For shops that build farm equipment
Spindlerate works out what a machine really costs to build before you give a price, then tells you whether you were right. Built for shops under twenty people — where the owner quotes, and there is nobody whose job it is to feed a system.
Both are free and neither asks for your email.
An auger, a chute, a roller mill — machined parts plus bearings, gearboxes, cylinders and motors you buy in, plus the hours to put it together. Quote a shaft at a time and you are pricing a level below what you actually sell.
Four shafts per machine and six machines means twenty-four shafts hit the lathe in one setup. Pricing one and multiplying gives a number higher than the work, and loses you orders you should have won.
A phone photo of a greasy print, or a customer sketch on graph paper. Not a STEP file — most quoting software starts from geometry a shop like yours may never receive.
Close the job and the time it really took replaces the estimate on the next quote. Nobody edits a router by hand, which is exactly why nobody ever does it.
Among small US manufacturers, 23% quote from spreadsheets and another 25% do it by hand. Not because they have not heard of software, but because every shop ERP they looked at wanted a month of data entry before it produced a single useful number, and priced itself per seat so the floor never got access.
So Spindlerate starts at the other end. Load eight jobs you already did with what you charged, and it works backwards to the hourly rate you have actually been selling at — then puts it next to what those hours cost you. That takes twenty minutes and you have not entered a single machine yet.
$149 a month per shop, everyone included, month to month, no implementation fee. If it does not earn its keep you close it.