For estimators, shop managers, and anyone who answers for the P&L

The estimator is in a spreadsheet.
The floor is on paper.
Nobody can tell you what the job made.

The next job should be priced off what the last one actually cost.

Evaluate my operation See Bid, Lite, and Shop
Mechanical
Sheet metal
Electrical
Industrial
Self-Perform GCs

WHERE YOU ARE

You already know which list you are on.

You’re done with

A programmer to leave Excel

A champion who is the only person who can keep the system alive

Another renewal for a tool that only does part of the job

A PDF that still becomes a spreadsheet

You’re ready for

One instance with your name on it

Rooms that match how you already bid, price, and build

In-house IT you do not have to train

The work stays the work

THE CHOICE AS IT IS USUALLY PUT

Both doors ask you to become something you are not.

DOOR ONE

Off the shelf.

Their rules. Your floor pretends.

  • Your assemblies fit their template. The way you have staged and spooled for fifteen years becomes whatever the drop-down allows.

  • Paper shows up beside it. Whatever it cannot do gets done the old way, and only one of the two is telling the truth.

  • The renewal is not a negotiation. Your history is inside it, and the price goes where they decide.

DOOR TWO

Hire IT.

You train them. They still don’t run a shop.

  • You are hiring for a trade they have never worked. Somebody on your payroll teaches a developer what a spool is before a line of it gets built.

  • The department bids nothing. Salary, benefits and overhead, carried against zero jobs won.

  • One person holds it up. A week off and the system waits. A better offer and it walks out of the building with them.

THE THIRD DOOR

Us.

Dedicated instance. You keep the work.

  • No template to fit yourself into. The room is shaped to how the work already moves, with your rates and your assemblies.

  • No department to staff. We stand up the rooms and keep them running. That is the arrangement, not a licence you re-negotiate.

  • Your name on it. Your people open your system, not somebody else’s brand.

What each door actually costs →

ON A JOB

The drawing is right there. The list is somewhere else.

CNC plasma machine cutting and bevelling large-diameter pipe on a fabrication floor

BID

Win the work.

The lead sits in one inbox. The number sits in a spreadsheet. The proposal gets typed last, by whoever is still in the office. Nothing carries forward.

Drawings open on screen beside printed sets and handwritten notes on a desk

LITE

Price the work.

The drawing is on the desk. The BOM is still a highlighter and an afternoon. The estimate implies a list the floor never actually gets.

Installed process piping, valves and hangers inside a plant

SHOP

Build the work.

Paper next to the official system. QC after it crates — or not at all. The floor runs anyway. The software watches.

WHY

You already paid for this once.

The money

You paid for time. Then you hired someone to run the software — or you lived in a spreadsheet that can’t spit a BOM.

The stack

Another tool. Another rulebook. Another renewal. Another subscribe-just-to-make-it-run. That’s not a system.

The firm

In-house IT you don’t have to train. We stand up the rooms. You keep the work.

Force the operation into off-the-shelf software, or hire an internal IT team. We are the third door.

WHAT

Three rooms. One instance.

Stand up the one you need. Add the next when the work calls for it.

Bid

Q4 2026

Win the work.

Job sourcing, estimate, proposal, BOM.

See Bid →

Lite

Q4 2026

Price the work.

Labor, material, takeoff + BOM off the PDF + proposal.

See Lite →

Shop

Live now

Build the work.

Production.

See Shop →

Bid wins it. Lite prices it. Shop builds it. Same system. Your name on it.

Bid and Lite are coming soon — available starting Q4 2026. ArciFab Shop is live today, and currently booking demos and systems into 2027.

Bid + Shop

From the job you chase to the piece that ships. One instance. White-labeled as yours. No fourth name.

ONE INSTANCE

Job sourcing

Bid / Lite

Estimate

Bid / Lite

Proposal

Bid / Lite

BOM

Bid / Lite

Floor

Shop

Nothing gets re-typed if it lives in one instance.

YOUR TRADE

The same system. Four different sets of problems.

A shop does not run on a generic process. Configuration starts from what your trade actually tracks, and these are the parts that never fit an off-the-shelf tool.

Mechanical

Spools, hangers and the rack.

Spool sheets released by area, hangers that have to be on the same truck as the rack, and a weld map that has to match what the welder actually ran. Miss the hangers and the rack is a delivery the field has to finish for you.

Sheet metal

Yield off the coil.

Gauge, seam type and what came off the coil against what got nested. The job is won or lost on the drop, and a duct run that ships without its fittings is a return trip nobody priced.

Electrical

Kitting, not counting.

Conduit runs, gear, and prefab assemblies kitted by area so the crew opens one box per pull. Track it as loose material and somebody spends the morning on site sorting it into the kit that should have left the shop.

Oil & Gas

The paper is the product.

Heat numbers, weld procedures, NDE and hydrotest packs that have to travel with the spool. A re-cut costs the alloy and the traceability twice, because the replacement piece needs its own record before it can ship.

HOW WE WORK

We learn your operation before a single line of code is configured.

1

Initial Evaluation

We sit down and hear how the work actually moves — not a feature tour.

2

Deep Dive

We document how you already bid, price, and build, from the first job you chase to the last piece that ships.

3

Roadmap & Proposal

A plan for this operation. Not a generic implementation deck.

4

Implementation

Your instance. Your name. Your data in it.

5

Go-Live

We stand it up with the people who will use it.

6

Ongoing Support

Hosting and development. We keep the unit running. You keep the work.

ArciFab

THE FIRM

ArciFab sits with Arcify.

Same firm, two halves. When the model load spikes and the detailing bench is short, that bench exists — coordination and VDC people who have done the work, turned on for a job and turned off when it ships. You do not have to use it. It is simply there, under the same roof, which is why nothing here has to be handed to a third party when the job gets complicated. This page is not a BIM pitch. It is the floor, the bid, and who stands behind both.

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