B2BFor CNC and precision machining

Forty drawings a week.Each one read by hand.

Job shops quote many small parts from drawings, often for clients abroad. Every request needs someone to read the drawing, check material, tolerances and quantities, and ask what's missing before pricing can start. We build the systems that do the reading, and leave the price with you.

01Symptoms

You'll recognisemost of these.

01

A request with ten drawings waits until someone has a free afternoon.

02

Tolerances, material or finish are missing, and the question goes out on day three.

03

Repeat parts are quoted from scratch because last year's quote is hard to find.

04

Quantities and part numbers are typed from the PDF into the quoting sheet.

05

Small quotes are never followed up because there are too many of them.

02What we'd build

Read once,quoted faster.

01

Quote request assistant

Reads each request with its drawings and STEP files, pulls out material, tolerances, finish and quantities, and lists what's missing to quote.

See it on a worked example →
02

Repeat parts found, not re-quoted

Earlier quotes and orders for the same or similar part numbers, found in your files and ERP and put next to the new request.

See automation and integration →
03

Quote follow-up

A drafted follow-up for every quote, sent by your team, so small quotes get the same attention as large ones.

See quote follow-up →

03The cost

What the repeat workcosts you a year.

Four numbers about your inbox. The result is your estimate, not ours: every assumption is listed beside it. The starting figures are a guess for a job shop like yours; change them to your own.

40
25 min
30%
€35 / h
StatementRef. 40·25·30·35

Prepared for you, from your four numbers.

≈ 880hours a year

Requests a year40 a week × 46 weeks
1,840
Minutes each, on average25 min, 30% taking 1.5 times as long
≈ 29 min
Time a year
≈ 880 h
Working days
≈ 110
Paid time880 h at €35 / h
≈ €30,900

If half came back: 440 hours and €15,400 a year.

Assumptions

  1. 46 working weeks a year, 8-hour days.
  2. A request in another language takes 1.5 times as long.
  3. Half coming back is a planning figure, not a promise. The audit measures yours.
Not an invoice. Nobody has been charged.

04Try it first

On your own figures,before any call.

01

STEP file reader

Measure a part from its STEP file, in your browser: nothing is uploaded.

02

RFQ benchmark

How fast your shop answers a request, and what that adds up to.

03

Pre-audit brief

Five questions about how requests reach you, and a one-page brief back.

05Next step

Send us a requestthat took too long.

Twenty minutes on how drawings reach you and how long a first reply takes. If we can't help, we'll say so.

Or email hello@brighterloom.com