The email becomes the order.
Your inbox is full of orders that arrive as paragraphs — half-remembered part names, quantities buried in the third sentence, a due date in the P.S. Someone retypes all of it into the system by hand. This prototype does the retyping. Press run and watch it read.
Hey Torin —
Good news, the assembly passed inspection. Can we get 40 more of those mounting brackets from last month's order? Same as before — 6061-T6, black anodized. If you still have the setup that's the PD-1104 rev C part.
Also — engineering just changed the enclosure on us. Need 12 of the new heatsink plates, PD-2210. Aluminum 5052. I can send the drawing over tomorrow if you need it.
We'd need all of this by the 14th if that's doable. I know it's tight.
Oh — is the plating included in the price from last time? PO to follow once you confirm.
Thanks,
Mike
It reads your actual inbox
Orders arrive however they arrive — email, a forwarded thread, a photo of a fax. The system pulls out what matters: parts, quantities, materials, dates.
It knows your history
"Those brackets from last month" only means something if the system remembers last month. A real build matches against your past jobs, parts, and pricing.
It asks before it guesses
Ambiguity gets flagged, not invented. You answer the two questions it raises; everything else lands in your system already structured.
- Emailed purchase orders — paragraphs and attachments become line items in your ERP without a human in the middle.
- Quote requests — RFQs pulled apart into parts, quantities, and deadlines, matched against your capacity and history.
- Service & repair tickets — a customer's description of the problem becomes a structured ticket with the right fields filled.
- Change requests mid-job — "actually, make it 60 and switch to stainless" caught, structured, and diffed against the open order.
What arrives in your inbox that someone retypes?
That's usually the first thing worth automating. This demo's parsing is simulated — a real build connects to your actual inbox and order system, and learns your customers' habits.
Tell me what you'd automate →