For custom manufacturers

We help you quote.

The bid package goes in. A draft quote comes out, priced the way your shop prices, with every line tied to the page it came from. The final call stays yours.

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A fair question

“Quoting custom work is hard. How could software possibly do it?”

A manufacturer asked us exactly that last week, and he was right to ask. In engineer-to-order work, where every job is designed for one customer, there is no catalog, no price list, no fixed formula.

The honest answer: a quote is four jobs wearing one name, and we automate three of them.

01Read the packageMachine

179 pages of drawings and spec, written by an engineer who does not work for you. The engine reads all of it, and every line carries the page it came from.

02Build the scopeMachine

What you are actually being asked to supply, and where the drawings and the spec disagree, cited on both sides. It happens more often than anyone admits.

03Do the arithmeticMachine

Material, hours, your shop rates. Machines are good at arithmetic.

04Decide the marginYours

How badly you want the job. Who else is bidding. What risk is hiding in the schedule. That number is not in the documents, and it stays with you. The engine brings a first number and shows its work; you decide what it should be.

See it run on a public package

We ran it on a real municipal bid set. You can download the same one.

The Cape Vincent, New York waterfront package: 179 pages, public on the town's website. Check the engine against your own reading, not against our marketing.

179
Pages read
44 sec
Reading time
214
Statements extracted & cited
7
Places the documents disagree
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Case studies

In production, documented results.

Montanstahl Group · Special steel profiles · Switzerland

Montanstahl's estimators in Switzerland, Germany and Italy answered the same question on every incoming RFQ: can we make this? Each answer took hours of emails and digging through old jobs. The engine read each RFQ and answered in seconds, inside their existing workflow, and their own engineers graded its output above 85 percent.

Steel profiles are a different lane from docks or tanks or gates, and that is the point: your pilot runs on your own documents, and the only number that matters is the one the engine earns there.

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>85%
Graded by their engineers
3
Plants, one engine
Seconds
Instead of hours
One operational brain, on SAP
A multi-billion dollar minerals manufacturer · Name withheld · With S P A plc

A global specialty-materials and industrial-minerals manufacturer runs on SAP across 148 sites, and its operational knowledge lived in silos: more than 31,000 documents and 13,700 resolved tickets. The same engine unified all of it into one assistant, where every answer carries its source.

A different job than quoting, and the same discipline underneath: nothing invented, everything cited. The client's name is withheld at their request.

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31,000+
Sources unified
148
Operating sites
38%
Faster resolution
Three inputs, all yours

The engine prices from your logic, not ours.

We do not bring a cost model. Everything the engine knows about pricing comes from three places, and all three are yours.

01

Your past quotes

Your last hundred bids have a pattern in them, including the ones you lost. The draft lands near what your shop would charge, not near an industry average.

02

Your own formulas

We replace the spreadsheet, not the logic. The rules in your Excel and in your senior estimator's head become the product's rules: one place, still yours.

03

Your corrections

Fix a draft and the engine learns why. A hundred quotes in, it prices like your shop, because it has been corrected by your shop a hundred times.

“But our records are a mess”

Good. Everyone's are.

Quotes live in Excel files named final_v3_REVISED. Margins live in one manager's head. That is not a blocker.

Thin records? We start from the other end: your formulas, plus a short interview about how you price, written into a working SOP. History sharpens the engine. It does not gate getting started.

What “accurate” means here

A number you can check before you pay for it.

Accurate means one thing here: the draft lands within an agreed variance of what your own completed jobs actually sold for.

So the pilot is a blind test on quotes you have already priced, against a threshold agreed in writing. If the engine cannot get close, you find out in weeks, for the cost of a pilot, not after an annual contract.

And an accuracy number from one shop does not transfer to another. Anyone quoting their best customer's number as your expectation is selling.

The pilot, on one card
  • You hand over a set of quotes you have already won or lost.
  • The engine learns from most, and prices the rest blind.
  • Its drafts are compared against your real numbers.
  • Pass or fail is a written threshold, agreed before we start.
Weeks, not quarters. Priced as a pilot, not a contract.
The questions buyers actually ask

Asked to our face, answered in writing.

Does Mavlon replace our Excel and our formulas?

Your logic, never. Your spreadsheet, eventually yes, and that is the point. The formulas in your Excel become the product’s rules, so pricing stops depending on which tabs are open and who is in the office. Nothing about how you price is discarded or overridden; it is centralized, and it stays yours.

Does it decide our prices?

No. It drafts the quote and shows the work behind every line. Margin, and the final number, stay with your estimator. We think any tool that claims otherwise is misreading what an estimator actually does.

Can we test it without committing?

Yes, that is the only way we start. A short pilot on your own completed quotes: the engine prices jobs blind, you compare against numbers you already know are right, against a threshold agreed in writing up front.

What happens to our data?

Your documents stay yours, we sign an NDA before anything is shared, and we can provide your IT team an architecture and data-policy document for review. Mavlon, Inc. is a US company; data stays on US or EU servers. See the security page for the full policy.

Do we have to change how our team works?

No. The draft arrives as a document your team already recognizes, and your estimator edits it the way they edit a junior’s work today. The workflow change is that reading week one becomes reading hour one.

What does it cost?

A scoped, paid pilot first, so both sides find out cheaply whether this works on your documents. After that, an annual arrangement sized to your quoting volume. No seat licenses.

Bring one bid you have already priced.

Thirty minutes, live. Compare what it finds against what your team found. Rather not share documents on day one? We run a public bid set from your industry instead, and an NDA is signed the same day.

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