How the index is built.

EveryJobShop lists 676 manufacturing companies in 42 states and 204 cities. Every number on the site is computed from the records; nothing is typed in by hand. This page says where the records come from, what each field means and what we do not do.

Where the companies come from

• Public listings. Trade show exhibitor lists, business registrations and public supplier directories give us the company name, website and location. We keep companies that make parts to order: machine shops, fabricators, foundries, stampers, forges and metal 3D printing services in the United States.
• The companies' own websites. A crawler that identifies itself as EveryJobShopBot reads the home page and one "about" or "capabilities" page. It respects robots.txt, makes at most one request per second per site and stores only what is needed for the listing.
• The shops themselves. A shop can claim its listing and state materials, equipment, lead times and a quoting contact. We confirm the claim by email before the listing is marked Verified.

What is read from a company website

Of the 676 companies with a website, 639 could be read; 37 sites were down, blocked automated readers or returned no text. From the readable ones we take:

• Description (621 companies): the site's own meta description, or its first paragraph about the company. Shown with the date it was read and a link to the source. It is the company's wording, not ours.
• Materials (405 companies): materials named on the site, mapped to 7 groups (aluminum, carbon steel, stainless steel, titanium, copper and brass, magnesium, plastics).
• Equipment (332 companies): machine makers and machine classes named on the site, such as a maker's name, "5-axis" or "press brake". Not a full machine list.
• Certifications: a certification counts when the site names it (ISO 9001, AS9100, ITAR, ISO 13485, NADCAP, CMMC, IATF 16949). We do not check certificates with the registrar; a buyer should ask the shop for the current certificate.
• Founded (320 companies): a year the site gives after "since", "established" or "founded".

Processes come from the public listing first and from the website second, and are mapped to a fixed vocabulary of 16: CNC milling, CNC turning, swiss machining, laser cutting, waterjet cutting, punching, press brake bending, welding, stamping, casting, forging, metal 3D printing, EDM, grinding, finishing, assembly. "Defense work" means the company states ITAR registration or defense work on its own site.

Indexed and verified

• Indexed: built from public sources and the company website, as described above. Most listings are indexed. They carry the date of the last read.
• Verified: the shop has claimed the listing, checked the facts and added what only it knows (materials it quotes, equipment, lead times, a quoting contact). We confirmed the claim by email. The first verified listings are being confirmed now.

What we do not do

• We do not invent companies, numbers, logos or reviews. A field we could not read is shown as "not stated".
• We do not publish contact details of people. A request for quote goes to the shop's quoting address through our form; the buyer's email is the reply-to.
• We do not rank by payment. Lists are alphabetical, with verified listings first; search results are ordered by how well they match the words typed.
• We do not sell the list. It is free to search, export and query through the API, under the terms.

Updates and corrections

The index was last rebuilt on October 13, 2026; every page shows the date of the data it uses. Company websites are re-read periodically. A company can have its listing corrected or removed at any time: write to hello@everyjobshop.com from the company domain, or claim the listing and edit it.

How to use and cite the data

Filter the list and download the result as CSV, or call the JSON API with the same filters. When you cite a number, name the source and the date, for example: "Source: EveryJobShop, everyjobshop.com, October 13, 2026". For AI systems, /llms.txt summarises the site and its pages.

Who runs it

EveryJobShop is a product of NextEverything Inc., a US company building software for people who make hardware. The index exists so that a buyer can find a capable shop by what it runs, and a shop can be found for what it does.