LIVE DEMO — METAL FABRICATION SHOPS

The web-form RFQ gets worked in minutes, not Monday.

Fab work comes from every direction — GCs chasing a steel package, engineers with a DXF, a homeowner who wants a railing. The AI answers every channel, 24/7: works web-form RFQs the minute they land, quotes standard cut-and-bend from your published rates, and books the site visit into a real calendar.

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

The RFQ form, worked while the sender is still at their desk — details in, package routed.

One day with the AI

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

8:15 AM · The form that never sits

An engineer submits an RFQ with a DXF attached. The AI confirms receipt, asks for the missing quantity and finish, and files the complete package for your estimator — minutes after the click, not days.

12:50 PM · The GC on a deadline

A general contractor calls about a miscellaneous-steel package for a bid due Friday. The AI captures scope, drawings and the bid date, and routes it flagged by your urgency rules — with a transcript.

6:30 PM · The railing after dinner

A homeowner asks the chat about a custom stair railing. The AI explains your process from your approved pages and books the measure-up visit — the small job that pays for the week, captured.

What it does for you

Every RFQ acknowledged and worked

Phone, chat and web forms — each request confirmed, completed with the missing fields, and routed to your estimator with everything attached.

Published rates, quoted straight

Standard shear, laser and press-brake pricing answered from your published list — the claim guard blocks any number you did not approve.

Site visits booked, not promised

Measure-ups and walkthroughs go into real calendars with two-way sync — confirmations and reminders sent in the customer’s language.

Watch a fab shop’s intake, handled

The demo works a web-form RFQ, answers a cut-rate question from a published list and books a measure-up — configured for a fab shop. Your personal version, built from your own website, arrives in about two minutes.

Test it with your own RFQ questions
Every conversation transcribed and logged
Flat price — unlimited estimators and lines

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.

“What do you charge to laser-cut 1/4-inch plate?”

Quotes your published rate exactly — and captures the job details if the request goes beyond the list.

“Can you powder coat, or just raw steel?”

Answers from your approved services list, and offers to book the visit or capture the RFQ in the same conversation.

“I need this steel package priced by Friday.”

Captures scope, drawings and the deadline, routes it under your urgency rules, and confirms to the caller what happens next.

Answering services take messages. RFQ web forms wait until somebody opens the inbox on Monday. The Zanus AI front office ANSWERS — phone and chat, in the buyer’s language, quotes from your published price list, and captures every spec of the engineered request for your estimator.

Questions, answered

Half our quotes need an estimator’s eye.

Exactly — the AI never replaces that judgment. It makes sure the estimator opens a complete package instead of a voicemail: specs, drawings, dates and the transcript, every time.

We get drawings in every format.

The AI asks for them by email inside the conversation and attaches what arrives to the request — your estimator sees the whole picture in one place.

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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 fab shop — documents, tasks, procedures, automations — is Back Office AI, specialized for Manufacturing. Most companies run both: one AI answering, one AI executing.

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