Product
Tool readiness
The most expensive tool is the one discovered missing mid-job, with the car on stands and the hardware store closing. Job writeups list tools inconsistently, and memory fills the gap badly.
How BuildBay handles it
BuildBay checks a job’s required tools against your inventory before you start. The check runs on a library of 686 documented jobs, each carrying hazards, effort ratings, and a provenance ladder that refuses to print a torque value without a source.
When tools are missing, readiness ranks the single purchase that unlocks the most jobs, so tool money goes where it does the most work.
In detail
- 686 documented jobs
- Each job in the library carries required tools, hazards, and effort ratings across several axes. The tool check runs against that data, not a generic list.
- The gap, per job
- Pick a job and see which required tools are in inventory and which are missing, with substitutes noted where one exists.
- The next tool, ranked
- When tools are missing across many jobs, readiness ranks the one purchase that unlocks the most of them.
- Specs with provenance
- The job library never prints an unsourced torque value. Where a spec appears in the product, its verification level appears with it.
Who it is for
- DIYers deciding which job to attempt next.
- Owners building a first tool set and choosing what to buy next.
- Anyone tired of mid-job hardware store runs.
Related features
In the library
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