Case study · L’Atelier des 3 Mondes
Industrial quoting automated, from inbox to sent quote
Price requests from large industrial buyers arrive continuously by email, as technical drawings and STEP files. Answering them was expert work, done by hand by a single person in the design office. We built and shipped the engine that automates this pricing, along with the control desk around it.
- customer/part pairs analysed to align the engine with real pricing policy
- 4,359customer/part pairs analysed to align the engine with real pricing policy
- price proposals approved in one click in July 2026 alone
- 50+price proposals approved in one click in July 2026 alone
- from engine proposal to quote sent to the customer
- 1 clickfrom engine proposal to quote sent to the customer
The problem: commercial capacity rested on one person
Answering a request means reading the drawing, extracting geometry, material, thicknesses, cutting, bending and machining operations, surface treatments and customer requirements, then deriving a price.
That is expert work, requiring command of every parameter that feeds the price. It rested on one person, and the entire commercial response capacity of the company depended on it.
What we built
The engine reads the files, analyses the geometry and computes manufacturing times and costs. It was aligned with management’s real pricing policy, derived from the invoicing history — not from a theoretical rate card.
Around the engine, a control desk: price proposals approved in one click, automatic extraction of customer requirements and requested delivery dates, a quote registry, a sending workflow, and automatic follow-up on unanswered quotes.
How a request becomes a quote
Intake
The request arrives by email, with its drawing and STEP file.
File parsing
The drawing and the 3D geometry are analysed automatically.
Material and operations
Grade, thickness, cutting, bending, machining, surface treatments.
Times and costs
Manufacturing routings are computed, then costed.
One-click approval
The proposal goes to management, who approve, and the quote is sent.
Follow-up
Unanswered quotes are chased automatically.
What came out of it
The engine’s pricing policy was not guessed: it was derived from 4,359 customer/part pairs in the invoicing history, so that proposed prices match what management would have charged.
In July 2026 alone, more than fifty price proposals were submitted and approved in one click. Quoting no longer depends on one person’s availability.
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