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For SME manufacturers

Quote faster, run a leaner office.

The factory is efficient, the office often isn't. We put AI on quoting and the paperwork so your team keeps production moving.

Most SME manufacturers have spent years tightening up the shop floor. Lean processes, tight tolerances, a team that knows what it's doing. But step into the office and you'll often find the same handful of people re-keying purchase orders, building quotes from scratch, and fielding calls about where an order has got to.

Fettle puts AI to work on the paperwork and admin that slows your office down, so your team can focus on keeping production moving. Quoting, order processing, customer updates, supplier chasing: all of it handled faster, with fewer errors and less back and forth.

Quotes drafted in minutes, not hours POs become paperwork automatically Customer queries answered without interruption Supplier risks flagged before they bite Office admin off your team's plate
In 20 seconds

AI for your business, at a glance.

Where your week goes
Slow, manual quoting and estimating
Re-keying orders and production paperwork
Answering customer order and lead-time queries
Chasing suppliers and updating schedules
The AI we'd put to work

Agents built around your desk.

Off-the-shelf tools where they fit, and bespoke AI agents we build, run and improve for you where they don't. Here's where we'd start.

Quoting Agent

Drafts quotes from specs and your pricing for review.

Order Admin Agent

Turns POs into clean production paperwork automatically.

Customer Update Agent

Answers lead-time and order-status questions instantly.

Supplier Coordination Agent

Chases materials and flags schedule risks early.

In practice

What changes, with examples.

Quoting from customer specs
Today

An estimator spends an hour or more pulling apart a spec sheet, checking material costs, and building a quote in a spreadsheet before it can go out.

With Fettle

The Quoting Agent reads the spec, pulls your pricing and margins, and drafts a ready-to-review quote in minutes.

Turning POs into production paperwork
Today

Someone manually re-keys the purchase order into your job sheet, works order, or ERP, which takes time and introduces errors.

With Fettle

The Order Admin Agent reads the incoming PO and generates clean, accurate production paperwork automatically, ready for the shop floor.

Answering customer lead-time queries
Today

A customer rings or emails asking where their order is, and someone has to stop what they're doing, check the schedule, and call them back.

With Fettle

The Customer Update Agent pulls the live order status and answers instantly, with no one on your team needing to get involved.

Manufacturing · a week with Fettle

A week with Fettle: a busy subcontract manufacturer

On Monday morning, three quote requests land from different customers. Instead of the estimator spending half the day on them, the Quoting Agent drafts all three for a quick sense-check and sign-off before lunch. Mid-week, a batch of POs comes in from a key account, and the Order Admin Agent turns them straight into works orders without anyone re-keying a thing. By Friday, when a customer chases for a delivery date, the Customer Update Agent replies with the accurate lead time before the phone has even been put down. The office team ends the week having actually moved work forward, rather than just processing it.

Typical across a Fettle assessment
22
hrs/wk
freed up
£8,500
/month
in value
14
days
to impact

That's time freed valued at £75 an hour, plus the cost of the tools we help you cut. Your assessment works it out on your own numbers.

Questions manufacturing ask

Our quoting is complicated. We deal with tight tolerances and custom specs every time. Can AI really handle that?

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The Quoting Agent is set up around your own pricing logic, materials, and processes, so it works with the complexity you already manage. It drafts the quote for a human to review and approve, it does not send anything without you.

We already use an ERP or job management system. Will this just create more tools to manage?

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Fettle's agents are built to sit alongside the tools you already use, feeding information in and out rather than replacing them. The Assessment will identify exactly where the gaps are and what would actually be worth automating.

What if our supplier and customer data is sensitive? We can not have that going anywhere it shouldn't.

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Data handling and security are covered as part of the Assessment, and any AI Fettle sets up for you is configured with appropriate controls for your business. Nothing is shared or used beyond what you have agreed to.

Two ways to start

See what AI would do for your business.

Try the free 2-minute quick win, or get the full £99 assessment with a costed, prioritised plan.