FabProfit is opening a limited Charter License Program for 25 approved fabrication companies that want to install a stronger estimating, quoting, pricing, risk, and margin-protection standard before bad assumptions become jobs.
You already know margin leakage rarely shows up as one dramatic failure. It usually appears as small misses repeated across drawings, labour assumptions, material buy quantities, field access, outsourced work, payment terms, change-order language, and quote handoff. FabProfit is built to help your team govern those decisions across structural steel, miscellaneous metals, heavy industrial assemblies, and multi-mobilization field installs.
This is not anti-ERP. FabProfit helps protect your ERP, schedule, shop floor, and final quote from weak estimating inputs before those inputs become company-wide operating data.
And if the estimate is weak, your shop, PMs, purchasing, ERP, schedule, and margin inherit the mistake. This video explains why fabrication companies often lose margin before the steel ever reaches the floor.
Apply for the Charter License if your company is ready to evaluate a spot, or run the calculator first to see what your current estimating process may be costing you.
Most fabrication companies will happily drop a half-million dollars trying to shave ten minutes off their production time. They write massive CapEx checks for 12-kilowatt fiber lasers, multi-axis CNC press brakes, robotic welding cells, laser welding machines, Miller Dynasty set ups, and automated beam lines. Then they drop another two hundred grand on a massive new ERP system and sit in weekly management meetings trying to chase down a five percent labor overrun.
But here is the hard truth that nobody in the software industry wants to tell you: You almost never lose your margin on the shop floor.
You lose it the exact second a weak quote becomes your production plan. A bad job is usually purchased before the steel is even ordered, and long before the first cut is ever made.
Before we talk about how to fix that, you should probably know exactly who you are listening to. I am not a software developer who decided to launch a tech startup, and I am definitely not a theoretical business consultant. I am a metal guy who figured out the math.
I've got over 50,000 hours in this trade, and over the last twenty-five years, I've pretty much lived in every corner of the industry. I actually started out painting. Then I spent my time under the welding hood, fitting steel on the floor, doing the layout, building stairs, mezzanines, handrails, bending square-to-rounds, and getting to know equipment intimately. Eventually, I moved into heavy 3D cad design, and from there, into the office. I’ve run operations, been involved in M&A, did sales, and led an estimating department for some highly complex structural, mechanical, and industrial fabrication and repair jobs.
I know what it smells like when a job goes sideways on the floor. I know exactly what it costs when a clean PDF drawing collides with the messy reality of the shop.
I built the FabProfit System because I simply got tired of watching incredibly talented fabrication shops lose their shirts on jobs they never should have bid, or give away their hard-earned margin simply because of a few undocumented blind spots at the estimating desk.
That said, if your company is bleeding EBITDA right now, it is usually happening because of three major estimating failures.
First, your team is misunderstanding labour. The biggest problem is the massive disconnect between the estimating desk and the actual work. Too often, estimators are staring at drawings that show a perfect finished product, and pricing a perfect world, having no idea what actually happens on the shop floor or on a job site. In fabrication, material is math, but labour is weather. A weld might take 20 minutes of pure arc time on paper, but what about the reality? What about the crane setup? The forklift movement? Travel and mobilize time? The fitter trying to wrestle a warped plate? The site standby? If your estimators are treating arc time like floor time, they aren't predicting human work, they are just guessing. And you are giving your labor away for free.
Second, they are treating risk like a feeling instead of a structure. Hope is not a business strategy. An estimate is not just a cost calculation; it is a risk decision. If your team isn't naming the risk, deciding who owns it, and explicitly pricing it, qualifying it, or excluding it before the quote goes out, the shop will end up absorbing the cost when reality shows up.
And third, they’re confusing markup with margin, a mistake that drains your bottom line before the job even starts. A quote is not just a price tag; it is a risk-control document. If your proposal is vague, you've handed the customer a blank check to compare you on price alone. But if you draw a clear fence around the job with precise assumptions and exclusions, you’re doing something better: you’re forcing them to compare you on competence. Don't fight for the bottom. Fight to be the most competent shop in the room.
Now, your senior estimator probably knows all of this. But when that knowledge is locked inside one guy's head, you don’t have a company estimating system. You have a massive key-person dependency.
