Si-Q · Super Intelligence Quoting
Quote-only software is as dumb tomorrow as it is today.
It prices your part and never sees the job. The setup that ran an hour long, the material you actually burned, the margin you actually made — none of it comes back. There is nothing for it to learn from, so it never learns.
The bottleneck
Quoting is the choke point in every shop.
The RFQ lands and waits on one person — usually the owner, usually at night, usually after a full day on the floor. Quote it fast and you guess. Quote it carefully and it goes out days late, after the customer already placed the order somewhere else. Every shop in the country runs this trade-off, and most of them lose work to it every week.
Si-Q prices a part in minutes — stock envelope measured off the model, material and tolerances read off the print, routing proposed operation by operation. But speed on its own just means you guess faster. The part that matters is what the guess is built on.
Open loop, closed loop
Your machines already work this way.
A servo with no encoder is open-loop. It makes a move, nothing reports back, and it drifts. Put an encoder on it and it is closed-loop — the machine measures what actually happened and corrects. That is the whole difference between a quoting tool and Si-Q.
Quote-only software
The quote goes out and the trail ends. Whatever the job actually took stays on the floor, in a different system, or on a clipboard. Next year's quote is built on the same assumptions as last year's.
Si-Q
The quote and the job live in one database, on one part number. The floor clocks setup, run, programming and inspection against the part that was priced — so what it took is sitting next to what you said it would take.
How it closes
Four steps, and the fourth is the one nobody else has.
Quote
The model and the print are read. Every figure on the quote is labeled with where it came from — measured, read, or entered by you.
Run
The accepted quote becomes the job, with its routing and its estimate carried across. Nothing is re-keyed and nothing is re-typed.
Actuals
The floor clocks against the part: setup, run, programming, inspection, rework. Material issued, scrap, outside services, all on the same job.
Learn
Your own history becomes the baseline. The next quote for that part — or anything like it — starts from what your shop actually did.
Every part you finish feeds the next quote
Why it takes the whole ERP
The breadth isn't a convenience. It's the reason this works at all.
A bolt-on quoting tool can buy the best models in the world and it still cannot do this, because the data it would need to learn from is somewhere it has no access to. To know what a job really cost you need the clock on the floor, the material issued from the crib, the outside-service invoice and the posting that closed it — and to have those you have to be the system running the shop.
That is why KG Ai ERP is an ERP first. Quoting, scheduling, the floor, purchasing, suppliers, the customer portal, CRM and the general ledger sit on one database with one part number running through all of it. Every process your shop runs adds to what Si-Q has to work with. The shop gets better at quoting because the shop is doing the teaching.
What you can put your name behind
It shows its work, and it stops rather than guess.
Every number on a Si-Q quote carries its source — measured from the model, read off the print, or entered by you. A rate that isn't set doesn't get a plug figure; the quote stops and asks. You are the one signing the price, so nothing is hidden behind the word "AI."
See it quote a part, then run the job.
Thirty minutes on a shop set up like yours — RFQ to invoice, with every number showing where it came from. You'll know by the end whether it fits your floor.