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Reduce your RFQ-to-quote turnaround from days to minutes

The AI Operating System for the cable & wire industry.

One system reads any RFQ, engineers the cable, and captures the BOM and pricing automatically, turning a raw requirement into a ready-to-send quote, with your engineer approving, not typing.

3+ Days~5 Minutesrequest to proposal
procurement@client.co
Request for quotation

RFQ-4471.pdf2 pages
9OS for Cable IndustryLIVE
Reading the RFQ
The problem

A cable plant doesn't lose money on bad cable. It loses it on slow quoting.

Every order is custom, requirements arrive with zero shared structure, and a ~30-person engineering team runs a five-step relay for every single quote.

What arrives

Multi-cable RFQs scattered across formats, referencing past conversations and attachments.

Email threads
PDF spec sheets
Excel BOQs
Scanned drawings
WhatsApp notes
Tender portals

What engineering must pin down, per cable

Every attribute below, extracted, cross-checked and re-typed by hand before anyone can price anything.

Cores & conductorInsulationScreeningArmourSheathIS / IEC standardLengths & drumsDelivery zone

The manual relay

Five handoffs, every quote, every time.

Day 0.0and counting
01

Read & interpret

Emails, attachments and past threads, decoded by hand.

02

Design architecture

Construction and materials picked from experience.

03

Define process & BOM

Build steps and routing from tribal knowledge.

04

Look up pricing

ERP screens, price lists and stock checked manually.

05

Assemble proposal

Details compiled, coded and mailed to the client.

3+ days from request to proposal, while the client waits.

Longer sales cycleLower conversion rateEngineering bottlenecksClients quote elsewhere
See it live

Quote any cable in 30 seconds

Watch one RFQ run end to end: the mail lands, the system reads the spec, builds the cable layer by layer, prices it against live metal, and hands back a fully costed quote.

01Email lands
From

procurement@iocl.in

Subject

RFQ: 12-pair instrumentation cable, OS+IS armoured

RFQ-IOCL-Panipat.pdf
02Structured requirement
12 pair (24 cores)
1.0 sq mm
Tinned copper
PVC insulation
Al-Mylar screen (OS+IS)
GI armour
FRLS PVC sheath
1,000 m
Parsed · 94% confidence
03Cable architecture

ø 20.9 mm · 5 layers

04BOM + live metal
Bill of materialsLME live · ₹812.40/kg
Conductor (Cu)50.6 kg₹41,500
Insulation (PVC)42.5 kg₹6,800
Screen (Al-Mylar)9.8 kg₹3,900
Armour (GI)96.0 kg₹7,200
Sheath (FRLS PVC)38.4 kg₹3,797
Material₹63,197
05Priced proposal

Quote total

₹80,891.63
28% marginv1

priced to today's metal · 11:42

Download PDF
01Email lands
From

procurement@iocl.in

Subject

RFQ: 12-pair instrumentation cable, OS+IS armoured

RFQ-IOCL-Panipat.pdf
02Structured requirement
12 pair (24 cores)
1.0 sq mm
Tinned copper
PVC insulation
Al-Mylar screen (OS+IS)
GI armour
FRLS PVC sheath
1,000 m
Parsed · 94% confidence
03Cable architecture

ø 20.9 mm · 5 layers

04BOM + live metal
Bill of materialsLME live · ₹812.40/kg
Conductor (Cu)50.6 kg₹41,500
Insulation (PVC)42.5 kg₹6,800
Screen (Al-Mylar)9.8 kg₹3,900
Armour (GI)96.0 kg₹7,200
Sheath (FRLS PVC)38.4 kg₹3,797
Material₹63,197
05Priced proposal

Quote total

₹80,891.63
28% marginv1

priced to today's metal · 11:42

Download PDF
The workflow

One governed pipeline, from inbox to proposal.

Not a chatbot bolted onto email: a staged workflow where AI does the reading, matching and math, and your engineers make the calls.

Email, manual upload, ERP/CRM/API, even scraped tender portals: every RFQ lands in one Action Inbox with its full context attached.

Email
Manual
ERP / CRM / API
Tender scraper
Action Inbox+ lead history attached
  • Email, manual, ERP/CRM/API and tender-scraper channels
  • Pulls content, files and previous mail threads together
  • Matches the sender to your Leads database automatically
01 · Ingestion

Ingest every RFQ, from every channel

Email, manual upload, ERP/CRM/API, even scraped tender portals: every RFQ lands in one Action Inbox with its full context attached.

