Manufacturers and job shops
An AI employee for your job shop.
Quotes carried into the job and the invoice, order status answered, time cards totaled once, and invoices entered in customer portals.
Meet Iris.
Pick your office's software below and watch Iris at work in it.
What does your office run on?
You ask. Iris does the work.
First duties
What Iris usually takes on first.
Carry each quote into the job and the invoice
When a quote becomes an order, Iris enters it in the job and later in the invoice, so nothing is typed twice. She also keeps the log of which quotes became orders.
Answer "where is my order" from the job records
She answers status questions from the shop's job records and tells you which jobs are behind their promise date. New dates wait for your okay.
Total the time cards once for payroll and job cost
She takes the hours once, enters them in payroll and compares each job with its quote. Nothing runs until you approve it.
Enter invoices in customer portals
She checks each invoice against the order and its revisions and enters it in the customer's portal.
The work
What keeps a job shop's office busy.
- Quotes typed again into the job. Each drawing is priced in a spreadsheet, then the quote is typed again into the job and again into the invoice. Nobody keeps track of which quotes became orders.
- Time cards added up twice. Hours on travelers and time cards are totaled once by person for payroll and again by job for cost. The job cost shows up after the job ships.
- Certifications assembled for every shipment. For aerospace, defense and medical orders, someone traces each batch of metal to its mill certificate and writes the certificate of conformance. One missing page holds the shipment.
- Invoices retyped into customer portals. Large customers make the shop retype each invoice into their portal, which rejects any line that differs from the order. Each rejection delays payment.
- Outside processing followed up by phone. Parts sent out for plating or heat treat leave on a purchase order, and someone phones to find out when each batch will be back. A late batch is found out the day it's due.
Unlike the general-purpose AI employee bots on the market, Iris works in the software a job shop's office already uses. How we're different
Increase efficiency, lower costs.
A short conversation about how your office runs, and a written proposal in a couple of days.
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