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AI agents for sales teams in manufacturing
Actionist is an AI automation tool whose agents operate the apps your manufacturing sales team already uses, preparing BOM-based quote drafts and dated capacity evidence for your estimator to review.
An RFQ queue full of missing revisions and unconfirmed lead times leaves the estimator chasing evidence instead of pricing.
AI Employees for Manufacturing Sales in 4 simple steps
Manual Time
We'll go over where you currently waste your time doing manual tasks.
Actionist Automations
We'll show you exactly how Actionist can automate these manual tasks.
Your Benefits
How much time and money you'll save by onboarding AI agents.
Easy to use
We'll show you how easy it is to enable AI across your business.
Where you spend your time
We know how your week actually goes
- An RFQ queue ready for estimator reviewScheduled checks gather part numbers, quantities, missing revisions, and the recorded capacity reference.
- Quotes priced off the BOM, not memoryMaterial and labor costs come off the current BOM, so a quote reflects today's cost sheet, not last quarter's job.
- Dates supported by current evidenceDated supplier confirmations and capacity records help the estimator decide what delivery date to offer.
- Distributor answers in the review queueERP stock and lead-time records support a reply draft that waits for the estimator to approve.
- A trade-show contact never goes coldA badge scan or spec-sheet request gets a follow-up drafted the same week, before the show's momentum wears off.
- Built around your teamThese are examples. Build a custom agent for whatever quoting or channel work your estimators repeat every week.
And hundreds of other tasks you do manually..
An agent can take a lot off your team's plate. Take a look below to see the time and cost you could save by adding AI agents to your Manufacturing Sales team's day.
Where the hours go
An RFQ that lands Friday evening sits untouched in the shared inbox until Monday, by which point a competing shop has already replied and the order is likely gone.
Scheduled inbox checks collect new RFQs and their missing inputs into a review queue. The agent prepares a first-reply draft for estimator approval, with any capacity uncertainty clearly marked.
Pricing a quote means pulling material and labor costs off the bill of materials by hand, and a stale cost sheet quietly turns a winning quote into a losing job.
An agent drafts quote lines from the approved BOM and dated cost records, flagging missing or conflicting inputs. The estimator checks the calculation and approves the price before sending.
A quote promises a delivery date before anyone checks whether the raw material lead time still holds, and the shop finds out it overpromised after the customer already accepted.
The agent collects dated supplier confirmations and flags gaps before the estimator offers a delivery date. Any supplier enquiry is drafted for approval; the estimator owns feasibility and the final promise.
A distributor's badge-scan lead or a repeat stock enquiry sits in the CRM for two weeks with no follow-up, and by the time someone notices, the contact has moved on to another supplier.
Scheduled checks collect open quotes and leads past the agreed follow-up interval. The agent drafts a part-specific message and queues it for estimator approval before sending.
Actionist Will Automate
What one automation looks like
A week with your Manufacturing Sales agents
Some of the apps for your Manufacturing Sales team
Some of the manufacturing sales apps your agent operates for you. Hundreds more are in the Actionist App Store.
Your Agent wakes up Automatically whenever something happens
Your agents watch the apps you already use and act the moment something happens, usually within about a minute, handle it based on your instructions, 24/7.
Your benefits
Where the time goes back
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Sales90 min / weekTriaging the RFQ inbox between shop-floor calls
An estimator checks the shared inbox whenever there's a gap between calls, so a weekend RFQ can sit untouched until Monday and a rival shop replies first.
Sales Agent0 minRFQ evidence and a reply draft in one review queueA scheduled inbox check matches RFQs to dated capacity information and queues an acknowledgement for estimator approval.
- Sales150 min / weekPricing a quote off the BOM by hand
An estimator pulls material and labor costs off the bill of materials line by line and types the quote from scratch, hoping the cost sheet hasn't moved since the last similar job.
Sales Agent0 minAgent drafts the quote priced off today's costsAn agent builds the quote line by line from the current BOM and cost sheet and drafts it into a document for review.
- Sales60 min / weekConfirming supplier lead times before quoting
An estimator calls or emails the raw-material supplier to check the lead time still holds, or skips the check under deadline pressure and hopes it does.
Sales Agent0 minAgent confirms the lead time before the date is quotedAn agent checks the supplier's lead time and flags any change before a promise date goes into a quote.
- Sales45 min / weekRemembering which quotes have gone quiet
Nobody deliberately owns following up on a quote that's gone five days without a reply, so it just sits until the buyer has already moved on.
Sales Agent0 minScheduled checks prepare quiet-quote follow-upsAn agent tracks every open quote and drafts a warm follow-up referencing the part and price for the estimator's approval.
- Sales75 min / weekFollowing up on trade-show badge scans
A stack of badge scans gets typed into the CRM whenever someone finds the time after the show, and the ones that take a week to log rarely get a real follow-up at all.
Sales Agent0 minAgent logs every scan and drafts the next stepAn agent logs the week's badge scans into the CRM and drafts a suggested next step for each contact, posted to the sales channel.
What that's worth
Calculate what your team saves
Based on typical team usage: the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~7 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How easy it is to use
We'll do all the heavy lifting for you.
From entering your website address to having a working AI team, no effort from you.
- Step 1
Enter your website
- We'll research your business
- Automatically configure everything for you
- Step 2
Actionist Auto
Optional- Watches you work
- Creates your agents, workflows and schedules
- Step 3
Marketplace
- Hundreds of apps, plus agents and workflows
- Pre-configured by other users
- Step 4
Invite your team
- We'll automatically onboard them too
- Focus on the things that matter
Enter your website URL for a personalised demo
See exactly what Actionist would automate for your business.
You stay in control
An agent reading your BOMs, pricing your quotes, and talking to distributors only earns its place if you stay in control of what goes out under your shop's name. Actionist is built so you see everything it touched and approve anything that reaches a customer or a supplier.
A quote, a follow-up, or a reply to a distributor's stock question is drafted first and queued for the estimator's sign-off. Nothing goes out under your shop's name on its own unless you widen that autonomy yourself.
Material and labor costs come straight from the bill of materials and cost sheet on file, so a quote reflects your real numbers, not an assumption carried over from the last similar job.
Every quote drafted, every follow-up sent, and every PO logged is recorded in a timestamped trail, so you can see exactly what the agent did, when, and why.
Scope ERP and document access to the parts and quotes needed for the sales task. Check commercial confidentiality obligations and provider data policies before connecting sensitive BOM or costing records.
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Frequently asked questions
Nobody on my sales team is technical. How hard is this to actually set up?
How do I get started?
Can I build a custom agent for something specific to how our shop quotes, not just the examples shown here?
How quickly can I set Actionist up?
Will it send a quote or an email to a customer or distributor without me seeing it first?
Our ERP and some distributor portals don't have an API. Can it still work with them?
How safe is our BOM, cost, and customer data with an AI agent reading our systems?
RFQ volume spikes hard around bid season and trade shows. Does the agent keep up?
Is this replacing my estimators?
Give your estimators a manufacturing sales agent
Book a free demo and watch an agent check a real RFQ against your capacity, price the quote off your BOM, and draft the follow-up, all queued for your estimator's approval.