IndustrialCoatingsOps is the operating system for industrial coating contractors — tank linings, secondary containment, structural steel, and industrial floor coatings, all in one platform. AI bid spec reader, ICRI & SSPC standards built in, SAM.gov pipeline, labor + travel estimators, prevailing-wage detection. Bid sharp. Run lean. Get paid.
A 30-second walkthrough — AI spec triage, callout extraction, and a clean bid draft.
An industrial bid is 200 pages of spec, three pages of submission requirements, twelve pages of bid forms, and one paragraph of actual coating scope buried somewhere in Section 09 96 00. Most contractors spend 8–20 hours per bid just figuring out what’s in scope.
You quoted a 9,000 SF Novolac epoxy floor for a chemical plant. Between the diamond grinding, moisture testing per ASTM F2170, crack repair, primer, broadcast, and topcoat — the estimate took three days and you still weren’t sure the numbers were right.
QuickBooks shows you a P&L at quarter-end. By then you can’t fix anything. Generic project tools don’t know what SSPC SP-10 or ICRI CSP 3 mean, or why the PO has to be filed before mobilization, or what overhead the per-pump containment adds.
IndustrialCoatingsOps is purpose-built for both halves of the work — the bid pipeline up front, the field operations and profit tracking after award. Built by someone who lives both sides.
Most software helps you bid OR helps you run the job. Industrial contractors need both — and the second is what determines whether the first one paid off.
Triage 200-page specs in five minutes. Find the real coating scope, the bid forms, the pre-bid meetings, the retainage terms — without reading every word.
Once you’ve won the work, every dollar of margin is in the small stuff — travel, per diem, prep media, containment, scaffolding. Track all of it. See profit per project in real time.
No add-on tier for “real features.” The whole stack is on day one — bid intake, field ops, materials, finance.
Most "AI" features in industrial software are generic chat. Ours is purpose-trained on Section 09 96 00 specs, surface prep standards, and bid form structure. You drop the PDF, you get a real summary.
The bid number is just a target. Real margin is whatever’s left after the per diem, the containment, the scaffolding rental, the prevailing wage you didn’t catch. ICO tracks all of it from quote through invoicing.
Jim runs an industrial contracting business. Every feature came out of a real bid he had to pursue or a real job that almost lost money. You’ll feel the difference in the first 10 minutes.
Internal vessel coatings — water, wastewater, chemical, food-grade.
Bridges, refineries, water towers, plant structural — atmospheric service.
Berms, sumps, dike coatings — chemical and petroleum spill protection.
Concrete substrate. ICRI surface profiles. Epoxy, Novolac, polyurea, polyurethane.
Plain answers to what bidders and project managers actually ask about IndustrialCoatingsOps.
I’m Jim Schiffman. I’ve been in coatings since 2004 — most of those years selling them at the distribution level. The last three I’ve been on the sales side at an industrial coatings contractor, and the last two doing the same at a powder coating shop. Three angles on the same trade. From all three, the tools were broken.
I see every bid that wins, every job that loses money, every spec PDF that swallows a Tuesday afternoon. So I started building. AI spec reader. SAM.gov pipeline. Labor + travel estimators that know what per diem actually costs. Profit per project in real time. Other contractors saw it and asked when they could buy it. ICO is the answer.
14-day free trial. No credit card. Onboarding call with a contractor, not a sales rep.