Pricing
Two engines, priced to what you run.
One reads bid packages and drafts the quote. One reads part drawings and fills the inspection report. Neither has a seat price or a published number, because each is scoped to your operation on a call.
Engine 01
The quoting engine
Custom manufacturersReads the customer's bid package, cites every requirement to its page, puts the contradictions in front of a person and drafts the quote in your own pricing logic.
Reads
Bid packages · Drawing sets · Spec books · RFQs · Your own quote archive
Scoped on a call
No seats · no meter on packages
What you get
- Every requirement pulled from the package and tied to its page
- Contradictions and missing information flagged before they are priced
- A draft quote in your own rules, rates and margin logic
- Unlimited users: everyone who quotes can open it
- Unlimited packages within the agreed scope
- Rules maintained as your rates and conventions move
- Security review, SLA and procurement-ready agreement where required
Bring the package you least want to read again.
Engine 02
Drawing inspection agents
Machine shops and quality teamsReads part and technical drawings in full, balloons them, and fills the first article inspection report and the quality documents around it.
Reads
Machined parts · GD&T · ISO 2768 · Tolerances · Notes and flags
Scoped to your volume
No seats · scoped to the inspections you run
What you get
- Automatic ballooning and the AS9102 Form 3
- Full spec interpretation: every dimension, tolerance, GD&T frame and note
- CMM integration and PPAP package support
- Custom inspection formats and your own templates
- Audit trail on every reading
- PLM, QMS and ERP integrations
- Security review and SLA where required
Bring your hardest drawing. We run it live on the call.
Why the number comes after the call
The call finds the scope. The number follows in writing.
Both engines are built around the work they serve, and operations differ more than anything else in this business. Six things set the scope. Read them against your own operation and you can place yourself before you ever speak to us.
What you run
Bid packages, drawing sets and spec books on one side. Part drawings, inspection reports and customer formats on the other. This decides the engine before anything else.
How much of it
Packages quoted or inspections run. We do not meter documents, but volume decides how much the engine has to carry and how fast it has to answer.
Product families or drawing types
Each family is its own set of pricing rules. Each drawing convention is its own set of reading rules. One is the normal start; four at once is a different piece of work.
Sites and teams
Each plant usually has its own conventions, workbooks and templates. Reconciling them is most of the work at a group, and most of the value.
What is already written down
Rates, margin logic, inspection formats, templates. If a new hire could find them, setup is short. If they live in one head, that extraction is the project.
Integrations and security review
ERP, PLM, QMS, CMM and document systems, plus a full security review where procurement asks for one. Each adds scope. None is required to start.
What it is never priced on
Per seat or per named user
A meter on documents, drawings or pages read
A percentage of the quotes you win
A licence signed before you have seen it on your own documents
Implementation fees discovered later
Anything that charges you more for using it
One call, and you leave with the scope and the number.
It is not a demo in disguise. If your quotes start from a catalogue and a list of options, we will tell you to buy a configurator, and the call will be short.
If you would rather not talk yet, the quoting system health check is short, needs no email, and tells us both where to look.
- Which engine. Bid packages that end in a quote, or part drawings that end in an inspection report. Sometimes both.
- What the documents look like. A four page invitation and a 668 page spec book are not the same job. Neither are a one sheet print and a seven sheet assembly.
- How many you run, and where. Volume, sites and teams. The three answers that let us scope anything at all.
- What is already written down. Your rates, margin logic, formats and templates, and where they live today.
- The scope and the number, in writing, with what it covers. Or a clear no, if we are the wrong fit.
Pricing questions
Why is there no price on this page?
Because both engines are built around one company’s own work, and no two companies run the same work. One quoting team has one product family, another has nine across four plants. One quality team runs twenty first article inspections a year, another runs twenty a week with three customer formats. A published number would be wrong for almost everyone who read it. The call is where we find your scope, and the number follows in writing.
How is Mavlon priced?
As a standing figure for each engine, scoped to the operation it serves. For the quoting engine that means the product families, plants and package volume it has to carry. For the drawing inspection agents it means the drawing volume, the inspection formats and the systems it has to talk to. It is never a price per user and never a meter on documents.
Which engine do we need?
If your work starts from a customer’s bid package, drawing set or spec book and ends in a quote, you need the quoting engine. If your work starts from a part drawing and ends in a ballooned print and an inspection report, you need the drawing inspection agents. Some companies run both, and we scope them together.
Do we have to start with an audit or a pilot?
No. Some quoting teams want the quoting system audit first, because they are not sure how much of their price is method and how much is memory. Some want a blind test on their own archive before any standing commitment. Some know what they want and start on the engine. The call decides which, and none of it is a fixed sequence. For inspection work none of it applies; you bring a drawing and watch it run.
What does the first call cost?
Nothing, and it is not a demo in disguise. We work out which engine you are in, what the documents look like, how many you run and what is already written down. You leave knowing the scope, and you get the number for it in writing. We have told companies before any call that they were the wrong fit for us.
Can we see it on our own documents before committing?
Yes. For inspection, bring your hardest drawing and we run it live on the call. For quoting, we can price a sealed set of your own past packages cold and score them against the quotes you actually filed, line by line, before anything standing is signed. The protocol we use for that is published.
Do you charge per document, per drawing or per user?
No. A meter on documents punishes you for using the thing, and a seat price punishes you for letting a second person see it. Both push in the wrong direction. Everyone who quotes, or everyone who inspects, should be able to open it.
What do you need from us before you can quote a number?
Four answers, and you can give them on the call: which engine, what your documents look like, roughly how many you run, and how many sites or teams are involved. Nothing confidential, and no files move before a mutual NDA.
Bring the document you least want to read again.
A bid package or a part drawing. Tell us which, and how many you run. You will have the scope on the call and the number in writing.
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