For steel companies that want to modernize.

Why steel companies work with Victor

Victor can sit with an estimator and talk takeoff, walk the shop and talk fit-up, welding and production, then sit with a project manager and talk RFIs, submittals and change orders. He can also sit with a development team and design the automation, AI agents and architecture needed to improve any of it.

Moving between the field, the shop, the office and the technology stack is what makes this different. There is no three-month discovery process just to understand what a fabricator does — the assessment is one day, because the trade knowledge is already in the room.

The question isn’t “how do we use AI?”

That is usually the wrong question, and it is the one most vendors are happy to answer for you. The useful questions are operational, and you can answer every one of them without knowing anything about AI:

• Where is your team entering the same information two or three times?
• Where are drawings and revisions getting lost?
• Where are estimators spending hours on work a machine could assist with?
• Where are project managers buried in administrative work?
• Where are change-order opportunities being missed?
• Where is production data disappearing between the shop and the office?
• Where are your people waiting for information instead of building steel?

Those are operational problems first. Technology comes second, and sometimes the honest answer is that you do not need software at all — you need one step moved, or one handoff deleted.

For steel people, by a steel guy

The construction industry doesn’t need another consultant showing up with a deck explaining artificial intelligence. Steel companies need someone who understands what happens after the meeting: that somebody still has to fabricate the beam, somebody still has to ship it, somebody still has to erect it, and somebody has to make money doing it.

That is where this work sits — at the intersection of steel, operations and technology. The proof is in the FSW case study: the same approach, running a real fabrication and erection company every day.

Common questions

What does the Steel AI Assessment include?

$1,500 for one day inside your operation. We map the workflows across your office, shop and field, find where information is being entered twice or lost, and hand you an AI Opportunity Map: which workflows are automatable, which should stay manual, and what to build first. A free 30-minute shop or job site walk comes before it, so you can judge whether the assessment is worth booking.

Who does StructuPath consult for?

Steel fabricators, erectors, and miscellaneous and ornamental metals contractors, plus general contractors and construction managers who need the steel package to be legible. The focus is deliberate — takeoffs, submittals, WIP schedules and signatory agreements are not general construction problems, and a steel-native tool is exactly the wrong tool for a mechanical contractor.

Can our drawings and bid data stay on our own network?

Yes. We stand up local LLM stacks on your own hardware, on your own network, with no drawings, bids or financials sent to a third-party vendor. It is the same tooling as the cloud setups, deployed private.

How long before we see anything work?

There is no three-month discovery process just to learn what a fabricator does. The assessment is one day. The first build is scoped from it and targets one narrow, high-volume task — takeoff, cert screening, document drafting — measured in hours saved, not in a transformation initiative.