FOUNDING TRADE
Millwork
Architectural casework, hospital and hospitality buildout, custom wall units. Where Praxon was born and where it is in pilot today.
FIELD VERIFY → CLOSE OUT
FIELD EXECUTION SOFTWARE MILLWORK & SPECIALTY TRADES
See what's happening in the field.
Before it costs you margin.
Praxon connects field verification, live job status, scheduling, issues, materials, labor, and reporting on one operational surface built for millwork and specialty trades.
THE OFFICE KNOWS THE PLAN · THE SHOP KNOWS THE COST · THE FIELD KNOWS THE TRUTH
- ROOM STATUS
- Issue · Stop work
- ON SITE NOW
- 1 crew · Area of work
- OFFICE NOTIFIED
- Issue opened · Room 102
02 / PRODUCT OVERVIEW
See Praxon in Action
One custom reception desk, one changed building, and the moment the field condition either reaches the shop or does not.
TRANSCRIPT
- The drawings are approved. A custom reception desk, engineered, detailed, and released.
- Material is ready. Production is about to begin. Sheet goods nested, machine time booked, crew scheduled.
- But the building is still changing. Past this point, every change is scrap, rework, and a second trip.
- The space is not what the sheet says. Five conditions on one wall, none of them in the drawing set.
- The field saw it. The shop never knew. A photo on a phone, a text with no room on it, a missed call, a number on a scrap of paper.
- Captured where it happened. The condition, the photo, and the markup land on the sheet for that room.
- Tied to the work. It belongs to a room on the plan, not to an inbox.
- Seen before fabrication. The office sees it the moment it is captured, with an owner and a date.
- Field-verified geometry, not assumptions.
- Every dimension carries its provenance.
- Pull the measurement. Praxon records it. The installer selects the dimension, takes it with a connected tool, and the exact value lands on the room.
- Build it for the space that actually exists. The conflict is corrected before the sheet is cut.
- The drawing shows the design. The field shows the truth. Praxon connects them before you build.
03 / THE OPERATIONAL PROBLEM
The P&L tells you what happened. The field tells you why.
Margin does not disappear in the estimate. It disappears in the gap between what happened on site and what made it back to the people who could act on it.
WHAT HAPPENED
The wall was out of plumb when the crew walked the room.
A photo was taken. It stayed on a phone.
WHAT WAS COMMUNICATED
A text to a foreman, three days later.
No room, no date, no owner, no record.
WHAT IT COST
Two return trips, a remake, and a backcharge nobody could dispute.
Found in the job costing report, a month after it mattered.
- Unverified conditions
- Fabricated to a drawing the site never matched.
- Answers that came late
- A crew standing still is the most expensive crew you have.
- Material on the wrong site
- Nobody tied the truck to the room it was headed for.
- Punch with no owner
- Retainage sits while the list gets rebuilt from memory.
04 / THE PRODUCT
See where work is stuck before it becomes a fire.
Field operations software for specialty trades, in six moves that carry a job from field verification to closeout. Every screen here is the software as it runs today.
See the whole job on one plan
Every room on the floor plan carries its real state, from released to field verified to complete.
Document what is actually there. Not what the drawing said would be.
Field CAD is one module inside Praxon. The crew draws the room on site, records real walls, openings and heights, and the sheet carries what was measured and what is still assumed.
Rough dimensions read rough. Nothing gets cut to a number nobody pulled.
Plan
WALLS & OPENINGS
Elevations
WALL BY WALL
Sheet
ISSUED RECORD
TAP DRIVEN
Built for taps, not typing.
IN DEVELOPMENT CONNECTED DIGITAL MEASURING TOOLS
Measure it once. Capture it correctly.
Send measurements directly from compatible Bluetooth measuring tools into the field record. The installer selects the dimension in Praxon, pulls the measurement, and the exact value is recorded. No typing, no transcription, no number remembered wrong on the walk back.
- Two ways in
- The tap keypad stays exactly where it is. The connected tool is a second path to the same field.
- Attributed on arrival
- A captured value carries its source, so the record shows what was pulled and what was keyed.
- Derived, not typed
- Wall lengths, floor area and perimeter come off the geometry the field drew.
- Assumptions stay visible
- A head height nobody measured is flagged on the sheet, not buried.
- Straight to the shop
- Field verified dimensions land on the room, where fabrication picks them up.
IN DEVELOPMENT LIDAR ROOM SCANNING FOR CONSTRUCTION
Build it for the space that actually exists.
Custom millwork cannot always be built from architectural drawings alone. Praxon is developing a LiDAR-assisted field-verification workflow that captures the real walls, floors, columns, openings, utilities, ceiling conditions, and clearances controlling the work.
Conceptual visualization of Praxon's planned LiDAR-assisted spatial-capture workflow.
An installer walks the area with an iPad and sweeps the room.
CONCEPTUAL ANIMATION · NOT A SHIPPING FEATURE
- 01REALITY
- 02POINT CLOUD
- 033D AS-BUILT
- 04RECONSTRUCTION
- 05PROPOSED MILLWORK
- 06VERIFIED FIT
Scan the reception area, create a measurable 3D as-built record, and verify how the millwork fits before material reaches the shop floor. Jobsite reality capture, as-built measurement, and field verification before fabrication, tied to the same room the shop is building.
The drawing shows the design. The scan shows what the millwork must fit.
06 / WHO PRAXON IS FOR
If your shop builds it and your crew installs it, this is for you.
Different trades, one workflow. The pain shows up in the same six steps every time.
FIELD VERIFY FABRICATE DELIVER INSTALL DOCUMENT CLOSE OUT
SAME WORKFLOW
Flooring
Resilient, hardwood, large format tile. Verify the slab, land the material, install on a GC clock, and prove what the conditions were.
FIELD VERIFY → CLOSE OUT
SAME WORKFLOW
Specialty Trades
Solid surface and stone, architectural metals and glass, specialty ceilings, doors and hardware. Shop to field, every time.
FIELD VERIFY → CLOSE OUT
FOUNDER
Brian Milburn
07 / FOUNDER
Nearly 30 years in the trade. Built from the problems I lived.
I built Praxon after watching margin disappear through repeated trips, poor field documentation, missed verification, delayed communication, lost materials, rework, and information scattered across texts, emails, notebooks, and memory.
Built by the trades. Built for the trades.
- Nearly 30 Years
- IN THE TRADE
- Built in the Field
- REFINED IN THE SHOP
- Greer, SC
- WHERE PRAXON IS BUILT
WORKING PAPER NO. 1
We Commit Before We Know
Why manufacture-and-install businesses reach the Production Commitment Point with precise shop data and incomplete field information.
Read the Working Paper →WORKING PAPER NO. 1
We Commit Before We Know
A working paper on the Production Commitment Point in manufacture-and-install businesses
August 2026
DRAFT FOR DISCUSSION | COMMENTS INVITED
Your field already knows what happened. Praxon makes sure the rest of the company does too.
In pilot with specialty trade shops now. General access opens Q4 2026.
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