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Evidence-backed, trade-specific help in the field through voice, photos, manufacturer documentation, and verified technical knowledge.
Built for the people who keep buildings alive
Field wisdom.
Never lost.
5K TAC builds practical tools for skilled trades, a living memory for every building, and the foundation for infrastructure that gets smarter with every verified repair.
PanelMates is live. The larger Mates platform is taking shape.
The mission
The trade should remember.
Too much hard-earned knowledge disappears when a technician retires, changes companies, or simply leaves the jobsite. Too many building decisions begin again from zero.
We believe the people doing the work deserve better tools—and the buildings they serve deserve a memory.
A Mate does not have to know everything. A Mate helps make sure the right knowledge is not lost.
One connected systemUseful today.
Useful today.
Wiser tomorrow.
Every layer creates value on its own. Together, they turn field activity into durable infrastructure knowledge—without asking contractors or owners to replace the systems they already use.
Building Memory
A continuous record of equipment, inspections, failures, repairs, replacements, reports, and the evidence behind them.
Infrastructure Intelligence
As verified history grows, patterns emerge—helping people make better maintenance, risk, replacement, and capital decisions.
The Mates platformOne mission.
One mission.
The whole jobsite.
A prepared family of specialized tools spanning the worker's career, individual trades, inspection and compliance, the jobsite, and the building record itself.
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PanelMates is available today. The wider family is being prepared for release across the Mates platform.
Built from the field outward
Not software telling the trades how to work. Tools built around how the work actually gets done.
5K TAC starts with the technician at the equipment, preserves the evidence from the work, and makes that knowledge useful to the next person who needs it.
The first Mate is readyStuck at a panel?
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