AI for Custom Manufacturers

Quote faster. Ship on time. Stop losing jobs to slower shops.

ManufactureAI gives your estimators, schedulers, and floor leads one connected system -- no spreadsheets, no missed deadlines, no re-quoting from scratch every time a customer calls back with a revision.

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4x
faster quote turnaround
93%
on-time delivery improvement
18 hrs
saved per estimator each week
2 wks
average time to full setup
The Real Cost of Manual Job Management

Most job shops run on tribal knowledge and spreadsheets. That is a capacity ceiling.

Quotes take days, not hours

Every new job means pulling material costs by hand, estimating labor from memory, and formatting a PDF from scratch. Your competitor with better systems wins the job before you finish the quote.

Scheduling still lives on a whiteboard

When a machine goes down or a rush order lands, the schedule falls apart. There is no live view of capacity across the floor. Someone has to walk around and ask what is actually running.

Job history lives in someone's head

When your best estimator quits, they take years of institutional knowledge with them. How you quoted the last aerospace contract, what tooling you used, what the actual cycle time was -- gone.

Customer calls eat the whole afternoon

Customers call to ask for status updates. You stop to check the floor, report back, and repeat fifty times a week. That is time your team should spend on the machine, not on the phone.

Material costs surprise you at invoice time

You quoted the job in January. Steel moved in March. When you invoice in April, the margin is gone. Without live cost tracking tied to your quotes, every job is a financial gamble.

Rework has no root cause

Parts go out wrong and come back. You fix them. Nobody captures why. The same mistake happens six months later because there is no institutional memory. ManufactureAI logs every deviation and links it to the original job record.

What ManufactureAI Does

One platform for quoting, scheduling, and floor visibility

Built specifically for job shops, machine shops, and custom fabricators who need real-time data without the ERP price tag or the six-month implementation timeline.

AI-Assisted Estimating

Feed ManufactureAI a drawing or job spec and it generates a first-pass estimate in minutes -- pulling from your historical job data, current material prices, and machine rates. Your estimator reviews and approves. The quote goes to the customer as a clean branded PDF the same day it comes in.

Live Floor Scheduling

Drag-and-drop job scheduling with real capacity constraints baked in. When a machine goes down, the system flags which jobs are at risk and suggests alternative routing. Your scheduler makes the call in thirty seconds instead of spending an hour on the phone working it out manually.

Work Order Tracking

Every job has a digital work order with real-time status. Operators log start and stop times from a shared tablet on the floor. Supervisors see exactly where every part is on the floor without walking around. Customers receive automated updates at key milestones instead of calling your office.

Material Cost Intelligence

ManufactureAI tracks your material costs and flags when a job's margin is at risk due to price changes since the quote was written. Lock a price at quote time or set an alert threshold. No more margin surprises showing up at the end of a job when it is too late to reprice.

Quality and Rework Logging

When a part fails inspection, operators log the defect code against the work order directly from the floor. ManufactureAI surfaces recurring patterns by machine, operator, material lot, or part type. Root cause analysis stops being a gut feeling and starts being a data-backed finding your team can act on.

Customer and Vendor Portal

Give customers a secure link to check job status and download invoices without calling your office. Give vendors a portal to confirm material deliveries and update lead times. Your team stays focused on production, not on answering questions that a self-service portal can handle automatically.

Getting Started

Up and running in two weeks, not six months

No IT team required. No consultants on retainer. Our onboarding team handles the data migration and walks your estimators and schedulers through the system in a handful of sessions.

Step 01

Import Your Job History

Connect your existing spreadsheets, old ERP exports, or QuickBooks job data. ManufactureAI ingests them and builds your baseline cost model in the first week. No manual data re-entry and no starting from a blank slate.

Step 02

Configure Machines and Rates

Tell ManufactureAI what machines you have, what they cost per hour to run, and what your current labor rates are. The system maps your floor capacity. Takes one afternoon with our onboarding team on a call with your production manager.

Step 03

Run Your First AI Quote

Upload a drawing or fill out the job spec form. ManufactureAI generates a first-draft estimate. Your estimator reviews, adjusts the margin if needed, and clicks approve. The quote goes to the customer as a clean PDF with your shop's branding on it.

Step 04

Activate Floor Tracking

Set up a shared tablet or terminal on the floor. Operators scan job barcodes and log status. You see live WIP across every active work order from your office browser. Scheduling conflicts and margin alerts surface automatically as the day unfolds.

Built for Real Shops

Software that works the way your shop actually works

Most manufacturing software was built for large plants with dedicated IT departments and full-time implementation teams. ManufactureAI was built for a 22-person machine shop where the owner is also the head estimator and the scheduler is pulling double duty on the floor.

There is no six-month rollout. No SAP consultant charging by the hour. No army of modules you will never use. Just a system that covers the work you run every day and stays out of your way the rest of the time.

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From the Shop Floor

What manufacturers say after the first month

Job shops, machine shops, and fabricators using ManufactureAI to run faster and quote smarter.

"We were quoting 3-4 jobs a day and losing half because we were too slow. ManufactureAI cut our quote time from two days to three hours. We are winning more jobs and we are more confident in our numbers because the system is pulling from what we actually paid last time, not what we remember."
Ray Kowalski
Ray Kowalski
Owner, Precision Components Inc.
"The scheduling piece alone paid for the first year. I used to spend my entire Monday morning rebuilding the schedule from scratch. Now I spend twenty minutes reviewing it and making two adjustments. The rest of the day I am doing actual management work instead of logistics triage."
David Meier
David Meier
Production Manager, Meier Fab
"My customers kept calling to check job status. I was burning two hours a day on those calls. Now they log in and check themselves. My front office handles the entire customer communication side with two clicks, and the team on the floor stopped getting interrupted by my phone calls asking what's running."
Sandra Reyes
Sandra Reyes
Owner, Reyes Metal Works
Pricing

Straightforward pricing. No per-module fees.

Every plan includes quoting, scheduling, work orders, and the customer portal. The difference is users and job volume. No hidden setup fees and no annual lock-in for the first year.

Shop
$299
per month, up to 5 users
  • AI-assisted quoting
  • Live job scheduling
  • Work order tracking
  • Customer status portal
  • Up to 100 active jobs
  • QuickBooks integration
  • Email support
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Production
$699
per month, up to 20 users
  • Everything in Shop
  • Material cost tracking
  • Quality and rework logs
  • Vendor portal access
  • Unlimited active jobs
  • Dedicated onboarding call
  • Priority phone support
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Enterprise
Custom
multi-plant, unlimited users
  • Everything in Production
  • Multi-location scheduling
  • ERP and MES integrations
  • Custom reporting and exports
  • Dedicated account manager
  • SLA-backed uptime guarantee
  • On-site training available
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See ManufactureAI running on a shop like yours

Book a 30-minute demo and we will walk through quoting, scheduling, and floor tracking using your job types, your machine mix, and your actual cost structure. No slides. Just the system.

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