For manufacturers

Every quote waits for the one person who knows how to price the job.

A drawing arrives by email, the estimator works out material, machine time and finishing from an old spreadsheet and memory, and the quote goes out days later. We build systems that draft quotes from your own rates and past jobs, move the order paperwork between the office and the floor, and keep running after they are built.

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You will recognise at least one of these

The quote that waits for the estimator

Enquiries come in with a drawing, a sketch or a list of sizes. Only one or two people can price them, so the quote waits until they are off the shop floor, and some customers buy elsewhere in the meantime.

The order typed out again for the floor

An order is confirmed, and someone retypes it into the job card, the cutting list or the works order, and then again into the accounts when it ships.

Material that runs out mid-job

Sheet, resin, timber, ingredients, packaging. Stock levels sit in a system that nobody checks until a job is about to start and the material is not on the rack.

The paperwork the customer asks for

Certificates of conformity, material certificates, batch and traceability records, delivery notes. Each one is put together from the job records by hand, often after the goods have left.

What we take off the desk

Each of these is built from information your firm already holds. Somebody is retyping it. We stop that, and we keep it running after it is built.

Not sure which one to start with? Send us the thing that eats the most afternoons. We reply within one business day, and within 1-2 business days you have in writing what we would build first and what it would cost.

Quote drafts from your rates
The enquiry and drawing read, sizes, materials and quantities pulled out, and a quote drafted from your own rates and similar past jobs, showing how each figure was reached. The estimator checks, changes and sends it.
Orders turned into job cards
Confirmed orders written into job cards, cutting lists or works orders in the format your floor already uses, so nothing is retyped between the office and production.
A nightly material check
An agent that reads your stock records every night and reports what is running low against the jobs already booked in.
Compliance paperwork from job records
Certificates of conformity, batch and traceability records and delivery paperwork drafted from the job data in your own templates, for a person to sign off.
Drawings cleaned up for the job file
Scanned and photographed drawings and marked-up sketches turned into clean, marked-up PDFs that can go on the job file and to the floor.

How the first two weeks go

You tell us where the time goes

One conversation, or one email. How enquiries arrive, how jobs are priced today, which system holds orders and stock. We reply within one business day.

We write the scope

A one-page document: what gets built first, what it needs access to, what it costs, and the date. Fixed. You decide with a number in hand.

It goes into production

Built against your real rates and past jobs, tested on quotes you have already sent, switched on with the estimator approving every draft until you say otherwise.

Every offer has a written scope before any invoice, and a fixed price on that scope. If something we built ever stops, the first to hear about it is us, not your client. The full list of what we charge for is on the pricing page. A written diagnostic of something already broken starts at $500£400€450, credited in full against the repair if you go ahead within 90 days.

Questions we get from manufacturing firms

Will it price jobs on its own?+

Not unless you decide it should. It drafts the quote from your rates and past jobs and shows how it got each figure. The estimator approves, changes or rejects it, and spends their time on judgement instead of arithmetic and typing.

Which systems do you work with?+

Anything with an export or an API, which covers most MRP and ERP systems, accounts packages and spreadsheets. Pricing often lives in a spreadsheet the estimator built years ago, and that is a fine place to start.

Have you built anything like this?+

The closest work is for a well drilling and hydrogeology company: a system that drafts their documents from project data in their own templates, so the engineer checks instead of writing, a nightly agent that reads their stock database and reports what is running low, and a tool that turns scanned and photographed plans into clean, marked-up PDFs. They have since ordered further systems. A quote is the same shape of problem: your data, your template, a person checking.

Our drawings and pricing are confidential. Who holds them?+

You do. Everything runs in accounts or on servers in your name, under a data processing agreement, and the code is yours. You can revoke our access the day the work is done.

What does it cost?+

Every build has a written scope and a fixed price on that scope before any invoice. Build sprints run from $3,000 to $25,000, care after launch starts at $1,000 a month, and the first 30-minute consultation is free. The full list is on the pricing page, in pounds for UK firms.

Describe the problem. Get a written quote.

Outline the failing system, or the process that should stop being manual. Every enquiry is answered by the engineer who would do the work.

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Within one business day
A reply from the person who would do the work: whether we can help, what it would cost, and what we would do first.
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Then a one-page scope
The price, the date, what is included. Send a log instead and the written diagnostic comes back in two business days.
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What you will not get
Discovery workshops billed by the hour, slide decks, or a handoff to a sales team. If we are not the right fit, we say so and name a better one.

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