For Machine Shops

Committed work every week. Zero sales effort. Paid on delivery.

You didn't buy a VMC to write quotes at 9 p.m. The Praetore network keeps your spindles turning with contracted baseload work, pays you when parts ship, and gives you shop software for free — because a network is only as strong as the shops in it.

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The Deal

What network shops get

Guaranteed baseload

We contract committed machine-hours with you every week, at rates we agree on together — then we keep them full. Predictable revenue you can hire and buy equipment against, without spending your nights quoting jobs you win one time in five.

Paid on delivery, every time

You invoice us, not the buyer, and we pay when parts ship — no net-45, no chasing a stranger's accounts payable. Praetore carries the buyer's payment terms so you never have to.

Free software that runs your shop

A quoting assistant that prices any job in minutes — yours or ours. A scheduling board that shows your real capacity. Digital travelers and one-click quality docs. Free for network shops, forever, for all your work — not just the jobs we send.

Buying power you can't get alone

Network rates on bar stock, tooling, and shipping — aggregated across every shop in the network. The shipping discount alone typically pays for the paperwork of joining in the first month.

Financing that banks won't write

Because we see your order book and our own forward demand, we can back equipment loans with routed work: a new machine paired with committed hours to keep it cutting. Banks lend against collateral; we lend against demand.

What We Ask

This is a partnership, not a lead-gen list

Reserved capacity. Committed hours per week that we schedule against — that's what makes our guaranteed ship dates real, and your revenue predictable.
Quality on the drawing. Parts inspected to the print, every job. We handle the buyer; you handle the metal.
A real onboarding conversation. We visit, we look at your machines, we agree on rates for your work envelope up front. No blind bidding, ever — that's the point.

The Data Covenant

Marketplaces burned shops by using their own numbers against them. We put the opposite in writing:

Your data wins you work and underwrites you. It is never used to negotiate your rates down.
Benchmarks are anonymized. No aggregate we publish can identify your shop.
Your customers stay yours. Tools we give you for your own business never route your customers away from you.
Committed work, agreed rates, payment on delivery — in the contract, not a landing page.

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Tell us about your shop

Five minutes, no documents required yet. We're building region by region — if we're not in yours yet, applying puts you first in line when we are.