Paperless Parts’ New AI Features Surface Critical Requirements, Helping Shops Quote Faster with Confidence
New capabilities enable job shops to consistently address critical requirements from prints and models and codify tribal knowledge.
September 8, 2025
BOSTON and CHICAGO — Today at FABTECH (Booth A4918), Paperless Parts, the leading quoting and collaboration platform for custom part manufacturers, unveiled Requirements Review: the next phase of automation in Paperless Parts. The new capabilities surface critical requirements across prints, models, files, and quotes, and transform them into a collaborative workflow that helps teams quote faster, more confidently, and more consistently. Powered by Wingman™, Paperless Parts’ AI assistance tool, Requirements Review is currently in private beta with select customers and slated for general availability in October 2025.
Over the past few years, job shops and contract manufacturers have seen higher quote volumes, larger and more complex RFQ packages, and a growing preference for single-source suppliers from their customer base. Despite these shifts, prints remain at the center of the quoting process; Paperless Parts alone processes 10 million pages of technical drawings each year. Those prints are often where critical requirements hide, slowing down estimators and increasing the risk of costly misses.
“Requirements Review helps us identify potential problem areas early, before they become costly mistakes,” said Shawn Cerne, early beta user from Acutec Precision Aerospace. “It saves our team time, money, and frustration while protecting customer relationships.”
“When shops miss something critical—usually buried in a print—they risk underquoting; and underquoted jobs are the ones you win most often, which hurts margins,” said Jason Ray, Founder and CEO of Paperless Parts. “Requirements Review helps teams, including junior estimators who are just learning the nuances of quoting complex parts, tackle larger RFQ packages with confidence by surfacing the most critical requirements up front. That’s real intelligence that allows shops to grow more efficiently and profitably.”
Key capabilities:
- Extract GD&T and critical callouts. Automatically highlight geometric features, tolerances, dimensions, notes, specs, and other requirements that drive cost, and shine a spotlight directly on what matters most.
- Flag what’s critical with rules. Build rules that detect high-risk conditions on prints and link them to decisions or actions (e.g., no-quote, update the router, assign an estimator), and use compounding conditions to capture stacking risk.
- Surface rules as action items early. Identify and action tricky requirements early in the quoting process, unlocking an unprecedented level of automation.
- Turn decades of shop experience into a living library of rules. Transform tribal knowledge once held only by senior estimators into guidance that helps new team members avoid costly mistakes and ramp into quoting roles faster.
- Streamline collaboration. Assign requirements, track open items, and hold inline discussions all in one place, automatically building a rich audit history.
- Bulk-resolve and see quote-wide insights. Quickly resolve recurring requirements across assemblies with “set all” actions to save hours on complex RFQ packages (for example, “when a titanium part has a tight true position tolerance, no-quote or add an inspection step to all relevant parts”).
Requirements Review allows shops to build rules that capture their unique processes and capabilities, transforming tribal knowledge into repeatable guidance. For teams bringing on junior estimators, this creates a structured way to train and support them, while providing new opportunities to scale with confidence and protect margins.
“We don’t want our customers to have to choose between moving quickly on quotes and making sure nothing is missed in the fine print,” said Jason Luce, Chief Technology Officer of Paperless Parts. “Requirements Review helps teams quote faster without sacrificing accuracy or overloading their most experienced estimators.”
Visit the Paperless Parts team at booth A4918 at FABTECH from September 8th–11th for a live demonstration of Requirements Review, or request a demo at www.paperlessparts.com/demo/.
About Paperless Parts
Paperless Parts is the #1 quoting and collaboration software in manufacturing. The company’s patented technology helps sheet metal fabricators and complex assembly houses streamline the complexity of quoting by managing every step of the quoting process in a single, centralized environment. Our automated costing and pricing logic is customized to your shop, making it faster and easier to generate consistent quotes across your estimating team. Built to meet rigorous FedRAMP and CMMC requirements, Paperless Parts’ robust tools level up how shops communicate with buyers and empower them to deliver an unparalleled customer experience. Ultimately, Paperless Parts users gain valuable time back in their days, increase profitability, generate more revenue, and improve customer satisfaction. For more information about Paperless Parts, visit www.paperlessparts.com.
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