Email
Manual
ERP / CRM / API
Tender scraper
Action Inbox+ lead history attached
  • Email, manual, ERP/CRM/API and tender-scraper channels
  • Pulls content, files and previous mail threads together
  • Matches the sender to your Leads database automatically
02 · Extraction

Extract every cable, with its source

Raw text becomes a structured spec per cable, and every extracted value keeps a pointer to the exact line it came from.

Cable 1Cable 2Cable 3
Cores12 pair × 1.0 sqmm↳ PDF p.2
ScreenAl-Mylar, OS + IS↳ Email ¶3
ArmourGI round wire↳ PDF p.3
Length1,000 m↳ Excel B14
Every value keeps its source
  • Multi-cable RFQs split into Cable 1, Cable 2, and so on
  • Every value mapped key-to-source, nothing invented
  • Normalises scanned, rotated and messy documents
03 · Human in loop

Audit anything, escalate ambiguity

Your engineer reviews a structured spec instead of re-typing one. Anything ambiguous is flagged for a human decision, never guessed.

Sheath: FRLS PVC Verified
“Armoured”: wire or strip?Needs a human
Engineer picked: GI round wire
Standard: IS 1554 Verified
  • Every value traceable back to its source line
  • Ambiguous fields flagged to your engineer for a decision
  • Approve in one click, edit anything before it moves on
04 · Architecture

Architect the cable, validate the match

The spec is matched to your cable families, product codes and standard configurations, then run through a validation layer before it can proceed.

Instrumentation · 12P × 1.0 sqmm

Product code INS-12P-10-GI · matched from your catalog

Editable
Family verified
Product verified
Standard verified
Client mention honoured
Default IS applied
  • Spec matched to cable families, products and standard configs
  • Family, product and standard verification checks
  • Client-mentioned standards honoured, IS defaults applied
  • Fully editable: your engineering rules stay in charge
05 · Engineering & pricing

Engineer, cost and optimise

Diagram, weight, resistance and BOM computed from logic, priced on grade and density-wise material rates, with tax, margin, transport and installation on top.

ø 20.9 mm · 262 kg/kmcomputed
Conductor resistance 18.1 Ω/kmcomputed
BOM · grade/density-wise rateseditable
Tax + margin + transport + installationapplied
Suggestion: a past quote ran this construction 4% cheaper
  • Diagram, volume, density, weight and resistance computed
  • Editable BOM priced on grade/density-wise material rates
  • Tax, margin, transport and installation built into the cost
  • Optimisation suggestions from AI and your own past quotes
06 · Proposal

Generate the right proposal

Client proposal, tender proposal or a GTP technical sheet shaped to what the client asked for, coded, versioned and ready to send.

Client proposal

priced, coded, versioned

Ready

Tender proposal

formatted for submission

Ready

GTP technical sheet

dynamic to client request

Ready
  • Client proposals and tender proposals from the same spec
  • GTP technical sheets, dynamic to the client's request
  • Proposal code and metadata assigned for full traceability
The workspace

Quoting is the workflow. This is the operating system around it.

One place where RFQs, leads, catalog, material rates and proposals live together, instead of five spreadsheets and an inbox.

9OS · Cables & Wire

Workspace

Action Inbox

RFQs

Dashboard · MIS

Entity

Leads

Cable Families

Material Prices

Company Config

Zone Config

IS Config

Configuration

Proposals

Users & Roles

Settings

Action Inbox

Every decision waiting on a human, in one queue. Nothing stalls silently in someone's mailbox.

RFQ pipeline

Every RFQ, its stage, its owner and its deadline, visible to the whole desk at a glance.

Dashboard, MIS & auto reports

Quote volumes, win rates and turnaround, reported automatically. No month-end scramble.

Leads database

Every client with their history, past specs and past mail threads, feeding context into each new RFQ.

Cable families & products

Your catalog as structured data: families, product codes and standard configs the system queries.

Material master

Grade and density-wise material prices, so every BOM line is costed on the rate that actually applies.

Company, zone & IS configuration

Your defaults, zone rules and IS standards encoded once, applied to every quote automatically.

Proposals, users & roles

Every proposal versioned and searchable, with role-based access for who can see and approve what.

Proof

Already running in a SAP-integrated plant.

A manufacturer of temperature sensors and extension cables replaced its manual quoting process with this same pipeline. See the full numbers in the case study.

