Quoting Engine · M.02

From signal to signed quote in seconds.

Quoting Engine builds margin-protected proposals against your real cost model — automatically. Fifty quotes a day, none of them losing money, every one logged and explainable.

POST /v1/quotes 200 OK · 42ms
Operator G · Campus deployment
$42,350 / 14 SKUs
Margin
34.2%
EV
+312%
Status
Approved
ScoreCostQuoteE-sign
Live · the quote builder RFQ in · atomized into line items · priced · reassembled · sent
RFQ IN SKU-A · $1,240 SKU-B · $2,180 SKU-C · $3,420 SKU-D · $1,840 SKU-E · $2,260 SCORE QUOTE $10,940 margin 34.2%
▸ Vault deposit
What this guardrail produces
▸ 6 mo in vault → first tier unlocked
▸ Evidence
Pipeline visibility · win-rate · deal velocity · forward revenue
▸ Tier unlocked
Tier 1 · banks
Guardrail rule: every quote attempt hash-chained at submit — see /the-vault for the full underwriting fabric.
The workspace

Where margin gets made.

Behind the API, an actual workspace your reps and finance lead can read. Line items, live cost roll-up, margin floor, benchmark — all on one screen.

QT-2024-0892 · Draft

New quote · Operator G · Campus deployment

● 34.2% margin · approved
Line itemSKUQtyUnitTotal
Cat6A Cable (1000ft)SKU-NET-6A100012$1,210$14,520
48-Port PoE+ SwitchSKU-SW-48POE4$3,420$13,680
Wi-Fi 6E Access PointSKU-AP-6E24$2,180$52,320
24-Port Patch PanelSKU-PP-248$840$6,720
Subtotal · 48 items$87,240.00
Volume discount−$6,105.00
Partner pricing−$3,480.00
Quote total$77,655.00
Margin · target 30%34.2%
AI Recommendation

Your price beats market by 5.5% — defend it.

Your price
$77.6K
Market avg
$82.1K
Competitor A
$89.4K
Competitor B
$80.2K
Generate proposal

One click. Three formats.

Auto-populated · client logo · e-sign ready

The autonomous loop

Four steps. Forty-two milliseconds.

Quoting Engine compresses what was a five-day workflow into a single API call. Every step is documented, instrumented, and reversible.

§ 01 · Score

Pull the Pulse

Read live Pulse score, account history, contract context, and competitive position.

~8ms
§ 02 · Cost

Hit live cost model

Pull current input costs from ERP. Apply margin policy. Surface guardrails.

~14ms
§ 03 · Compose

Generate proposal

Build the document, deal room, and supporting math. Apply branding and terms.

~16ms
§ 04 · Send

Route for signature

Push to e-sign. Notify owner. Log every input, weight, and policy applied.

~4ms
Margin guardrails

Policy you can read. Decisions you can audit.

Quoting Engine runs against policy you write in plain language. No black boxes, no special syntax — and every quote shows exactly which rule it cleared.

Guardrails are layered: floor pricing, segment-specific minimums, escalation thresholds, and exception routing. The engine applies them in order; humans only see what the policy can't decide.

policy · margin-floor.alm
# Quoting Engine · Margin Policy
when account.segment = "enterprise":
  margin_floor = 28%

when account.segment = "mid-market":
  margin_floor = 32%

when deal.size > 100K:
  require "vp_ops" approval

when margin < floor:
  route  exception_queue
  notify "deal_owner"

# Last edited: M. Okafor · 14d ago
Where it lives

Quotes flow through the systems your team already uses.

Source

CRM

Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics — read accounts, write quotes.

Truth

ERP

NetSuite, SAP, Acumatica — pull cost, post booking.

Field

FSM

ServiceTitan, Jobber, Salesforce FSL — schedule and dispatch.

Signature

E-sign

DocuSign, PandaDoc, Adobe Sign — full audit trail.

Real outcomes

"We replaced a three-person quoting team with one engineer and the Quoting Engine. Margin didn't drop. It grew."

Sarah Chen COO · Operator D
87%Quotes automated
+9ptMargin improvement
14dAvg deal cycle, was 28d
Operator D · case study 3,200 quotes / mo · 9 states
Quote ten of yours, free

Send us ten real
opportunities. We'll quote them.

We connect Quoting Engine to your stack, build proposals on ten live opportunities, and walk you through the margin and policy decisions — live, with your team.