AI agents that capture your best estimator's expertise, eliminate PO entry errors, and keep your schedule from falling apart — without replacing your team or touching your ERP.
These are the conversations we hear from job shop owners every week. If any of these hit close to home, you're in the right place.
"We quote 200 jobs to win 30, and those 170 wasted quotes cost us 680 hours of engineering time."
"Our whiteboard schedule is out of date before lunch."
"We get 50–100 POs weekly and entering them into the ERP takes forever."
"My best estimator retired and took 25 years of tribal knowledge with him."
We start where the pain is highest and the ROI is clearest. Most job shops begin with quoting and see payback within 6 months.
AI extracts data from RFQ emails and CAD attachments, pulls live material pricing from supplier feeds, calculates labor from historical job data by part type, and generates a formatted quote for estimator review.
AI monitors email and customer portals for incoming POs, validates data against original quotes, enters into your ERP (JobBOSS, Global Shop, E2, or custom), flags discrepancies, checks credit status, and sends acknowledgments within minutes.
AI ingests open orders, work center capacities, and material availability to generate an optimized schedule. Real-time job status updates from shop floor tablets feed back automatically, and proactive late-delivery alerts surface before they become crises.
AI auto-populates First Article Inspection reports from CMM data, generates Certificates of Conformance from job records, assembles AS9100/ISO 9001 audit packages on demand, and maintains traceability documentation automatically.
A 45-person precision machining shop was turning away RFQs because their two estimators were already at capacity. Quotes that required 6 hours each meant a 5-day response window — long enough for competitors to win the job. After deploying an AI quoting agent, the same estimators now handle 4x the volume with quotes turned in 45 minutes.
"We were turning away work because we couldn't quote fast enough. Now we respond same day on most RFQs. We've won jobs we never would have seen before because we were too slow."
Complexity isn't the problem — inconsistency is. Your best estimator has a mental model for quoting. We capture that expertise and apply it consistently. AI handles data extraction, material lookups, and calculations. Your estimator reviews and refines, focusing expertise where it matters. We work with aerospace shops doing 200+ operations per job — the AI pre-populates 80% of the estimate, the estimator adds engineering judgment. Quotes that took 8 hours now take 90 minutes.
We don't require API integrations or system overhauls. Our AI agents work like human employees — they log into your ERP, read screens, enter data, and click buttons. JobBOSS, Global Shop, E2, custom systems — it doesn't matter. We have clients running on 20-year-old ERP systems with no APIs. The agents log in through RDP just like employees. Zero IT changes required.
Estimators hate the tedious parts of their job — chasing material quotes, retyping specs, hunting for historical data. They love the engineering work and customer relationships. One shop's estimator threatened to quit when he heard about AI. Three months later he said it's the best thing that happened to his job — he's now focused on complex aerospace work instead of commodity quoting.
Start narrow, prove the ROI, then expand systematically.
We'll measure your current quote time and accuracy as a baseline, then prove the improvement. Pilot fee credited to your first month if we hit the targets.