Quoting software for small CNC shops. Built by a CNC machinist, on his own time, for shops like the ones he has worked in.
The problem
In a small shop, the owner is also the estimator, and quoting competes with running machines. Quotes go out late, or they get priced from memory. The same part quoted twice can come back with two different prices, because rates, material costs, and outside process charges live in the owner's head. Quantity breaks get guessed or skipped. Sent quotes sit with no follow-up, and nobody knows the shop's win rate, so nobody can tell whether work is being lost on price, on speed, or on silence.
What QuoteLite does
QuoteLite turns an RFQ into a finished quote in under 10 minutes.
Five blocks build every quote: part, material, operations, outside processes, extra charges. Nothing else to learn.
Your rates, applied every time. You set your shop rates once and QuoteLite uses them consistently.
One pricing percentage, your way. Your shop picks margin or markup once, in its profile. After that, every quote shows a single percentage, and the math is applied the same way every time.
You enter the material price you will actually pay, per part or as the stock total for the job. No built-in price tables that are wrong for your suppliers.
Quantity breaks priced from the same build-up, not guessed. Setup, fixturing, and programming are one-time job costs, divided across the quantity; per-part costs stay per part.
A clean customer copy with your shop's name and your own quote numbering.
Automatic follow-ups on day 3 and day 7 for quotes still open.
Win and loss tracking, with your win rate where you can see it.
When a quote is won, a printable job traveler for the floor, with operations, times, and inspection steps. The traveler is fully editable and formattable, so it can be made to match how your shop already runs work.
What QuoteLite deliberately does not do
No ERP, no inventory, no scheduling.
No automatic costing from CAD files or prints. You enter the times; QuoteLite does the arithmetic, the consistency, and the paperwork.
No ITAR work. QuoteLite is for general commercial work only.
A worked example
6061 bracket, quantity 25. Material price entered by the shop. Setup and programming are one-time job costs divided across the 25 parts.
Line
Per part
Material
$3.88
Programming
$5.10
Setup
$3.40
Cycle
$17.00
Inspection
$3.00
Anodize (outside process)
$3.00
Extra charges
$0.00
Unit cost
$35.38
Price at 25% margin
$47.17
Total, qty 25
$1,179.25
Founding pilot
$99/mo, price locked for 12 months.
First 10 shops only.
First month due at pilot launch. Nothing is charged if the pilot does not launch.
Cancel anytime.
Full data export. Your quotes are yours, and you can take them with you if you leave.
The standard price after the founding group is $149/mo.
More features and more tiers are likely as QuoteLite grows. Founding shops get a direct line to the builder: your feedback shapes what gets built next, and founding shops have real influence on where the product goes.
Try it, and the ask
QuoteLite is in validation and there are no customers yet. That is the honest state of it, and it is also the point of a founding group: the first shops in help decide what this becomes.
The working mockup is live. Click through it with the sample job and price a quote the way you would in your own shop.