A California-based custom manufacturer with 40,000 SKUs and a 70-year operating history came to Remix Partners after hitting the ceiling of what their internal team could build.
Their RFQ process was deeply manual, engineers printed specs from legacy software, manually re-entered data into a second system, advanced a bill of materials by hand, and generated quotes through constant back-and-forth with customers. Their target of 48-hour RFQ turnarounds was almost never achieved.
Remix Partners built a Claude Code workbench for a 70-year-old California custom manufacturer with 40,000 SKUs, using their GenAI Kickstart discovery process before writing a line of code. The workbench ingests RFQs, compares them against all prior parts, generates draft bills of materials, converts them to price quotes, and takes a first pass at production drawings, deployed in 3.5 weeks.
Design print automation is projected to reduce the engineering time required per customer order by 60–70%. The engagement was still in early phases at time of interview, this is a projected, not yet realized, outcome.
Rather than spending time on routine documentation for every order, experienced engineers can now focus on complex and novel designs, where real competitive differentiation lives. The CFO described the shift from documentation to creative problem-solving as "transformative."
In three and a half weeks, Remix Partners built a working workbench covering every stage from customer RFQ to production-ready drawings, a foundation that previously had no automation at any stage.
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