Office Autopilot · Heat treating
AI for heat treaters. Specs read, batches priced, certs drafted.
Every RFQ hides the same questions: which material, what hardness, how deep a case, how many pounds. Office Autopilot answers them, prices the batch and drafts the paperwork. Your metallurgist signs off.
- Fixed quote per module
- Built into your ERP
- Your code, your server
The paperwork around every furnace load.
RFQs
Someone reads each drawing and PO for material, process, hardness and case depth, then retypes it.
Specs are pulled out line by line and checked against the processes your furnaces run.
Batch pricing
Pounds, cycle time, lot minimums and rush fees worked out in a spreadsheet.
A draft quote priced by weight and cycle from your own rate sheet, minimums included.
Spec gaps
Missing case-depth criteria or conflicting hardness callouts surface after the parts arrive.
Gaps and conflicts are flagged before you quote, with a question to the customer drafted.
Order entry
POs and packing slips retyped into the ERP when the parts hit the dock.
The PO arrives as a draft job with specs, weights and due date filled in.
Certs
Hardness readings copied from the lab into a cert template.
Certs drafted from your test data, waiting for a signature.
One RFQ, start to finish.
What the quoting module does with a request that lands overnight.
Where to start
Start with RFQ intake: it's where specs get lost and quotes get slow.
Quoting · activity log
Illustrative example4
Done
1
Needs a person
1
Approved
RFQ from purchasing@gearco.example: 400 pcs, 8620 steel, carburize and harden, drawing attached.
DoneSpec read: surface 58 to 62 HRC, effective case depth 0.030 to 0.045 in.
DoneBatch priced: 380 lb, carburizing cycle, lot minimum applied, from your rate sheet.
DoneFlag: the drawing doesn't state the hardness the case depth is measured to. Question drafted for the customer.
Needs a personYour quality lead approves the question and the quote.
ApprovedQuote sent from your mailbox, question included.
Done
Designed for a heat treat shop.
Your process menu
Carburizing, through-hardening, nitriding, annealing, stress relief: mapped to the furnaces and cycles you actually run.
Batch economics
Prices built from weight, load size and cycle time, with your minimums and rush rules.
Specs, not guesses
Hardness scales, case-depth criteria and material grades are read from the document, and flagged when they're missing.
Metallurgy stays human
Process choices and certs are proposed for your people to approve, never decided by the agent.
Built into the systems you already run.
Office Autopilot works through the official APIs of the systems you use. No new platform for your team to learn.
Business Central
NetSuite
Epicor
SAP Business One
QuickBooks
Outlook
Microsoft 365
Gmail
SharePoint
Google Drive
Teams
Slack
Connectors to ERPs with an API are scoped in the audit and built on request. Not on the list? Ask on the first call.
How quoting works.
Discovery call
Free
30 minutes with the lead consultant.
Process audit
Quoted
On site or as an in-depth session with your team. The findings are yours either way.
Each module
Fixed quote
Quoted from the audit's findings. You know the number before we build.
After handover
Your choice
Run it yourselves, or keep us on a monthly agreement for monitoring and changes.
Straight answers
- Can it read our customers' drawings?
- PDF drawings, POs and spec sheets, yes. Anything it can't read with confidence goes to a person with the original attached.
- Does it choose the process?
- No. It proposes a process from your own rules and past jobs. Your metallurgist or quality lead approves it.
- Does it work with our ERP?
- If your ERP has an API, almost certainly. The connector is scoped in the audit and built on request, so you don't change systems.
- Where does our data live?
- On a server in your name, with your own AI model account. Nothing is used to train models, and you can switch us off without losing anything.
Built for manufacturers.
Bring last month's RFQs. We'll show you what Autopilot would have quoted.