AI-native ERP · machine & fab shops
Your shop runs on four systems. You're the integration.
KG Ai ERP is one system — quoting, scheduling, the floor, purchasing, suppliers, CRM and your books — built AI-native from the ground up for machine and fab shops.
Thirty minutes · RFQ to invoice · on a shop set up like yours
The problem
Four systems that don't talk to each other.
Most shops run on a patchwork. Each piece works. Nothing in between does.
Quoting software
e.g. Paperless Parts
A separate login wired into your ERP — and it never learns your shop, because it never sees your actual jobs.
Shop ERP
e.g. JobBOSS², E2, ProShop
Powerful, but an implementation project and a learning curve.
Accounting
QuickBooks, or NetSuite
Built for bookkeeping, not for running production.
CRM
a spreadsheet, or Salesforce
Never sees the quote or the job.
Every hand-off between them is re-typing — and every re-type is a chance to get a quote or an invoice wrong.
One system
It tells you a job will be late while you can still fix it.
The schedule builds itself from your routings and your machines. A risk engine reads quoted hours against what the floor is actually clocking, and flags what is going to slip before it does.
Shop
Quotes Scheduling Job Command Shop floorMoney
Receivables Payables LedgerRelationships
Customers SuppliersOpen jobs
4 jobs · 2 flagged · week of Oct 20| Job | Part | Work center | Due | Quoted | Clocked | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J-1184 | Bracket · 6061-T6 | Haas VF-2 #1 | Oct 24 | 12.5 h | 11.8 h | On time |
| J-1185 | Shaft · 4140 HT | Mazak QT 200 | Oct 24 | 8.0 h | 9.6 h | At risk |
| J-1186 | Housing · 303 SS | Haas VF-2 #2 | Oct 27 | 22.0 h | 24.9 h | Will be late |
| J-1187 | Plate · A36 | Bridgeport | Oct 29 | 4.5 h | — | Not started |
J-1186 misses Oct 27 by 1.5 days. Haas VF-2 #2 is the constraint. Moving J-1184 to VF-2 #1 clears it with 4 hours to spare.
A quoting tool never sees the jobs it quoted. KG Ai ERP runs the job too — real setup and run times, real material, real margin — and feeds every one of them back into the next estimate.
Numbers that show their work
Every figure says where it came from.
Measured from the model, read off the print, or entered by you — labeled on every line of every quote. A missing rate doesn't get a guess. It stops the quote and asks.
Quoting software hands you a price. This hands you the trail behind it.
What's in it
All four, plus the parts nobody sells you.
One place where a quote becomes a job, a job becomes an invoice, and the money lands in the ledger without anyone re-keying it.
Quoting & estimating
2D prints and 3D models in, priced routings out — on your machines and your rates.
Scheduling
Auto-built from your routings, with a risk engine that flags what will be late.
Shop floor
Tablet and monitor stations at the machine: print, routing, inspection, clock-in.
Live job costing
Material, labor, overhead, freight and outside services post as the work happens.
Purchasing & suppliers
Auto-RFQ, bid comparison, supplier POs, and a compliance vault for W-9s and certs.
CRM, with mobile apps
Customers, suppliers and prospects on one record each, with every email and quote attached.
Customer portal
Job status, certs, FAIs, CoCs and invoices — and one-click quote acceptance with a PO.
Accounting
A real general ledger with AR, AP, bank feeds, receipt capture and month-end close.
Groups of shops
Supplier pricing shared across the group, labor rates per shop, consolidated P&L.
Also included: AI inspection plans, CoCs and NCRs · tool crib and tool kitting · shift and job time clocks, PTO and overtime rules · expense capture from your phone · driver delivery app with e-signatures · bulk email to customers and prospects · programming time quoted and tracked as an actual
The job shop workflow
Quote to delivery, without leaving the system.
Six stages every shop already runs. The difference is that here they share one record — and the last one teaches the second one. Pick a stage.
RFQ arrives
RFQ-2026-0043 · 3 parts · prints attached
Feature
The email lands in your queue with its prints attached. The customer, the parts and the drawings are read off the message and filed against a new RFQ.
Advantage
Nobody re-types a customer or hunts for an attachment. The RFQ exists the moment it arrives, whether or not the estimator is at a desk.
Benefit
Nothing sits unopened for two days because you were on the floor — and you stop losing jobs to the shop that answered first.
Quote drafted
Material · routing · setup and run · price
Feature
Material, routing, setup and run times and price are drafted from your machines and your rates, with every figure labeled measured from the model, read off the print, or entered by you.
Advantage
Other quoting AI hands you a price. This hands you the trail behind it — and when a rate isn't set it stops and asks instead of guessing a number.
Benefit
Quotes go out in under a day, and you can put your name on one without checking it twice or lying awake about an underbid.
Order entry
Quote accepted · job number issued
Feature
A won quote becomes a job in one click, carrying its routing, its material and the price that was quoted. The customer can accept with their PO from the portal.
Advantage
The job is the quote. There is no re-keying step in the middle where the two quietly drift apart.
Benefit
What you costed is what you build — which is the only reason quoted-versus-actual means anything later.
Production planning
Schedule built · supplier POs issued
Feature
The schedule builds itself from your routings and machines. Supplier RFQs go out and outside-service POs issue the moment the customer's PO lands.
Advantage
A risk engine flags which jobs will be late, why, and what to move — before they are late, rather than reporting it after.
Benefit
Fewer fire drills, fewer expedite fees, and delivery dates you can promise without crossing your fingers.
Manufacturing
Clocked at the machine · costed as it runs
Feature
Tablet and monitor stations at the machine carry the print, the routing, inspection and clock-in. Machine status comes in live over MTConnect.
Advantage
Labor, material, overhead and outside services post to the job and to the ledger as the work happens — not in a month-end reconciliation.
Benefit
You see a job losing money while there is still time to save it, and your machinists spend their hours making chips instead of chasing paper.
Ship & invoice
Packing slip · invoice · ledger posted
Feature
Packing slip, invoice and ledger posting all come off the same record. Customers see status, certs, CoCs and invoices in their own portal.
Advantage
Every actual the job recorded — real setup, real run, real material, real margin — feeds straight back into the next estimate for that part.
Benefit
You invoice the day it ships, and run 4 is quoted better than run 1 was. That loop is the thing a bolt-on quoting tool can never close.
Updates
Every update. Free. For the life of the product.
The system you start on is not the system you'll be running next quarter. New modules, sharper AI, the things shops ask for — all of it is included, for as long as you run it.
No upgrade tier
Nothing is held back for a higher plan. Every shop on the system runs the same one.
No invoice for what's new
A module that didn't exist when you signed up costs nothing the day it ships.
Gaps get built, not quoted
When something falls short, it gets fixed. That's a roadmap, not a change order.
Any shop that has been through an ERP implementation knows exactly why this section is here.
Switching
Describe your shop. It sets up the rest.
Switching ERPs usually means one to three months of implementation. Upload the files you already have — or just describe the shop in plain English. Everything is read, laid out, and shown to you to confirm. Nothing is saved until you say so.
How switching worksSee it run a job, end to end.
Thirty minutes on a shop set up like yours — RFQ to invoice, with every number showing where it came from. You'll know by the end whether it fits your floor.