AI Operating System for
Cable RFQ to Quote Automation
One system reads the enquiry, engineers the cable, prices the BOM at your own material rates and writes the proposal. Your engineer approves the calls instead of retyping the spec.
Challenges in Current Quoting
Every order is custom, and six frictions sit between an enquiry landing and a price going back out.
Six frictions, one quotation
Every RFQ is read by hand
Engineers interpret the spec, construction and sizes on every single enquiry, so turnaround stretches while the customer waits.
Where it costs time
- Read & interpret0.5 d
- Design architecture0.7 d
- Define process & BOM0.8 d
- Look up pricing0.8 d
- Assemble proposal0.7 d
Every RFQ is a small engineering project.
No two configurations are alike. Cores, armour, insulation, shielding and jacket change every order - and the requirement arrives in whatever format the customer prefers.
This ties up your most valuable engineering talent:
- 1
Requirement understanding
Reading the mail and attachments, then chasing the details the customer never sent.
- 2
Architecture & design
Building the cross-section and picking materials from experience and the standards.
- 3
BOM & pricing
Defining the build layer by layer, then hunting live rates across separate systems.
- 4
Proposal generation
Compiling and formatting the final quote, by which point a competitor may have replied.
One enquiry, on the clock
Reading the enquiry
Stage 1 of 4
Sales desk and a design engineer
One platform, from enquiry to engineered quote.
Not six tools stitched together. The enquiry lands once and stays in one record until a priced proposal comes out the other end.
One record
First mail to signed proposal
Reads every enquiry
A mailbox agent ingests RFQs from your intake inbox as PDFs, Excel or plain email - including the thread the customer is replying to.
RFQ-0148 created
Qualifies what came in
Only real enquiries reach the desk.
Every mail is classified and non-RFQ correspondence filtered out, so the desk only sees real enquiries. Manual override is always available.
Enquiry, not correspondence
Extracts the line items
Cable family, conductor, cores, sizes and standards are read per line. Anything ambiguous is flagged for review, never guessed.
6 lines, each with its source
Engineers the cable
A cable-physics engine builds the construction layer by layer, and weights and quantities fall out of the geometry for every size in the BOQ.
8 layers resolved
Costs it at your rates
Each layer is priced against your own material master and your commercial team's margin rules - versioned, and the same for everyone quoting.
$11,484 material
Generates the proposal
A fully formatted quote on your own templates, with margins, taxes and layout configurable. Every field stays editable before it goes out.
Proposal + GTP
Seven stages, one enquiry, in under 10 minutes.
Follow one BOQ line through every stage the platform runs. Each puts a single question to a reviewer and will not move until it is answered.
Stage 1 of 7
AI+HInquiry
Is this a real enquiry, and who is it from?
Email, upload or CRM: every enquiry becomes one tracked record, with the sender resolved to a client and the cable families already detected.
From
tenders@northgrid.in
Subject
RFQ - LT power cable, 3.5C x 70 sqmm armoured
Not a guessed price. A cable you can turn over.
The physics engine builds the construction layer by layer, and weight, resistance and material quantities fall out of the geometry. Drag it to inspect any angle.
3C × 240 sqmm, XLPE, SWA, 11 kV
Built from your catalog, not a stock pictureConstruction stack
hover to isolate- Outer sheathFRLS PVC ST2, extruded
- ArmourGalvanised steel round wire
- Inner sheathExtruded PVC bedding
- Laid-up assemblyPP filler, binder tape
- InsulationXLPE, IEC 60502-2
- ConductorStranded copper, Class 2
Computed, not looked up
- Overall diameter
- 58.4 mm
- Cable weight
- 6 240 kg / km
- Copper content
- 6 930 kg
- Standard
- IS 7098-2 / IEC 60502-2
Every figure derives from the approved construction, so the BOM and the drawing can never disagree.
This is what the system actually puts on screen.
Not a diagram. The board your desk lives on, a line item with a source on every value, the construction it engineered, and the numbers at the end.
