How does AI quoting software work?
AI quoting software moves an RFQ through a fixed pipeline: intake creates the job, extraction turns each document into structured fields, geometry measurement handles anything with measurable features, catalogue matching resolves items against the shop's own parts, and a pricing engine applies labour standards and rate cards. A person reviews the result before anything is sent.
Key facts
- Category
- Understanding AI quoting
- Applies to
- Wire and tube fabrication
- Stages
- Intake, extraction, geometry, matching, pricing, review
- Last verified
- August 28, 2026
How does a job get started?
A job starts the moment a document arrives, usually a forwarded email with attachments. The system creates the job automatically and works out what it has been sent: a drawing package, a BOM, a spreadsheet, or some mix of them.
How does a document become data?
Each document type gets different treatment because each one carries information differently: a title block holds part number and material as labelled fields, a drawing view holds dimensions tied to geometry, a spreadsheet holds a table, and a scanned print holds all of that as pixels rather than structured data.
How does data become a price?
Once features are extracted, they are matched against the shop's own catalogue, codes and equivalents, then priced using the shop's own labour standards and rate cards, never a model's guess at what a job should cost.
What still needs a person?
Whether to bid, what margin an account deserves, and what to do when a specification and a drawing disagree are judgement calls, not extraction problems, and they stay with a person. Anything the system could not read with confidence is flagged for the same reason: a quote should never leave with a guessed number standing in for a measured one.
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Manufacturing quoting software
The six categories of quoting software and how to choose.
What is AI quoting software?
The category defined: what it reads, where the price comes from, and who it is built for.
How does quoting from 2D drawings work?
Title block, dimensions and feature tables: how a clean drawing becomes a feature list.
How is a bend count read from a 2D drawing?
Bend tables, bend notes and dimensioned views: where a bend count actually comes from on a print.
Wire and tube fabrication
Where geometry-driven measurement matters most.
How Customiser works
The ten steps from a forwarded RFQ to an approved, priced quote.
How it works (platform)
The same pipeline, as Customiser implements it.
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