Quotation software for manufacturers
Build quotes from approved rates and carry the accepted revision into the job.
Explore the workflow →Bespoke Manufacturing, Print & Trade
Manufacturing software built around your shop
AI where it helps. Ordinary software where it does not. Every job has different materials, finishing and approvals. The time goes on quoting, proofing, and finding out where a job actually is. We build the admin around the craft, not a replacement for it. See the complete handoff in our focused manufacturing RFQ guide or print workflow guide.
Built around your workUse the software that already earns its place
Fixed priceScope and exclusions agreed in writing
Local engineersInstalled and supported from Horsham
Find your workflow
Software for the job you need to solve.
Explore the workflow, the existing systems we would check and a sensible first project.
RFQ automation for fabricators
Collect enquiries, drawings and missing information for estimator review.
Explore the workflow →Job tracking for sign makers
Connect artwork approval, workshop progress and installation details.
Explore the workflow →Commercial print workflow automation
Carry confirmed specifications through proof approval and job tickets.
Explore the workflow →Engineering business systems
Keep works orders, drawing revisions and quality evidence together.
Explore the workflow →A smaller first step
Five practical places to start.
Each automation below has a fixed scope and a starting price of £1,495. Start with the task that creates the most retyping or chasing. If that is not clear yet, the Operations Audit measures it first.
Solution 01
Enquiry to quote
How do you turn an emailed enquiry into a priced quote faster?
An enquiry arrives as a paragraph of email, sometimes a drawing, sometimes a phone note written on a job bag. Turning that into a specification and a price is a skilled job wrapped in twenty minutes of unskilled retyping.
What we build
The enquiry becomes a structured specification — materials, sizes, finishing, quantity — and is priced off your own rate card. You check and send. The rates stay yours, and where a rule lives only in somebody's head we tell you rather than guessing at it.
Scope, exclusions and when it is worth doing
Not included in this starting price
- Building a rate card you do not have
- Pricing decisions — the system applies your rules, it does not invent them
- CAD or artwork work
When we would suggest something else. If every job is genuinely one of a kind and priced by judgement each time, automating the quote copies the judgement badly. We would rather write the rules down with you first.
Fixed price from £1,495. Scope agreed in writing.
Discuss this project →Solution 02
Proof approval chase
How do you stop jobs stalling while you wait for a proof to be approved?
A proof goes out and then nothing happens. The job sits, the slot goes unused, and finding out which proofs are outstanding means going through an inbox.
What we build
Proofs are tracked from sent to approved, chased on a schedule you set, and shown on one board. Silence is never treated as approval — an unanswered proof stays unanswered and visible.
Scope, exclusions and when it is worth doing
Not included in this starting price
- Producing or amending the proof
- Customer portal or login
- Approving on the customer's behalf under any circumstances
When we would suggest something else. If you only run a handful of proofs a week and they come back same day, this is not where your hours are.
Fixed price from £1,495. Scope agreed in writing.
Discuss this project →Solution 03
Job ticket generation
How do you get an approved proof onto the shop floor without retyping it?
The approved proof already contains the specification. It then gets retyped into a job ticket, which is where the transcription errors come from — the wrong substrate, the wrong finish, the right job made twice.
What we build
The approved proof becomes a complete job ticket: specification, finishing, due date and a link to the artwork file. Nothing is retyped, so nothing is retyped wrongly.
Scope, exclusions and when it is worth doing
Not included in this starting price
- Machine or RIP integration unless we have looked at it first
- Changing your job numbering
- Scheduling or capacity planning
When we would suggest something else. If your tickets are already generated from the same record as the proof, this is done.
Fixed price from £1,495. Scope agreed in writing.
Discuss this project →Solution 04
Production status board
How do you see what is where on the shop floor without walking it?
The honest answer to “where is that job?” is usually a walk to the workshop and a conversation. That is fine once. It is expensive twelve times a day.
What we build
A wall screen showing what is where, what is late, and what is about to be. It reflects what has actually been scanned rather than what somebody meant to update, which is the difference between a board people trust and a board people ignore.
Scope, exclusions and when it is worth doing
Not included in this starting price
- The screen and mounting hardware, unless quoted
- Barcode scanners, unless quoted
- Shop-floor process change — people have to scan for a board to be true
When we would suggest something else. A board fed by manual updates will drift within a fortnight and then mislead. If scanning is not realistic on your floor, we will say so rather than sell you a screen.
Fixed price from £1,495. Scope agreed in writing.
Discuss this project →Solution 05
Materials reorder watch
How do you stop running out of the consumable that halts the job?
Stock control on raw materials is often fine. It is the consumables — the specific vinyl, the particular thread, the ink — that stop a job, and nobody counts them until one is missing.
What we build
The consumables that actually stop jobs get watched against usage, and you hear before the job stalls rather than when it does. Which items those are comes out of the audit, not out of a guess.
Scope, exclusions and when it is worth doing
Not included in this starting price
- Placing orders on your behalf
- Supplier price negotiation
- Full stock control for every line you hold
When we would suggest something else. If you hold deep stock and have not stopped a job in a year, skip it.
Fixed price from £1,495. Scope agreed in writing.
Discuss this project →Before you buy
Questions from bespoke manufacturing, print and trade businesses.
How does Inferred automate quoting for made-to-order manufacturers?
An enquiry arrives as an email, a drawing or a phone note, and the system turns it into a structured specification priced off your own rate card. You check and send rather than start from a blank page.
The rates stay yours. We do not invent a pricing model — we read the one you already use, and where it lives in somebody's head rather than on paper, we say so before quoting the work.
Can local AI manage artwork intake and job tracking across a workshop?
Yes — proofs, approvals and job tickets are the part of the day most worth automating, because they are pure admin around skilled work. Approved artwork becomes a job ticket with nothing retyped, and the shop floor gets a status board that is scanned rather than guessed at.
Is our pricing data and customer list safe from AI providers?
Yes. Everything runs on your premises, on your network. Your rate card is your competitive position; it is not sent anywhere, and no third-party AI provider sees a line of it.
We’re a small team with no IT department. Is this for us?
Often, yes — small teams feel the retyping most because the same person does three jobs. We install it, point it at the files you choose, and half an hour of training is usually plenty.
But if the honest answer after an audit is that the hours are not there, that is the answer you will get in writing.
Built and supported locally
From the first site visit to the working system.
Based in Horsham, we work with businesses across Sussex and Surrey. See locally relevant starting points in the areas below.
Bring one real job
Where does the work get stuck?
Show us the enquiry, document or handover that costs time. We will explain whether it needs a small automation, a fuller business system or a change to what you already use.
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