Solution · Commercial & Marketing
Foreman reads the drawing, the BOM hint, and the OEM's capability requirements, and drafts the response — cost estimate, capability narrative, lead-time commitment — in the OEM's preferred format. Your commercial team reviews and signs; they stop writing every package from scratch.
The pain
The RFQ lands on a Tuesday with a 10-day clock. Your commercial engineer pulls the drawing into a viewer, cross-references the BOM hint against past programs, asks production for a capacity check, asks finance for the cost-model assumptions, and starts assembling the response in whatever format the OEM prefers this quarter. Half the time on the package is logistics; almost none is actual judgment.
By Friday the draft is at v3 and the same questions are circulating in email: what's the right tonnage assumption, did we ever quote this geometry, what tooling did we use on the last similar program. The answers exist — they're in PPAPs, past quotes, and the engineer's head — but pulling them together is manual every single time.
The fast suppliers win the nomination. Yours might be technically stronger, but if your response lands three days later in a worse format with less defensible costing, the OEM has already pre-decided. The bottleneck isn't capability; it's response-time.
What Foreman does about it
Foreman reads the incoming RFQ package — drawings, BOM hints, capability requirements, OEM-specific formatting. Geometry features, tolerances, and material spec land in a structured view your commercial engineer can scan, not re-read from scratch.
Built on · Digital Twin
The agent finds your historical wins on similar geometries, materials, and volume tiers, and drafts a cost rollup against the matching baselines — raw material, processing, tooling amortization, margin. Every line links to the program it learned from, so finance can audit not just trust.
Built on · Decision Layer · Agent Engine
Instead of a generic capability deck pasted in, Foreman drafts the specific narrative this OEM cares about: 'We've run this geometry in this material at this volume on this line — here's the program, here's the PPAP outcome.' Real evidence, not marketing language.
Built on · Agent Engine
Foreman checks current capacity, tooling availability, and the production schedule, and proposes a lead-time commitment that production can actually hit. Your commercial team stops promising what the plant has to walk back.
Built on · Decision Layer
What we'd move
Time from RFQ-receipt to a defensible commercial response your engineer can review and sign — drawing read, cost drafted, capability narrative tied to real wins.
Packages per quarter the same commercial team can respond to — most of the gain is from collapsing logistics, not by cutting judgment time.
Cost lines linked back to a historical program — every estimate defensible at finance review and OEM cost-down challenge.
* Discovery-stage estimates from commercial-team walkthroughs with Tier-1/2 suppliers. Replaced with measured numbers as pilots run.
The one outcome that matters
Your commercial team stops being the bottleneck. The fast supplier wins more often — and the response is grounded in real program data, not the deck you sent the last three OEMs.
Where it lands
Quoting & cost model
Whether your cost model lives in Excel, a quoting tool (aPriori, DFMPro), or a custom workbook, Foreman reads the structure and writes drafts back in the same format your finance team approves against.
PPAP & program archive
Past PPAPs, won programs, and capability sheets — Foreman indexes them so capability-fit narratives are drawn from real evidence, not marketing memory.
ERP & capacity
SAP, Oracle, Infor, Sage. Current production schedule, open capacity, and tooling availability feed the lead-time commitment so the promise matches the plant.
We don't replace your quoting tool — we make the engineer running it twice as effective by collapsing the logistics part of every RFQ. See the full integration list →
Industry fit
Field notes
A 30-minute call to walk through your commercial workflow, your quoting cadence, and the next nomination Foreman would have helped you respond to faster.
