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Who We Serve · Manufacturing and industrial

RFQ. Quoted. Ordered. Shipped.

A quote request waits three days because the one person who can price it is on the floor.

Quotes out the same day, fitment and dealer tools that answer before the phone rings, orders out of the inbox.

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  1. 01 RFQ
  2. 02 Quoted
  3. 03 Ordered
  4. 04 Shipped
The four steps
01 · Work
  1. 01

    RFQ

    Quote requests come in structured, with the specs you need to price them.

  2. 02

    Quoted

    Priced and out the same day, even when the one person who knows is on the floor.

  3. 03

    Ordered

    Orders tracked somewhere other than an inbox, with the customer told at every step.

  4. 04

    Shipped

    Dealer and fitment tools that answer the question before the phone rings.

In Manufacturing and industrial

A quote request in a shop lives or dies on one person. The customer emails a drawing, the one person who can price it is on the floor, and three days later the customer has gone with whoever answered. The system takes the request in a shape you can price, puts it in front of the right person on a phone, and sends the quote the same day.

Orders are the second leak. They live in an inbox, the customer calls to ask where it is, and someone walks out to the floor to look. An order tracked in one place, with the customer told at each step, ends those calls.

Dealer and fitment tools are where a manufacturer turns a phone call into a sale that happens without the phone: the question "does this fit my truck" answered on the site before anyone picks up. I came out of aerospace engineering, where the drawing is the contract; a shop's quote-to-ship flow is a system I understand from the inside.

Questions owners ask
Our quotes depend on one estimator. Can a system really help?
It cannot replace the estimator's judgment, and it does not try. It makes sure every request arrives complete, lands on that person's phone with the drawing attached, and goes out the same day once it is priced. The bottleneck stops being the inbox.
Can customers check order status without calling?
Yes. Each order has a status the customer can see, and they get a message when it moves. The calls that were "where is my order" stop, and the ones that remain are the ones worth having.
We sell through dealers. Does this fit?
Dealer portals, fitment lookups, and wholesale ordering are the same four steps with a different front door. The dealer sees their pricing, their history, and what is in stock; you see the order without retyping it.
What you get
02 · Build

The Dealer Portal

Dealers see pricing, stock, and history; fitment answered before the call

Built from Portals · The Store

from $4,250 setup · from $599 a month

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Plus applicable WA sales tax. Every price is a starting point; the Scorecard sets the number.

How it starts
03 · Apply

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The first thing you get back is a Scorecard with your numbers in it.

No pitch, no price until you ask.

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