JobBOSS² quotes, drafted from the print and checked against the ones your estimator sent.

Your estimator reads the print and the buyer's quantities, then looks for an estimate that already exists for the part. From there the quote either starts from that estimate, from a copy of an older quote, or from a part nobody has built before. Each quantity gets its own costs, and the finished quote goes out, often emailed straight from JobBOSS².

For the test, AI works through copies of those RFQs and writes each one up the way a JobBOSS² quote is held: the estimate it starts from, then routing, material and subcontract lines for every quantity, with the source of each number shown. It keys nothing into JobBOSS². Your reviewer reads each draft beside the quote your shop actually sent.

The estimate comes before the quote. JobBOSS² builds an estimate from material, labor and outside-service costs and keeps it for repeat work, and ECI's own page says a quote is made from an estimate with one click. Orders can start from an estimate, a new part or free form. So the first question on any RFQ is whether an estimate already exists for this part, and whether it still matches how the floor runs the part today. The draft names the estimate it started from, or says none fit and lays out the routing your estimator would enter as a new one.

Each quantity can run its own way. ECI's quoting page says a JobBOSS² quote can hold several quantities with alternate routing, material price breaks and subcontract costs. On a machined part that is the whole question: ten pieces might be cut from bar on a simple setup while five hundred earn a fixture or a different machine, and the bar costs less per foot at the bigger buy. The draft gives each quantity its own routing, material break and subcontract line, and says plainly where it reused one routing for every quantity, so your estimator sees which breaks were really worked out.

Copied quotes carry old costs. ECI also lists copying and modifying a previous quote as a way to start one, and on repeat work it is the quickest. The copy brings along whatever material and subcontract costs were on the original the day it was written. JobBOSS² shows material purchase history and part history from inside quoting, and its purchasing side keeps material history that tracks how costs moved over time. So when a draft starts from a copy, it lists every cost it carried over, the quote that cost came from, and the latest purchase price in your PO history beside it.

Markup or profit, and send-outs without a price. ECI says JobBOSS² can build estimates on either markup or profit percentages, and the same figure gives a different price under each. The draft follows whichever method your shop uses and shows the cost, the setting and the resulting price at every quantity. Outside services are the other open number. JobBOSS² purchasing can send an RFQ to several vendors to find the best price, so each subcontract line in the draft either cites a current vendor price from your sample or is marked for a vendor RFQ and left unpriced.

What your reviewer checks. The owner names the reviewer, usually whoever builds estimates in JobBOSS² day to day. They go quantity by quantity: the estimate picked, the routing at each break, the costs a copy carried, and the markup or profit method. JobBOSS² reports win rates, so the sample can come straight from your won and lost quotes. A lost quote tests a draft just as well, because the answer key is the quote your estimator sent, not the buyer's choice.

Meet the success criteria, and each new RFQ gets a draft for roughly 30 days.

Your estimator checks, reprices or throws out every draft and builds the real quote in JobBOSS², which sends it the way it does today. How approved drafts reach JobBOSS², retyped or loaded with tools your company already licenses, is up to whoever runs your system. Your reviewer keeps scoring the live drafts on the same sheet.