Before

Manual & disconnected

Slow, error-prone, and resource intensive: chaotic inputs, a ~30-person engineering team, five manual steps.

3+ Days
turnaround time
After

Automated & intelligent

Fast, accurate, and scalable: the intelligent agent pipeline, integrated with ERP/SAP, pricing, material master, and inventory.

~5 Minutes
turnaround time
0%
Faster quote turnaround
₹0L
Saved per month
0%
First-year ROI
Proven in the field

Instant commercial quoting, live in production

Read the case study

A SAP-integrated manufacturer replaced its manual quoting process with this same pipeline: quote turnaround 92% faster, ₹15L/month saved, 585% first-year ROI. Read the full story to see how.

Technical

How it works under the hood.

Each stage is purpose-built for one job in the pipeline, not one large model asked to do everything.

Document understanding, not keyword matching

Extraction parses email threads, PDF specs, technical drawings, and spreadsheets together, resolving references across attachments ('as discussed', 'per previous email') into one structured requirement set, with every value linked to its source.

Rule-aware architecture, validated before it moves

The architecture stage maps requirements to your cable families, product codes and standard configs, then runs family, product and standard verification against your actual engineering constraints, not a generic template.

Live sync with ERP/SAP, not a cached price list

Pricing queries material master, inventory, and grade/density-wise rates directly, so quotes reflect current stock and cost, the same source of truth your ERP already holds.

Structured, auditable proposals

Client proposals, tender proposals, and GTP technical sheets are assembled with an assigned code and metadata, so every quote is traceable back to the inputs that produced it.

Built on 9OS, the AI Operating System by 9AI
Every requirement, price, and proposal generated here lives in the same platform behind every 9AI deployment.
See the AI Operating System
Security

Commercial and pricing data handled like it matters.

RFQs carry client specs, cost structures, and margins. The system runs self-hosted inside your environment, so that data never has to leave your servers.

Self-hosted on your premises

The entire system deploys inside your own environment or private cloud. It runs on your infrastructure, next to your ERP, on your terms.

Your data never leaves your servers

RFQs, drawings, pricing, and margins stay on your infrastructure. Nothing is sent out, and no shared model is trained on your proprietary data.

Standard security & compliance

Enterprise-grade security processes, role-based access, and an audit trail on every AI decision, the same posture that protects every 9AI engagement.

How you go AI-native

We deploy it on your floor and own the outcome.

We don't drop software and leave. A forward-deployed engineer learns how your business actually runs, deploys the system on your real work, and drives it into the team, shipping working AI every month.

011–2 weeks

Onbaording Audit

Context & Planning

A forward-deployed engineer maps your people, processes, quoting and systems, and shows exactly where the system pays for itself. You keep the playbook either way.

Explore the Enterprise AI Audit
021–2 months

Embedded AI Implementation

Implementation & Adoption

We deploy the system on your floor: quoting live, every order on one timeline, the team working in WhatsApp, Slack or email. Working AI in production, every single month.

Explore Embedded AI Implementation
03Recurring

AI Operating System

Run & Optimize

Once it's live and adopted, it becomes your operating system on an annual license, with an engineer who keeps it sharp, retrains it on your data, and keeps shipping.

Explore the AI Operating System

The Enterprise Audit is free, and you keep the playbook either way.

FAQ

The questions every plant head asks first.

Copper and aluminum pricing is pulled grade and density wise from your live ERP/SAP rate master at the moment a quote is generated, the same rates your commercial team maintains against LME/MCX. Every proposal is priced to today's metal, not a stale rate card from last week.

Start here

Reduce your RFQ-to-quote turnaround from
days to minutes.

Send us one live RFQ. We'll price it on a call, and show you your own plant running on the system.

The first step is always a conversation.

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into an AI Native Organisation.

Starting with an Enterprise AI Audit, we map your business, implement our AI Operating System tailored to your workflows, and work alongside your teams to customize, deploy, and drive adoption across the organization.

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“The next big thing in AI was always going to be human”

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We turn your company
into an AI Native Organisation.

Starting with an Enterprise AI Audit, we map your business, implement our AI Operating System tailored to your workflows, and work alongside your teams to customize, deploy, and drive adoption across the organization.

Company

AboutCase StudiesContactAudit

Resources

Media & NewsCareersCrunchbaseBlog
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“The next big thing in AI was always going to be human”

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