Product
Everything a shop runs on, in one system.
Not a quoting tool with an ERP bolted to it. A complete ERP that happens to be AI-native — which is why the quoting half gets better every time the floor clocks a job.
Quoting & estimating
RFQs priced in minutes, not days
Drop in the print — a 2D PDF or a 3D model — and it drafts material, programming, setup and run times, and price from your machines and your rates. It spots repeat parts and prices stock from a live material database.
The edge: it learns your floor from every job you actually run, because it runs the job too. A quoting tool bolted onto an ERP never sees the actuals.
Scheduling
A schedule that warns you before a job slips
The schedule builds itself from your routings and machines. A risk engine reads quoted hours against what the floor is clocking and flags which jobs will be late, why, and what to move. Ask whether you can take a job before you commit to it.
The edge: most systems tell you a job is late. This tells you it will be, while there is still time to fix it.
Open jobs
week of Oct 20| Job | Work center | Due | Quoted | Clocked | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J-1184 | Haas VF-2 #1 | Oct 24 | 12.5 h | 11.8 h | On time |
| J-1185 | Mazak QT 200 | Oct 24 | 8.0 h | 9.6 h | At risk |
| J-1186 | Haas VF-2 #2 | Oct 27 | 22.0 h | 24.9 h | Will be late |
J-1186 misses Oct 27 by 1.5 days. Haas VF-2 #2 is the constraint. Moving J-1184 to VF-2 #1 clears it with 4 hours to spare.
Live job costing
Know every job's margin while it runs
Freight, labor, overhead, outside services and material post to the job and to the ledger as the work happens. Quoted-versus-actual shows you exactly where the estimate missed, on the line where it missed.
The edge: catch a losing job while you can still save it, instead of finding out at month-end.
Quoted vs actual
J-1186 · Housing · 303 SS · qty 25| Line | Quoted | Actual | Variance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Material | $1,840 | $1,902 | +$62 |
| Setup · VMC | $262 | $248 | −$14 |
| Run · VMC | $2,310 | $2,615 | +$305 |
| Outside · passivate | $375 | $375 | — |
| Freight | $96 | $118 | +$22 |
| Gross margin | 32.4% | 25.1% | −7.3 pts |
Run time is the whole miss. 0.44 hr/pc actual against 0.37 quoted. The next quote for this part starts from the actual.
Part history
Your shop's know-how, kept
Every part builds a permanent file: setup photos, operator notes, tool life, inspection results and margin history across every run it has ever had. A repeat part arrives with everything already known about it.
The edge: run 4 beats run 1, new hires ramp faster, and a retirement doesn't take twenty years of tricks out the door.
Shop floor
Built at the operator station
Tablet-first screens at the machine — the print, the routing, inspection and clock-in — and the same reach from a monitor where a shop puts one instead. Live machine status over MTConnect.
The edge: not a desktop ERP with a mobile sidebar. It was designed at the machine.
And the rest of the business
The parts a shop ERP usually leaves to someone else.
Suppliers and outside services
Auto-RFQ your heat treaters, platers and suppliers, compare bids side by side, and issue the supplier PO the moment your customer's PO lands. W-9s, insurance certificates and NDAs live in a compliance vault, and expired documents block new RFQs automatically.
Customer portal
Customers see job status, certs, FAIs, CoCs, invoices and payment history on their own — and accept a quote with their PO in one click. Most ERPs email a PDF once.
CRM, with mobile apps
Customers, suppliers and prospects on one record each, with every email, quote and job attached. iOS and Android apps with a business-card scanner. Shop ERPs leave CRM to a separate system that never sees the job.
Accounting
A full general ledger with AR, AP, bank feeds, AI receipt capture and month-end close — and every invoice, bill and labor hour posts automatically. No QuickBooks-plus-spreadsheets puzzle, and no enterprise-ERP implementation bill.
Quality
AI-drafted inspection plans, certificates of conformance, non-conformance reports and first-article inspection records, attached to the job and visible in the portal.
Groups of shops
Run several shops in one system: supplier pricing shared across the group, labor rates kept per shop, intercompany jobs and a consolidated P&L. Vendors serve the whole group, so their prices should be shared. Your people don't, so labor stays shop-specific.
AI you can put your name behind
It proposes. You approve.
You are the one signing the quote. Three rules the system holds to, everywhere.
Nothing is a setting until you confirm it
Every suggestion is labeled and editable. Nothing the AI proposes becomes a stored setting until you say so.
Your rates. Never guesses.
If a rate or a price isn't set, the quote stops and asks. It does not fill in a number, and it never prints a zero where a cost belongs.
Nothing goes out without you
Quotes, purchase orders and invoices are drafted for you. A person always sends them.
See it run a job, end to end.
Thirty minutes on a shop set up like yours — RFQ to invoice.