Every job starts as a photo of something broken — or a sketch of something wanted.
The cracked trailer hitch, the sagging gate, the napkin drawing of a railing: welding work arrives by picture, while your hood is down and your hands are busy.
A photo-first trade with its hood down
Nobody describes welding work in words — they send a picture: the broken implement the farm needs by Monday, the gate that dropped off its hinge, the railing idea traced from a magazine. The sender wants two things fast: can you do it, and roughly what will it cost. Both are answerable from your rates and your capabilities list, but the person who knows those answers is under a hood where a phone has no business being. Repair work runs on urgency, fab work runs on follow-through across weeks of back-and-forth — and both leak away in unanswered threads.
The calls you’re missing right now
Real questions, unanswered until somebody gets to a keyboard.
- “Can you weld this? (photo of the break)”
- “What would a driveway gate like this cost to build?”
- “Do you do mobile welding, or do I bring it in?”
- “Can you weld aluminum and stainless?”
- “How much to fix a cracked trailer frame?”
- “Could you make a railing like this picture?”
Where to start, and what to add
In order. Most welding & fabrication shops buy the first one and nothing else for a while — that is the intended way to do it, not a smaller version of it.
Start here
Business Text Line$249/mo · No OSQR plan requiredThe broken-part photo answered from your capability list and shop rates — mobile or bring-in stated plainly — with the job captured in a thread that survives until the hood comes up.
Then add
Website Chat$249/mo · No OSQR plan requiredAnswers the materials, mobile-service and shop-rate questions from your documents, and converts the railing dreamer into a consultation with the inspiration photo already attached.
The gate, quoted from the sketch.
Sixteen-foot double driveway gate, steel frame, cedar infill, hinges on existing columns, powder coat black — talked through once and returned as a written, signable quote. Fab sales die in slow follow-up; this one closed while it was warm.
The actual app. No customer data on this screen.
What we can show you
No welding case study is tacked up here, and we will not fabricate one — in either sense. What is real: this page’s live assistant, a working company running these products, and a demo built from your rates before you commit.
Straight answers for welding & fabrication shops
Can it quote repairs from a photo?
It answers from your structure — shop minimum, hourly rate, mobile fee — with your honest note that cracked frames and cast parts get confirmed in person. The fast credible range is what stops the next-shop search.
Fabrication is custom. How does it price a gate or railing?
Your way: per-foot or per-project ranges by material and finish, with the design consultation booked for the rest. The dreamer with a picture converts on a range plus a next step, not on silence.
Mobile versus shop work confuses callers. What does it say?
Your policy plainly: what justifies the mobile fee, what must come to the shop, your travel radius. Clear boundaries fill both the truck and the table.
Materials questions separate real shops from hobbyists. Does it know ours?
It states exactly what you certify and run — aluminum, stainless, cast repair policy — and declines what you decline. The honest “we do not touch cast iron” earns more than a maybe.
And when it does not know?
It says so, keeps the photo, and hands the thread to the person under the hood — who now returns one organized thread instead of nine scattered texts.
See it answer as your business.
Ask for a demo built on your own prices and services. You will know what it knows before you decide anything.
Want the whole machine — or the website handled too? See the Front Desk or the Front Office
Or reach a person: text us (623) 232-0185