AI purchasing agent: material ordered from incoming enquiries
For each new enquiry it works out what material is missing, asks suppliers, reads their quotes and prepares the order. A buyer confirms it.
From enquiry to material order – without the paperwork.
Estimating, purchasing and scheduling sit with the few people who know how the shop really runs. We build systems that take the repeatable part off their desk – from pricing a drawing to ordering the material.
Fig. 03 – Metal products & metalworkingWho this is for
- CNC machining shopsMilling and turning to customer drawings, from one-offs to repeat series.
- Sheet metal & fabricationCutting, bending and forming, where nesting and setup decide the margin.
- Welded structuresFrames, tanks and assemblies with long routings and manual operations.
- Tooling & mouldsTool shops quoting work that has never been made exactly this way before.
What's changing
What metalworking firms are dealing with.
The pressures we hear from machining, sheet metal and welding shops, whatever the machine list looks like.
- 01
The quote is the bottleneck
Every inquiry needs an estimator who also runs the shop. Deals are lost to whoever answers first, not to whoever is cheapest.
- 02
Capacity is known too late
Machine load becomes visible when the week has already gone wrong, and promised dates were set before anyone checked.
- 03
Setup and offcuts decide the margin, not machine speed
In small batches it is setup time, nesting and offcuts that decide the margin – not how fast the spindle turns.
- 04
You have made a similar part before, but nobody can find it
Similar parts are quoted from scratch because finding what was made two years ago takes longer than re-estimating it.
Across the value chain
From the RFQ to the finished part.
We work wherever the data already exists. Most shops start at one stage and extend once it pays for itself.
- 01
Quotation & estimating
A price from a drawing set in minutes, not days.
- Drawing extraction
- Time & cost estimation
- Quote prioritisation
- 02
Work preparation
Routings and programs reused from what the shop has already made.
- Similar-part search
- Routing proposals
- Nesting & material use
- 03
Scheduling & capacity
Dates promised against the machines and people you actually have.
- Machine load
- Due-date promising
- Bottleneck detection
- 04
Quality & measurement
Measurement results that feed back into setup instead of into a folder.
- Visual inspection
- Measurement analysis
- Scrap causes
- 05
Purchasing & material
Material, outsourcing and offcuts decided on data rather than habit.
- Price & lead-time tracking
- Supplier choice
- Stock and offcut use
Selected systems
What we build for metalworking firms.
Purchasing & material Quotation & estimating AI-Technolog at a metal fabricator
Reads the drawing set, proposes operations and times, and hands the estimator a costed draft.
Scheduling & capacity Production planner on live capacity
Schedules built from real machine load and material availability, updated when the day changes.
Quality & measurement Vision counting on edge devices
Counting and checking parts at the machine, with results kept per job.
AI-Technolog and the AI purchasing agent are built into the systems we deliver for metalworking firms.
Contact
Tell us the problem. We'll tell you if AI is the answer.
Thirty minutes with a founder. No pitch – a conversation about your process, your data and whether a system would pay for itself.
Or reach us directly
- Matyáš ProkopiusCo-founder
- Adam BulkaCo-founder