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Intelligent Automation for Manufacturing

AI and Automation for
Estimating

in Engineering Businesses.

1.5× the quotes, from the same estimators. Our tools read the customer's enquiry, pull out the requirements, flag what is out of scope, then build the estimate, the BOM and the GA. Built by engineers who have run the job.

Weeksto first working software
~50%less time on manual work
Fixed pricequoted before we start
<1 yrtypical payback on a build
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Why most AI projects stall

You Can't Automate a Mess.

  • 1Software agencies quote for months and don't understand your work.
  • 2Big consultancies won't take a call from a business your size.
  • 3~95% of AI pilots deliver no measurable bottom-line impact.

We've run these processes. So we fix the groundwork first, then automate.

How far you go depends on your data

Working Software in Weeks, Not a Six-Figure IT Project.

Built on the data you already own. A staged path: value at every step, and you can stop at any stage.

See How We Work
AI and automation

AI reads it.
Automation does it.
You approve it.

The bottleneck was never the sums. It was the reading. An email, a PDF spec, a drawing marked up by hand. That is the part that stayed manual while everything else got automated, and that is the part that has just changed.

01  READS

The stuff nobody could automate

The enquiry. The spec. The revision that came back covered in red pen. Requirements pulled out, out of scope flagged, and the missing information listed before anyone picks up the phone.

02  DOES

Everything downstream of the read

The estimate. The bill of materials. The general arrangement. The transmittal and the register entry. Built from the same data, in minutes, in your own format and against your own rules.

03  YOU APPROVE

The decision stays yours

Nothing leaves the building without your name on it. Every number shows the line it came from, so you can check it in seconds instead of trusting it. That is what makes it safe to actually use.

1.5× the quotes, from the same estimators.

On the data you already own. No new platform, no per-seat licence, no eighteen month programme before anything works.

Where AI actually pays in an engineering SME →
Who we are

The Name Is the Promise.

T.E.O.X.Total · Engineering · Optimisation · Execution

TEOX is not a made-up tech word. It is what we do, spelled out. Four letters, one commitment: take the whole engineering process and make it work harder, end to end. Here is what each one means, and why it matters.

T
Total

Not one bottleneck in isolation, but the whole flow, from estimating to document control to handover. A fix in one place that breaks another is not a fix.

E
Engineering

We started as engineers, not IT or software people. We have priced the tender, drawn the GA, chased the transmittal, built the products. The tools come from the work, not the other way round.

O
Optimisation

Take out the drafting, the re-keying, the manual filing. The machine does the graft; your people keep the judgement. That is where the real value sits.

X
Execution

Ideas are cheap. Working software in weeks, on the data you already own, is the point. We ship it, you keep it, and it earns its keep from day one.

Fix the groundwork first. Most automation and AI projects fail because they are bolted onto a mess. We document the reality, then automate, always in that order.
You should own your tools. Not rent them forever. We build it, hand it over, transfer the knowledge, and you keep the result.
Priced to the value, never the hours. Cheap-looking automation reads as risky and heavyweight IT programmes are a waste. We live in the better middle.
We only build what we would use. Because we did. Every tool on this site ran in a real manufacturing business before it was ever a pitch.

This is three engineers who got tired of watching good manufacturers held back by slow, manual work, and decided to do something about it. That is the heart of TEOX.

The reality

Most AI Projects Fail. Yours Won't.

MIT's 2025 GenAI Divide study found around 95% of generative AI pilots deliver no measurable bottom-line impact. Three traps sink them, and we are built to avoid every one.

01 · Domain

The Knowledge Gap

Agencies and big consultancies have never priced a tender or drawn a GA. They build what you asked for, not what the job actually needs.

TEOX

We have run your processes. The tools come from the work, not a requirements workshop.

02 · Ownership

The Dependency Trap

External teams build systems your people cannot maintain. You are locked in, paying forever, and every small change is a change request.

TEOX

We build on your Microsoft 365, hand over the code, and you own it outright.