That is what the FabProfit System fixes. But this isn't just a pile of training videos. It is a complete operating infrastructure.
Along with the core training modules, you are getting my proprietary Master Estimating Spreadsheet suite. This is an absolute beast of an engine. It includes automated Takeoff Imports, a live Material Database, a Quote Health Score that warns you if your bid is too risky, and an Auto-RFI Generator that automatically drafts questions for your customer based on missing scope. It even auto-builds the legal language for your proposal letters.
Because of this specific toolset, companies are actually cutting their quoting time in half. You save 50 percent of your actual quote time because the spreadsheets do the heavy lifting, allowing your estimators to focus on strategy instead of data entry, or doing more quotes.
To back that up, your team also gets two manuals. The first is the Estimator's Profit Protection Field Guide, which gives your team instant access to steel sizing, buyout math, and risk treatment formulas. The second is the Fabricator's Sales Cheat Sheet, which trains your estimators on how to follow up, ask better questions, and close more quotes without ever having to act like a pushy salesperson.
And if you are sitting there thinking, "Greg, we just spent $200,000 on a new ERP system to handle this," you need to hear this reality check. Industry data shows that over 70 percent of recently implemented ERP systems fail to fully meet their original business goals.
Why? Because an ERP is a database, not a crystal ball. It only computes the assumptions you feed it. If your estimator feeds your new ERP bad routing times or misses the field mobilization costs, your expensive software is just going to schedule your mistakes faster. It is garbage in, garbage out.
The FabProfit System doesn't replace your ERP. It acts as the intelligent pre-processor. It gives your entire team the tools to handle the messy risk analysis, the handling logic, and the true labor calculations before that data ever hits your final system.
Right now, I am opening up the FabProfit System to a Charter Group of just 25 forward-thinking fabrication companies. Because I am going to be working closely with this initial cohort to ensure their teams adopt the system and map their takeoff data flawlessly, I have to cap it at 25 spots.
This Charter License window is closing soon; you can see the exact deadline date right below this video. After that deadline passes, or the 25 spots are filled, the price permanently shifts to our standard enterprise rate.
Right below this video, you will see two buttons.
If you are ready to claim your spot in this cohort before it fills up, click the button to apply for the Charter License right now.
But if you want to look at your own math first, click the other button to run the Baseline Efficiency Calculator. It takes about three minutes to fill out. Let the math show you exactly what your current, undocumented quoting process is costing you.
Either way, the window to get in on this Charter Group is closing. Check the date below, pick a button, and let's get to work fixing your estimating process.
I will see you on the inside.
FabProfit is being released through a controlled Charter License Program for companies that want early access while the implementation path, worksheets, dashboards, and company rollout process are tested against real fabrication estimating environments.
The cap exists so the Charter group can receive practical attention as the system is adopted inside real estimating environments, instead of being purchased and left unused.
FabProfit is a company standard, not a passive video library. The first cohort is capped so adoption support and feedback can stay practical.
Fabrication companies that want cleaner quote logic, less estimator dependency, stronger handoffs, and better ERP-ready estimating inputs.
After July 31, 2026, Charter pricing closes. Standard enterprise pricing, access terms, and implementation packaging apply thereafter.
Your company already makes operating decisions through the estimate. The quote determines what your shop is expected to build, what the customer believes is included, what your ERP may receive as job data, what the schedule assumes, and what margin is left to absorb reality. FabProfit is built to standardize that decision before it becomes a job.
The core promise: standardize how your company estimates before bad assumptions become jobs, ERP data, schedules, and margin losses.
Create one repeatable estimating language for drawings, scope, labour, material, outsourced work, risk, final price, and quote wording.
Improve the quality of the estimate before weak routing times, weak BOMs, and weak scope assumptions enter your operating systems.
Turn senior estimator instinct into a process your company can teach, review, challenge, improve, and use after key people move on.
Move risk out of vague profit hope and into named assumptions, exclusions, reserves, alternates, and management decisions.
Most fabrication companies already have pieces of a system: Excel files, ERP data, senior estimator judgment, purchasing habits, and shop-floor experience. The problem is not that those pieces are useless. The problem is that they are often disconnected before the quote becomes an operating commitment.
