Sketch the job with your finger. Get the cut list, the count and the order before you leave the floor. Built by tradesmen at a working mechanical and steel shop โ not by a software company.
SEE THE FIVE APPSEvery Shot-Works app does one thing: you sketch the work the way you already sketch it on the back of a submittal, and it hands you the cut list, the fitting count and the material order with the math shown. No CAD. No training week. No desk. The trade knowledge lives inside it, so the apprentice can run it on day one and the foreman can check every number before anybody cuts.
Sketch the run, dodge the duct, get the cut list with the takeouts shown. The laser link for the long ones.
pipe-shot.com โLined, wrapped or bare. Connector deductions, flex and diffusers, and two ceiling wires on every one.
duct-shot.com โLay it out, mark it, count the holes and the bolt kits. Shop welds and field bolts on two different lists.
fab-shot.com โTake-up, gain and springback figured for your shoe and your material. The mark before you pull the handle.
bend-shot.com โMains, branch lines and heads on real spacing. It flags the head that won't make coverage before the walk.
sprink-shot.com โ$59 per seat, per month โ same price on every app. Two weeks free on each one. Buy the trades you run.
Not a GPS voice. Nothing says “in five hundred feet, make a U-turn” and nothing reads you a paragraph you didn’t ask for. You say what you need, it says “got it” and does it. That’s the whole personality.
Talk the parts that are easier to say. Tap the parts that are easier to tap. It’s an option, not a mode you get stuck in.
Tape in one hand, phone in your pocket. Say the number and it lands on the leg you’re pointing at โ you never climb down to type it, and you never write it on your hand.
Nobody types with gloves on and nobody wants grinder dust on the glass. Talk instead of peeling everything off every time you get a dimension.
Sun blowing out the phone, a dark mechanical room, or eyes that just aren’t what they were at twenty-five. Ask, and it tells you โ out loud, short.
Some of the best hands in this trade don’t type fast, don’t like to, and have spent thirty years getting handed a keyboard by somebody half their age. Talk to it instead. It never makes a thing of it.
You: “Ten foot even, then a forty-five over the duct”
It: “Got it.”
You: “What’s that cut?”
It: “Nine foot seven and five eighths.”
And when it has to stop you:
It: “That one's too short.”
Short. Plain. In the language the job already uses.
The number you lose is the one you read at the top of a ladder and wrote down two minutes later. Say it the second you read it and it’s in the sketch, on the right leg, before you’ve moved.
And the guy who’s been running work for thirty years shouldn’t have to learn to thumb-type to use the tool that carries his own knowledge. He talks. It listens. That was the point of the whole thing.
Drag your finger. That's the training.
Every shop has material it already paid for sitting in a bin, on a rack, or in the back of a truck. The Bucket is the same idea in all five apps: tell it what you've already got, and it only orders the difference. What that means changes by trade โ and the app knows the difference.
Short two press 90s but there's solder 90s on the shelf? They don't cut the same โ so the app changes the numbers, not you.
Slips and drives, screws, sealant, tape, hangers and cable ties โ counted off the real run instead of "grab a bundle."
Bolts by hole and grade, wire and gas off the actual weld length, discs and tips. The stuff that quietly stops a shop.
Heads, escutcheons, hanger hardware and the spare-head cabinet โ the $40 part that fails a whole floor.
One trip. The material you already own is the cheapest on the job.
Every shop has one. The guy who looks at a ceiling, a wall, a beam or a bay and just knows โ the takeouts, the take-up, the spacing, which end to hook, what's going to be in the way before anybody draws it.
He learned it over forty years, mostly from someone else who never wrote it down either. That's the whole trade: passed hand to hand, never on paper. And it's walking out the door faster than we're replacing it.
Meanwhile the new guy gets a tape, a print, and "figure it out." He's not lazy. Nobody ever taught him. That gap is what costs you scrap, rework, callbacks โ and the good young hands who quit because they felt stupid.
One โ we put the knowledge in the app. Published takeouts, real fitting libraries, take-up and gain, spacing rules, connector allowances. If a dimension isn't published, it says VERIFY instead of pretending. Every number shows its work, so the apprentice learns the math while he uses it.
Two โ we gave the school away. The whole Training Center is free on every app. No login, no email, no sales pitch. Hand it to your apprentice on day one and print it for the trailer.
The app is the product. The knowledge belongs to the trade.
None of this was ever a secret. It's just what needs to be taught โ and nobody ever wrote it down. Two tracks on every app: Run the Program teaches the app in an afternoon. Run the Job โ Foreman School โ teaches the trade behind the buttons. Twenty modules each, free, on whichever site is yours.
Benchmarks, takeout math, isometrics, joints, slope and vents, planning the run.
Open it free โDuct sizing, connector deductions, hangers, sealing, liner and wrap, field measuring.
Open it free โLayout by benchmark, shop drawings, fit-up and root gap, bolt-up, rigging it once.
Open it free โTake-up, gain and shrink, springback, the 45 offset, saddles, supports.
Open it free โCoverage and spacing, head types, takeout math, hangers and bracing, the walk.
Open it free โIt's funny because it's true, and it's true because we've all lived it. Every laugh has a lesson hiding in it โ that's how the trade trains the new guy, and it's how we built the apps.
Don't like reading? Neither do we. Hit ๐ LISTEN on any box and it reads that one out loud.
Nobody ever quit the trade over a hard day โ they quit over being lost and too proud to say so. Humor is how crews teach without anyone admitting they're learning. That's the product too. Shot-Works tells you the truth about the math and never makes you feel stupid for asking.
The full engine, cut lists, the Bucket and the complete training library โ on whichever app you buy. Same price for a one-man shop or a hundred hands. No tiers, no corporate discount.
START MY 2 WEEKS FREE2 weeks free, then $59/mo per seat. Cancel anytime.
Shot-Works is field-proven by Bel Air Mechanical and BA Steel crews on real commercial work. Tell us which trade you run and your two weeks start the day we open the doors.