03 · Fit

The Integration Nightmare

Off-the-shelf tools do not fit made-to-order operations, and a custom build needs expertise you do not have in-house.

TEOX

We are that expertise, and we build to how your business actually runs.

You can't automate a mess. So we fix the groundwork first, then automate.

Built by people who've done the job

Not an Agency. Engineers Who've Run the Work, Building the Software Themselves.

Commercial & Delivery
Estimating, tendering, project delivery

A career in switchgear, ran projects and estimating within a £50M business unit. Has priced the tender, drawn the GA and carried the P&L. Designs and ships the automation, applications and AI directly.

Technical Sales
Contractors, DNOs and the industrial supply chain

Technical engineering background, into estimating and then leading technical sales across UK industry, with established relationships through the contractor, DNO and supply chain. Sells to engineers as an engineer, and owns the support plans once a tool is live.

Platform & Support
Power Platform, retainers and continuous improvement

A background across purchasing, spare parts, warranty, aftersales and project management in UK manufacturing. An expert Power Platform developer, building production PowerApps and Power Automate flows that run to hundreds of steps. Delivers the support plans, so every tool keeps improving after handover.

For made-to-order, engineer-to-order or configure-to-order manufacturers. Switchgear, MCC, enclosures, acoustics, HVAC, pumps, modular buildings, transformers, gen-sets, skids and panel builders, running the same quote → engineer → manufacture → deliver workflow, with the same pain.

How we work

Assess. Build. Own. Fixed Scope, and You Keep the Result.

Phase 012–3 weeks

Assess

  • AI & data readiness, mapped to your real workflow
  • Where the volume, cost and pain actually sit
  • A costed roadmap, yours to keep, credited against your first build
Phase 02Weeks, not months

Build

  • Fixed price against a written scope, no day rates
  • Built on the data you already own
  • Working software every week, not a big-bang reveal
Phase 03Ongoing

Own & Evolve

  • You own the system and the code
  • Full knowledge transfer to your team
  • Your plan keeps the tools improving as you change (optional on a starter build)

Starting small? For one tool, Phase 01 is a free 90-minute process walk instead of the assessment, and you get a fixed price within 48 hours. How starter builds work →

What this delivers

Real, Measurable Outcomes

~50%faster turnaround
~1.5×the quotes, same team
~90%fewer errors
Zeroextra headcount

Figures from the business where these tools were first built. Your numbers depend on where you start, which is exactly what the process walk or the assessment establishes.

The economics

Priced to Pay for Itself, Inside a Year.

We never quote day rates or build hours. Every tool is priced against two numbers you already know: what the problem costs you now, and what the conventional route would cost. The arithmetic is built to sit comfortably in your favour.

Time released

A tool that frees half a person's week hands back a quarter of a full-time role every year, redeployed to winning work, not re-keying and redrawing.

Errors eliminated

~90% fewer errors means fewer reworks, fewer post-order disputes, and output your customers trust the first time.

Throughput won

More throughput out of the same team. In a made-to-order business, resource capacity is your revenue capacity, the bottleneck you clear is the growth you unlock.

Conventional route: a long IT programme over many months. This: a fraction of it, delivered in weeks, and it's yours to keep.

What we build

Four Ways We Put AI to Work Across Your Business.

Real screenshots of tools already in production, anonymised. Click any tool for the full case study.

TEOX ConfiguratorGA, SLD & 3D

Stop Burning CAD Hours on Jobs You Might Not Win

Scaled GAs, single-line diagrams, a full 3D walk-through and DXF export, generated from the estimating workbook in minutes, no CAD seat.

Read the Case Study →
Document control portfolio overview: 519 documents across 22 projects, overdue ageing, resubmission turnaround and live review-outcome charts
TEOX RegisterDocument control & risk gate

Nothing Slips, Everything Auditable

Email-driven, AI-routed document control on Microsoft 365. Zero manual filing, automatic transmittals, commercial deviations flagged instantly.

Read the Case Study →
Estimating and bill of materials automation for made-to-order manufacturing
TEOX EstimatorEstimating & quotation

More Quotes per Week, Fewer Errors, Same Team

Priced bills of materials straight from the estimating workbook, matched to the drawing, no re-keying.

