LIVE DEMO — CNC MACHINE SHOPS

The buyer with a hot RFQ never hears voicemail.

A purchasing agent with a drawing and a deadline calls the next shop on the list if nobody picks up. The AI answers every call and chat, 24/7: quotes catalog parts from your published price list, captures quantities, materials and target dates on engineered work, and routes the complete RFQ package to your estimator — transcript attached.

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

Every RFQ on the record: quantities, specs, target dates — captured complete, first time.

One day with the AI

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

7:05 PM · The RFQ after the whistle

A buyer calls with a hot job after your office closes. The AI takes quantity, material, tolerance callouts and the ship-by date, asks for the drawing by email, and files the complete package for your estimator — the buyer hangs up knowing the shop is on it.

10:40 AM · The status call mid-crunch

“Where is PO 8812?” Answered from your approved order information — the same answer every time — while your machinists stay on their spindles instead of walking to the office.

2:25 PM · The capabilities question

A new buyer asks the website chat about 5-axis work and materials. The AI answers from your approved capabilities list, and books the shop visit into a real calendar before the tab closes.

What it does for you

RFQs captured complete

Quantities, materials, tolerances, target dates and drawings requested — every field your estimator needs, on every call, with a transcript.

Catalog parts, quoted instantly

Standard items get the exact price from your published list — never an invented number, at 7 PM exactly as at 9 AM.

Status calls off the floor

The “where is my order?” question answered from your approved information, identically every time — exceptions routed to a human by your rules.

Watch it work a shop’s phone

The demo answers the after-hours RFQ, quotes a catalog part and handles the status call — configured for a machine shop. Fill four fields and YOUR version — your capabilities, your catalog, your hours — lands in your inbox in about two minutes.

Interactive: ask it your own buyer questions mid-demo
Built for YOUR shop from your website
Flat price, unlimited users — never per seat

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 ±0.0005 on 17-4 stainless?”

Answers from your approved capabilities — and if it is not published, routes the question to your engineer instead of guessing.

“What would 500 of these run me?”

Catalog items get the published price on the spot; engineered parts get specs captured and routed to the estimator — no invented quote, ever.

“When can my PO ship?”

Answers what your approved order information says, and escalates anything outside it to your team with the full context attached.

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

Can it price custom machining?

It quotes only what your published price list defines. For engineered-to-order work it captures quantities, specs, drawings and dates and routes a complete RFQ package to your estimator — the number stays yours.

We can’t have a bot guessing specs.

Neither can we — the claim guard blocks anything not in your approved knowledge. No source, no claim: technical questions escalate to your people by your rules, with a transcript.

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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 Manufacturing. Most companies run both: one AI answering, one AI executing.

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