What you actually pay, how tickets are protected, and what each platform is built on — sourced strictly from Krinkle's published page and Atlas's own materials. No invented competitor claims.
Atlas Public and Krinkle Debris Tracker both run ROW and public-facilities debris monitoring. The differences that matter are things you can check before a sales call: what you pay, how tickets are protected, and what you're built on.
Krinkle bills $2.50 for every project hour billed to the client — field staff plus project managers, office leadership, and executives — runs on pre-printed paper tickets sold at $350 per thousand, and treats data integrity as something you detect in reports after the fact. Atlas Public bills only field-staff hours on a lower graduated rate ($1.50 down to $0.75), is fully paperless, and prevents a non-compliant ticket from being created in the first place through four-factor authentication. It's also built to current FEMA guidance (PAPPG v5 and the FEMA Debris Monitoring Guide), by someone who has worked every role in a debris operation — from driving the haul truck to running the debris monitoring program.
Krinkle's published model charges for every hour billed to the jurisdiction. Atlas Public charges only for field operation hours — monitors, field supervisors, and operations managers. Project management, data management, and leadership hours are never metered.
| Total billed field hours | Rate for that band |
|---|---|
| First 20,000 | $1.50 / hr |
| 20,001 – 50,000 | $1.25 / hr |
| 50,001 – 100,000 | $1.00 / hr |
| 100,001 – 150,000 | $0.85 / hr |
| 150,001 and above | $0.75 / hr |
| Field hours | Atlas Public | Krinkle ($2.50 / billed hr) | You save | % lower |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20,000 | $30,000 | $50,000 | $20,000 | 40% |
| 50,000 | $67,500 | $125,000 | $57,500 | 46% |
| 100,000 | $117,500 | $250,000 | $132,500 | 53% |
| 150,000 | $160,000 | $375,000 | $215,000 | 57% |
| 200,000 | $197,500 | $500,000 | $302,500 | 61% |
| 300,000 | $272,500 | $750,000 | $477,500 | 64% |
Three things make the real-world gap larger than this table:
Krinkle's published approach to integrity is fraud-detection reporting — surfacing issues in reports after tickets are captured. Atlas Public takes a prevention-first approach: a non-compliant ticket can't be created in the first place. Every Atlas ticket must clear four authentication factors before it exists as a record.
The result is an audit-defensible ticket: forging one means defeating all four factors simultaneously. For a firm whose reputation and contract performance ride on every ticket surviving a FEMA audit, preventing the bad ticket at the point of capture is a fundamentally stronger position than detecting anomalies in a report afterward.
Atlas Public is fully paperless and extends access to the people who do the hauling. Debris removal contractors and their drivers get their own login to view their reports and metrics, download ticket data, and download invoice data.
When it's time to get paid, a contractor prepares its invoice on its own letterhead and template, and Atlas reconciles that invoice against the captured system of record to surface any discrepancies. When it reconciles cleanly, Atlas generates a reconciliation report and a letter of recommendation for payment for the government/applicant client. That independent validation step — checking an independently-prepared invoice against an independent record before money moves — is what stands up when an auditor asks how a payment was justified.
Atlas Public is designed around PAPPG Version 5 (effective for incidents declared on or after January 6, 2025) and the current FEMA Debris Monitoring Guide. Krinkle's published page still references FEMA-325, the Public Assistance Debris Management Guide that FEMA superseded in 2016. Building to the standard your reimbursement is actually evaluated against is not a small thing in an audit.
Your team and your jurisdiction clients work inside your own branded environment and see your name. Krinkle does not offer white-label branding; it is delivered as a Krinkle product.
Atlas's designer spent 21 years in debris operations — and on both sides of the ticket. He drove a haul truck after Katrina, and during Hurricane Irma worked as a data analyst for a major debris removal contractor across Florida and Puerto Rico. On the monitoring side, he had already come up through monitor, field supervisor, operations manager, and data manager to project manager by then, and went on to regional manager and program director. He has seen the ticket from inside the truck cab and from the reconciliation desk. Krinkle's forms were built in cooperation with subject-matter experts; Atlas was built by one.
| Atlas Public | Krinkle Debris Tracker | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing basis | Field-staff hours only | Every project hour billed to client |
| Rate | $1.50 → $0.75 graduated | $2.50 / hr |
| Setup fee | None | $2,500 one-time |
| Tenant access | Self-service — create, configure, and manage projects, demos, and test environments at will | $2,500 setup incl. 8 hrs training (per their page) |
| Paper-ticket cost | None — paperless | Pre-printed tickets, $350 / thousand |
| Ticket medium | Fully digital (load + disposal) | Pre-printed barcoded paper tickets |
| Data integrity | Prevention — four-factor authentication at capture | Fraud-detection reporting |
| Invoice handling | Validates the contractor's own invoice; issues payment-recommendation letter | Captures contract terms; generates an invoice |
| Built to current FEMA guidance | PAPPG v5 + Debris Monitoring Guide | Page cites FEMA-325 (superseded 2016) + PAPPG |
| White-label under your brand | Yes | No |
| ROW / public facilities | Yes — Atlas Public | Yes |
| PPDR / wildfire | Yes — Atlas Foundation | Yes — multi-year field record |
| Dedicated waterway module | Atlas Channel (in production) | Not advertised as a dedicated module |
Choose Krinkle if a long, in-production field record is your single deciding factor — especially for wildfire work you need running today.
Choose Atlas Public if you want a materially lower and more honest cost basis (field hours only, no paper), tickets that are protected at the point of capture rather than audited after the fact, software built to the FEMA guidance your reimbursement is actually judged against, a platform under your own brand, and a system designed by someone who has worked every seat in the operation.
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