Oxford, Ohio · Butler County & Greater Cincinnati
Your best engineer spends the morning writing quotes
In almost every job shop I have looked at, quoting is done by whoever can read a drawing and knows what it will really take on the floor. That is your most valuable person, doing your least leveraged work, every morning.
This is probably you if
- Quoting is done by your owner or lead engineer
- Quotes take days to go out
- Purchase orders get retyped into your job system
- You cannot say which jobs are most profitable
- A spec revision means re-quoting from scratch
Quoting from drawings
A customer emails a PDF. Someone opens it, reads dimensions, works out material, checks stock, estimates setup and run time, applies margin, types it into a template. An hour or two, per quote, by the person you can least afford to have doing it.
This is now automatable in a way it genuinely was not five years ago, because reading a drawing nobody templated is something models finally do reliably. It prices against your rates and your machines, shows its reasoning, and waits for you to check it.
Purchase orders and releases
Every customer sends POs in a different format and somebody retypes them into your job system. Blanket order releases are worse: same part, different quantities, arriving as email text.
A pipeline that reads whatever format arrives and writes structured job records removes the retyping and the transcription errors you find three weeks later.
Which jobs actually make money
Most shops know their overall margin and not much else. When quotes, actual times and material costs live in the same place, you can see which customers and part families are worth chasing and which quietly lose money every run.
Questions people actually ask
- Our drawings are customer-supplied and inconsistent.
- That is the normal case and the reason template-based tools never worked here. Inconsistent layouts are fine. Genuinely ambiguous dimensions get flagged rather than guessed.
- Do we have to replace our ERP?
- No. Whether you run E2, JobBOSS, Fulcrum or a set of spreadsheets, the automation writes into it. Rip-and-replace projects are how this kind of thing dies.
- Is our quoting data safe?
- Your rates and drawings are yours. I can build so nothing sensitive leaves infrastructure you control, and for defense or ITAR-adjacent work that is the default rather than an upgrade.
Worth a conversation?
Fifteen or twenty minutes about how your business actually runs. No deck, no discovery fee. If I do not think there is anything here worth building, I will tell you that.
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