Calculation as conversation
- Tools should narrate the math. Every input nudges the user toward the next sensible field; every output explains itself in the units a trade actually uses (psi, scfm, gallons, part numbers).
Web Tools
Calculators that show their work.
Each tool replaces a chart, a phone call, or a piece of tribal knowledge. They’re built to live inside the trade’s own publishing rhythm — calculators that get updated when the manufacturer revises a curve, configurators that emit a real part number you can quote.
The toolkit
Digital Cycle Counter Analysis
Diagnostic calculator that reads field cycle-counter data to detect short cycling, leaks, pump degradation, and wasted-energy cost. UI styled as a faux digital faceplate with a DSEG seven-segment LCD font — so the math reads like the gauge it replaces.
- Acumin Pro · uppercase
- DSEG 7-seg
- --radius:0
- Diagnostic math
- Field-tech UX
Fire-Protection Lookup & Volume Tools
A pair of focused calculators for fire-sprinkler engineers — a dropdown valve pressure lookup and a pipe-by-pipe volume totalizer. Sourced from manufacturer charts (Victaulic, Reliable, Viking) with a deliberately flat, system-font interface.
- System-font stack
- 980px max-width
- Square corners
- Manufacturer chart sourced
C-Aire Compressor Builder
Embeddable, multi-step product configurator. Walks customers through three flows (Reciprocating Piston / Climate Control, Fire Protection, Replacement Finder) to generate a valid C-Aire part number with full specs, decode panel, and share/print/compare/quote actions.
- Acumin Pro
- Source Sans 3
- Multi-step flow
- Spec decoder
- WordPress embed
Competitor Cross-Reference
WordPress + Gravity Forms tool covering 10 competitor brands. Each segment of a competitor product number is decoded in real time and rendered as pastel “label chips” — a printed-circuit-board legend feel that turns spec lookup into a small lesson.
- WordPress
- Gravity Forms
- Divi
- Live PN decoder
- 10 brand corpora
Patterns across the work
Faceplates, not forms
- A field tool should feel like the instrument it replaces. Square corners, monospace digits, sparing color. The aesthetic isn’t nostalgia — it’s legibility under a hand-light.
Show the source
- Every coefficient, chart, or curve cites where it came from. A calculator that hides its sources is a calculator nobody trusts on the second visit.
Want one for your business?
Good candidates
Anything you currently look up in a chart, calculate in a spreadsheet, or explain over the phone three times a week. That’s a tool waiting to ship.
How they’re built
Embeddable on WordPress / Webflow / static sites. Authored against the trade’s own charts, with a publishing flow your team can update.
Start a build
traviswieser@gmail.com — describe the chart, the spreadsheet, or the question you keep answering.