FabProfit is built for companies that have outgrown estimating chaos but do not want another bloated software implementation. It gives your team a structured, fabrication-specific estimating standard inside tools your company can actually understand, own, review, and improve.
Excel is flexible, familiar, and already embedded in fabrication workflows. But when every estimator uses a different file, logic becomes invisible and quality depends too heavily on the person using it.
ERP and quoting platforms can be valuable, but they still depend on the quality of the estimating assumptions your team feeds them. Software can organize bad inputs just as quickly as good ones.
FabProfit gives your company a governed estimating framework that standardizes scope, labour, material, outsourced work, risk, final price, quote language, and handoff clarity before the job is released.
FabProfit is for companies that need estimating discipline before they need another software platform. It is for teams that want the flexibility of Excel, the discipline of a system, and the business control of documented estimating governance.
ERP tracks the business. FabProfit protects the assumptions before they become ERP data. That makes the system safer for companies that already use ERP and for companies preparing to implement one.
Medium and large fabrication companies often already have ERP, are implementing ERP, or are comparing ERP options. FabProfit is not positioned against that. It is positioned before it.
Your ERP can only work with the quality of the assumptions, routings, labour logic, BOMs, risk decisions, and scope boundaries your team gives it.
This system does not attack the person doing the estimating. It protects them from carrying the entire company's quote logic in their head.
FabProfit gives your estimator a repeatable framework so company knowledge does not live only in one person's memory.
This calculator gives your leadership team a conservative baseline view of where quote capacity, revision work, and preventable margin leakage may be hiding inside your current estimating process.
You probably already have pieces of a system: an ERP, a quoting spreadsheet, experienced estimators, a purchasing process, and people on the floor who know what really happens after award.
The risk is that those pieces do not always speak the same language before the quote goes out. When scope, labour, material buy quantities, outsourced work, field conditions, and risk assumptions are not standardized at the estimating stage, your ERP, scheduler, PM, purchasing team, and shop floor inherit weak inputs.
FabProfit is the quote discipline layer before the job becomes an operating commitment. It helps turn tribal estimating judgment into a repeatable company workflow that can be reviewed, trained, improved, and handed off.
ERP adoption is growing. Spreadsheet dependence is still normal. Quoting is a revenue constraint. Labour knowledge is aging out. The companies that protect margin are the ones that turn estimating into an operating standard.
Sources are linked below so you can inspect the data directly. These numbers are market context, not guaranteed result claims.
Market data shows meaningful ERP adoption, but the deeper issue is utilization. A shop can have ERP in accounting and still run quoting, routing, scheduling, and job judgment through spreadsheets and memory.
Custom fabrication is high-mix, low-volume, and full of exceptions. That is why shops keep using spreadsheets. The opportunity is to make the spreadsheet logic controlled, documented, linear, and hard to corrupt.
If estimated labour hours, machine times, outsourced lead times, and material assumptions are wrong, ERP does not remove the problem. It distributes the problem faster and more confidently.
Quote speed, quote accuracy, and quote confidence affect what work gets won, what work gets missed, and whether your company wins jobs that are actually worth producing.
As experienced fabricators, estimators, and shop leaders age out, the risk is not just labour shortage. The risk is losing the undocumented rules that kept bad work from being bought in the first place.
Material volatility, field friction, underpriced labour, weak quote language, and unmanaged outsourced work do not always show up as one dramatic failure. They leak margin job by job.
ERP is not just a software install. It is a workflow transformation. Estimating standards matter because the quote becomes the first operational dataset for the job.
Field access, mobilizations, approvals, coatings, freight, and customer-controlled delays need a home in the estimate. Otherwise they hide inside profit until the job is already won.
These are the questions a sophisticated operator, CFO, private equity partner, estimating manager, or plant leader is likely to raise before taking the next step.
That is exactly why quote discipline matters. ERP can schedule, purchase, route, and report only from the data it receives. If the estimate is built on weak labour assumptions, incomplete material buy quantities, unclear outsourced scope, or undocumented risk, ERP turns those weak assumptions into operating instructions.
So do a lot of serious shops. The question is not whether Excel exists. The question is whether the workbook forces the right estimating sequence, protects formulas, documents assumptions, standardizes labour logic, and creates a clean handoff.
