AI for metal stamping companies, tested on RFQs and releases your office already handled.

Federal codes split the trade the way your customers do. The 2022 NAICS manual files motor vehicle stampings under 336370 and other unfinished stampings under 332119, an industry named for crowns and closures that also takes in the brackets and panels an appliance or HVAC maker buys. A plant running truck parts on one press and appliance parts on the next sits on both sides of that line, and its paperwork arrives both ways, often as formal schedules from one customer and spreadsheets from the next. Quotes and releases are the two jobs every stamper has, whichever side it sells to.

Your association lists small lots as a process of their own. The Precision Metalforming Association names small lot stamping apart from metal stamping, and lists appliance, off-highway and commercial and industrial hardware among the market segments it represents. A stamper's briefing posted on the U.S. Department of Energy's website lays out the same spread as three ways to tool one part: no dedicated die, with waterjet or laser blanks formed on a press brake; a soft tool that blanks the part before standard forming; or one hard die that makes it complete. The RFQ's annual volume drives that choice, and it is why a quote desk can't reuse last week's arithmetic.

Your customer may own the steel price. One vehicle maker's published metal resale terms have a supplier buy all the metal for that maker's parts through its program, allow outside buys only when the program can't supply suitable material on time, and bar using that metal for any other customer. So the first question on a quote is whose steel it is, and the first question on a pulled-in release is which coil can run it.

Trade rules add a question. Under its published process, the Commerce Department takes requests to add products to its Section 232 steel derivative list in two-week windows, three times a year, and posts each request on a public docket with its proposed tariff classification. A package that asks about steel origin or classification goes on the question list. The draft classifies nothing.

Your closed work is the answer key. Every quote your estimator sent sits beside the package it answered, and every release your planner worked sits beside what shipped. Your reviewer holds each draft up against that record, line by line.

One limit covers both jobs. The proof of concept never touches your ERP, your EDI, your quoting system, or a live quote or release, and it never commits to a price, a schedule or a tool build. Your estimator checks every quote and your planner decides every release change. Defense and aerospace work stays out.