Job Shop Estimating Software That Reads the Print for You
Automated blueprint estimation for the shops that quoting software forgot, the 5-50 person job shops running on emailed 2D prints, tribal knowledge, and an estimator who's already busy.
FORWARD YOUR 2D BLUEPRINT TO quotes@zenithquoting.comFree while in beta, no account, no portal, no software to learn.
Estimating Is the Job Shop Bottleneck
In most job shops, the person best qualified to estimate is also the person you can least afford to pull off the floor. Every RFQ becomes a trade: quote it now and lose spindle time, or quote it Friday night and lose the job to whoever answered Tuesday. Automated blueprint estimation breaks that trade. The engine does the takeoff and the math; your expert checks a finished number instead of doing a forty-five-minute build-up.
Every Estimate, Fully Itemized
No black-box pricing. Every estimate breaks out raw material (barstock weight × market rate), machining labor (minutes per part × your shop rate), one-time setup, finishing, and margin, with the assumptions printed right on the quote. If a number looks off, you can see exactly which input to correct: tell us your real rates and setup times, and your quotes move toward your numbers.
Built for Shops of 5-50, Not 5,000
Enterprise estimating suites earn their keep at 500 employees. At 15, they're shelfware with a login nobody remembers. Zenith is estimating software with the software removed: the interface is your existing inbox, deployment is forwarding an email, and training is telling your front office the address. It works from the flat 2D prints your customers actually send, no STEP files, no 3D CAD seat, no ERP project. Send a dead job you already quoted and check our math against yours; it is free while we're in beta.