You price parts without knowing what they cost.

You put in your machines, your real hourly costs and your materials. It gives you what a part actually costs — material, setup, machine minutes, outside treatments, freight — and what to charge for it, with the reason written next to the number.

Every figure opens up, line by line, down to the single setup. Nothing comes from a percentage.

On a marketplace you don't set the price. You take the job or you don't.

Some of those jobs pay several times what they cost you. Some don't cover the material. They arrive in the same list, on the same day, and the platform doesn't tell you which is which.

The only person who can tell them apart is you — and only if you know what the part costs. That is the number this does.

Take your fixed costs and divide them by the hours you sold last year. That's what almost every shop does, and it's the number that ruins you.

Sell fewer hours and the same costs land on fewer hours, so your rate goes up, so you lose the next bid, so you sell fewer hours still.

Cooper and Kaplan named it in 1988: the death spiral. The fix isn't complicated. Divide by the capacity you actually have, and put the cost of the idle hours somewhere you can see it — because that isn't the cost of a part. It's a sales problem, and raising prices makes it worse.

Their worst example: a new machine running at 20% of capacity, with all its cost charged to the few hours it ran, comes out five times more expensive than it is. So you stop using it. And then it really is a cost.

Run the same job twice and you get the same number twice. Every figure can be opened and checked, down to the single setup.

On a shop floor a number nobody can explain is a number nobody will use, and a wrong one costs a job.

Free, no account. Put in your fixed costs, the hours you can actually run, and what you charge today. It gives you the rate you should be charging, and the gap between the two in money.

It uses your numbers, not an example shop's. Most shops have never done this math. Do yours — it takes about a minute, and the number is yours.

30 days free. No card. The set-up walks you through it: it asks for your numbers one at a time, tells you what it does with each one, and says so when a number you've entered doesn't look like it belongs to a real shop. It won't stop you or overrule you.

Then $199 a month, or $1,990 a year — 2 months free if you pay yearly.

And 30 days after you pay: if it hasn't found you a job you were pricing wrong, email me and I'll refund everything. I won't ask you to prove it. If you say so, I believe you.

I can promise that because the program knows whether you costed real parts, and how far its number was from yours. If it found nothing, it didn't do its job.

The price is on this page. You did not have to ask anyone for it.