RedPen · The platform for construction & fabrication firms
Win the work, deliver it to standard — on one platform.
Built by a detailing firm, for the industry. RedPen brings AI-assisted estimating, client management and standardised delivery into a single system — so the whole job stays on the record, from the first quote to the fabricated steel.
Why RedPen
Bring cutting-edge, AI-led workflows to your business.
Quoting in spreadsheets, clients in inboxes, deliverables that vary by whoever did them — it costs time and wins fewer jobs. RedPen pulls the commercial and delivery sides of the business into one system, with AI doing real work on the parts that matter most.
AI on your quotes
Cutting-edge AI, working on the work you’re bidding.
RedPen’s estimating assistant drafts quotes, prices the scope and works through client negotiation with you — the kind of AI workflow that used to be out of reach for a detailing or fabrication office, now doing real commercial work every day.
One system of record
Clients, quotes and jobs in one place — not ten spreadsheets.
Stop stitching the commercial picture together from inboxes, spreadsheets and memory. RedPen keeps every client, quote and job connected, so you can see your pipeline and act on it.
Standards that travel
Every deliverable issued to the same standard, every time.
The Tekla-native RedPen Packer encodes your QA and produces consistent, audit-ready deliverables automatically — your hard-won tradecraft enforced, not left to whoever did the issue that day.
The difference
From scattered and manual to one system.
Without RedPen
- Quotes built from scratch in spreadsheets, every time.
- Clients and history scattered across inboxes and memory.
- Deliverables that vary by whoever issued them that day.
- Approvals chased through long email threads.
With RedPen
- AI drafts and prices the quote with you — in minutes.
- Every client, quote and job connected in one place.
- Standardised, audit-ready output, enforced automatically.
- Sign-off tracked on a traffic-light matrix to fab release.
The platform
One platform, module by module.
● Live today · ○ On the roadmap
Estimate
● LiveAI-assisted quoting and negotiation. Draft covers, price the scope, track the back-and-forth, and push won jobs straight to your accounts.
Clients & CRM
● LiveEvery client and contact in one place, with the history of what you’ve quoted and won attached — the relationship, on the record.
RedPen Packer
● LiveThe Tekla-native quality and packaging plugin where RedPen began: issue, check and approve steelwork, with a full audit trail. Syncs to your account.
Projects
○ ComingRFI and variation tracking, tasks and timelines — the delivery side of the job, connected to the quote that won it.
Reports
○ ComingPipeline forecasts, win-rate and margin analytics over your real quoting history — see what’s working and price with confidence.
Client portal
○ ComingA scoped, read-only window for your customers to see their own jobs, quotes and RFIs — fewer “where’s that at?” emails.
Proven · RedPen Packer
Where RedPen started: inside Tekla.
RedPen started inside Tekla as the tool OD3 built to run its own detailing office. It’s live, proven, and now one module of the wider platform.
In OD3’s own office, a fabrication pack went from roughly 45 minutes to about 4.
- 01 · Create
Pick parts in the model, choose the pack type, add issue flags.
- 02 · Check
Run quality-gate checks before anything leaves the office.
- 03 · Issue
Generate drawings, NC1/DXF, reports and the File Register in one pass.
- 04 · Transmit
A transmittal email drafted for review — never auto-sent.
- 05 · Ingest
Drag-and-drop markups, emails and signed drawings; RedPen files them.
- 06 · Approve
Track sign-off on a traffic-light matrix that gates release to fab.
Get started
Put RedPen on your next job.
Start a 14-day free trial, or talk to us about rolling RedPen out across your firm.