Your best estimator may know it. Your company may not. If the process lives in one person’s head, it is not yet a company asset. It cannot be trained consistently, reviewed consistently, improved consistently, or protected from turnover.
Speed without discipline is how bad work gets purchased faster. The goal is not to add bureaucracy. The goal is to remove rework from the estimating process by forcing the same high-value checks every time: scope, drawings, labour, buy quantity, outsourced work, risk, margin, and quote language.
Sometimes production is the problem. But many production problems are quote problems wearing shop-floor clothing: underpriced handling, missing setup, bad field assumptions, unclear finish requirements, weak exclusions, or a schedule promise that was never realistic.
Then the estimating workflow needs to be cleaned before bad assumptions are migrated, automated, and trusted. ERP projects fail when companies treat them like software purchases instead of workflow transformations. Estimating is one of the first workflows that deserves discipline.
That is reasonable. But the hidden cost of not standardizing estimating is paid through underpriced jobs, missed extras, vague quote language, poor quote handoff, second mobilizations, excess PM time, and jobs that look good at award but collapse at closeout.
You can. But internal builds often stall because the same people who need the system are already buried in quote volume, production problems, customer changes, and ERP cleanup. FabProfit gives your team a proven structure so they are not starting from a blank page.
That is not a reason to wait. It is a reason to start with estimating discipline. Clean ERP data starts with clean operating definitions: what counts as labour, what gets included in material buyout, how outsourced work is leveled, what risk is carried, and what assumptions are written into the quote.
You may ask why this is not a pure SaaS platform. The answer is simple: custom fabrication still relies heavily on spreadsheets because the work is variable, exception-driven, and fast-moving.
How FabProfit helps: It is built where the work already happens, then adds structure, workflow, colour-coded inputs, review logic, and company standards.
If you already have ERP, you do not need another disconnected system. You need cleaner job logic before that job logic becomes ERP data.
How FabProfit helps: It protects routing assumptions, buyout logic, quote language, risk ownership, and margin decisions before ERP handoff.
If quoting capacity is limited, your company either quotes too slowly, quotes too loosely, or declines work it should have had a shot at winning.
How FabProfit helps: Estimators move through a repeatable decision path instead of reinventing the estimate every time.
When experienced people leave, they take the unwritten rules with them. That is dangerous when those unwritten rules are what prevented bad quotes.
How FabProfit helps: It creates an internal estimating language your team can train, audit, and improve.
Your ERP records the job. Scheduling sequences the job. Purchasing buys for the job. Production builds the job. Finance measures the job.
But your estimate defines the first version of the job. That is why quote discipline is not a small estimating-department issue. It is an operating control.
You are not buying a pile of videos. You are buying a practical estimating operating system your team can use to price work, protect margin, standardize review, and reduce dependency on undocumented estimator judgment.
The strongest starting point is a short estimating-process review: your current tools, ERP handoff, quote bottlenecks, field exposure, outsourced-work exposure, and where margin most often disappears after award.
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Most fabrication companies investigate margin erosion downstream. They review labour overruns, rework, PM time, backcharges, field delays, quality problems, and production bottlenecks after the job closes.
That review is useful, but it is late. By then, the quote has already converted assumptions into obligations. The shop is trying to rescue a commercial decision that was made before material was ordered and before the first cut was made.
FabProfit System attacks the upstream decision point: the estimate, the quote, the price stack, the risk treatment, and the language that determines who owns what after award.
If your company depends on individual instinct, legacy spreadsheets, undocumented judgment, and post-award heroics, then the estimating function is not yet an institutional system.
Training explains concepts. A system changes behaviour. FabProfit gives your team a common language, a common workflow, a common toolset, and a common standard for deciding what must be priced, clarified, excluded, transferred, reserved, or negotiated before the quote leaves the building.
The dollar amounts change by company size. The pattern does not. Margin disappears when the estimating process does not force the right questions early enough.
The drawing shows the finished condition. It does not show the handling path, fit-up sequence, field access, lift plan, finish risk, or shipping constraint.
Arc time is treated like shop time. Setup, movement, control, friction, fatigue, field mobilization, and remobilization disappear from the number.
The estimate prices the finished piece instead of the actual buy. Stock lengths, waste, drops, kerf, minimums, freight, market movement, and old stock risk are under-controlled.
