Wafter AI
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Manufacturing

Your unfair advantage.

Put the power of AI behind every quote and every job. Wafter makes the whole shop leaner — and turns it into profit you can see this week, not next quarter.

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The problem

So why do jobs still slip?

A powerful ERP
Decades of experience
Every past job on file
yet
−22%
margin, gone

The answer's in your data — but the root cause hides across the process. By the time it surfaces, the job's already underwater.

Broken information

Know it at the quote — not the invoice.

QuoteMakeShip · invoice
Today
the real numbers, in hindsight
With Wafter
there at the quote

With scattered data, the real numbers only surface looking back — at the invoice, too late to fix. Wafter has them at the quote, and keeps them live.

The answer

We understand the work — not just the ERP.

The data was always there. What's missing is reading the work and the ERP together — in real time, before the margin's gone.

AI that knows the shop

Reads drawings, routings, and history like a veteran estimator.

Analysis

Surfaces the root cause behind a slip — not just the symptom.

Real-time control

Watches the job as it runs — not in next month's postmortem.

Preventive cost action

Flags the overrun before it happens, while you can still act.

Step 01 · Intake

Not one inquiry slips through.

Inbox
3 new
Apex — RFQ
2m
Northline — reorder
1h
Cedar — question
3h
Wafter AI reads it
Reads every message
Sorts & extracts the part
Matches it to the customer
Routes it to the workflow
auto
Job #1042
Workflow
Job #1042 · Estimate
queued
queued

Every message is read the moment it lands — sorted, the part and drawings pulled, the job dropped into the workflow. Nothing slips.

Step 02 · Workflow

The whole workflow, end to end

Job #1042
RFQ
Queued
Job #1042
Estimate
Queued
Job #1042
Engineering
Queued
Job #1042
Production
Queued
Job #1042
QA
Queued
Job #1042
Ship
Queued

From RFQ to shipment, watch a job complete every stage end to end — each one checked off as it lands. Next, we zoom into the estimate.

Step 03 · Estimate

The estimate, grounded in history

Customer
Job history
Past ERP jobs
Grounded estimate
matched · 4 past jobs

Grounded in the customer, their history, and similar ERP jobs — so the number stands on what actually happened.

Step 04 · Estimate

Broken down by process

Machined billet · 6061-T6
Saw cut to length0.05 hr
3-axis CNC mill0.22 hr
Drill & tap0.10 hr
Deburr0.05 hr
6061-T6 · 12.4 kg2 setups0.42 hr/pc
Laser cut blanks0.04 hr
Brake form0.08 hr
TIG weld0.18 hr
Grind & finish0.06 hr
14 ga sheetTIG · 4 joints2 weldments
Kit parts0.10 hr
Fit-up0.20 hr
Fasten to torque0.35 hr
Final inspect0.15 hr
18 fastenerstorque spec'd0.8 hr
Wafter AI · suggestion
Similar jobs ran +0.1 hr on deburr. Add it to the estimate?

Machining, fabrication, assembly — every step checked, every hour counted. The estimator decides; Wafter just suggests.

Step 05 · Schedule

Released, planned, scheduled.

Your ERP's schedule Wafter AI · companion
MonTueWedThuFri
CNC-1
Brake
Weld
Assembly
Wafter AI live
#1042 is +0.4 hr over at Weld — Friday's at risk. Three ways to recover:

Wafter doesn't replace your ERP — it rides along. The schedule lives in your system; Wafter watches it live, flags drift, and suggests the fix.

Step 06 · Dashboards

The whole shop, at a glance.

Shop health · live
On-time
96%
Margin
31%
In flight
42
At risk
2
Estimator
Quotes & win rate
Machinist
My queue today
Scheduler
Capacity & due dates
Owner
Margin · cash · on-time

The big picture up top — a focused view for every role below.

Access & security

Every role sees only what it should.

RoleQuotesCostsMarginScheduleERP sync
Estimator
Machinist
Scheduler
Owner

Role-based access down to the field, in sync with your ERP. Security isn't a setting — it's the default.

The payoff

Profit you can see — this week.

Quote accuracy
±18%±4%
tighter bids
Gross margin
22%31%
+9 pts
Quoting time
3 days2 hrs
out the door
Win rate
1 in 51 in 3
more jobs won

Same shop, same crew — with Wafter riding along. Tighter quotes, fatter margins, more wins.

See it live

See it on your shop floor.

Bring one live job into Wafter — from the RFQ to the invoice. We'll show you the difference in a week.

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