Products
Start with Takeoff. Grow with MEPTrax.
MEPTrax is being built for electrical contractors around one simple idea:
The information you create at the beginning of a job should not be thrown away as the job moves through your company.
What you count should help determine what you quote.
What you quote should become what you expect to build.
What you expect should be compared with what actually happens.
And what actually happens should help you make better decisions next time.
MEPTrax is being released in stages.
MEPTrax Takeoff
AVAILABLE NOW
Know the work.
MEPTrax Takeoff is where the job begins.
Upload your PDF plans and perform the electrical takeoff using the language electricians actually work with.
Review the electrical sheets.
Count the work.
Organize it by room or area.
Use assemblies to identify what that work actually represents.
Review your quantities.
Export your takeoff.
Takeoff requires your knowledge.
It shouldn’t consume your life.
Electrical takeoff is more than symbol counting.
Two identical receptacle symbols can represent very different work.
One may be in drywall.
Another in concrete block.
Another on tile and require a different box or installation method.
The symbol didn’t change.
The assembly did.
That’s why MEPTrax keeps the electrician in control of what the work actually represents.
MEPTrax Takeoff is the product available today.
Try MEPTrax Takeoff Free
30 days free. No credit card required.
MEPTrax Quote
RELEASING SOON
Turn your takeoff into a price — and your price into a proposal.
MEPTrax Takeoff establishes what you’re bidding.
MEPTrax Quote carries that work forward.
The quantities and assemblies you already created shouldn’t have to be rebuilt in another system just because it’s time to price the job.
MEPTrax Quote is being designed to take the work from Takeoff into the commercial side of the estimate.
Build costs from your assemblies.
Apply material and labor.
Set pricing and margins.
Create the quote.
Revise it without losing the connection to the original takeoff.
Send the proposal.
Record what was accepted.
The takeoff becomes the quote.
And when the customer accepts it:
The quote becomes the expectation.
Now you have a record of what you expected the job to require.
Material.
Labor.
Cost.
Selling price.
Margin.
Scope.
Those expectations can eventually be compared with what actually happens when the job reaches the field.
Takeoff → Quote
No starting over.
No rebuilding the same job in another piece of software.
No losing the connection between the work you counted and the work you sold.
MEPTrax Quote is releasing soon.
MEPTrax Quote will be a separate MEPTrax product and is not included in a MEPTrax Takeoff subscription unless explicitly stated.
MEPTrax Business
IN DEVELOPMENT
Know what’s happening. Know what you actually made.
Winning the job is not the end of the story.
It’s where reality begins.
MEPTrax Business is being designed to connect what was estimated and sold with what actually happens while the job is being built.
Field Production
Your electricians worked all day.
What did they actually accomplish?
A timecard tells you how many hours were worked.
It doesn’t necessarily tell you how much of the work you expected was actually produced.
MEPTrax Business is being designed to connect labor used with work accomplished — while there may still be time to act.
Learn about Field Production →
Change Orders
Every Change Order changes your profit.
The question is which way.
Changed work has a cost.
It has a price.
It has to be recognized, approved, performed, billed and collected.
And when it’s finished, it either added to your profit or took away from it.
MEPTrax is being designed to follow that entire economic story.
Pricing & Profitability
Your estimate says the job should make money.
Did the job agree?
At the beginning of a job, you have expectations.
Expected material.
Expected labor.
Expected cost.
Expected profit.
Then the job meets reality.
MEPTrax Business is being designed to help connect the result back to those original expectations so you can understand not only what happened, but why.
Learn about Pricing & Profitability →
Business Control
You don’t need to know everything.
You need to know what matters.
As an electrical company grows, the owner can’t personally watch every job, purchase, Change Order and decision.
MEPTrax is being designed so useful information can reach the people responsible for acting on it — and so the owner can see what actually requires his attention.
Not another dashboard that needs constant watching.
Better awareness of what matters.
Learn about Business Control →
Operational Awareness
Your questions don’t stop where one piece of software ends.
Your estimate may know what you expected.
Your field records may know what happened.
Your purchasing records know what you bought.
Your accounting knows what you spent.
But the questions that matter cross all of them.
Why did labor run over?
Did the scope change?
Was the Change Order approved?
Did we bill it?
Did we collect it?
What did we actually make?
MEPTrax is being built to preserve the relationships between those answers.
We call that Operational Awareness Software.
Learn about Operational Awareness →
And then the company can learn.
What happened today should improve what happens tomorrow.
A completed job contains information.
What you expected.
What actually happened.
Where you were wrong.
Where you were right.
Where something went unusually well.
Where something went badly.
That experience has value only if the company keeps the lesson.
Something performed worse than expected?
Understand why and correct it.
Something performed better than expected?
Understand why and reinforce it.
Don’t make the next job relearn what the last job already taught you.
Learn about Performance & Learning →
Three products.
One continuous business story.
MEPTrax Takeoff
AVAILABLE NOW
What is the work?
Plans → assemblies → quantities
MEPTrax Quote
RELEASING SOON
What will it cost and what will we charge?
Cost → price → proposal → accepted work
MEPTrax Business
IN DEVELOPMENT
What actually happened and what did we make?
Production → labor → Change Orders → cost → profit → learning
Then back to the next job.
What did reality teach us that should improve what we expect next time?
Know what you bid.
Know what’s happening.
Know what you actually made.
You don’t have to buy the future to start today.
MEPTrax is being released in usable stages.
We’re starting with MEPTrax Takeoff because electrical contractors need to perform takeoffs today.
MEPTrax Quote is next and is releasing soon.
MEPTrax Business and the broader Operational Awareness capabilities described on this page are in development.
We won’t call something available when it isn’t.
And purchasing MEPTrax Takeoff does not include Quote, Business or other future products unless explicitly stated.
Start with the product that’s ready.
MEPTrax Takeoff
AVAILABLE NOW
Try MEPTrax Takeoff Free
30 days free. No credit card required.