LIVE DEMO — DEFENSE MACHINE SHOPS

The buyer’s RFQ call lands while your estimator is on the floor.

A prime’s buyer working a bid list calls three shops — the conversation starts with whoever answers. The AI answers every call and chat, 24/7: speaks your capabilities from approved materials only, captures the RFQ with every field your estimator needs, and answers PO status from what your team publishes to the record.

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Free personal demo in your inbox in ~2 minutes · no sales call · built for YOUR operation

RFQs, capability calls and PO chases — answered, captured complete, logged with transcripts.

One day with the AI

Three moments from a typical machine shops front office — handled while your team does the human part.

10:35 AM · The bid-list call

A subcontracts buyer asks about 5-axis capacity and material certs. The AI answers from your approved capability statement — machines, envelopes, finishes as published — and captures the RFQ package details for the estimator, complete.

4:20 PM · The PO chase

A customer expeditor calls about a due date. The AI reads the status your team posted to the order record, gives the approved answer, and routes anything beyond it to your program contact — no improvised promises.

7:50 PM · The after-hours RFQ

An RFQ lands through the web form at night. The AI acknowledges with a reference, asks the clarifying questions your quoting checklist requires, and the estimator opens a complete package at 7 AM.

What it does for you

RFQs captured complete

Drawings requested, quantities, materials, dates — your quoting checklist walked on every inquiry, first time.

Approved capabilities only

The AI speaks strictly from materials you cleared for release — no source, no claim, no loose talk about tooling or customers.

Controlled topics, walled off

Export-sensitive and program-sensitive questions trigger escalation to your staff by your rules — the AI never discusses them.

Watch an RFQ arrive complete

The demo answers a bid-list call, chases nothing and captures everything — configured for a build-to-print shop. Fill four fields and YOUR version — your capabilities page, your quoting checklist, your contacts — lands in your inbox in about two minutes.

Interactive: ask it your buyers’ own questions
Your quoting checklist walked on every RFQ
Flat price, unlimited users — no per-seat math

Asked in your callers’ own words

Real question types from this business — and what the AI does with each. Grounded in YOUR approved knowledge: no source, no claim.

“Can you hold ±.0005 on titanium?”

Answers exactly what your published capabilities state — never beyond — and books the engineering call for the drawing-specific answer.

“What would a run of 500 of these cost?”

Never invents pricing: captures the full RFQ package per your checklist and commits to your published quote turnaround.

“Who else do you machine parts for?”

Says only what your approved materials disclose — customer names stay confidential unless you published them.

The prime’s buyer calls three suppliers about the same RFQ. Voicemail loses the one that could have won it. The Zanus AI front office ANSWERS — phone and chat, from your approved capability materials only, books the meeting, quotes from your published rates, and never touches a controlled topic.

Questions, answered

We handle export-controlled work. Can we use this at all?

The AI discusses only what you approve for release and escalates controlled topics to staff, every time. For regulated programs, the identical system runs fully on-premises on servers you own — air-gap capable, nothing leaving your facility.

Does it quote parts?

Only from price lists you publish — catalog items, standard services. Drawing-based work is captured completely and quoted by your estimators, as it should be.

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The Front Office answers. The Back Office executes.

This demo is the AI that answers — phone, chat, quotes, bookings. The work INSIDE your machine shop — documents, tasks, procedures, automations — is Back Office AI, specialized for Defense & Aerospace. Most companies run both: one AI answering, one AI executing.

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