Industries · Manufacturing
The shop floor is usually fine. The constraint is the office: quoting that takes days, production documentation assembled by hand, quality records that live in binders, customer questions answered by whoever remembers. That office layer is exactly the work AI does well.
Quoting. First-pass quotes drafted from your price lists, past jobs and the incoming spec, reviewed and owned by your estimator. Quote turnaround is one of the most reliably measurable wins in this sector.
Production and quality documentation. Work instructions, inspection records, certificates of conformance, drafted against templates from production data, reviewed by a person, filed with a real audit trail.
Customer communication. Order status, lead-time answers, documentation requests, drafted against your actual records instead of someone's memory.
No rip-and-replace. The build connects to your existing quoting sheets, your ERP where it makes sense, and the shared drives where the truth currently lives. If the truth lives in binders, we start by making it searchable.
Every engagement starts small: one workflow, a measured baseline, success criteria agreed before a dollar moves. Manufacturing owners do not buy promises, the process is built so you never have to.
Quote turnaround is the headline metric to baseline. The pilot measures what changes. Customer-communication hours are harder to baseline but just as real, the work stops depending on who is at their desk.
None of these numbers are promised before they are measured. The pilot exists to produce YOUR numbers against YOUR baseline, that is the only version of this that is worth believing.
A common pattern: quote requests sit in an inbox until the owner gets to them at night, sometimes days later. A rebuilt workflow would draft the quote skeleton on arrival, flag what needs judgment, and put a one-review approval in front of the owner. The aim: same-morning quotes, same person, same margins.
Common questions
Small shops are the sweet spot, the owner usually IS the quoting department. Giving the owner back ten hours a week is the highest-leverage move available at that size.
Where integration makes sense, yes. Where it does not, the workflow reads and drafts alongside your current tools. The Review maps this before anything is built.
A human approves every number, and pricing data stays inside boundaries agreed in writing. Nothing leaves your environment without an explicit rule saying so.
CAD $300. The Quick Scan is about a 45-minute discovery with a concise findings report within 5 business days. If nothing clears the bar, the report says so and you are done.
About 45 minutes of discovery. A concise findings report within 5 business days: strongest opportunities, risks, next step. CAD $300.