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USE CASE · INDUSTRY

Automated quoting: reliable quotes in minutes

Quotes in minutes instead of days

Every quote ties up your best people for hours, while the customer waits for days. AI reads the drawings, finds similar orders in your history and proposes a pre-filled quote: your estimator validates instead of starting from scratch.

L'enjeu

In industrial subcontracting, the quote is the first commercial act: it decides the order before production even starts. Yet it remains slow to produce, dependent on a few people and uneven from one file to the next.

Quoting ties up your best profiles for hours per order, while a good share of quotes will never turn into a purchase order.

Response time has become a selection criterion: when your quote goes out in five days, the competitor who answered in 24 hours has already taken the order.

Reliability depends on who quotes: from one estimator to the next, margins vary, and forgotten items (treatments, transport, rework) are paid for on the order.

Your cost history sits idle in the ERP and Excel files: every quote starts from a blank page instead of building on similar orders already produced.

Comment l'IA résout ce problème

The AI reads the input documents (drawings, specifications, BOMs), extracts the useful characteristics (dimensions, material, tolerances, quantities), finds similar orders in your history and proposes a pre-filled quote: routing, times, material, price. The estimator validates, adjusts and sends. They no longer start from scratch, they arbitrate.

Les briques techniques

Document extraction with vision and language models (PDF drawings, specifications, emails; CAD formats depending on scope). Similarity matching against your order history. Costing engine configured on your rules (material, machine time, margins). Validation interface for the estimator, ERP or CRM integration. Sovereign or on-premise hosting.

Les données mobilisées

Your past quotes and their outcome (won, lost, real margin), your routings and actual production times, your material and subcontracting rates. As input, customer drawings and specifications. A few hundred historical orders are enough to start; the richer the history, the more accurate the quoting.

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Bénéfices attendus

Answers in hours, not days

The quote goes out before your competitors': on consultations, response speed wins orders.

Consistent quoting

Calculation rules are the same for every file: no more margin gaps depending on the estimator or the day.

Fewer costly omissions

Treatments, transport, rework: the forgotten items that eat into margin are included systematically.

Estimators on high value

The time saved on extraction and data entry is reinvested in complex orders and negotiation.

Où ça s'applique

Why StratIA

Sovereignty

Your data stays in France, hosted with OVH or Scaleway, or even on-premise. Sovereign models (Mistral) where relevant. GDPR and AI Act compliance handled by design.

French squad

A French team dedicated to your project. Short cycles, weekly demos, continuous user validation. No offshore, no black box.

Framed ROI

ROI is quantified from the scoping stage, the scope is clear, go/no-go decisions are transparent. You know what you pay and what you gain before you start.

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Expert insights

Quoting is the commercial bottleneck of subcontractors: your best technicians spend their days redoing calculations your history already knows. AI makes that history usable, and the estimator keeps the decision.

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Our method: from entry point to continuous use

based on your maturity level...

01

Formations IA

Des équipes prêtes pour l'IA

1 à 2 jours

02

Audit Flash IA

Vos cas d'usage priorisés

1 jour

03

Quick Win IA

La preuve par un premier gain

2 à 6 semaines

04

Développement sur mesure

Du brief au produit en production

2 semaines à 3 mois

01

Formation IA

Pour qui : vos équipes doivent d'abord comprendre ce que l'IA change dans leur métier, avant tout projet ou en parallèle.

En 1 à 2 jours, sur site ou à distance, on forme vos équipes de direction, de production ou vos fonctions support : fondamentaux de l'IA, usages concrets observés dans votre secteur, prise en main d'outils. Aucun prérequis technique. Vos équipes repartent avec des réflexes applicables dès la semaine suivante.

Tarif : certifié Qualiopi, finançable par votre OPCO, souvent intégralement.

J'ai un projet de formation

02

Audit Flash IA

Pour qui : vous savez que l'IA est un sujet, vous ne savez pas par où commencer, ou vous avez une idée précise mais personne pour l'exécuter proprement.

En 1 jour, nos experts analysent votre organisation et vos processus pour identifier les cas d'usage IA les plus pertinents et les plus rapides à déployer. Vous repartez avec une roadmap priorisée et des fiches opérationnelles par cas d'usage.

Tarif : 2 000 € HT (déductible si vous lancez un projet avec nous).

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03

Quick Win IA

Pour qui : vous avez un irritant précis et vous voulez une preuve avant d'investir plus. Lecture de documents, chiffrage, contrôle qualité, tri, reporting.

En 2 à 6 semaines, on livre une solution en production sur un périmètre resserré, branchée sur vos outils existants (ERP, MES, GMAO). Vous mesurez le gain réel, heures gagnées, erreurs évitées, marge protégée, avant de décider de la suite.

Tarif : à partir de 6 000 € HT (l'Audit Flash déjà réalisé est déductible).

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04

Développement sur mesure

Pour qui : vous savez déjà ce que vous voulez. Cas d'usage identifié, périmètre clair, ROI cadré. Vous avez besoin d'une équipe technique sérieuse pour passer de l'idée au produit en production.

En 2 semaines à 3 mois selon le périmètre, notre équipe française conçoit et déploie votre solution : agent IA, plateforme métier, système de vision, RAG, automatisation. Cycles courts, démos hebdomadaires, validation utilisateurs continue. Mise en production directe.

Tarif : entre 15 000 € et 80 000 € HT selon la complexité, devis ferme après cadrage.

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One client case

Client case Industrial machining

Quoting machined parts from customer drawings

A machining and welded-fabrication subcontractor of around sixty employees in eastern France. Requests arrive by email with PDF drawings and specifications. The AI extracts the key characteristics (dimensions, material, tolerances, quantities), finds similar orders already produced and pre-fills the quote: routing, times, material, price. The estimator validates and adjusts before sending. Deployed in 9 weeks, ERP kept in place.


25 minper quote, versus half a day before
+23%quotes issued with the same team
6 monthsto reach ROI

Estimated gains between €80,000 and €150,000 per year, in estimator time and won orders.

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