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Case 04 · Manufacturing · North America

It quotes the job in minutes.

A precision shop in North America priced every job by hand from PDF drawings. A quote took hours of a senior estimator's day.

ACIS Consulting
PartnerACIS Consulting
SectorManufacturing, quoting
WhereToronto, for a shop in North America
SinceJune 2026
The stackPythonFastAPISQLiteLangGraphClaude API
+8 moreMicrosoft GraphSharePointExchange OnlineMicrosoft AzureDigitalOceanCaddyCAD / STEP readingPDF reading

The numbers

5 minA quote, down from 2 to 3 hours of an estimator's day
332Pages of past quotes read and traced

The walkthrough

What changed

Time to quote
Before2 to 3 hours
AfterAbout 5 minutes

Drawn in minutes, at the middle of the range.

How it runs

  1. RFQ arrivesEmail and drawings
  2. ReadParts, material, finish
    Customer questionsDrafted for a person
  3. PriceEvery figure traced
    Supplier requestsReplies compared
    Labour hoursFrom past jobs
  4. PM reviewChecks and edits
    ConfidenceA reason on each line
  5. Owner approvesOr sends it back
  6. Quote sentLogged with its version

    Each closed job sharpens the next price

The system preparesA person decidesReviewed and sent

The services behind it

AI agents and workflowsAI agents with one job each.The service →Research and reportingNumbers that prove themselves.The service →

What we built

RFQs read automatically

What it is
Intake: the RFQ email and its drawings read without a person opening them.

Pricing from their records

What it is
Pricing: material from their own registers, labour from what the shop took on past jobs.

A confidence level a line

What it is
A confidence level on every line, with the reason in a machinist's words.

The owner approves

What it is
A quote the owner approves, with every figure traceable to the row it came from.

On their own server

What it is
Deployed on the customer's own server, with the data staying in their country.

What changed for them

  • A quote in about 5 minutes, down from 2 to 3 hours
  • Every figure traced to the row it came from
  • The owner approves every quote before it goes out
The full account

A quote that took 2 to 3 hours of an estimator's day now takes about 5 minutes. It was calibrated on 332 pages of the shop's own past quotes. The engine has run on their production registers since August, reading new work every day.

In our partner's words

This is very impressive! You do really walk the talk.
Efrem Habteselassie · ACIS Consulting

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