Field1st Is Built Bottom Up.
Intelex is bought by corporate EHS and IT to aggregate compliance data across a global footprint and satisfy auditors. It is genuinely strong at that. Field1st is bought by safety and operations to fix what happens at the tailgate: crews avoiding long forms, subcontractors left out, and field data that comes in thin because access is gated behind a paid seat.
The sharpest real difference is commercial, not technical. Intelex licenses per user, so extending safety access to every seasonal hand and subcontractor gets expensive fast. Finance responds by limiting seats, which quietly suppresses the exact frontline reporting a safety program needs. Field1st includes every contractor and sub free, so everyone on the worksite can capture. This page is honest about the rest too, including the things Field1st does not do.
FEATURE BY FEATURE
Field1st vs Intelex, Side by Side.
Intelex figures are drawn from public sources and analyst research. Where a figure is reported rather than confirmed by us, it is labeled.
Intelex is a registered trademark of its owner (Fortive Corporation). Comparison compiled July 2026 from public sources and analyst research; Intelex pricing and implementation figures are reported, not confirmed by Field1st. Field1st does not claim occupational health, industrial hygiene, chemical, quality, or ESG capabilities.
WHERE INTELEX IS THE STRONGER CHOICE
Intelex, Honestly.
If your problem is enterprise compliance breadth, Intelex is a proven choice, and Field1st does not try to do these things.
ISO & AUDIT
Compliance Across Many Sites
Unifying ISO 45001, 14001, and 9001 across dozens of international facilities, with rigorous audit trails and document version control built to survive a regulatory review.
HEALTH & HYGIENE
Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health
Similar Exposure Groups, exposure-limit cross-referencing, medical surveillance, and clinical records with the privacy controls field-first tools intentionally leave out.
ONE STACK
EHS, Quality, and ESG Together
Managing a manufacturing defect, a forklift incident, Scope 3 emissions, and an environmental permit in one relational database for C-suite and board reporting.
WHERE FIELD1ST FITS BETTER
Field1st, Honestly.
If your real problem is at the tailgate, not in the boardroom, this is where Field1st earns its place.
NO GROWTH PENALTY
Every Sub Can Report, No Seat Required
Per-seat licensing makes it expensive to give transient subcontractors access, so reporting falls back to paper. With Field1st, every contractor and sub captures through a QR code with no account and no seat.
ADOPTION
Crews Actually Use It
Voice and photo capture, hands-free, offline, in English or Spanish, instead of a long audit-driven form on a small screen. Field1st reached 100% supervisor adoption at Dominion Energy.
AI AT THE POINT OF WORK
Catch the Hazard Before the Task
Where enterprise AI analyzes trends on data already collected, HazardID reads a photo in the moment and suggests controls before work starts. Leading intervention, not lagging report.
YOU DON'T ALWAYS HAVE TO CHOOSE
Field1st Can Feed Intelex.
Keep Your System of Record. Fix the Capture Underneath It.
Intelex is engineered to aggregate and audit data, and it integrates with systems like SAP and Workday. But every dashboard it produces is only as good as the field data going in, and if crews avoid the enterprise forms, that data arrives thin. Field1st is a field execution layer: crews and subcontractors capture by voice and photo, and Field1st sends clean, structured data to enterprise systems through an open API. You keep Intelex as the system of record and finally solve the frontline adoption problem underneath it.
FIELD1ST VS INTELEX
Frequently Asked Questions.
What is the difference between Field1st and Intelex?
Intelex is a full enterprise EHSQ system of record for ISO compliance, industrial hygiene, occupational health, chemical, and ESG reporting across many sites. Field1st is the field execution layer: voice and photo capture that crews actually use at the point of work.
Is Field1st a replacement for Intelex?
Not for occupational health, chemical inventory, quality management, or ESG. Field1st does not do those. It can replace Intelex for field safety capture if that is your real problem, or run in front of Intelex as the layer that gets crews and subs to actually report.
Can Field1st and Intelex work together?
Yes. Field1st is a field execution layer and feeds clean field data to enterprise systems through an open API. Keep Intelex as your system of record, integrated with SAP or Workday, and use Field1st to fix the frontline capture the dashboards depend on.
Which is better for contractors and multi-employer worksites?
Field1st. Subcontractors capture through a QR code with no account and no paid seat. Intelex uses per-seat licensing, so giving every transient sub full workflow access is costly, which is why field reporting often falls back to paper.
How do Field1st and Intelex compare on price and implementation?
Intelex is reported as per-user pricing (an Essentials tier around $44 to $49 per user per month, 25-user minimum) with implementation fees and rollouts of three to eighteen months. Field1st is one platform with contractors and guests included free, and it deploys in days on a no-code form builder.
Which is easier for field crews to use?
Field1st is built for frontline adoption: voice and photo capture, hands-free, offline, in English or Spanish. Intelex has a mobile app, but reviewers describe long audit-driven forms and a steep learning curve that suppress field use.
ON PRICING
We Charge for Your Team. Not Everyone Else's.
The clearest difference is who you pay for. Field1st has no modules, and every contractor and sub on the job captures free, so extending safety across a multi-employer site never inflates the bill.
NO MODULES
Everything, One Price
Voice capture, hazard AI, JSAs, inspections, and analytics are one platform. No module menu, no upsell for the feature you need next.
CONTRACTORS FREE
You License Your Own Team
Every contractor, sub, and guest captures by QR at no seat cost. You pay for your own crews and supervisors, not the whole jobsite.
SEE IT ON YOUR OWN JOB
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