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AI Quoting for Job Shops and Custom Fabricators
Quote-AI reads the RFQ, applies your exact rates, and outputs a signed-ready quote before the customer moves on. Built for job shops, fab shops, and contract manufacturers who bid custom work every single day.
Price a live RFQ queue, adjust margins, and watch shop-ready quotes build in seconds. Demo account: demo@acme.com / any password.
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Try the live demoThe Problem
Most custom manufacturers spend four to eight hours every week building quotes by hand. Many never get sent. Others go out inconsistent. A few get priced too low and cost you money to fulfill.
The average job shop owner spends half a working day per week on quoting tasks that could be handled automatically. Over a year, that is 200 hours that never touch a machine, never train a new hire, and never grow the business.
By the time you reach the third quote request of the day, the first two have gone cold. A faster shop already sent their numbers. The work was winnable. You just ran out of afternoon.
Pricing from gut feel and last year's spreadsheet means some jobs go out too low and cost you to fulfill, while others go out too high and you never hear back. Neither one is a number you chose on purpose.
How It Works
No new process to learn. Quote-AI sits on top of the way you already estimate and does the slow part for you.
Drop in the drawing, spec sheet, or email. Quote-AI reads the part, the quantities, the tolerances, and the material call-outs. Multi-file RFQs are fine.
The system pulls your machine rates, labor burden, material costs, and markup rules, then builds a first-pass estimate against your real numbers, not a generic template.
You see the line-item breakdown, nudge the margin if the customer warrants it, and add notes. The estimator stays in control. The typing is gone.
Export a clean branded PDF and send it the same day. Quote-AI logs what you quoted and whether it closed, so your pricing gets sharper every month.
Why Quote-AI
Spreadsheets are slow and inconsistent. Enterprise CPQ tools assume a fixed catalog you do not have. Quote-AI is built for one-off and short-run fabrication.
| Capability | Spreadsheets | Generic CPQ | Quote-AI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reads the RFQ and drawing automatically | No | No | Yes |
| Uses your exact machine and labor rates | Yes | Partial | Yes |
| Flags margin risk when material prices move | No | No | Yes |
| First draft in minutes, not hours | No | Partial | Yes |
| Designed for one-off and short-run jobs | Partial | No | Yes |
| Time to first quote | Hours | Weeks of setup | Same day |
Features
Quote-AI handles the parts of estimating that eat your week, and stays out of the way on the parts that need your judgment.
Upload a PDF drawing, a spec sheet, or a customer email. Quote-AI extracts the part, quantity, material, and key tolerances so you are not retyping the request into a spreadsheet.
Machine rates, labor burden, setup time, and markup rules live in one place. Every quote prices off your real shop numbers, so the estimate reflects how you actually run jobs.
Steel and aluminum move. Quote-AI flags when a job's margin is at risk because material prices shifted since you wrote the number, so you reprice before it costs you.
Send a clean, professional quote with your shop's logo and terms the same day the RFQ lands. No more reformatting a Word doc every time a customer asks for a number.
Quote-AI records what you quoted and whether it closed. Over a few months you learn which jobs, customers, and price points actually convert, and you stop guessing.
No rip-and-replace. Quote-AI runs in the browser, imports your existing rate sheets, and exports standard files. Your estimators are productive on day one.
"We were turning down RFQs because we could not quote them fast enough. Quote-AI cut our estimating time from a half day to about twenty minutes. We are bidding work we used to let walk out the door, and the numbers are tighter because they come from what we actually charged last time."
Tom Vance · Owner, Vance Precision Machining
Who It Is For
If a meaningful share of your revenue comes from one-off and short-run jobs, quoting speed is a sales channel. Quote-AI is built for these shops.
You quote a steady stream of mixed work and every RFQ is a little different. Quote-AI gets the first draft out the door fast so you can bid more of what comes in.
Material, bend count, and finish drive your price. Quote-AI captures those inputs and applies your rates so estimates stay consistent across whoever is quoting that day.
Setup time, cycle time, and tooling make or break your margin. Quote-AI builds those into the estimate and flags jobs where the math does not work before you send the number.
Pricing
Every plan includes RFQ parsing, your rate card, and branded quote PDFs. Start free, no card required. No setup fee and no annual lock-in for the first year.
FAQ
The first draft is built from your real rates and current material costs, but your estimator always reviews and approves before anything goes to a customer. Quote-AI removes the typing, not your judgment on the close call.
PDF drawings, spec sheets, and plain customer emails today, with multi-file RFQ upload. Complex CAD formats are on the roadmap. When a file is ambiguous, the system asks rather than guessing.
Most shops are quoting the same day they sign up. You import your existing rate sheet, confirm your markups, and run your first RFQ. There is no multi-week implementation.
No. Quote-AI runs in the browser and fits on top of your current estimating process. Your team keeps quoting the way they do now, just without the hours of manual entry.
Your rates, quotes, and win and loss history are yours. We never share them, and you can export everything in standard formats whenever you want it.
Plans start at $149 per month for a single estimator. The Shop plan at $249 adds unlimited quotes and material cost intelligence for up to five estimators. See the pricing section above.
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Try Quote-AI on a real RFQ from your shop. Log in with demo@acme.com and any password, price a live queue, and watch a shop-ready quote build in seconds.
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