Harness OS by 9AI
Harness RFQ to Quote Automation
AI Operating System for Harness Manufacturers · Built on 9OS
One system reads the drawing, extracts the wire schedule, lays out the harness and prices the BOM against your component library. Your engineer approves instead of redrawing.
A harness enquiry is quoted four times over.
Every hand-off rebuilds what the last one already knew. By the time a number goes out, nobody can point at the enquiry and say which part of it the price came from.
What one enquiry actually arrives as
And what happens to it
The enquiry and five attachments go to engineering with a line of context. What the customer never specified is nobody's job to notice.
Lost here: Unstated requirements
Four rebuilds of the same harness, before anyone has drawn it.
Five stages, and each one derives the next.
Nothing downstream is retyped. The requirements come out of the enquiry, the harness comes out of the wire schedule, the BOM comes out of the harness, and the quotation is the priced BOM.
Read the enquiry and everything attached
The enquiry lands with a PDF, a drawing, a spreadsheet, sometimes a photo of a sketch. Document Intelligence reads all of it and shows you what it found against the original text, before anything is built on top of it.
- PDFs, spreadsheets, CSVs, Word files and scans read as they arrive
- Every extracted field points back to where it was read
- Extraction runs in the background; re-run it if an attachment was missed
Every field points back to the page it came from.
Read the enquiry and everything attached
The enquiry lands with a PDF, a drawing, a spreadsheet, sometimes a photo of a sketch. Document Intelligence reads all of it and shows you what it found against the original text, before anything is built on top of it.
Every field points back to the page it came from.
- PDFs, spreadsheets, CSVs, Word files and scans read as they arrive
- Every extracted field points back to where it was read
- Extraction runs in the background; re-run it if an attachment was missed
Turn it into requirements an engineer can check
What the harness must satisfy becomes a structured list: connectors, the wire schedule, branches, coverings and standards. Each value is marked stated, derived or assumed, and what the customer never told you is marked missing.
An assumption has to be answered before it can be quoted.
- Stated, derived, assumed or overridden, on every single value
- Correcting one requirement re-derives everything under it
- Gaps are raised as questions for the customer, not quietly guessed
Lay the harness out flat and in three dimensions
The wire schedule becomes a harness: branches, lengths, breakouts and coverings, drawn flat so the whole assembly fits one page, and in 3D at true millimetres for the build.
Flat sheet and 3D walk the same segment tree.
- Flat sheet and 3D walk the same segment tree, so they cannot disagree
- Pick the real connector and the terminals, seals and plugs derive from it
- A breakout is an engineering decision, stamped with who committed to it
Roll the agreed build into a purchasable BOM
Every line on the BOM comes from something on the drawing. Part numbers are matched against your component library and the assembly is costed from the operations the build implies.
- Quantities derive from the anatomy, not from the last similar harness
- Costs come from your own component library and labour rates
- Lines the library cannot price are flagged, never invented
Settle the number, send the document
The quotation is the priced BOM. You set margin, tax, order quantity and the rates it is taken at, and read the document exactly as the customer will receive it.
- See how the total was built, line by line, before you commit to it
- An unpriced line keeps the quotation locked, so no floor goes out as a price
- The document is drawn by the same renderer your template uses
Three people, one enquiry, one record.
Inside sales, the harness engineer and the estimator each get the screen their part of the job needs — all of them reading and writing the same RFQ, over the same parts library.
Inside sales
“What came in, and where is it?”
- Enquiries arrive by email and become RFQs in a click
- Extraction runs in the background while you work
- Every client's history sits behind their name
Harness engineer
“Is this the harness they asked for?”
Flat · not to scale
- Branches, lengths and coverings edited on the drawing
- Connector choice derives its terminals, seals and plugs
- Breakouts recorded as decisions, with a name against them
Estimator
“What does it actually cost us?”
- Every line traced back to something on the drawing
- Costed from your component library and your rates
- Margin, tax and order quantity are yours to set
All three read from the same library
A harness is an assembly, so its reference data is a parts library: which housing has how many cavities, which wire meets a temperature class, which sleeve fits a bundle. Maintain it once, and every enquiry after it is quoted from the same truth.
