AI quoting for machine shops: less time quoting, more time cutting.
Quoting a job means reading the RFQ and drawings, finding the last similar part, and rebuilding the routing by hand. 12² builds the workflow that does the reading and the searching, and drafts the quote for your estimator to check and price.
RFQ-to-Quote · Core build · $9,500
Three jobs your team does by hand today.
Reading RFQs and drawings
Quantities, materials, tolerances and finishes pulled from the RFQ and drawing into a draft.
Finding similar past jobs
Your past quotes and routings searched for the closest parts, with their actual times.
Drafting the quote
A draft in your format with the source of every figure shown, for your estimator to price.
What it does, and what stays with your people.
What it handles
- RFQ intakeEmail and portal RFQs tracked from arrival to sent quote.
- Past-job searchYour own quotes and routings, with the match shown.
- Quote draftYour template, each line linked to where it came from.
What stays with your team
- Pricing and marginYour estimator sets them.
- FeasibilityWhether a part can be made, and how, stays with your team.
- Sending the quoteEvery quote is approved before it goes.
RFQ-to-Quote.
One workflow end to end, with scope, timeline and price in writing before we start. Adding a customer portal or an ERP connection is a Product build at $18,000–$28,000.
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.
Mavlon, a quoting software vendor, reports a median of roughly 2.5 to 3.5 hours per quote across the shops it has measured. Source.
$9,500Core 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 machine and job shops 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.
Does it read drawings?
It reads the text on drawings and RFQs: quantities, materials, tolerances and notes. Geometry and feasibility stay with your estimator.
Where do our past quotes live?
In your accounts. The system searches them where they are.
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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