CPQAI is custom-built AI quoting software for UK precision manufacturers. We capture your pricing logic, your materials, your machine rates, your margins — and turn your estimator's knowledge into an AI system that quotes in minutes, runs ten jobs at once, and never blocks on a third-party wait. Built around your business. Live in days.
CPQAI is AI-powered Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) software built specifically for UK precision manufacturers — precision engineering companies, aerospace and defence supply chain businesses, medical device manufacturers, and CNC machine shops.
Unlike generic CPQ platforms from Salesforce, SAP, or Oracle — which require nine-month implementations and six-figure investments — CPQAI is custom-built around your business. Your pricing rules. Your materials. Your machine rates. Your margins. Your estimator's knowledge, captured and running as an AI system that any trained member of your team can use.
The result: quotes that took hours now take minutes. Jobs blocked on third-party data now run in parallel. Your most experienced people move from data retrieval and arithmetic to what they are actually worth — winning business and growing revenue.
This isn't a criticism of how you've been running your business. Every UK manufacturer using Excel to quote is doing what made sense before AI made something genuinely better possible. The question now is how long the cost of continuing is worth paying.
In precision manufacturing, the RFQ cycle is fast and the shortlist is often closed before the last response lands. Speed signals capability. A slow quote — whatever the internal reason — signals risk to the customer. CPQAI doesn't just make you faster. It makes you the company that responds fast enough to be on the shortlist when the decision is made.
Every CPQAI deployment is built using your data, your pricing logic, and your customer history. Not a starting template you spend six months configuring. Not a demo environment with generic numbers. Your business, working — in days.
We sit with your best estimator and capture everything — pricing rules, machine rates, material costs, complexity multipliers, margin logic, customer-specific rules. That knowledge becomes an AI system that never sleeps, never queues, and never blocks waiting on a third party.
A junior trained on CPQAI produces quotes your senior people would approve without hesitation. Your senior people are now free to do what they're actually worth: winning the business those quotes are competing for.
Most MDs in UK precision manufacturing are running their commercial pipeline from memory, experience, and a spreadsheet that's already three days out of date. That's not a criticism — it's what happens when nobody has built them a proper system.
CPQAI gives the MD a live view of every open opportunity: stage, value, probability, days since last contact, next action required. Monday morning digest delivered to your inbox automatically. No login required. No chasing.
A 6–18 month quote-to-order cycle is normal in precision manufacturing. Copper moves. Steel moves. Aluminium moves. The quote you sent in January and the order you receive in October were priced in different market conditions — and the difference comes straight out of your margin.
Materials Watch monitors live LME prices for aluminium, copper, steel, titanium, and nickel. When prices move beyond your configured threshold, you know — before the order lands, not after.
Most quoting tools being marketed as "AI" today are Excel-era workflows with a chatbot added. The data model, the process logic, the output format — all designed for a world where a human does the work and the software records it.
CPQAI is designed AI-first. The AI is the engine, not the assistant. Human judgement is applied exactly where it adds value — reviewing, approving, and winning business — not at the point it creates a bottleneck that slows every quote behind it.
This is the difference between AI that saves your estimator an hour and AI that transforms how your business generates revenue. One optimises the existing process. The other replaces the constraint.
For UK manufacturers in aerospace, defence, medical devices, and precision engineering, that distinction is the difference between competing for contracts and winning them.
AI governance has split into two incompatible layers. Layer 1 — principles, ethics boards, policy documents — is what the big consultancies sell to enterprises at £100k+. It dies on contact with a live AI system making 500 commercial decisions a year.
Layer 2 is operational: who decides, when, with what authority, under time pressure. Kill-switch logic. Automated escalation. Human override authority. Drift detection. Timestamped audit trails. This is where AI risk actually materialises — and this is what CPQAI embeds in every deployment.
Your aerospace and defence prime contractors will start asking how you ensure AI isn't introducing risk into your supply chain decisions. CPQAI clients will hand them a live system and a documented audit trail. Not a policy document. Not a promise. Proof.
"When your prime asks how you govern AI in your quoting process — you hand them a live audit trail, not a PDF. That answer retains contracts. It wins new ones."
— CPQAI Runtime Governance| Control | What it means in practice |
|---|---|
| Decision authority | Advisory or Recommended — never Binding. Every quote requires named human sign-off before it becomes a commercial commitment. |
| Automated escalation | AI output outside defined parameters triggers escalation to a named human with a mandatory resolution window. Logged, timestamped, closed. |
| Drift detection | Quote accuracy degrading as market conditions change is flagged automatically — before it becomes a commercial or compliance problem. |
| Audit trail | Timestamped log of every AI-assisted decision. Exactly what AS9100 Rev D audit preparation requires. CPQAI produces it on your behalf. |
| Kill-switch authority | Named individuals documented with authority to pause or override AI processes. A live operational control — not a board resolution. |
| Change control | Every model or prompt update treated as a process change — impact assessment, approval record, effective date logged. |
Down from hours — sometimes days — in Excel. Once your pricing logic and materials are built in, most quotes are mouse clicks. Third-party waits run in parallel. The constraint shifts from estimator time to external response time.
Not nine months. Not a six-figure implementation project. Your pricing logic, your customers, your materials — running in CPQAI within a week of your data handover. You see it working before you sign anything.
Quote speed, win rate, margin protection, pipeline visibility — tracked against your baseline from the moment you go live. A real delta from week one. Not a future promise of ROI that arrives in a quarterly review.
Join the waiting list. One 30-minute call. We map your quoting pain and show you CPQAI running on your own numbers — before you commit to a single penny.
"The big consultancies will take 9 months and £200k to tell you what you already know needs fixing. We'll have your first AI system live in days. You keep the data. You own the outcome. We only win if you win."