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Commercial An engineering job shop

Pricing a drawing the way the owner does

An agent reads the RFQ drawing, finds similar past jobs, drafts the quote, and learns from every edit the owner makes.

Stage
In development
Sector
Commercial
Capabilities
Agentic AI
Deployment
Cloud agent; RFQs in by email or WhatsApp.
Integrations
Email, WhatsApp, Tally, past quotes in Excel / PDF
RFQ DRAWINGAGENTPAST JOBSQUOTEOWNER EDITLEARNS FROM EDITS
Signal path. Illustration, not a site photograph.

The knowledge at risk

It lives in the head of the owner.

He looks at a drawing and knows the machine, the setups, the material rate this month and what this customer will pay. None of it is in a costing sheet.

Shop-floor constraints

  • RFQs arrive as PDFs, photos and WhatsApp forwards.
  • Past quotes are scattered across Excel, Tally and memory.
  • The owner must stay in control of the final price.

What we build

  1. 01

    Read the drawing

    The agent extracts material, dimensions, tolerances and operations from the RFQ.

  2. 02

    Find the precedents

    It retrieves similar past jobs and what they were actually quoted and cost.

  3. 03

    Draft the quote

    It drafts a price with its reasoning: cycle time, setups, material, margin.

  4. 04

    Learn from the owner

    The owner edits in one pass. Each edit and its reason is stored against the job.

Today: what it improves

  • Quotes go out the same day.
  • The owner reviews instead of calculating.
  • Won and lost quotes are tracked with reasons.

Over time: how it learns

Your pricing logic, learned from every edit you make.

  • D1RFQ drawings with extracted features
  • D2The agent's draft and the owner's edited price
  • D3The owner's stated reason for each edit
  • D4Win / loss outcome and actual job cost

Recorded on site and owned by the plant. The system uses it to keep learning your floor.

Architecture

  1. 01

    Inputs

    Email and WhatsApp RFQs, drawings, past quotes

  2. 02

    Extraction

    Drawing parsing: material, features, tolerances

  3. 03

    Knowledge

    Past jobs, actual costs, machine rates, customer history

  4. 04

    Agent

    Quote drafting with precedent citations

  5. 05

    Surface

    Review screen, quote PDF, WhatsApp reply

What we will measure

  • Quotes leave faster.

    PILOT MEASUREMENT REQUIRED: hours from RFQ received to quote sent.

  • Drafts need fewer edits over time.

    PILOT MEASUREMENT REQUIRED: owner edit size per quote, month on month.

  • Quoted prices hold margin.

    PILOT MEASUREMENT REQUIRED: quoted vs actual job cost on won jobs.

Run a plant with an expert like this?

Tell us whose judgement your floor cannot run without. That is where a pilot starts.

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