FOR BUYERS

Stop chasing shops. Start receiving quotes.

Verified domestic fabrication capacity, AI-matched to your RFQ. Anonymous quotes until you accept, a secure Data Room you control, and direct settlement with the shop.

WHY FABMASTER

Six structural advantages over the directory + email status quo.

Verified domestic shops

Every shop passes an 8-step verification stack and manual admin approval before going live. No directory chaff, no offshore re-sellers.

AI-assisted matching

Our intake AI normalizes your RFQ, then matches only shops with the right capability and active capacity — not the entire database.

Anonymity until acceptance

Shop identities stay hidden behind handles. You compare quotes on price, lead time, and verification — not on logos or sales reps.

Buyer-controlled Data Room

Drawings live in an encrypted, view-only Data Room. Downloads are permission-based. The buyer owns access — always.

Capacity-protected vendors

Shops can't over-accept. Annual acceptance is capped at 130% of their best revenue year, with no single job >40% of that ceiling. You don't get burned by a vendor in over their head.

Direct milestone payments

After the 10% engagement fee, all job payments flow directly between you and the shop (wire or CC). Fabmaster never holds job funds.

THE RFQ STANDARD

A clean spec, not a folder of files.

Fabmaster RFQs use a structured field set so every shop quotes apples-to-apples. The intake AI normalizes free-form input — paste an email, fill the form, or both.

No drawings at the RFQ stage. DXF, STEP, and PDFs are only shared inside the encrypted Data Room — after you accept a quote and the vendor signs an NDA.

RFQ STANDARD FIELDSREV 1.0
MATERIALTYPE + GRADE
THICKNESS / DIMSSHEET OR TUBE
QUANTITYPROD OR PROTO
TOLERANCES±X.XXX"
FINISHMILL / POWDER / PLATE
CERTIFICATIONSAWS · ITAR · ISO
DELIVERY LOCATIONCITY · STATE · ZIP
LEAD TIMEWEEKS NEEDED
BUDGETOPTIONAL

A Data Room you actually control.

  • View-only by default. Vendor sees drawings in-browser, no local copy.
  • Download by permission. You grant it per-file, per-vendor, per-job.
  • NDA on file. Every vendor signs the Data Room NDA before access opens.
  • Full audit log. Every view, download, and access change is timestamped.

Capacity-protected matching.

Shops on Fabmaster can only accept up to 130% of their best historical revenue year, and no single job can exceed 40% of that ceiling. That means the vendor quoting your job has the runway, equipment, and labor to actually deliver it — not just the eagerness to take it.

SOURCE WITH CONFIDENCE

Post your first job in minutes.

Verified shops, anonymous quotes, and direct settlement. No subscription. You pay nothing until you accept a quote.