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Industries / Print & packaging

You quote by email. Your customer wants a price and an order at 11pm.

Commercial, packaging, large-format and promotional printers: the quoting and scheduling run themselves, and the order comes in without a conversation.

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01 / Your expertise

A model can price a job. It does not know what will come off the press clean.

Knowing what will actually print - on what stock, at what cost, without a reprint - is the knowledge that keeps the floor profitable. It belongs in the pricing engine, not in one estimator’s head.

What is scarce

Production judgment: stock behaviour, finishing risk, true cost at quantity, and which jobs to decline.

What is not

Quote arithmetic, preflight fixes, scheduling, material ordering, delivery chasing, reorder admin, status emails.

What we do about it

Your cost model and production rules become the engine: the software quotes, schedules and communicates; your people run the press.

02 / Automate internally

Hours per quote, and most quotes never convert.

Not a chatbot in your inbox. Whole workflows in production - across every person and system they touch - on one layer that the next workflow reuses.

Quoting from specification

Quotes produced from a specification against your real cost model in seconds - work that currently takes hours per quote and gates every enquiry on estimator availability.

Preflight & file fixing

Customer artwork preflighted and common problems fixed automatically, with clear requests where they cannot be - the daily back-and-forth that delays every job.

Scheduling

Jobs scheduled against press capacity and material availability, so the plan reflects reality rather than being rebuilt each morning.

Material ordering

Stock and consumables ordered to the schedule, which removes both the stockouts and the working capital sitting in the warehouse.

Delivery & proof of delivery

Deliveries coordinated and proof of delivery chased automatically, closing the loop that currently ends in invoice disputes.

Repeat orders

Reorders handled without a conversation and prompted before the customer runs out - the easiest revenue in the business, usually left on the table.

Order status service

Status answered instantly and accurately, ending the interruptions that consume your customer service team’s entire day.

03 / Build together

Then let customers configure, see it, price it and pay - at 11pm.

A web-to-print engine with live configuration and instant pricing: the customer picks product, size, material, finishing and quantity, sees it rendered, gets a binding price and pays. Then the same engine runs as multiple niche storefronts on one backend, each ranking for its own category, all feeding one production floor.

Instant, binding prices

The quote stops being a bottleneck and becomes the product. Orders arrive complete, priced correctly, with artwork already validated.

Many storefronts, one floor

A storefront per niche - each ranking for its own category and speaking its own language - all routing into the same presses and the same schedule.

Your cost model is the moat

Anyone can build a configurator. Pricing it so every job is profitable at quantity requires the cost model only an operator has.

04 / Why you

Vistaprint built a multi-billion business on this one mechanic.

Vistaprint and Cimpress proved the model: configuration, instant price, immediate order, at volume. The regional equivalent is wide open - and you already own the hardest part. The press, the operators and the cost model are exactly what a software company starting from scratch cannot buy.

You own it, not us

Code, models, prompts and runbooks transfer to your company. If we disappeared tomorrow, the system keeps running.

One layer, reused everywhere

The second workflow - and the second storefront - costs a fraction of the first, because the pattern is already built.

Customer data handled properly

Human-approved gates, evidence on every output, clear retention on artwork and customer data, ISO 27001 and GDPR alignment, deployable in your own environment.

Forward-deployed, not handed over

Our engineers sit inside your operation until it runs - then your people build on it, not just operate it.

The AI-native grant

Change the operating model, not just the tooling.

We invest €50,000 of engineering into one real process inside your firm. Two minutes to apply, twenty to find out if you are a fit.

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