01Live at Puget
Read the request
Specs are pulled from the email or attachment and matched to your customer and product records. Anything that changes the price and is missing becomes a question.
Early access
A draft built from your past work.
Your estimator gets the past quotes, pricing assumptions and a draft together. Plyworks reads the request, checks what you’ve charged before, and asks when something’s missing. Your estimator makes the call.
How it prices
Precedent first, engine second.
02Early access
Start from precedent
What did this customer pay for similar work? What did that work really cost? The agent looks there first, the way your best estimator would.
03Live at Puget
Check against the engine
Your rate tables, calibrated per job code, give a second opinion. When precedent and engine disagree, the gap is shown, not hidden.
04Early access
Draft, then wait
Price tiers, the assumptions behind them and a draft reply go to your estimator. It never sends anything on its own.
Every request ends one of three ways
Quote, ask or pass.
● Quote
Enough is known and the job code is proven. You get tiers, the precedent behind them and a draft reply.
● Ask
Something that changes the price is missing. You get the question, and the price waits for your answer.
● Pass
The job is outside what it has proven. It says so and hands the request to your estimator untouched.
Validate
Proven per job code.
Every night the agent prices real past requests, seeing only what your shop knew on the day, and is scored against what your estimator actually quoted. It only drafts live quotes for the job codes it has earned.
- Perfect binding● Drafting
- Saddle stitch● Drafting
- UV coating● Drafting
- Casebound● Still learning
- Wire-O● Estimator only
Learn
Real margins, job by job.
Finalized job-cost reports sit beside each quote. Thin and underwater jobs surface on their own, and repeat work worth requoting gets flagged before it comes back.
| Job | Customer | Margin* | Health |
|---|---|---|---|
| Booklet, 16 pp | Cascade Print Co. | 31% | Healthy |
| Perfect bound, 240 pp | Northshore Press | 12% | Thin |
| Wire-O calendar | Harbor Litho | −4% | Underwater |
| Saddle stitch, 32 pp | Summit Graphics | 27% | Healthy |
*Revenue less recorded direct costs, before overhead.
Early access
See how it prices your past work.
We’re opening early access to a small number of binderies and print finishing shops. Tell us one kind of work you quote and which systems hold its history. We’ll confirm fit, agree a sample of past work, and compare the agent’s drafts, questions and passes with your estimator’s quotes.
We agree scope and cost before starting. Every request is read by a person, usually the one who built it. Prefer email? hello@plyworks.ai
Received
Thanks. We’ll be in touch.
We’ll reply personally, usually within two working days, to confirm fit and discuss a sample of past work.