Tool cribs: stop buying the same drill twice
For electrical, mechanical, plumbing and HVAC contractors with a tool room and twenty or more crews. We measure what you spend replacing tools that didn't come back, then set up check-out by crew and counts of gang boxes and trucks that take minutes. Pay a fixed quote, or a set share of the savings measured in your own records.
Where the money goes
Replacement purchases
Drills, testers, cores, ladders. Bought again every quarter because the last one is in a truck, on a site, or gone. The purchase orders are the whole case.
Gang boxes nobody can inventory
A box on site holds forty tools and the list on the lid is from the job before. Checking it means a day off the job.
"Who has the core drill"
Answered by phone calls, and often by buying another one.
What changes
On-metal tags on the tools
Small tags made for metal, on the body of each tool, hard tags on ladders and cores. The sample count during the assessment shows how your tools read before anything is bought.
Check out by crew
Hold the handheld over the crew's pile at the crib window, pick the crew or the job: everything in range is out against them. Same on return. The crib keeps a record without typing.
Count a gang box in a minute
Open the lid, pass the handheld over it. What should be there and isn't is a list on the screen.
Measure the replacement spend
Purchase orders for replacements, per crew, before and after. That number is the baseline, and it's one your controller already sees.
What we'd measure with you
What we'd measure from a contractor's records. Time spent looking is reported, never billed; how the baseline is set.
| Line | The record | Normalized |
|---|---|---|
| Replacement purchases for lost or unreturned tools | Purchase orders, the asset list | Per crew |
| Counting hours: crib, trucks and the crib window | Timesheets; then the app's count log | Per thousand tools counted, per crew |
| Time spent looking for tools | Sampled on the walk-through | Reported, never billed |
Good to know
Our tools have Bluetooth tracking built in.
Useful for finding one tool from a phone. It doesn't count a gang box in a pass or record a crew's check-out in bulk, and it only covers the tools that have it. We count everything in range at once, and we measure the replacement spend, which is what the controller cares about.
Does it read on metal?
With on-metal tags, yes: they're built for it and often read further on steel than paper labels do on cardboard. Placement matters, and the sample count tells you where each type of tool should carry its tag.
What about tools on the truck or on site?
The handheld goes where the tools are. Counting a truck or a gang box on site is a minute with the tailgate open. A fixed reader at the crib door is possible later; most cribs don't need one.
Where are you?
Florida, working with contractors anywhere in the US. The assessment and the setup are by video; the reader for the sample count ships to you with a return label.
Find out what missing tools cost you
A year of purchase orders, a 30-minute video walk-through of the crib and a timed count of one shelf. Free, and the report is yours.