An AI quote desk for distributors: RFQs quoted the same day.
Customers email RFQs as PDFs and spreadsheets, and someone types every line into your system before it can be priced. 12² builds a quote desk that reads the RFQ, matches each line to your catalogue, prices only the exact matches, and sends the rest to a person.
Distributor Quote Desk · Product build · $18,000–$28,000
Three jobs your team does by hand today.
Re-typing RFQ lines
PDF and spreadsheet RFQs are read line by line into a draft quote.
Matching part numbers
Each line is matched to your catalogue and cross-references. A line without an exact match waits for a person.
Building the quote
Prices from your price lists and customer terms, exported to your system or to Excel.
What it does, and what stays with your people.
What it handles
- Email intakeRFQs from a shared inbox, tracked from arrival to sent quote.
- Line matchingExact matches priced; anything uncertain is marked and left out of the total.
- ExportInto your ERP or a spreadsheet in your format.
What stays with your team
- Uncertain matchesA person picks the part when the match is not exact.
- Margin and special pricingYour team sets them.
- Sending the quoteEvery quote is approved before it goes.
Distributor Quote Desk.
A Product build: intake, matching, review queue and your ERP connection. A single RFQ-to-quote workflow without the ERP connection is a Core build at $9,500.
Not sure this is the first fix? The Bottleneck Map ($4,500, two weeks) finds where your work slows down and prices each build in writing. It is credited to the build if you sign within 30 days.
$18,000–$28,000Product build. AI and software usage is billed at cost. Run & Improve is optional after launch: Care $750/mo, Operate $2,500/mo or Improve $5,000/mo.
- Second half due when it passes 50% at kickoff. The second 50% isn't due until the test cases we agree on pass.
- You own itCode, accounts and data sit in your name. You can leave at any time.
No client logos. Working software instead.
12² has no distributors case studies to show yet, and won't invent any. This is software 12² builds and runs, which you can open and try.
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Straight answers.
What happens when a line doesn't match?
It is marked, left out of the total, and sent to a person with the closest candidates. The system never guesses a part.
Does it connect to our ERP?
Most ERPs can take an import or an API call. The Bottleneck Map confirms which before a price is set.
Tell us where the work slows down.
A few lines is enough. If it's a fit we'll say so, and if it isn't we'll tell you why.
- A real replyWritten for you by 12², within one business day. Never an autoresponder.
- A free 20-minute callWe walk one real job through your process and find where it slows down.
- A Bottleneck Map proposalScope, dates and the fixed price in writing before any work starts.
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