For manufacturers · Run by operators
We help manufacturers make more money.
We find where your shop is losing money, fix it, and run it. Sometimes that is the three days an RFQ waits, sometimes it is an ERP nobody set up past invoicing, and sometimes it is a quote priced below what the job costs.
Built for
Where manufacturers lose money and time
We start with the one costing you the most.
Missed revenue
RFQs wait
An RFQ lands in a shared inbox on Tuesday, gets acknowledged Friday, and the buyer has already sent the drawing to two other shops.
Missed revenue
Quotes that go quiet
The quote goes out, nobody asks how it landed, and the buyer picks a shop that called back.
Costs too much
Scrap and rework nobody tracks
A part gets remade because the revision on the traveler was one letter behind. The material and the machine hours are gone, and nobody adds up how often it happens.
Costs too much
An ERP used as a ledger
JobBOSS, ProShop, Epicor, or E2 holds the invoices and not much else. Routings, job costing, and inventory live in spreadsheets, and you pay for the modules you never turned on.
Time back
Every quote waits for the owner
The owner or one senior estimator rebuilds last month's quote in Excel at night, pulling material prices from three emails, while new RFQs stack up.
Time back
Expediting by phone
Someone walks out to the floor to find where an order is, then calls the buyer back. A supplier runs late and the schedule gets rebuilt by hand.
Some of these need software. Some need a decision from you.
How we work
Find it.
A free 30-minute call, and Business Value Discovery ($199) if you want the dollar figure.
Fix it.
Process, systems, or software. Built on what you already use where we can.
Run it.
We keep it working and report the money and hours it got you.
What we do
Whatever fixes it, starting with what you already have.
Process and pricing
Quoting below what the job costs: small runs priced like big ones, or a minimum order that turns away buyers who would grow with you. Or a handoff where sales promises a date the shop floor never heard about. Those take a decision from you, and we will tell you which one.
The systems you already have
The ERP you already pay for (JobBOSS, ProShop, Epicor, E2) set up so quoting, job costing, and inventory run through one place, with your CRM connected to it.
Automation and custom ai and software
Quotes built from your own material costs and routings, RFQ intake that writes the job into your ERP once, order status your buyers can check without calling. Built to spec when your software does not do it.
By what you make
A custom job and a product line are won differently.
How the work comes in, what a buyer needs to see before they trust you, and what turns it into a PO all change with what you make. We build for that.
Custom & contract
Machining, fabrication, contract manufacturing. Work is RFQ-driven. We get you found for the capability and answer the RFQ before the buyer moves on.
Product & OEM
Product and equipment makers. Longer design-in. We build the spec visibility and proof, then follow up until you are in the drawing.
Components & supply
Suppliers, distributors, and MRO. We keep you findable and answer reorders fast so accounts keep ordering.
What the AI does not do
It handles the visibility, RFQ follow-up, status updates, and the paperwork around the job, and it works alongside your ERP and CRM. It does not do the engineering, quote a job it has not been given specs for, or promise a lead time you did not set. Your team keeps every quote and commitment. You approve the language before anything goes out.
Who it is for
- Manufacturers where RFQs sit in an inbox while buyers wait
- Shops quoting by hand from spreadsheets while the estimator is the bottleneck
- Shops running an ERP they bought years ago and use as a ledger
- Teams that lose hours a week to scrap, rework, and expediting by phone
Some of our results
Crayon US went from a -28% margin to 64%. Blue Eye was profitable inside six months. Before GetLatest, our co-founder Justin Henriksen built the AI partner programs at Microsoft.
- 64%
- Profit marginCrayon US · Up from -28%
- $11M
- Business grown toBlue Eye · Doubled from $5M
- 172%
- Recurring revenue growthBlue Eye · $440K to $1.2M in 8 months
- 150%
- Bigger average dealsCrayon US
- 200%
- New-customer growthCrayon US
- $100M+
- In customer growthMicrosoft
The process behind these numbers is the same one we run on your business, and we run it on our own companies before we ever run it on yours.
See the results