A Manufacturing business where this lands in Sales.
02 — What is actually going wrong
RFQs pile up waiting for the one estimator who knows the machines. Quotes go out in a week when the customer wanted them in a day, and by the time yours arrives the buyer has already anchored on somebody else's number. You lose work you could have made profitably, on timing alone.
The incoming RFQ and drawings are parsed for features, materials and tolerances, matched against the most similar jobs you have actually run, and priced off your real cost model rather than a rule of thumb. The estimator gets a draft quote with the comparable jobs shown, and adjusts.
Standard RFQs quoted same-day. Your estimator spends their time on the genuinely novel parts, and win rate rises because you are consistently first in with a defensible number.
03 — The problem, in money
04 — The options
06 — How this goes wrong
07 — How you would actually do it
09 — Run it on your numbers
Start from the stated assumptions, then drag the inputs to match your business. The number moves live.
10 — The evidence · what others report
Reported numbers are third-party claims, source-attributed — not verified by me, and never blended into the model above.
11 — Questions owners ask
Get your free AI Opportunity Score — the same first pass used to identify which opportunities deserve a closer look.
Get Your Free Score05 — The call
Build it. A custom system is the right move here — the payback justifies owning it rather than renting a compromise.
08 — Tools worth looking at
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