Crux - Route Setting and Safety Platform for a Climbing Gym Chain

Dashboard, climbs list, climb detail with 4 tabs, setting session detail with its checklists, and hazard reports with the hazard panel. Every one of the 37 demo climbs opens its own detail page.

A report's age turns red after 15 minutes without acknowledgement while the gym is open, and the demo shows a missed target escalated to the gym manager by SMS. Acknowledge and Close climb sit on every open row.

Member consensus is the median of grade votes, shown beside the setter's grade only once a climb has 5 votes. A climb a full grade or more off is flagged as a grade gap; the setter's grade is never overwritten.

25 live, 10 closed and 2 stripped climbs on 10 sections across 5 walls at one gym, with 12 hazard reports, 4 setting sessions, 10 staff users and the chain's 5 gyms.

Resets Planned on Whiteboards

Each gym kept its own rotation, so setters could not see which sections were overdue at the other gyms. The client's rules (bouldering reset every 5 weeks, roped climbs every 8, never two adjacent sections in the same week) lived in people's heads.

Grades Argued, Not Measured

Boulders use the V-scale and roped climbs the Yosemite Decimal System, and a grade is the setter's opinion. Without member votes and a target mix per grade band, mis-graded climbs and thin grade ranges were only found through complaints at the front desk.

Hazards Passed On by Word of Mouth

A spinning hold reported at the desk might not reach the setting crew before the next climber pulled on it. After a hold spun on a busy evening in 2025 (no injury), the operations director asked for one system where every hazard reaches staff at once and a climb can be closed in seconds.

Safety Checks Without One Rulebook

No single federal law covers climbing gym equipment. Gyms follow manufacturer instructions, Climbing Wall Association guidance and the EN 12572 series, while OSHA's walking-working surfaces and fall protection rules generally apply to setters on ladders and lifts. Checks were on paper and rope retire dates on tape.