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Manufacturing and industrial supply.

Where it usually hurts first

Every RFQ waits for the one salesperson who knows which part fits and what the customer paid last time.

Where we would start: RFQ to quote. Reads each request for quotation, matches every line to your catalogue by part number and spec, prices it from the customer's price list and your margin rules, and flags its doubts for the sales head.

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A shift arriving at the plant
A shift arriving at the plant. Photograph: Bhupathi Srinu, Unsplash.
RFQ to quote, with it running

An AI agent reads each purchase order that arrives by mail, enters it in the ERP and flags any price that doesn't match the contract.

An example, never a client's result

Safe to say yes, in writing.

  1. “I'll pay and nothing will work.”
    It has to pass on your old work before it touches today's.
  2. “The price will creep.”
    One fixed price, in writing, before any work.
  3. “I'll be locked in.”
    Stop any month and keep everything.
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Your week, as it runs today.

Five moments from a typical week.

  1. 01

    A 40 line RFQ arrives, and the one person who knows the part numbers spends the day on it.

  2. 02

    A purchase order comes in as a PDF, gets keyed into the ERP, and one digit is wrong.

  3. 03

    Line 3 stops for four hours with a fault that showed up in last month's maintenance log.

  4. 04

    A customer wants a datasheet and a test certificate, and three people search the shared drive.

  5. 05

    The dispatch plan changes twice because the stock in the system doesn't match the shelf.

What it costs.

A study, 2018

Every RFQ waits for the one salesperson who knows which part fits and what the customer paid last time.

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And the rest of the week

  1. A study, 2024

    When one machine stops, the whole line waits.

    Unplanned downtime costs the world's 500 biggest companies almost $1.4 trillion a year, 11% of their revenue. Plants lose 27 hours a month on average, and an hour of lost production costs $36,000 even in consumer goods (Siemens, The True Cost of Downtime 2024).

    Source
  2. No number yet

    Scrap and rework eat the margin, and nobody can say exactly why.

    No figure we can stand behind yet, so we print none.

  3. Our own sum

    Purchase orders arrive as PDFs and get typed into the ERP, and the typo ships.

    40 purchase orders a day keyed into the ERP at ten minutes each is nearly seven hours, one person's whole day, before the typo that ships.

    Drawn in our report: The same data typed three times
  4. A study, 2024

    We did the work, and the money comes 90 days later.

    Delayed payments owed to Indian MSMEs stood at an inflation-adjusted Rs 7.34 lakh crore in March 2024 (GAME, FISME and C2FO, reported in November 2025).

    Source
    Drawn in our report: Paid 90 days after the work
  5. Our own sum

    Skilled operators leave for a little more money, and the new ones learn on our machines and our scrap.

    If 10 of 100 operators leave each quarter and each new one spoils Rs 20,000 of material while learning, that is Rs 8 lakh a year in scrap.

    Drawn in our report: New people take six months
  6. A study, 2025

    Factory, labour, pollution and tax filings never stop, and one missed date means a notice.

    Indian businesses face 69,233 compliances under 1,536 acts and rules, and 26,134 of them carry a jail term (TeamLease RegTech and ORF, 2022). A typical manufacturing MSME with a single unit in one state faces more than 1,450 compliance obligations a year, costing Rs 13 to 17 lakh (TeamLease RegTech, June 2025).

    Sources
    Drawn in our report: A missed deadline, then a notice
What we would build

Ten systems for manufacturing, under the six offers.

We plan the whole company, then build the first three. The usual first build here is marked, and the window beside the cards shows the one you are reading.

RFQ to quote, the usual first build here. Shown with sample data.

Win customersLeads wait until Monday. The buyer doesn't.

  1. The usual first buildAgents

    RFQ to quote

    Reads each request for quotation, matches every line to your catalogue by part number and spec, prices it from the customer's price list and your margin rules, and flags its doubts for the sales head.

  2. Apps

    Dealer portal

    Dealers and distributors check stock, prices and order status and place repeat orders themselves, at any hour.

  3. Growth

    Export buyer finder

    Finds buyers abroad who import what you make, checks their trade history and drafts a first message for your export head to approve.

Get the work doneEverything comes to you. Most of it shouldn't.

  1. Documents

    Purchase order check

    Reads every purchase order that arrives by mail, checks part numbers, prices and quantities against the quote and your stock, and prepares the ERP entry for one tap.

  2. Intelligence

    Machine health watch

    Fits small sensors to the machines that matter, or reads the controller where there is one, and warns maintenance days before a likely breakdown.

