A contract injection molder was quoting jobs by email.
The back-and-forth took hours, sometimes days, and in a market where customers buy from whoever responds first, that lag was costing deals. Off-the-shelf quoting platforms couldn't handle the complexity of custom manufacturing: tolerances, materials, volumes, and geometries that no generic tool was built to accommodate. The firm needed instant quotes. Nothing on the market could deliver them.
Tau9 Labs built a custom e-commerce platform from scratch, centered on a proprietary C++ 3D modeling engine that calculates manufacturing complexity and real-time pricing from uploaded part files, enabling a 7-click checkout with instant quotes and no email back-and-forth.
The platform generated $40,000 in new revenue in its first month of operation, before a full customer rollout had even begun.
Customers go from uploading a part file to receiving an instant, accurate quote in seven clicks, replacing an email process that took hours or days.
A fully custom e-commerce platform with a proprietary 3D modeling engine went from concept to production in four months, with AI coding tools accelerating every stage of development.
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