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BA crew rooftop pipe job over the Baltimore skyline
PIPESHOTby BA Steel LLC
THE NAPKIN JUST LEARNED MATH.
Sketch the run like you always have. Shoot the lengths with a laser. Get the cut list before you leave the hallway. No CAD. No classes. No desk.
GET EARLY ACCESS PROVEN ON OUR OWN JOBS FIRST
duct — go over
beam — duck it
10'-0"
9'-7 11/16"
tie-in ✓
PIPESHOT CUT LIST
A10'-0"
B9'-7 11/16"
12 × 45° FTGSPRESS
4 × 20' STICKS2" CU
TIE-IN ✓FITS
real job. real crew. real math.
BUILT BY FITTERS — NOT A SOFTWARE COMPANY FRACTIONS, NOT DECIMALS AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE PATENT PENDING

This is not detailing software. It's a tool.

No CAD.

If you can sketch a run on a napkin, you can run this app. Your finger is the pencil.

No training week.

First takeoff in ten minutes. It draws the way the trade already reads — single line, ticks, fitting marks.

No desk.

It lives on the phone in your pocket and works standing in the hallway. Where the pipe actually goes.

No trust falls.

Every cut prints its math. You can check every number before you cut. Nothing hides.

How it works

Four moves. One trip to the supply house.

STEP 1

Draw it

Drag your finger. Legs snap to real directions. Don't know a length? Mark it “?” — it gets solved for you.

12'-4 1/2"
STEP 2

Shoot it — or type it

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.

STEP 3

Dodge it

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.

STEP 4

Cut it

Cut list with the math shown, fitting schedule with part numbers, and the stick order. Done before you climb down.

Watch it work

Yes. It really is that easy.

COMING SOON 🎬 The 60-second demo — draw the run, shoot the laser, dodge the duct.

Drag your finger. Pull the trigger. That's the training.

Proven in the hallway

The 60-foot test

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.

3clean 45° dodges
63'-1 7/16"total pipe, to the 16th
12 × 45scounted with part numbers
4 sticks20-footers to order
39/39accuracy tests pass
Real crews, real jobs

Proven by the people who built it

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.

Hand-drawn pipe takeoff sketched on the back of a pump manual in a mechanical room
The math we all grew up doing — a real takeoff, on the back of a pump manual. This is the napkin.
Soapstone and framing square marking layout on steel
Soapstone, square, and a steady hand — the habits the app was built on.
Framing square and folding rule laying out a cut on steel plate
Layout by hand, checked twice — now the phone carries the math.
📷 MORE FROM THE FIELD — COMING SOON
For the service & residential guy

Stop feeding the supply house gas money.

See it in real life.

You're standing in the basement looking at the actual job — not a drawing from somebody's office. Mark up what's really there.

The best takeoff list possible.

Every length, every fitting, every part number — counted off the real conditions, with the math shown.

No missing parts. No trip two.

One trip to the counter with the full list. The 45 you forgot and the coupling nobody counted? Already on it.

Quote it on the spot.

Change order? Homeowner asking "how much"? You've got the materials list before you're up the stairs.

The laser — optional add-on

Don't need it.
Nice to have it.

  • The app works with no laser at all — tap the lengths in and it does everything else
  • Want speed? A ~$140 Bluetooth laser from the big box store pairs once, then every trigger pull drops into the drawing
  • Tap the box, shoot, done — no keyboard, no fat-finger errors
  • Runs in the browser on the phone or tablet you already carry
  • Even with the laser, the whole rig costs less than one month of desktop estimating software
2 3/16" — already in your cut math double ticks = pressed. drawn the way the trade reads it.
EVERY JOINT'S TAKEOUT AND INSERTION DEPTH IS IN THE MATH — THE CUT YOU MAKE IS THE CUT THAT FITS

"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."

Pricing

Priced like a tool. Not like software.

One price. Every seat.

$59/mo per seat

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 FREE TRIAL

2 weeks free, then $59/mo per seat. Cancel anytime.

$59 a month, per seat. The new standard — built by tradesmen, for tradesmen.

Every seat includes the full training library

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.

Short a press 90? Drop it in the Bucket.

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.

Build with what's on the truck.

Use the fittings you've already got before you buy more. The Bucket re-figures every takeout for the fitting you actually put in.

Empty the garage — or the shop.

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.

Stop hauling material back.

Unused stock doesn't ride back from the job — it goes in the Bucket and lands on the next run.

Substitute a fitting, not the drawing.

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.

Just because we can 😂

The comedy wing

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.

The Snipe Hunt Hall of Fame
  • The pipe stretcher. Doesn't exist. Never existed. Kevin looked for it for two hours in 2019 and checked three gang boxes twice.
  • A bucket of steam. The supply house guy will play along. They ALWAYS play along.
  • The left-handed pipe wrench. Sold out. Perpetually. Try the other supply house — the one 40 minutes away.
  • Fifty feet of shoreline. Aisle 9, next to the board stretcher.
The hidden lesson: the guy who KNOWS his tools and materials can't be sent for what doesn't exist. PipeShot works the same way — if a fitting dimension isn't real and published, it says VERIFY instead of playing along. It's the one thing on the job that won't send you for a bucket of steam.
The Foreman Translator
  • "It's close enough" = it's wrong, and we're both going to pretend it isn't until the inspector shows up.
  • "Who measured this?" = I know exactly who measured this. It was you. I watched you.
  • "We've always done it this way" = I learned this in 1987 and nobody's been brave enough to bring it up since.
  • "Give it a little persuasion" = there is a hammer in this sentence.
  • "The print says..." = the argument is over. The print is the referee.
The hidden lesson: that last one is the whole trade. When the drawing carries real numbers, arguments die fast. PipeShot's sheets ARE the print — every mark, every cut, every deduction shown. "Who measured this?" gets a lot less scary when the math is printed next to the pipe.
The Five Stages of a Wrong Cut
  • 1 · Denial. "That's not my piece." It has your handwriting on it.
  • 2 · Blame. "The tape's stretched." The tape is steel, Gary.
  • 3 · Bargaining. "Can we weld a coupling in?" On a 6-inch piece? Bold.
  • 4 · The Walk. The long, quiet walk back to the saw, holding the evidence.
  • 5 · Acceptance. "Cut it long, you can always take more off." Wisdom, finally — one stick too late.
The hidden lesson: wrong cuts come from skipped math — a takeout forgotten, an insertion depth ignored. PipeShot shows the math on every line (C2C − takeouts = CUT) and flags the piece that physically can't be made BEFORE you cut it. The Walk becomes optional.
New Guy Speedrun — survive week one
  • Learn the coffee order first. Nobody remembers who lost the level. Everybody remembers who got the order wrong.
  • Hook the wall they tell you to hook. There is one right wall. It is never the closest one.
  • Write the number down. Your memory is not a clipboard. It's barely a sticky note.
  • When you don't know — ask. The dumbest question on this job cost somebody $40 once. The unasked one cost $4,000.
  • Don't touch the foreman's markers. This one has no lesson. Just don't.
The hidden lesson: boring habits ARE the trade — same wall, written numbers, honest questions. The app is built on the same habits: one benchmark, every number shown, and a bot that answers dumb questions in two seconds without telling the whole trailer.

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 →

Early access — limited first release

First release is capped.
The list gets first seats.

PipeShot is being field-tested by Bel Air Mechanical crews on real commercial work. When it opens, the first seats go to this list — in order.

No spam. One email when your seat opens. We won't sell your info — full privacy policy coming with launch.