Born in the stable aisle, not in a meeting room
StallDesk is the tool we wish we’d found for our own yard. As it didn’t exist, we built it at Haras du Steinberg, then opened it up to other yards.
A stud, a livery yard, and too much paper
Haras du Steinberg is a stud and livery yard in the Sundgau, in southern Alsace, a few miles from Basel. Like many yards, it ran on a care notebook, a whiteboard for turnout, a folder for each horse and messages scattered between the team, the riders and the owners.
None of it was done badly. But the information didn’t follow: a wormer written down in the wrong place, a shoeing forgotten, an owner ringing in the middle of feeding to ask whether their horse had been turned out. Every yard knows these small leaks that end up costing time, money and peace of mind.
The rigour of nursing, applied to horses
Behind StallDesk is Agathe Stempflin, owner and manager of Haras du Steinberg. A nurse anaesthetist and a rider, she knows the two demands StallDesk brings together: the rigour of properly recorded care, and the reality of a day on the yard. In anaesthesia, care that isn’t recorded hasn’t been given: you note who gave what, at what dose and at what time.
At the stud, she applied the same discipline to life on the yard. That’s where the sign-off on every treatment comes from, along with the “Who gave it?” screen, each horse’s printable emergency file and the report that closes every day.
Put to the test before it’s offered
Every new version of StallDesk goes live on the pilot yard first, before it’s offered to anyone else. What isn’t useful is taken out. What’s missing is added.
Before every release, more than a thousand automated tests are re-run to check that nothing that worked yesterday has broken today. The team’s screens are checked in phone and tablet formats, so that every button stays big enough for a finger in a hurry.
Three languages, because the yard sits on a border
Where France, Germany and Switzerland meet, a single yard often brings together a French-speaking groom, a German-speaking rider and owners who write in English. So StallDesk has been translated in full, right down to the reports sent by email, and each device chooses its own language.
Horses’ names, rations and instructions stay exactly as you enter them; only the interface changes language.
We only write what we have measured
That’s the rule that has guided StallDesk from day one, and this website follows it too. You won’t find any made-up uptime promises, inflated customer numbers or testimonials written on someone else’s behalf here.
Whatever we claim, we can show you in a demo: a complete 22-horse yard, its feeds, its care, its broodmares and its team, on your screen.
StallDesk in brief
Software designed and run from Alsace, hosted in France, and built around the real needs of the yard where it was born.
The information follows the horse, not the notebook.
The StallDesk principle
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Tell us how you work today: we’ll show you, on a demo yard, what would change tomorrow morning.