The quote stops being rebuilt. It gets derived.
Nobody retypes an enquiry, and nobody rebuilds a wire schedule that already exists. Because every stage writes into the same record, the quotation is simply the end of the work — and three chronic failure modes disappear.
The BOM is rebuilt in a spreadsheet for every enquiry
The BOM falls out of the drawing everyone already agreed
Nobody can tell what the customer said and what someone assumed
Every value is labelled stated, derived, assumed or overridden
Quotes go out over lines nobody costed
An unpriced line holds the quotation until it is priced
The same 9OS engine already quotes for a cable manufacturer
Read the case studyA SAP-integrated manufacturer runs its whole quoting workflow on this core: turnaround 92% faster, $15K/month saved, 585% first-year ROI. The harness configuration runs the same engine — stages, gates and agents — over enquiry, anatomy, BOM and quotation.
How it works under the hood.
Extraction, connector-family rules, one geometry model and a pricing engine over your own library — each doing one job, all writing into the same record.
Document Intelligence reads the enquiry
The mail body and everything attached to it — PDFs, spreadsheets, CSVs, Word files, scans and photographs — parsed as they land. Extraction runs as a background job, and every field it produces keeps a pointer to where it was read.
Connector families derive the small parts
Pick the real part number and the family rules take over: cavities, terminals, seals, cavity plugs and wedge locks follow from it. The parts nobody remembers to count are the ones the system counts.
One harness model, flat and in 3D
The flat sheet fits a whole harness on one page; the 3D view is true millimetres for the build. Both walk the same segment tree, so the drawing your customer signs and the model your shop floor builds cannot drift apart.
Provenance on every value
Stated, derived, assumed or overridden — carried on each field and coloured in the interface. An estimator can see at a glance what the customer actually said and what the system worked out, and assumptions have to be answered before a quote goes out.
Priced from your own library
Part numbers are matched against your component library and the assembly is costed from the operations the build implies. Nothing is invented: a line the library cannot price is flagged, and it holds the quotation until someone costs it.
Configuration, not a rebuild
Workflow → Stage → Gate → Task is configuration in 9OS. A new harness family, a different review gate or an extra approval is a config change, not a development cycle.
Your costs, your call, your servers.
A quoting system sees the two things a harness shop guards hardest: what parts cost you and what you charge for them. So it runs where you run, and every decision that moves a number stays with a person.
Self-hosted, with your costs
Deploys inside your own environment or private cloud. Customer enquiries, drawings, component costs and the prices you quote never leave your servers, and no shared model is trained on your proprietary data.
Engineers hold the pen
The system extracts, derives and assembles; it never decides the harness. Connector choices, breakouts, margin and the final number always stop at a named person, and every override is recorded against them.
Nothing is invented
An assumed value is labelled until someone confirms it, and an unpriced line keeps the quotation locked. The system would rather show you a gap than quietly fill it.
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.
Onboarding Audit
Context & PlanningA forward-deployed engineer maps your drawing formats, connector catalog, pricing master, and quotation approvals, pinpointing where automation delivers instant ROI. You keep the playbook either way.
Explore the Enterprise AI AuditEmbedded AI Implementation
Implementation & AdoptionWe deploy Harness OS on your floor: drawing ingestion live, connector library mapped, BOM costing automated, and your team quoting real enquiries in production every month.
Explore Embedded AI ImplementationAI Operating System
Run & OptimizeOnce live, Harness OS runs on an annual license with dedicated engineering support to retrain models on new drawing standards and ship continuous updates.
Explore the AI Operating SystemThe questions every harness estimator asks first.
No. Engineering decisions stay with your engineer: which connector goes in a position, where the harness breaks out, what covering a branch carries. The system derives everything that follows from those decisions — terminals, seals, cavity plugs, way counts, lengths and quantities — and shows its working. A breakout can only enter the model through the breakout dialog, and it is stamped with who committed to it.
Bring us one enquiry you are
quoting this week.
We'll run it through the loop on a call — extraction, requirements, the harness laid out, the BOM priced — against your own parts and your own drawing.
The first step is always a conversation.