If you can sketch a run on a napkin, you can run this app. Your finger is the pencil.
First takeoff in ten minutes. It draws the way the trade already reads — single line, ticks, fitting marks.
It lives on the phone in your pocket and works standing in the hallway. Where the pipe actually goes.
Every cut prints its math. You can check every number before you cut. Nothing hides.
Drag your finger. Legs snap to real directions. Don't know a length? Mark it “?” — it gets solved for you.
Pull the laser trigger and the number lands in the drawing. No laser? Just tap the length in. The laser is an add-on, not a requirement.
Duct or beam in the way? Mark it, pick over or under. Run it with 90s like you normally would — or 45s, and it does the offset math for you. The math guys mess up, done right, every time.
Cut list with the math shown, fitting schedule with part numbers, and the stick order. Done before you climb down.
Put your instructions in out loud. It comes back with “got it” so you know it heard you — and that is all it ever says. No follow-up questions. No reading a paragraph back at you. Nothing piping up with “in five hundred feet, make a U-turn” at six on a Monday morning when you had a good weekend and don’t want to hear a voice at all.
It speaks with your device’s own voice, not one of ours — so it already sounds like the phone or tablet in your pocket.
You: “Ten foot even, then a forty-five over the duct”
It: “Got it.”
You: “Make that eleven six.”
It: “Got it.”
Then it gets out of your way. Everything it did is on the screen for when you’re ready to look.
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.
Drag your finger. Pull the trigger. That's the training.
Sixty feet of 2" copper. A duct at 10 feet, another at 30, a beam at 50. PipeShot dodged all three and hit the tie-in exact. 90s or 45s — your call. This test ran 45s, because the 45 offset is the math that gets botched in the field. The app gets it right every time.
PipeShot is field-tested by Bel Air Mechanical crews on live commercial work across Maryland. Photos coming from the field — our own crews using the app, nothing staged.
You're standing in the basement looking at the actual job — not a drawing from somebody's office. Mark up what's really there.
Every length, every fitting, every part number — counted off the real conditions, with the math shown.
One trip to the counter with the full list. The 45 you forgot and the coupling nobody counted? Already on it.
Change order? Homeowner asking "how much"? You've got the materials list before you're up the stairs.
"Every takeoff tool wanted me at a desk. My guys are in a hallway with a laser. So we built the tool for the hallway."
Every shop has one. The guy who looks at a ceiling and just knows — the takeouts, the offsets, which wall to hook, why that san tee on its back is a callback waiting to happen.
He learned it over forty years, mostly from someone else who never wrote it down either. Now he's retiring — and unless somebody catches it, all of it leaves with him.
Meanwhile the new guy is handed a tape and a print and told to figure it out. He's not lazy. Nobody ever taught him. That gap is what costs you scrap, rework, callbacks, and the good young hands who quit because they felt stupid.
Manufacturer takeouts, insertion depths, real fitting libraries — Viega, Weldbend, Victaulic, cast iron, PVC. Not guesses. If a dimension isn't published, it says VERIFY instead of pretending.
It flags the piece that physically can't be made before it's cut, and tells him how far to slide the tee. The save happens at the saw, not at the callback.
C2C − takeouts = CUT, printed next to the pipe. The apprentice learns the math while he uses it — that's how it actually sticks.
The layout knowledge of a forty-year foreman, in every pocket on the crew, on every job, forever. That's the whole point.
None of this was ever a secret. It's just what needs to be taught — and nobody ever wrote it down. So we did, and we're giving it away. We're not holding the trade hostage behind a paywall. The app is the product. The knowledge belongs to the trade — hand it to your apprentice on day one, print the whole thing and hang it in the trailer.
Two tracks. Every box reads itself out loud if you'd rather listen than read.
Learn the app in an afternoon.
The trade behind the buttons. Hand this to every apprentice on day one.
Takeout math: the drawing gives you center-to-center. The fitting's takeout is how much of that the fitting itself covers. CUT = C2C − takeout at each end. A 10'-0" c-c leg between two 2" press 90s (2-3/16" takeout each) cuts at 9'-7 5/8". Press and solder also need insertion depth — the stub between two fittings has to fit both insertions plus a gap, or it physically can't be made up. That's what "too short — move the tee" means.
That's one paragraph out of twenty modules. All of it free.
No login. No email. Print it and hang it in the trailer.
Trade knowledge. Works whether or not you ever open the app.
Every one ends on something true. That's the whole trick.
The full takeoff engine, laser link, cut lists, and the complete training library. 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.
$59 a month, per seat. The new standard — built by tradesmen, for tradesmen.
Step-by-step how-to videos — benchmarks, obstructions, laser pairing, cut lists — unlocked the minute you sign up. Members only. Most guys need one video and ten minutes.
Draw the run with the fittings you planned — press, solder, thread, or grooved, whatever the job calls for. Short two press 90s but you've got solder 90s on the shelf? Drop them in the Bucket and the takeoff re-does itself — a solder 90 and a press 90 don't cut the same, so the app changes the numbers, not you. Use what's on hand before you buy more. Same drawing. Right cuts. No do-over.
Use the fittings you've already got before you buy more. The Bucket re-figures every takeout for the fitting you actually put in.
Every leftover fitting in the bin is money you already spent. Put it to work instead of stacking it up. Personal truck or full shop, same win.
Unused stock doesn't ride back from the job — it goes in the Bucket and lands on the next run.
Swap the part, keep the sketch. The cut list updates the second you tell it what changed.
Save on materials, run leaner, and quit paying twice for parts you already own.
It's funny because it's true, and it's true because we've all lived it. Every laugh has a lesson hiding in it — that's how the trade trains the new guy, and it's how we built the app.
Don't like reading? Neither do we. Hit 🔊 LISTEN on any box and it reads that one out loud — clean and slow.
Nobody ever quit the trade over a hard day — they quit over being lost and too proud to say so. Humor is how crews teach without anyone having to admit they're learning. That's the product too. PipeShot is the tool version of the best foreman you ever had: it tells you the truth about the math and never makes you feel stupid for asking. Want the rest? The full Training Center is free →
PipeShot is field-proven by Bel Air Mechanical crews on real commercial work. Drop your email and your two weeks start the day we open the doors.