Overview
Analytics
Inbox
Workflow
RFQ
Clients
Configuration
Cable Families
Materials
Standards
Templates
Organization
Users
Settings
Adani Power
2 families detected
IOCL Panipat
1 open question
Tata Projects
6 line items
L&T Construction
1 open choice
NTPC Korba
4 sizes
BHEL Trichy
margin pending
Sterlite
Won
Every enquiry on one board, at the stage it actually sits on - not in somebody's mailbox.
Already running in a SAP-integrated plant.
A manufacturer of temperature sensors and extension cables replaced manual quoting with this same pipeline.
Manual & disconnected
Chaotic inputs, a ~30-person engineering team and five manual steps.
Automated & intelligent
One agent pipeline, integrated with ERP/SAP, pricing, material master and inventory.
Instant commercial quoting, live in production
Read the case studyThe same pipeline, in production: quotes 92% faster, $15K saved a month, 585% first-year ROI.
Built for reliability, not blind automation.
Each layer does the one job it is good at. The model reads; the engine calculates; your engineer decides. That split is why the numbers hold up.
AI layer
Used only for the fuzzy work of reading unstructured input: emails, PDFs, drawings and spreadsheets. It never decides what the cable should be.
Deterministic layer
A classical cable-physics engine builds the architecture, BOM and pricing. Same input, same output, every time. No AI guesswork.
Human layer
Your team approves missing specs, margins and any non-standard call. Nothing leaves the building that an engineer has not signed off.
An agent per cable family
Power, control, instrumentation, fire-survival, FRLS and more - each line goes to the model that knows that family, not one generalist.
Manufacturability validation
A validation layer checks whether your plant can actually build each requested spec, flagging the RFQ at entry instead of on the shop floor.
Deployment & Security
The whole system runs on your own servers, and the AI is yours to pick one we host, one you already license, or one tuned on how your plant quotes.
Whichever model you pick runs inside that box. No shared model is trained on your data, and no outside service sees a customer's spec.
It runs on your servers
Deployed inside your own cloud or VPC, next to the systems it reads. No RFQ, drawing, cost or margin ever leaves.
The AI is yours to choose
Run an open model on your own hardware, connect one you already license, or have one tuned on your standards and constructions.
Built to SOC 2 Type II standards
Enterprise-grade controls, role-based access and an audit trail on every AI decision, with delivery experience in regulated sectors.
It plugs into what you have
REST APIs and webhooks sync both ways with your ERP, so a won order's BOM flows onward with nothing re-entered.
A fully de-risked path to go-live.
You see the platform run on your own RFQs before a dollar changes hands. Everything up to your decision is free.
Discovery & demo
We learn how your quoting runs today and show you the platform working.
Onboarding audit
1–2 weeksWe map your RFQ process, cable families and real RFQ samples on the ground.
Personalised demo
We configure the platform to your workflow and run it live on your own RFQs.
Your decision
You evaluate the demo and decide whether to proceed. No pressure, no obligation.
Implementation
We deploy, integrate, customise, train your team and go live in your environment.
Value validation
Your team confirms the system is delivering the promised value in live operation.
Annual partnership
Ongoing licence, maintenance, real-time support, monitoring and improvements.
Simple, transparent, value-aligned.
Nothing is priced before we know what it is worth to you. Both numbers are proposed after the audit, not before it.
Effort & timeline based
The figure depends on scope: cable families, integrations and templates. It covers deployment, ERP and pricing integration, customisation and go-live.
Value & scale based
Derived from the measurable value the platform creates and scaled to the deployment. Proposed only after the audit, once that value is quantified.
The annual licence is all-inclusive
No hidden line items. One fee keeps it running and improving:
- Software licensing
- DevOps and hosting upkeep on your server
- Ongoing maintenance
- Real-time support
- Model improvements, monitoring and new releases
Server costs and third-party APIs are excluded - billed by your own providers, at your own rates.
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.
From RFQ to quote
in minutes, not days.
Send us one live RFQ. We'll price it on the call and show you your own plant running on the system.
The first step is always a conversation.