  3. Intelligence

    Camera quality check

    A camera on the line spots scratches, wrong labels and missing parts as they pass and keeps a photo of every reject, so you can see why scrap happens.

  4. Voice

    Shop floor voice log

    Operators report a fault, a count or a shift handover by speaking in their own language, from Hindi and Tamil to Arabic, and it lands typed in the right log.

  5. Operations

    Production and stock board

    Orders, machines, materials and dispatch on one screen, with a daily plan built from what's actually in stock.

Get paidYou did the work. The money shouldn't take 90 days.

  1. Agents

    Collections and credit

    Sends reminders on the right day with the invoice and a payment link, calls slow payers in their language, tells you which buyers have passed the 45 day MSME limit, and suggests a credit limit for each dealer from how they pay.

Know your companyOnly one person knows how pricing works.

  1. Knowledge

    Ask the plant

    Every manual, drawing, datasheet, test certificate and past fix, searchable by part number or in plain words, answered with the page it came from.

A sample chat on a phone: a customer asks for a quote and gets it, sent after a salesperson said yes. Shown with sample data.

AI that runs in your own cloud account, never a public tool.

The same week, with them running.

The five moments from the top of this page, once the first systems do their part. Flip back to see how it runs today.

An example week. It shows how the work changes, never a measured result from a client.

  1. 01

    The RFQ is matched to your catalogue and priced by your rules before noon, with three doubts flagged for the sales head.

  2. 02

    The purchase order is checked against the quote and stock and waits in the ERP for one tap.

  3. 03

    The machine's vibration changed on Tuesday, so maintenance fixed it in Saturday's planned stop.

  4. 04

    The datasheet and certificate go out in minutes, found by part number.

  5. 05

    The dispatch plan holds, because it was built from stock that was really there.

  1. 01

    A 40 line RFQ arrives, and the one person who knows the part numbers spends the day on it.

  2. 02

    A purchase order comes in as a PDF, gets keyed into the ERP, and one digit is wrong.

  3. 03

    Line 3 stops for four hours with a fault that showed up in last month's maintenance log.

  4. 04

    A customer wants a datasheet and a test certificate, and three people search the shared drive.

  5. 05

    The dispatch plan changes twice because the stock in the system doesn't match the shelf.

The nearest work we have built.

Each piece names the kind of company it was built for. None of them is in your trade yet, and we say so. Ask to see it running.

Signs it is time.

  • Quotes wait for the one senior salesperson who knows the parts.
  • Purchase orders are keyed into the ERP by hand.
  • Unplanned stops are logged on paper, if at all.
  • Skilled operators and supervisors keep leaving.
  • They export, or want to, and buyers abroad expect answers overnight.

Who decides.

The managing director or promoter, with the sales head for quoting and the plant head for anything on the shop floor.

Why this time is different.

AI that was bought and changed nothing.

A tool was bought and nobody owned the job. We take the whole job, test it on your past work, and stay to run it.

What manufacturers ask first.

Our part numbers are a mess. Will it cope?

It matches on part number, spec and description together, and flags anything below a confidence line you set. The strategy work starts with your catalogue, and if it needs cleaning first we say so and price that.

Who sets the price?

You do. Price lists, margin floors and discounts are written down before we build and the agent applies them. It never invents a price, and anything outside the rules waits for your person.

Can it run machines or check quality on the line?

No. We stay off the shop floor's controls and safety. Quotes, orders, documents and search are where we work.

Who says yes before anything goes out?

The person who owns that job at your company today. You name them when we write the rules with you. Inside those rules the agent acts at once. Anything outside them waits for one tap from the person named, on their phone, ready to approve or to change.

Do we have to change the software we use?

No. We build around the systems you already run, in accounts in your company's name, and we confirm each one before we start.

What does it cost?

There is no price on this page, because it depends on the work. After the session you get a written proposal with the scope, the test it has to pass, who works on it and one fixed price, before any work.

Where we would start for manufacturing: Win customers

Leads wait until Monday. The buyer doesn't.

Every enquiry gets an answer and a price while the buyer still wants one, on the channel they wrote in.

What changes. Enquiries get an answer and a price while the buyer still wants one, and you hear a customer is leaving while you can still act.

What we measure, before and after. Time to a first reply and to a priced quote, quotes that got an answer and customers who came back.

See Win customersAll six

The old way keeps running until the new one has passed on your own work.

The eight problems it answers

What costs your factory most? Bring us that.

45 minutes on a video call with our founder and the people who live with the problem. Nothing to sign. You leave knowing what we would build first, and why.

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