Brontes is made by Vulcan Technologies for one trade: structural steel fabrication. Everything in it is built to match how a real shop actually runs a job, not how a generic project-management tool happens to be shaped.
Vulcan is the Roman god of fire and the forge -- the same fire and electricity that runs a real fabrication shop's welding, cutting, and heat-treating floor every day. It's the name behind this product because that's the world this software is actually built for: mills, shapes, cut lists, station timers, and steel that has to physically move from a bid to a bolt-up. Every design choice in Brontes starts from that floor, not from a generic SaaS template.
Most small-to-mid structural steel fabricators run their business across tools that were never built for the trade: a horizontal CRM bent sideways for sales, a spreadsheet for estimating, another spreadsheet for the cut list, a shared drive for drawings, and a whiteboard for the shop floor. None of them share data, so the same job gets re-entered five times and nobody has one place to see where a piece actually stands. The category leader in this space, Tekla PowerFab, proves the depth this trade actually needs is real -- routes, stations, work packages, per-piece tracking -- but it's sold as a quote-gated enterprise contract that's realistically out of reach for a lot of smaller shops on cost and sales-process grounds alone.
Brontes exists to close that gap: real Tekla-PowerFab-level depth for the shops that opaque, quote-gated pricing shuts out today.
Every module in this product is built and used, not designed on a whiteboard and left half-finished. When a real shop-floor workflow doesn't fit the software, the software changes -- not the other way around. That's why the system is organized around the same stages a job actually moves through (bid, estimate, project, shop, ship) instead of a generic set of CRUD screens, and why depth gets added module by module, grounded in a real fabricator's real day, rather than spread thin across features nobody asked for.
Depth over breadth
Every screen is shaped by structural steel fabrication specifically -- shapes, mills, routes, and stations -- not adapted from a horizontal template.
Connected by default
A bid becomes an estimate becomes a project becomes a shop job becomes a shipped, erected piece -- the same data, carried forward automatically at every handoff.
Real, not aspirational
Every feature on the Features page is running in production today. Nothing on this site is a mockup of something we plan to build eventually.