The vendor quote is copied into the estimate as if it is the full cost. Prep, freight, loading, receiving, inspection, coordination, remake risk, and margin are missed.
Site readiness, approvals, schedule compression, customer drag, commercial terms, and unclear scope are not assigned an owner before the job is accepted.
The quote wins the job, but it does not define the fence around the job. Inclusions, exclusions, assumptions, alternates, validity, and change-order rules are weak.
FabProfit System is designed for the people inside your company who influence quote quality: estimators, managers, project teams, purchasing, foremen, field leaders, and executives who approve pricing strategy.
The system gives your team an operating sequence that forces judgment into the quote before the quote becomes your company’s obligation.
Score your current estimating process against the common sources of margin erosion: scope, labour, material, risk, final price, proposal language, and post-job feedback.
Move every job through a consistent path: drawings, scope, material, labour, subs, risk, pricing, quote wording, handoff, follow-up, and actual-vs-estimate review.
Clarify true labour rates, burden, utilization, overhead, direct cost, support cost, business cost, risk, contingency, margin, and payment requirements.
Capture the shop realities senior people know: handling issues, field friction, finish risk, vendor problems, customer behaviours, and repeat estimating mistakes.
Use final review checklists, quote language banks, risk registers, and management checks so your company does not send naked numbers into the market.
Each phase is practical, direct, and built around how fabrication work actually becomes cost.
Reposition estimating as financial gatekeeping, risk control, and production planning before production starts.
Train the team to read beyond the finished condition and price the build, move, lift, ship, finish, and install path.
Run every deliverable through preparation, fabrication, finishing, assembly/QC, logistics, and field readiness.
Break labour into touch time, setup time, movement time, control time, friction time, field event time, fatigue, and loaded rates.
Price what the job forces the shop to buy, not only what the finished drawing uses. Control drops, waste, market movement, and finish separation.
Treat vendor work as managed scope, not pass-through cost. Carry touches, freight, prep, inspection, coordination, remake risk, and margin.
Name risk, assign ownership, price it, qualify it, exclude it, transfer it, or reserve for it before the customer owns the number.
Fix markup-versus-margin confusion, burdened labour, overhead recovery, quote checks, discounting, and final pricing discipline.
Build a proposal that sells the number, defines the scope, protects the margin, and creates a clean handoff after award.
The tools turn the system into job-level behaviour. They give the estimator, manager, or owner a structured way to price real work, expose hidden cost, capture risk, and produce a quote that can survive production.
These custom tools do not replace professional judgment. They help your team apply better judgment before the quote is sent.
Designed for internal use across estimating, management, and project teams.
Zero deployment friction.
The real change is not that your estimator watches videos. The real change is that your company starts making the same estimating decisions the same way, with fewer assumptions hiding inside margin.
Before FabProfit, a quote can depend heavily on who opened the drawings, how busy they were, what they remembered from the last similar job, and how much risk they quietly buried in the number. After FabProfit, the estimate moves through a visible sequence your team can review, challenge, improve, and hand off.
Managers get a clearer way to see what was included, excluded, assumed, carried as risk, and handed off to production.
The system supports the estimator's judgement with repeatable questions, worksheets, quote checks, and risk language.
Production and PMs inherit clearer labour assumptions, material logic, outsourced work notes, field risks, and change-order boundaries.
Labour rate, overhead recovery, markup, true margin, risk reserve, contingency, and final sell price are treated as separate decisions.
FabProfit does not replace ERP. It helps improve the estimating logic that feeds ERP, scheduling, buyout, and reporting.
Quote logic becomes documented, teachable, transferable, and improvable instead of living as undocumented tribal knowledge.
FabProfit is designed to become part of your internal operating rhythm without forcing a massive software change project.
Management and estimators review the FabProfit estimating standard together so everyone understands the purpose: margin control before award.
Output: shared estimating language.
Use the worksheets on a real quote: drawings, scope, labour, material, outsourced work, risk, final price, and proposal language.
Output: first job-level benchmark.
Capture company-specific labour, material, scope, risk, install, coating, field, and quote-language rules from your actual shop experience.
Output: internal estimating playbook.
Run every major bid through a pre-release review so the estimator, manager, PM, and owner can see the risk before the customer does.
Output: management review rhythm.
