Go North SystemsMetro DetroitRFQ & estimating systems for machine shops
Answer Every RFQ the Same Day.
We build custom estimating systems for shops that read incoming RFQs, ballpark them in minutes, and hand the ones that need real judgment straight to your estimator. You quote more work without hiring, and you stop losing jobs to whoever answered first.
- 20+ years in manufacturing ops
- Built and running at PartGuys.io
- You can own the system outright
“I don't trust auto-quoters.”
Good. Neither do we.
A machine that fires firm prices at your customers behind your back is a good way to win a job you lose money on. That is not what we build. We build an estimator: it does the reading, the sorting and the arithmetic, gives the buyer a ballpark so they know whether to keep talking, and puts every job that needs judgment in front of the person who has the judgment. You still price the work. You just stop spending your mornings on RFQs that were never going to close.
You decide where the machine stops.
This is not one product. What we build depends on how much you want to hand over, and most shops end up running more than one of these at once, split by customer or by part type. You can move the line whenever you want.
Human validated
Where most shops start
It reads the RFQ, pulls the lines, matches material and drafts the pricing. Your estimator approves or changes it before anything moves. Nothing reaches a customer that a person did not sign.
Estimating
Budgetary numbers, same day
Ranges instead of firm prices, fast enough that a buyer learns whether you are in the ballpark while they still care. The real quote follows once you know the job is real.
Automatic
For work you already know cold
Repeat parts and anything inside rules you set get a number immediately. Everything else routes to a person. Shops usually switch this on one customer at a time.
Your machines are not the bottleneck.
Quoting is. Most shops we talk to are turning away work they could have taken, not because the spindles are full, but because nobody had time to price it.
Sound familiar?
- RFQs pile up in one inbox and get answered in the order somebody notices them
- Quotes wait on the one person who knows the pricing, and that person is also running the floor
- Half the RFQs were never going to close, but you read every one to find that out
- The customer who waited four days already bought from whoever answered in one
What we actually build.
Not software you have to bend your shop around. A system shaped to how you already quote, connected to the tools you already run.
It reads the RFQ
Email, PDF drawing, spreadsheet of line items, or a CAD file. It pulls out parts, quantities, materials and due dates instead of your team retyping them.
It gives a ballpark
A defensible estimate in minutes, using your rates, your materials and your margin. The buyer finds out whether you are in the right range while they still care.
You price the real ones
Anything complex, oversized, tight-tolerance or above your dollar threshold stops and routes to you with the drawing attached. Your rules decide where that line sits.
See it running before you talk to us.
Paste one of your own RFQs. It reads every line, prices them against shop rates you can change, and shows you exactly where it would stop and ask for a human.
We did not read about this in a deck.
20 years on the floor
Two decades running manufacturing operations before any of this was built. We diagnose the process the way an operator would, then point AI at the part that deserves it.
PartGuys.io
An on-demand manufacturing business in Michigan. We built the instant quoting behind it and we manage it on an ongoing plan. Go drop a CAD file in and watch it price the part.
Go press the buttonsNo lock-in
Keep it fully managed, or pay for the build once and own the code, the docs and the deployment outright. Your call, and you can change your mind later.
Thirty minutes on how your shop quotes.
No slides and no pitch. You walk us through how an RFQ moves from inbox to sent quote today, and we tell you straight whether this is worth building for you. Plenty of these calls end with us saying it is not.
Book your free call
30 minutes, free, no obligation.
Would rather type? hello@gonorthsystems.com