Draw it with your finger, the way you always have, and tap in the lengths. Get the cut list, fitting count, and stick order — with the math shown — before you leave the hallway. (Prefer a laser? Pair one for speed — but you never need it.)
Start your 2 week free trial PROVEN ON OUR OWN JOBS FIRSTIf 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.
Type each length right on the drawing — your finger is all you need. Want it faster? A Bluetooth laser can drop the number in for you, but it's optional.
Duct or beam in the way? Mark it, pick over or under. Run 90s — or 45s — and it does the offset math for you. Done right, every time.
Cut list with the math shown, fitting schedule with part numbers, and the stick order. Done before you climb down.
Sixty feet of 2" copper. A duct at 10 feet, another at 30, a beam at 50. Pipe-Shot dodged all three and hit the tie-in exact. This test ran 45s — because the 45 offset is the math that gets botched in the field. The app gets it right every time.
Field-tested by our crews on live commercial work — nothing staged.
Gloves on, hands filthy? Talk. Up a lift, tape in one hand? Talk. Can't see the screen? Talk. It comes back with "got it" so you know it heard you — and that's all it ever says. No follow-up questions, no paragraph read back at you. It uses your device's own voice, so it already sounds like the phone 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."
The guy who's run 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.
"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."
— Ryan O'Malley, Shot-WorksEvery shop has one — the guy who looks at a ceiling and just knows the takeouts, the offsets, which wall to hook. He learned it over forty years from someone who never wrote it down. Now he's retiring. The new guy gets a tape and "figure it out." He's not lazy — nobody ever taught him. That gap is your scrap, your rework, your callbacks.
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 sticks.
The layout knowledge of a forty-year foreman, in every pocket on the crew, on every job, forever. That's the whole point.
The app is the product. The knowledge belongs to the trade — hand it to your apprentice on day one, print the whole thing and share it with your crew. Every box reads itself out loud if you'd rather listen than read.
Takeout math: the drawing gives you center-to-center. The fitting's takeout is how much of that the fitting 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 can't be made up. That's what "too short — move the tee" means.
No login. No email. Print it, save it, share it with your crew.
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.
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Draw the run with the fittings you planned. 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.
Test it on your own work — free. Two weeks, no card games.
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