About

Built for the gap between the truck and the brake.

Field to Fab exists because every duct shop we visited had the same wall of paper sketches, the same texts buried under photos of grandkids, the same "did you get my email?" loop. The work itself is precise — but the order pipeline runs on memory and luck. We're fixing the pipeline.

Our mission

Make the journey from a measurement on a job site to a fabricated piece on the loading dock as boring, predictable, and fast as possible — so shops can take more work, miss fewer dimensions, and stop spending Saturday mornings tracking down what Field Foremen ordered on Tuesday.

What we believe

Practical over clever

If a feature only helps a SaaS demo and not a guy in a basement with one bar of signal, we don't ship it.

Trades-first design

The phone is wet, the gloves are on, the job is loud. Every screen is built to be tappable in those conditions.

Your data, your shop

Multi-tenant isolation enforced at the database level. We don't sell aggregated data, we don't train models on your orders, we don't share.

No buzzwords

You will never see the word "synergy" anywhere in this product. We measure ducts, not vibes.

Transparent pricing

The price you see is the price you pay. No hidden seat fees. Cancel from Settings without a phone call.

Listen, then ship

Every feature in the app came from a request from a real Field Foreman or shop owner. Yours could be next.

How Field to Fab started

Field to Fab began on a fab shop floor where the shop lead kept a spiral notebook on a magnetic clipboard next to the press brake. Every order was a sketch with three numbers, a Field Foreman's initials, and a time. About one in eight had to go back to the Field Foreman for clarification. The shop was good — the system was the problem.

We built the first version of the app on weekends with two people: one who'd run a sheet-metal shop, one who'd shipped enterprise software. The first feature was the live 3D preview, because the biggest single source of rework was rectangular elbows getting built mirrored from the field's intent. Once Field Foremen could see the piece they were ordering, the rework rate fell off a cliff.

From there we added the realtime queue, the cut-sheet PDF, the photo sketch pad, the per-piece tracking, and the team invites. Every feature came from a shop telling us "this is what we'd actually use" — and we built nothing else.

Talk to us

Questions, feedback, feature requests, or just want to show us your shop's wall of paper sketches? We read every email.

hello@fieldtofab.comTry the app free