Bid to billing, in one system.

Brontes is software for structural steel fabricators. Bids, estimates, projects, purchasing, the shop floor, shipping and the field all work from the same job, so nothing gets typed twice.

Brontes, Structural Steel ERP

Built in, not bolted on

Part of the same system as the rest of the job, not an add-on.

  1. Bids straight from your inbox
    Sample company, made-up data.

    Bids straight from your inbox

    Turn the invitations in your inbox into bids, attachments and all, without retyping them.

  2. Your takeoff, priced your way
    Sample company, made-up data.

    Your takeoff, priced your way

    Start from the takeoff you already do and price it with your own numbers.

  3. Estimate to project, typed once
    Sample company, made-up data.

    Estimate to project, typed once

    Send a proposal in your own words; win it, and the job is already set up.

  4. More pieces from less steel
    Sample company, made-up data.

    More pieces from less steel

    Buy and cut across jobs together, and put the leftovers back to work.

  5. Subs bid without the email chase
    Sample company, made-up data.

    Subs bid without the email chase

    Your subcontractors see the scope and send their price in one place.

  6. Customers help themselves
    Sample company, made-up data.

    Customers help themselves

    Your customer finds the documents you shared, instead of calling you for them.

  7. The field, on a phone, signal or not
    Sample company, made-up data.

    The field, on a phone, signal or not

    Crews report from the site; the office sees it as soon as they are back in signal.

  8. Bid to billing in one system
    Sample company, made-up data.

    Bid to billing in one system

    The job you won carries straight through to the bill, without retyping it.

See it on your own job

Price the job before bid day.

Bring in your takeoff, price connections and labor with your own codes, and get vendor prices on the material before the bid goes out. What comes out is a proposal you can send.

Estimate material combined by shape and grade, with bar counts and waste
Material for a sample job, combined by shape and grade.

Know where every piece is.

Load the detailer's model and every piece gets a route through your stations. See what's at the saw, what's on hold and what's ready to ship.

Assemblies on a shop job, each with its parts and bolts listed under it, with route and current station
Assemblies on a sample job, each with its parts and bolts underneath.

Get more out of every bar.

Combine parts onto your stock lengths, see each bar drawn to scale before it's cut, and send a usable drop back to stock.

A cut list with each stock bar drawn to scale: the pieces cut from it and the drop left over
A sample cut list, each bar laid out to scale.

Nest plate on your sheet sizes.

Plates are grouped by grade and thickness and nested on the sheets you buy. Drag a part to adjust the layout, then export the sheet for the burn table.

Thirteen plates nested on an 8 by 4 foot sheet, the leftover kept as one full-width strip
A sample nest on an 8 × 4 ft sheet, proven best: the leftover stays one full-width 8 × 1 ft drop.

See what's up on site.

Crews mark pieces erected, file daily reports and clock their time from the job site. The office sees progress as it happens.

Field erection screen showing pieces marked erected, with time and erector
Erection progress on a sample job.

Every part of the job

Bids and CRM
Every invitation, customer and follow-up in one place.
Estimating
From the takeoff to a priced proposal.
Projects
Drawings, submittals, transmittals, RFIs and change orders.
Customer portal
One link where your customer sees what you've sent.
Purchasing and inventory
Buy what the job needs and know where it is.
Cut lists
Combine material across jobs and cut with less waste.
Shop floor
Routes, stations and progress, piece by piece.
Shipping
Know what went out on which truck.
Field
Crews, daily reports and time.
Accounting and reports
Cost codes, billing and the numbers on every job.
3D model
See the model and where each piece stands.
Exports
PDF, Excel and XML when something has to go out.

Plans

Ember
$129 per office seat / month

The whole company, except the field.

Blaze
$159 per office seat / month

Everything in Ember, plus the field.

Shop / Field seat
$29 per seat / month

For the shop floor and the crew. View-only seats are free.

Plans, onboarding and every feature

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