AI for manufacturing: faster quotes, less know-how locked in people's heads

Start with the office work that slows production down: drafting quotes from customer RFQs, answering staff questions from manuals and internal procedures, and capturing service requests in full. You don't need to rebuild the factory. Pick one process that costs time every day and build the tool around that, then extend it once it works.

It can draft them, not set the price. It reads the RFQ, extracts material, quantities and operations, finds similar past quotes and fills in the line items. The person responsible checks costs and lead times, corrects and sends. The quote goes out in hours instead of days, and the commercial decision stays with whoever knows the customer.

Yes. We load your manuals, procedures and datasheets, and the assistant answers staff questions, always showing which document the information comes from. If the answer isn't in the documents, it says so rather than making something up. That's why it pays to start from up-to-date documents: answer quality depends on what we feed it.

Not to get started. We don't currently connect directly to existing ERP or management systems: we work from documents, exports and emails you already have. That lets you try AI quickly without touching production systems. If a connection becomes necessary later, we assess together whether it can be done and whether it's worth it.

Your documents are used only to run your own assistant and are never used to train other models. The tool's code and instructions remain yours even if you stop working with us. On the call we agree which documents to load and which to keep out, starting with only what's genuinely needed.

It depends on the process and the volume of documents: an assistant answering from fifty procedures is a different job from a system that reads RFQs and compares them with years of past quotes. On the free 30-minute intro call we pick one process to start with, then send a written price before any work begins.

We start from a sample: twenty or so past quotes, or the procedures for one line. After the call the prototype is usually ready within a few working days, and you test it on cases you already know, such as last year's quote or a recurring fault. Rolling it out to other departments is planned only afterwards.