AI for engineering and manufacturing firms.
Quotes out the same day, quality paperwork that writes itself, and suppliers chased before you notice. Made Smarter can pay half the cost.
Where the hours go.
Turning emailed specs into quotes
An estimator can spend half the week reading RFQs and drawings and building prices. Slow quotes lose orders.
Quality and compliance paperwork
Non-conformance reports, certificates of conformity and inspection records, typed up after the real work is done.
Chasing suppliers
Checking open orders and sending the same chasers every week, so a late delivery doesn’t become a late customer order.
An RFQ, quoted in under a minute.
This is the kind of automation we build. Pick a job and press run to see what the AI pulls out, and what it leaves for a person to approve.
Sample data only. Nothing you see here is stored or sent.
Emailed RFQ to a priced draft quote
- Customer
- Northgate Aero
- Reference
- RFQ 4471
- Part
- SA-2291-B, revision C
- Quantities
- 250 and 500
- Material
- 6082-T6 aluminium
- Finish
- Black anodise, MIL-A-8625 Type II
- Tolerance
- ±0.05 mm on bores
- Paperwork
- Certificate of conformity
- Dates
- First articles 14 Nov, balance 5 Dec
What we automate for engineering firms.
Emailed RFQ to a priced draft quote
Reads each request for quotation as it lands, pulls out the part, quantities, material, finish, tolerances and dates, prices it from your rate card and puts a draft quote in front of your estimator.
9 hours a week, typically
Outlook or Gmail, Your rate card in Excel, Xero, Sage or your ERP
Non-conformance reports drafted from inspection notes
Turns rough inspection notes and photos into a complete non-conformance report in your format, with the batch, defect, containment and next steps filled in.
3 hours a week, typically
Microsoft Forms or a tablet checklist, Your NCR template in Word or Excel, SharePoint or Google Drive
Supplier delivery chasing
Checks open purchase orders every morning and sends polite, specific chasers for anything late or unconfirmed, then updates the expected dates from the replies.
3 hours a week, typically
Your ERP or a purchase order spreadsheet, Outlook or Gmail
Made Smarter can pay half.
The West of England’s Made Smarter programme helps manufacturers adopt new technology.
- Grant
- Up to £20,000
- Funding
- 50% match-funded
- Who for
- Manufacturers with under 250 staff
Funding rounds open and close; the 2026/27 round reopened in April 2026. We check your eligibility for free as part of any audit and help scope the application. Rules can change between rounds, so we confirm the current position with you before you commit.
Made Smarter on the West of England Combined Authority site
Checked October 2026.
What you’ll see before you buy.
A worked example on your own RFQs
We run a few of your real enquiries through it in the audit, so you see the quote it would draft.
A fixed price
Agreed in writing before we build, with one measure of success, such as hours a week spent quoting.
Help with Made Smarter
If you’re eligible, we help scope the project and the application so the grant covers half.
Find out what quoting really costs you.
Ten questions give you a score and your top opportunities. Or book the £595 audit: half a day on site, credited in full against the build.