For machine shops and manufacturers, 11 to 200 people
Every RFQ reaches a named owner, the released revision travels with the job, and AI drafts the paperwork while your people set every price. Customer drawings stay where you approve.
No new platform to adopt. Works across the systems you already run.
Your drawings have revision letters and your inspections have signatures. The work between the RFQ and the shipping dock usually has neither.
Nobody is named on it, so it waits until someone remembers, and the customer asks first.
The quote, the order and the job packet can each point at a different drawing.
The certs, the packing notes and the customer update depend on one person being in that day.
What it costs: quotes that go out late or not at all, a part machined to the wrong revision, and a customer who hears about a delay from someone else.
Four ways in, one at a time
Mike Rodgers scopes the work with your people, writes the acceptance checks you approve before anything is built, and stays until a named owner on your team can run it.
Scoped after a short brief
See One-Workflow ReviewScoped after a short brief
See Intake and Follow-up BuildScoped after a short brief
See Professional AI PackagesScoped per use case
See Private AIRead it like a spec sheet. Your estimator sets every price in every row.
| Spec | P1One-Workflow Review | P2Intake and Follow-up Build | P3Professional AI Packages | P4Private AI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starts with | A free 30-minute call about the handoff | The free Test Kit or a free call | A free assessment of your role | A free 30-minute diagnostic |
| What it covers | Quote to order, or order to ship | RFQ and inquiry intake, follow-up on open quotes | Your recurring drafting and prep work | One workflow inside your own boundary |
| Systems | Up to three you already run: ERP, email, quoting sheet | Your inbox, forms and phone | The tools you already use | Scoped per use case |
| What you keep | A written plan for one handoff; build separate | A named owner, due date and backup on every request | Working instructions in your words | A written record of what it may hold |
| AI role | None until you decide to build | Drafts acknowledgments and follow-ups | Drafts checklists, summaries and emails | Scoped per use case |
| Who sets prices | Your estimator | Your estimator | Your estimator | Your estimator |
| Customer drawings | Read with you, not uploaded anywhere | Routed to the owner, never to a public AI tool | Off until you approve a folder | Stay inside your boundary |
| Acceptance checks | Written into the plan | You approve them before go-live | You approve them before go-live | You approve them before go-live |
| Named owner | Named in the plan | A named owner on your team | You, with Mike as the person to ask | A named owner on your team |
| Price | Scoped after a short brief | Scoped after a short brief | Scoped after a short brief | Scoped per use case |
AI takes the drafting. Your people keep the numbers, the releases and the signatures.
What AI drafts for you
What you get
You see which quotes and orders have no owner before a customer asks.
How it stays safe
Drafts only. Summaries read the folders you approve. Nothing sends without you.
What AI drafts for you
What you get
Less time deciphering inquiries, more time on the method and the price.
How it stays safe
AI drafts the checklist. You set every number and every price. Drawings stay in approved storage.
What AI drafts for you
What you get
The right revision and the right notes travel with the job.
How it stays safe
Works from the released revision only. A person releases every job.
What AI drafts for you
What you get
The paperwork drafts are done. Your sign-off stays the record.
How it stays safe
A person signs every quality record. AI never marks a part as conforming.
What AI drafts for you
What you get
Every customer hears back, and every open quote has a next date.
How it stays safe
Approval before anything sends.
Nothing in your systems changes while we look. A build only starts when you decide it should.
A free 30-minute call about the handoff that slips most.
One workflow, across up to three systems you already run, looked at with your people.
A written plan: the owner, the checks and the order of work. You keep it either way.
Separate and optional, with acceptance checks you approve before go-live.
Drawings and safety
Before the first job runs, you get a one-page setup sheet that you sign. You can check every rule on it.
RIG does not certify ITAR, CMMC or quality-system compliance. The setup follows the rules your firm already keeps, and your own compliance owner keeps that call.
Most AI tools for shops sell the price. The handoff around the price is where jobs slip.
| Others | Manufacturing AI by RIG | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | An instant price from a model of your part | Your estimator sets the price. AI drafts the paperwork around it. |
| Customer drawings | Uploaded to a cloud tool to get the quote | Off until you approve a folder; confidential work can stay out entirely |
| The handoff | Ends when the quote goes out | Covers quote to order and order to ship |
| Your systems | Another platform to adopt | Works across up to three systems you already run |
| Proof it works | Accuracy you take on faith | Acceptance checks you approve before go-live |
| After go-live | A support inbox | A named owner on your team |
Tell us which handoff slips. Mike replies with what a review would cover, in writing, before anything is scoped.
No. The review works across up to three systems you already run, such as your ERP, your email and your quoting sheet.
No. It drafts checklists, summaries and emails. Your estimator sets every number and every price.
Nowhere you have not approved. Drawing access is off until you approve a folder, and confidential or export-controlled work can stay out entirely or use a private option scoped per use case.
Every engagement is scoped after a short brief, and the quote is in writing before work starts.
Yes. Calls, the review and setup all work remotely, and in person in Denver when it helps.
No. The setup follows the rules your firm already keeps, and your own compliance owner keeps that call.