About us

Built by people who work on site

Roughin exists because we got tired of hunting for one detail in a plan PDF, digging through a messy photo gallery and scrolling back through text threads to find what we needed. Now the plans, notes and site photos are in one place.

Workbench Technologies Inc. · est. 2026

A tradesperson in a work jacket checking a phone inside a wood-framed house
01The storyIn four parts
  1. The problem

    Plans are made for desks, not mud

    The full set lives on the plan table in the trailer, or in the foreman’s truck. Where you’re working, there’s a phone, one free hand, and a sheet you know is in there somewhere.

    So you lose time every day scrolling through a long PDF, hunting for the one page that matters.

  2. The realization

    Most construction apps are built for the office

    They’re made for project managers and the people running the job from a desk. None of them are built for the trade actually building it — the electrician on the ladder, the framer in the rain.

  3. The bet

    Built for the job site

    Roughin is made for the phone in your hand: big buttons and a light screen you can read outside. Your set sorted by trade, with markup, measuring, crop and share, notes, site photos and a feet-inch calculator on the same phone. And when you’d rather not dig, ask the set a question and it points you to the sheet.

  4. Where we are

    Tested on real jobs, now on Android and iOS

    Tradespeople in Alberta have been using Roughin on real jobs during the beta. It’s now on Google Play and the App Store. Most of what changed along the way came straight from what works for them.

Get in touch

02Get in touch
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