What we need to see
A few recent enquiries, approved quotes, current rate cards and examples that needed estimator judgement.
Quote generation · Fabricators
Drawings to Priced Quotes, Before Lunch.
Your estimator reads the drawing, pulls the BOM, looks up the steel, costs the labour, adds the margin, types it into the quote template, formats it, sends it. By the time it's out the door, the customer's already chasing two competitors. We build the AI that does the mechanical 80% of that workflow, so your estimator does the judgement 20%.
Tell us the task, your current tools and where the work gets stuck. We will help you choose a sensible first scope.
The fabricators reality.
Fabrication estimating is a senior-judgement job dressed up as a data-entry job. The actual judgement (margin, customer mix, finish call, risk on the job) takes 10 minutes per quote. The data entry around it takes another 50. When your estimator is buried, quotes go out late and good work walks. The single biggest unlock for fabrication SMEs is doing the data entry at machine speed.
The work in context · Illustrative scenes
Start with the fabricators workflow.
Use representative inputs from the business to scope quote generation. Agree what the system prepares and what a person needs to check.
Make the handover part of the build.
Test normal work, missing information and failures with the team, then hand over clear review steps and practical guidance.
The drawing-to-BOM workflow at Kingsland Fabrications
See the business context and the work delivered. Your own scope, inputs and results will depend on the workflow we agree with you.
Explore the delivered workTuned for fabricators.
01
Drawing → BOM (the Kingsland playbook)
Engineering drawings are read by the document-extraction layer and produce a structured BOM with cut lengths, weld lengths, plate thicknesses, finishes, and special notes.
02
BOM → priced quote
Material rates from your live supplier prices. Labour rates from your rate cards. Finish surcharges. Margin rules per customer or category. Customer-specific T&Cs. All applied automatically, all auditable.
03
Quote document → customer
Branded PDF, line items formatted the way you format them, reference numbers, validity dates, T&Cs. Drafted ready for the estimator to send in one click, or auto-sent for trusted customer + value combinations.
04
Quote → follow-up
Every quote tracked. Seven days no reply: nudge. Fourteen days: check-in. Personalised based on what they asked about and when. No quote falls off the radar.
We integrate with what you have.
- Custom MES
- SolidWorks / AutoCAD PDFs
- Sage 50 / Sage 200
- Custom rate cards
- Email / CRM
We check your software version, available API or export, access permissions and any supplier fees before quoting. If a reliable connection is not available, we will explain the practical alternatives.
Prove it on your own work first.
How we judge the pilot
Compare drafting time, corrections and final margin on the same jobs before enabling a live quoting workflow.
What stays in your hands
Your estimator approves prices, exclusions and final terms. Missing measurements or stale rates block sending.
Fixed fee, phased delivery.
£4,800-£15,000 depending on document complexity and pricing-rule depth
From £4,800excluding VAT
Quote generation for fabricators
- Workflow audit + industry-specific spec
- Build, integrations, and tuning to your real data
- Deployment, handover and agreed access controls
- Hosting, AI usage and ongoing support quoted separately
Things people in this industry ask us.
01Won't this commoditise our estimating?
No, your edge isn't typing speed. Your pricing rules, supplier relationships, and customer mix stay private to your business. AI takes the mechanical work away so your experienced people compete on judgement, not data entry.
02Can it handle bespoke and unusual work?
Yes. Standard items run through automatically; bespoke items get flagged for the estimator to price manually. Most jobs are 70-90% standard items with a few bespoke parts, you save time on the standard 80% and treat the bespoke 20% the way you always have.
03Where do material rates come from?
Wherever you keep them: spreadsheets, your ERP, supplier price lists pulled in via email parsing or API. We sync rates daily/weekly so quotes always price against current costs. Stale-rate alerts when a supplier file hasn't updated in too long.
04How does it know our pricing logic?
During build we work through your real pricing decisions with you, labour multipliers, finish surcharges, MOQ logic, customer-specific margins, "we always add £200 for that customer" rules. The output reflects how you actually price, not a generic template.
05Does it integrate with our existing estimating tool?
Yes, we build to whatever you use today. We can replace a spreadsheet, sit alongside a commercial estimating tool, or feed into your ERP. The output is a properly-formatted quote, however your customers expect it.
Zoom out.
Related solutions.
Keep exploring
Turn the idea into a working system.
What could work
better for you?
A new website. More customers. Less admin.
Tell us where you want to get to. Chris or Kay will reply within one working day.