Your Database IsCosting You Bids.We Fix It.
RaapTech rebuilds broken Autodesk Fabrication databases for MEP contractors and sheet metal shops — so your estimators stop hunting for pricing and start winning work.
Fabrication floor — the work the database has to describe
- 20+ Years in the Trade
- Local Union 73
- Shop Operations Manager
- CADmep® · CAMduct® · ESTmep®
Sound familiar?
Four failures, every one of them billable to you.
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Nobody trusts the pricing
Your estimator pulls a number from the database, then checks it against a spreadsheet, then calls a guy who 'knows the real number.' That's not estimating — that's guessing with extra steps.
- 02
Bids die waiting on turnaround
A job that should take 3 minutes to enter takes 15. Multiply that across every item, every bid, every week. You're losing work to shops that are simply faster — not better.
- 03
The knowledge is walking out the door
Dave retires in 18 months. He's the only one who knows why the database is built the way it is. When he leaves, the answers leave with him.
- 04
Workarounds on top of workarounds
Duplicate items. Dead connectors. Pressure classes nobody maintains. Every 'quick fix' from the last five years is still in there, costing you time on every single job.
Audit. Sprint. Retainer. A path, not a project that never ends.
Start small. Prove the problem. Fix it. Keep it healthy.
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Free Database Diagnostic
A self-guided diagnostic that scores your database health across the areas that cost shops the most bids. Know where you stand in 10 minutes.
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Database Health Audit
We go through your Autodesk® Fabrication database item by item — pricing, connectors, seams, pressure classes, labor tables. You get a written report of what's broken, what it costs you, and the fix plan.
$2,500 - 02
Remediation Sprint
A focused, fixed-scope engagement to rebuild what the audit flagged. Clean items, correct pricing, working connectors. Your estimators feel the difference the first week.
$12,000 - 03
Monthly Retainer
Databases drift. Prices change, people improvise, vendors update. A retainer keeps your database clean, documented, and current — so you never need another rescue.
From $1,500/mo
That's what a clean database does.
One Chicago sheet metal shop, after an audit and a remediation sprint. Same estimators, same jobs, five times the throughput on job entry.
Read the case studyTwenty years in the trade. Not twenty months in a WeWork.
Learned on the shop floor
Local Union 73 apprenticeship. Twenty-plus years in the trade. CADmep®, CAMduct®, and ESTmep® learned by running work through them — not from a sales deck.
Ran the operation
Operations Manager at a major Chicago sheet metal shop. Tim has owned the estimating bottleneck, the database mess, and the Monday-morning fallout when a bid goes sideways.
A fix, not a slide deck
Every engagement ends with a database that works — priced right, structured right, documented so it stays that way. If we can't find problems worth fixing, we tell you before you spend a dollar.
— Tim Raap, Founder
How healthy is your database? Find out in 10 minutes.
The free RaapTech Database Diagnostic scores your fabrication database across pricing accuracy, item structure, connector health, and documentation — then tells you where you're losing bids.
Stop losing bids to a broken database.
Book a Database Health Audit. You'll know exactly what's wrong, what it's costing you, and what it takes to fix it.