Built with metal shops. For metal shops.
We’ve spent years working alongside small and mid-sized metal fabrication shops — and the same challenges kept coming up. We decided to do something about it.
Why MetalShopHQ exists.
Job folders taped to walls. Time sheets that arrive on Friday. Drawings printed three different ways from three different revisions. Inventory in a spreadsheet one person updates when they remember. ERPs built for assembly lines, not custom fabrication. We heard the same story from shop after shop, and the off-the-shelf tools weren’t solving it.
So we built MetalShopHQ — software designed around how a metal shop actually works, not how a software vendor wishes it worked.
Built with active shops, not for them in a vacuum.
Every feature in MetalShopHQ is shaped by working metal shops — shops that test the rough edges, push back on the parts that don’t fit how they run, and tell us what’s missing. That feedback loop is the difference between software that looks good in a demo and software that survives a Tuesday afternoon on the shop floor.
Why a sister product to MetalCutHQ?
MetalCutHQ handles the front-of-house: instant quoting, customer-facing shop pages, drawings in and prices out. MetalShopHQ handles the back-of-house: what happens after the customer says yes. Same login, same shop record, two focused products instead of one all-things-to-everyone monolith.
What we believe about software for shops.
- It should be fast enough to use on the shop floor.
- It should respect role boundaries — staff shouldn’t see costs they don’t need to.
- It should accept the way you already work — not force a new vocabulary.
- Your data is yours. We don’t train AI on it, sell it, or fence it in.