The screenshots below show the operating logic inside FabProfit: executive visibility, labour bucket discipline, risk and unknowns, scope breakdown, quote review, and final price build-up.
Gives ownership and management a clearer view of quote health, pricing exposure, risk signals, margin targets, and decision points before release.
Separates labour into real estimating buckets so your team is not hiding setup, handling, fit-up, weld time, QC, install friction, and support time inside one rough number.
Forces the team to name risk, decide who controls it, estimate possible impact, and choose whether to price, qualify, exclude, transfer, reserve, or clarify it.
Breaks the job into deliverables, inclusions, exclusions, drawing assumptions, labour drivers, field conditions, coating, freight, and handoff details.
Creates a pre-release review rhythm so pricing, exclusions, alternates, validity, commercial terms, change-order language, and handoff notes are checked before the quote leaves.
Builds the final number from real cost, labour burden, material, outsourced work, equipment, overhead, risk, contingency, markup, margin, and commercial reality.
FabProfit gives each stakeholder a clearer view of how quote decisions turn into shop performance, project risk, cash flow, and margin protection.
Sees where quote quality is creating or destroying enterprise value before jobs are accepted.
Gets a repeatable system for aligning estimating, operations, PMs, purchasing, and production.
Uses a standard review path for scope, labour, material, risk, final price, and quote language.
Connects estimate assumptions to actual shop flow, capacity, handling, rework, and schedule pressure.
Receives clearer assumptions, exclusions, change-order rules, alternates, and handoff notes.
Sees how labour rate, overhead recovery, markup versus margin, risk reserve, and job closeout connect.
Evaluates quote process maturity, key-person dependency, margin leakage, and standardization risk.
These are not abstract classroom mistakes. These are the practical leaks that show up after the job is won.
A job can look profitable in the estimate and still be underpriced once handling, field friction, freight, and support cost appear.
Steel weight is not the full job. It does not automatically capture fit-up, welding access, movement, finish, QA, or install path.
Field labour carries access, orientation, travel, waiting, mobilization, permits, other trades, and site readiness risk.
Paint, galvanizing, powder coating, trucking, touch-up, packaging, rental equipment, and rehandling need their own price logic.
FabProfit helps your team negotiate by removing work, risk, finish, logistics, or schedule pressure instead of donating margin.
When one estimator leaves, retires, or gets overloaded, undocumented quote logic can leave with them.
If routing times, BOMs, and scope assumptions are wrong before ERP entry, the system may amplify bad data with confidence.
Risk, contingency, reserve, and profit need to stay separate or your company cannot tell what actually happened.
A number without scope, assumptions, exclusions, alternates, validity, and change-order language is not a protected quote.
FabProfit is for fabrication companies that want a more disciplined way to protect margin before the job is won. It is for teams willing to slow the quote down in the right places so the shop, PM, field crew, and finance team are not forced to pay for assumptions nobody challenged.
Consider a standard industrial fabrication package. A well-meaning estimator relies purely on memory to price the field installation. Because your company lacks a formalized Arc-to-Floor Ratio standard, they miss the crane setup friction and site safety standby time. The job wins based on a naked number, but the margin evaporates on day two of installation. FabProfit helps prevent this leakage by forcing a structured calculation before the quote is ever submitted to your customer.
For a company doing meaningful fabrication volume, one missed finish package, one underpriced field-heavy job, one unprotected material escalation, one second mobilization, one bad quote accepted on weak assumptions, or one estimator-onboarding failure can exceed the cost of the system.
Simple boardroom math: Annual awarded fabrication revenue × avoidable margin leakage × reduction target = potential profit protection opportunity. FabProfit does not guarantee recovery. It gives your leadership team the structure to find, price, qualify, and prevent the leaks earlier.
The Cost of Inaction: Maintaining the status quo is a decision. Every month you delay standardizing your quote governance, another batch of estimates goes out the door carrying invisible, unmanaged risk.
As a fabrication company grows, estimation by personality becomes a structural risk. What worked when the owner or senior estimator reviewed every job becomes fragile when volume increases, people change, or your company adds locations.
FabProfit gives your business a way to institutionalize estimating discipline without pausing your company to rebuild its entire ERP, hire a consulting team, or ask every team member to reinvent the process.
