ARCIFAB Shop — Why
Created by shop managers, for shop managers.
Travelers sit by the saw, a whiteboard tracks what is late, and finding a spool takes a phone call. It all stops when your people are out.
You bent your process to fit their software, and your fix is still “on the roadmap.” Every renewal is a hostage negotiation, and you own nothing.
Either way, your shop works around its system. It’s time you owned one that works for you.
We start with what makes your shop different to your customers, then design the system around the way you already deliver, because every contractor should own the software that runs their shop.
Your system is dedicated to your company, and you decide how it is set up.
Shops win on delivery: the handoff to the field and what your customer sees. Your system is shaped around that.
Add a bay or move a hold point, and we make the change. It never waits on a roadmap.
Add people and bays as you grow, and the price stays put.
Building in-house is expensive and usually left unfinished, because software engineers only understand a shop as well as the shop manager can explain it.
ARCIFAB comes from former shop managers who ran multi-site, multi-trade mechanical fabrication floors and spent the last decade managing data for some of the largest mechanical shops in the country.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Two visits to your shop: one to evaluate, one to deliver, train and go live.
Days 1–30
Evaluate
On site: we walk your floor
Days 31–60
Build
Your name, your data loaded
Days 61–90
Deliver
On site: train and go live
Months 4–24
Perfect
Tuned to your operation
Most shops don’t need a large capital outlay to own their system.
THE FIVE-YEAR MATH
Renting looks cheaper on the first invoice. Then every seat renews every year, and the price climbs every year. ARCIFAB costs more up front to build your system. After that, maintenance runs a fraction of a seat license and changes only with data capacity, and by year five you are more than a hundred thousand ahead. Building it with your own IT staff means a development payroll every year, and years before you have a working system.
| Year | ARCIFAB versus subscription software | ARCIFAB versus an internal IT team |
|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | 169% more | 49% less |
| Year 2 | 37% more | 73% less |
| Year 3 | 2% more | 80% less |
| Year 4 | 17% less | 83% less |
| Year 5 | 29% less | 85% less |
Renting
You pay every seat, every year, with an obligatory price increase. After five years you own nothing: not your data, and not the processes that made your workflow.
Owning with ARCIFAB
Your first payment covers 24 months of development and hosting. After that, a low yearly rate for maintenance and development that changes only with data capacity. A new trade or product later requires its own scope. Your system and your data are yours from day one.
Illustration for a 30-person shop. ARCIFAB upkeep changes only with data capacity, never with seats. Subscription shown at a typical per-seat rate, with an obligatory yearly price increase. Internal IT team estimated as two developers and an IT administrator, with benefits, payroll taxes, recruiting, hosting and security.
Match your current monthly
Financed, your own system often costs the same or less each month than the subscription you pay now.
Exit or overlap cleanly
We time the start and payments so you never pay for two systems while your current term runs out.
Stop the paper bleed
A typical system saves upwards of $100k a year in printing costs alone. Paper and toner become line items of the past.
HOW YOU PAY
Lump sum
Pay the full build on one invoice.
50 / 50
Half down to start. Half when your system is delivered.
Financed
Spread it out with our financing partner. As little as $0 down.
All invoices are net 14. Work begins when funds are received.
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