Hi — I'm Steele.
I'm your shop-floor partner for the whole BBF operation — CNC plasma cutting & nesting, tube bending, welding & fabrication, materials & stock, jobs from quote to ship, machine PM, and shop safety. Ask me anything, or start with one of these:
Steele runs on BBF's own GPU · replies are saved to your conversation · decision support, a qualified fabricator confirms
Safety
Workplace safety & OSHA compliance for your fab shop — hot work, cutting & welding, compressed-gas cylinders, weld fume, grinders — grounded in the official standards, plainly explained. Decision support, not legal advice.
Watch these today
Standing hazards for a cutting & welding shop — surfaced without being asked.
Look up a standard
Browse by hazard
Your shop's applicable OSHA / NFPA / ANSI standards, grouped by domain. Tap a group to open it.
Fab Ops
Jobs from quote to ship, plasma nests & cut params, machines, materials & stock, tube bends, QC, and the cut-quality advisor — captured so the knowledge stays on the floor.
Jobs by status
Top QC defects
Machines & consumables due PM
Machines overdue for PM / consumables low
Any machine past its PM interval or with a spent consumable (plasma nozzle/electrode). Turn them into work-orders in one tap; they land in your Huddle to-do list.
Recent PM
Latest machine PM & consumable changes.
Plasma nesting & cut params — sheet yield, pierce count, and the cut settings that made each nest. Cut-chart numbers are machine- and material-dependent; verify against your machine's cut chart and a test cut.
Log a tube bend
Bend geometry & result — angle, radius, springback, ovality, wall-thinning. Bend-deduction & springback are material- and setup-dependent; verify with a test bend.
Recent bends
Latest tube bends across all jobs.
Log a QC check
Quick-log a cut, bend, weld, or dimensional result against a job — with optional defect classification. Decision support, not a certified weld inspection (CWI) or lab test.
Recent checks
Latest QC across all jobs.
Cut-Quality Advisor
Read-only decision support. Pick a plasma cut defect — Steele walks the probable cause, the lever to move, and a concrete fix. No machine-specific numbers here: always verify against your machine's cut chart and a test cut.
Daily Huddle
Here's where things stand today.
Needs attention today
What's next
Where your BBF portal is heading. Tap to steer the build order.
To-Do
Recent activity
My Shop
You're in the driver's seat. Steer what gets built next, set the priorities, shape how Steele works for you, and bring your crew along.
Your BBF Journey
From first contact to your own BBF node — running on your hardware, in the shop at Baxter Built Fabrications. Tap I want this next on anything to steer the build order.
Needs
Everything you've raised — drive each one: set its status, priority, and which project it belongs to.
Projects
Your structure for the work. Needs can be filed under any project you create here.
Settings
Your preferences. These shape how Steele talks to you and how we reach you.
Invite your team
You control access. Add a teammate and we'll mint them their own private link.
Conversation
Photo-QC
Snap a cut edge, weld, part, or material and Steele reads it on your own GPU — decision support, not a CWI weld inspection or a lab test; a qualified fabricator confirms. Plus capture-by-talking onboarding, add-your-own knowledge, and data that never leaves the shop.
Describe your shop — Steele maps it, you verify.
Talk (or type) plainly about your machines, materials, jobs and nests. Steele proposes structured records — nothing is saved until you review and tap Save on each one.
Photo-QC — Steele looks, on your GPU
Decision support only — not a CWI weld inspection or a lab measurement. Snap a plasma cut edge, a weld, an as-fabbed part, or stock material; a vision model on your own GPU reads it. Save it to a job / part / nest to build a photo-documented QC trail. A qualified fabricator always confirms — never used for autonomous accept/reject.
Documented reads
Add your own shop knowledge
Feed Steele your own shop knowledge — cut charts, WPS, SOPs, notes, exports. It grounds Steele immediately, on your hardware. Your data never leaves the building.
In Steele's grounding
Knowledge you've added.
Your data stays yours
Data & Backups
Your shop's operational data is yours. It's backed up automatically every day (14 days kept). The owner can download a full export anytime, or restore from a backup file. Access tokens and regenerable caches are never included.