In a fabrication acquisition, the danger is not always the equipment, backlog, or customer list. It is often the undocumented quote logic behind the backlog.
FabProfit helps portfolio operators examine quote process maturity, key-person dependency, labour-rate discipline, scope controls, material exposure, risk treatment, proposal language, and estimate-to-actual feedback loops.
The Charter Program is limited to 25 approved fabrication companies through July 31, 2026. Some companies only need the self-paced system. Some want Greg involved every month for a year. Others want Greg on site for one month to install the standard directly with the team.
FabProfit is priced by implementation depth, rollout support, and the level of direct guidance your company wants.
Charter License terms: the $19,997 Charter License is limited to the first 25 approved companies and applications close July 31, 2026. Standard enterprise pricing applies after the Charter window closes.
Approval required: companies should have a real estimating process to improve, a clear margin or handoff problem to solve, and an internal champion prepared to help roll the system out within 90 days.
On-site implementation: travel, lodging, meals, and related expenses may be billed separately unless otherwise agreed in writing. On-site implementation is limited and requires approval based on company size, location, schedule, project fit, and implementation readiness.
Pricing, access limits, licensing terms, included seats, scope of support, and implementation details can be adjusted by written agreement. FabProfit provides educational and operational support. It does not guarantee job awards, profit, or error-free estimates.
A company-level estimating system should be evaluated for fit, readiness, and implementation depth. The application helps determine whether your company is a fit for one of the 25 Charter spots and which implementation level makes the most sense.
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A serious estimating system does not eliminate uncertainty. It exposes uncertainty earlier, assigns it an owner, gives it a cost, converts it into quote language, and forces a commercial decision before your company inherits the risk by default.
Greg Sheldon's background spans welding, fitting, custom fabrication, SolidWorks-driven industrial design, operations leadership, sales, estimating, business development, M&A, and margin-focused commercial decision making. That mix matters because FabProfit is not only about building a number. It is about protecting the business before that number becomes the operating plan.
Executives do not need more vague estimating advice. They need a standard created by someone who understands the work, the drawings, the bid, the customer, the margin, and the company-level consequences of a bad quote.
Welding, fitting, fabrication, mechanical assembly, industrial structures, field work, and practical understanding of what drawings do not show.
Industrial design, SolidWorks, constructability, material behavior, fabrication constraints, and complex project execution.
Takeoffs, subcontractor sourcing, vendor negotiation, schedule analysis, risk assessment, executive review, and complex bid strategy.
Gross profit, margin optimization, overhead structure, EBITDA contribution, cash flow, backlog quality, and enterprise value thinking.
These are the practical questions your team should ask before adopting an estimating standard across your company.
No. It is the estimating control layer before ERP. The goal is better quote inputs, cleaner assumptions, clearer scope boundaries, and more reliable job data before the ERP is asked to schedule, purchase, track, or report.
Because many custom job shops still run critical quoting and scheduling logic through spreadsheets. FabProfit does not pretend that reality away. It makes the spreadsheet process guided, structured, reviewable, and harder to corrupt with undocumented judgment.
The wrong checklist slows people down. A good system speeds up judgment by forcing the same high-value questions every time: scope, drawings, labour, material buy quantity, outsourced work, risk, final margin, and quote protection.
Then FabProfit helps capture that estimator’s thinking so it can be taught, reviewed, improved, and transferred. The goal is not to replace senior judgment. The goal is to stop your business from depending on one person’s memory.
Yes. ERP implementations usually struggle when workflows and data standards are unclear. FabProfit gives the estimating side a practical standard before those numbers become work orders, production routes, schedules, purchase requirements, and job-cost reports.
Estimators should run the full system. Owners, executives, PMs, foremen, field leads, purchasing, and sales/admin can use role-specific portions that affect quote quality, quote handoff, and post-award margin protection.
No. The strongest use case is any company where quote volume, job complexity, field work, outsourced services, and senior-person dependency make small estimating misses large enough to become operating problems.
No. Results depend on implementation, data quality, leadership, market conditions, job selection, execution, and whether your company actually uses the process. FabProfit provides the structure and tools to improve decision quality before the quote leaves the building.
See what your current estimating process may be costing you, then decide whether FabProfit belongs inside your company as an estimating standard.
