Get hydraulic enquiries quote-ready before your senior technical team touches them.
AI structures the enquiry, identifies what is missing, retrieves approved product and fitment information, surfaces stock and prepares the commercial groundwork — while technical approval stays with your people.
The obvious place to start is technical lookup.
OMFB told us its team handles about eight technical specification lookups a day. At 30 minutes each, that is 1,056 specialist hours a year. The point is not that all of those hours disappear — they won't. It is that enough senior time is tied up in retrieval and preparation to justify testing what can be removed.
The useful work happens before anyone chooses a part.
A customer sends an incomplete enquiry. Instead of a senior person starting from scratch, the system prepares the context and makes the missing information obvious.
Incoming enquiry
Structured handoff
Missing before technical review
- Transmission / gearbox model
- Current PTO / pump reference or plate photo
- Required flow / pressure or confirmed operating requirement
Use AI for preparation, not engineering judgement.
It can structure, retrieve, draft and surface the right context. It also needs to know when it does not have enough information. Fitment and safety-critical decisions stay with qualified people.
Automate
Extract the enquiry, retrieve approved information and prepare the handoff.
Control
Apply your pricing, customer and workflow rules without hiding exceptions.
Approve
Fitment, pressure, flow and safety-critical decisions stay with qualified people.
How much senior time is quote prep actually consuming?
Start with the workload you already know. We show the current cost first, then let you test how much of the preparation work might realistically be addressable.
Your current quote workflow
Three inputs. Nothing hidden behind an industry average.
Your full diagnostic
Prove the quote workflow before you build anything bigger.
We take one repeatable enquiry type, map how your team handles it, check the data behind it and test a controlled prototype on your own historical work. Then we decide whether it is worth taking into production.
Map the real workflow
Where the enquiry comes from, who touches it, what gets looked up and where the delay actually sits.
Check the data
What is reliable, what is messy, what suppliers allow us to use and what still lives in someone's head.
Test historical enquiries
Run a controlled prototype on work your team already knows the answer to. No customer-facing deployment yet.
Decide whether to build
If the workflow is useful, accurate and commercially worthwhile, we scope production. If it isn't, we stop.
Good reasons to be sceptical.
A technical business should be difficult to impress with AI. These are the questions we expect before you let us anywhere near a production workflow.
Our product data is a mess.
That's normal. The first question is not whether the data is perfect; it is whether enough of it is reliable to support the workflow. If it isn't, we find that out before a production build.
We already have an ERP.
Good. We are not trying to replace it. The useful layer sits around the enquiry and technical-sales process, then reads from or writes back to the systems you already trust where that makes sense.
Our senior techs won't trust AI.
They shouldn't trust a system that guesses. The point is to remove repeated lookup and preparation work while keeping technical judgement with the people who are accountable for it.
We tried a chatbot and it was useless.
A chatbot is not the proposition. We are talking about a workflow with approved sources, structured inputs, explicit exceptions and a human decision at the end.
Nothing technical goes live because the demo looked good.
We test it against work your team already knows. If it cannot prepare useful context without overstepping, it does not go into production.
If this is a real bottleneck, show us the workflow.
You do not need a polished brief. Show us how the work comes in, who handles it and where the senior time disappears. We'll tell you quickly whether it is worth pursuing.