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Manufacturing · Aug 11, 2026

QuoteRelay

QuoteRelay turns a forwarded RFQ email or uploaded drawing into a costed, ready-to-send quote for small machine shops and metal fabricators in minutes, without asking the shop to replace the system it already quotes from.

The problem

Small custom machine shops and metal fabricators with no dedicated estimator spend 15 to 20 minutes manually reading a print to build each quote, so slow turnaround loses jobs to whichever shop answers first.

The wedge

An email-native quote assistant that reads a forwarded RFQ drawing and returns a costed quote draft in minutes without requiring the shop to adopt a new quoting system of record, unlike full-platform entrants Uptool and Paperless Parts or per-seat-priced Costimator.

In the build queue

We haven't built this one yet

The full deep dive, build video, and MVP kickoff prompt land when QuoteRelay gets built in public.