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The AI copilot for steel detailing
Contract drawings to fabrication‑ready steel, automatically.
Fablnx is the AI copilot for steel detailing: we read structural steel contract drawings, build the native 3D model, engineer and apply the connections under licensed PE review, and deliver the files the shop floor runs on.
The bottleneck
Steel detailing is still done manually
Between the engineer’s drawings and the fabricator’s machines sits a manual, error-prone translation. Everything downstream inherits its mistakes.
30–50%
of fabrication cost lives in connections — on under 5% of the tonnage — designed by hand, after award, on the critical path.
~10 days
to turn a single RFI — and roughly a fifth are never answered at all. Each one costs the job time and money.
6–15%
of project value lost to rework and re-keying between tools that don’t talk — near $2.2B a year for fabricators alone.
~0%
projected growth in the detailing workforce through 2034. Offshoring only trades cost for a 12-hour lag and IP exposure.
Sources: NIST GCR 04-867 (interoperability loss); U.S. BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook — Drafters; Navigant Construction Forum (RFI cost & response rates); CII / GIRI (rework); AISC 303 / 360. Figures are published industry benchmarks, not Fablnx measurements.
Your upside
See the profit hiding in your detailing.
Two numbers you already know — we’ll show you what Fablnx puts back on the table.
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To detail this by hand today you’d staff
40 detailers6 checkers3 design / PM
Assumes a manual detailer produces ~500 tons/yr (industry ~300–700), one checker per 7 detailers, and detailing billed at $90/ton. Fablnx lifts detailer output ~3× and automates validation. Conservative planning figures, validated per pilot — not a quote.
Your upside with Fablnx
$1.2M/ year
Detail 20,000 t/yr with about 15 people instead of 49 — roughly 69% less detailing cost.
Team to deliver 20,000 t/yr · manual vs Fablnx
Detailers
40
13
Checkers
6
1
Design / PM
3
1
Total team
49
15
$90 → $28 / ton~30d → 8d / project+40,000 t/yr same team
Real output
From one drawing, the whole deliverable set.
An illustrative mock-up of the workspace — sample project, not live data. Switch between the panes below: the material takeoff rolled up from the committed model, the coordinated 3D viewer, the design checks on a detected connection, and the files you export.
NGC-0412 · Roof framing · Northgate Commerce CenterISO · SHADED · COLOR BY GRADEISO
DRAG TO ORBIT · SCROLL TO ZOOM
▾ NGC-0412.ifc
▾ Roof framing · A–G
W24×55 ridge8
W21×44 (MF)16
W18×3518
W16×3142
W16×26184
▾ Columns
W16×40 · SC122
HSS5×5 · SC234
▾ Screen wall
HSS6×6×5/1640
Solved from committed facts · export IFC
The advantage, quantified
What compressing weeks into hours does to a shop.
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Output per engineer
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Rework
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Team capacity
Set against an industry that loses 6–15% of project value to rework, where every open RFI costs the job time and money.
— Illustrative targets; validated per pilot.
See it run
See it run on one of your own drawings.
Book a walkthrough, or send us a real contract sheet and we’ll show you the coordinated model and takeoff it produces — opened in the detailing software you already run.
Priced per ton, like the work — not per seat.