AI for the office work behind the factory
Quotes, supplier communications, technical document drafting. The repeatable knowledge work that turns customer requirements into shop-floor instructions.
Manufacturers carry decades of historical quotes, drawings, and spec sheets. That's a perfect base for AI: drafting new quotes from old ones, generating method statements, and summarising long supplier exchanges into clean, indexed actions.
The jobs we'd look at first.
Quote generation
Draft customer quotes built from historical similar jobs, current pricing inputs, and the new RFQ — costed and ready for engineering review.
Supplier comms summarisation
Long supplier email threads condensed into one running record per part number, with the commitments and the open questions surfaced.
Technical documentation drafts
First drafts of method statements, work instructions, and product datasheets generated from your specs and historical documents.
Internal spec Q&A
Grounded answers from your own standards and drawings library so engineers stop fielding the same questions from the shop floor.
The projects we'd turn down.
Worth being explicit. These are the asks we'd say no to in this sector — and saying no is part of the work.
We would not generate safety-critical specifications without a qualified engineer reviewing the output.
We would not automate supplier price negotiation — the relationship is the value, and that belongs to a human.
We would not promise an AI quote-bot replaces your sales engineer. It drafts; the engineer prices, signs, and owns the number.
A first call, no slides.
Tell us the workflow. We'll tell you, plainly, whether it's worth a Diagnostic and what we'd expect to find.