AI quoting · machine shops and fabricators

The job goes to whoever quotes it first

Tolerance reads the drawing, works out the routing, prices it against your own machine rates and material costs, and puts a quote in front of the estimator within the hour.

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RFQ 2214 · Bracket, 6082-T6, qty 250Drafted in 9 minutes
Routing derived from drawing
10Saw · billet to length0.6 min$0.42
203-axis mill, op 17.4 min$8.51
303-axis mill, op 2 (refixture)4.1 min$4.72
40Deburr1.8 min$1.05
50Anodise · outsourced · $2.90
60CMM first-off + 10% sample2.2 min$1.28
Build-up
Material, incl. 11% offcut$6.18
Machine time at your rates$14.70
Outsourced finishing$2.90
Setup, amortised over 250$1.44
Inspection$1.28
Margin, your standard 28%$7.42
Unit price$33.92
2 features flagged for the estimator: 0.02mm positional callout on the bore, and a radius smaller than any cutter in your libraryEstimator review required
What it reads

It works from the drawing, not from a part number

PDF, STEP or a photograph of a marked-up print. Most RFQs arrive as one of the three.

STEP 01

Geometry

Extracts features, wall thicknesses, bore sizes and depths, then works out how many setups the part actually needs.

STEP 02

Tolerances and finish

Reads GD&T callouts and surface finish requirements, because a 0.02mm positional is a different job to a 0.2mm one.

STEP 03

Your capability

Checks the routing against the machines you actually have, the tooling in your library and your real cycle history on similar parts.

STEP 04

Live costs

Prices material at today's rate, adds your standard offcut allowance and pulls current pricing from your finishing subcontractors.

Limits

What it will and will not decide

An estimator signs every quote. This is not a system that emails a customer a price on its own.

Tolerance does this
  • Drafts the routing and times it against your historical cycle data
  • Prices the build-up line by line so every figure is arguable
  • Flags the risk features it is least confident about, at the top
  • Compares to similar jobs you have already run and won or lost
Tolerance never does this
  • Sends a quote to a customer without an estimator releasing it
  • Guesses a tolerance the drawing does not state · it asks
  • Prices work your shop is not equipped to do, however good the margin looks
  • Hides its confidence · every quote shows where the estimate is soft
Figures

Two shops, nine months

A 14-machine precision shop and a sheet metal fabricator, both quoting 60 to 120 RFQs a month.

9 min
Median draft quote, from 2 days
3.4×
RFQs quoted per estimator
+12pt
Win rate on quotes out same day
-4.1%
Variance between quoted and actual cost

Send us a drawing you have already quoted

One you won and one you lost. We price both blind against your machine rates and you compare the routing and the number to what your estimator produced.

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