Read the Case Study →
Sales intelligence dashboard built from CRM data, pipeline and win/loss views
TEOX PipelineSales intelligence

Your CRM Export Becomes a Live Dashboard

Thousands of opportunity rows to pipeline, win/loss, forecast and performer views in seconds. No BI platform, no licences.

Read the Case Study →

Not ready for a full tool? Single-workflow automations are a smaller, fixed entry point, automate one process end to end (a quote log, transmittals, a handover pack) and prove the approach on your own figures before you scale it. Here is one in full.

~45 minmanual handling removed from every enquiry
Same dayacknowledgement, down from two to three days
~3.5 monthspayback, on the business's own labour cost
TEOX IntakeSingle-workflow automation, the entry point

Stop Losing Enquiries in a Shared Inbox

Every RFQ captured, classified, filed, logged and acknowledged the same day on Microsoft 365. The assistant proposes, the coordinator confirms, nothing is quoted automatically. One workflow, one written scope, from £9,000 fixed.

Read the Case Study →

Smaller still: starter builds. One tool, such as a quote builder, a document register or a pipeline dashboard, scoped on a free 90-minute process walk and fixed-priced within 48 hours, with no assessment needed. How starter builds work →

No new platform

Built on What You Already Own.

Your tenant, your licences, your workbooks. Nothing here asks you to migrate, and nothing here adds a per-seat fee.

We build on
  • Microsoft 365
  • SharePoint
  • Power Platform
  • Power Automate
  • Power Apps
  • Excel
  • Outlook
  • Teams
  • Your browser
We read from
  • Costing workbooks
  • CRM exports
  • ERP exports
  • PDF specifications
  • Marked-up drawings
  • Email
  • DXF & DWG
  • Scanned documents

If a system can produce a file, we can work from it. Where an API exists we use it, and where one does not we use the export your team already runs.

Built into every tool

Ask your
own data.

The tools we build answer in plain English, against the costing workbook and job records you already have. No new platform, no migration, no one to retrain.

Costing workbook
Flagship build

A 3D Switchboard Configurator, Built for Sales.

One browser-based application that turns a switchboard specification into the full engineering output set, scaled 2D and 3D general arrangements, single-line diagrams, datasheets, an E-House substation generator, DXF exports and an operator walk-through.

24,000+lines of code
1single file, no install
Weeksnot months to build
0external developers
Why this works

Where Others Stall, This Delivers.

Traditional IT / big consultancy

  • Months to years
  • Tens of thousands of pounds and up
  • Built by people who don't know your work
  • New platforms to buy and learn
  • Big-bang risk

This approach

  • Weeks to first value
  • A fraction of the cost
  • Built by someone who does the job
  • Built on tools you already own (Microsoft 365 + AI)
  • Staged, stop-anytime, low risk
Weighing up a data analyst or an AI contractor instead?See the cost, the risk and who gets paid when, side by side. Half the build fee is only due when the tool passes your tests.
TEOX vs hiring →
The Care Ladder · Part of every tier build

Your Tools Keep Getting Better.

A build is the start, not the end. A plan is part of the package on every tier build, with Care as the minimum, so the tool stays healthy and keeps improving. On a starter build it is your choice. You climb the Care Ladder as your tool count grows.

Care
Your tools stay healthy.
  • Response within 2 business days
  • Proactive monitoring and fixes
  • A quarterly health check
  • 0.6 build days each month
  • Small tweaks under 30 minutes never metered
  • Remote, no on-site days
Minimum plan · every tier build lands here
Where most clients live
Grow
We own your roadmap.
Everything in Care, plus
  • Same business day response
  • A standing monthly review
  • 2 build days a month
  • Automation roadmap ownership
  • A quarterly on-site visit
Partner
Board-level ownership.
Everything in Grow, plus
  • 4 business hours, plus an out-of-hours route
  • 5.5 build days a month
  • Multiple on-site days
  • Board-level reporting
How it works. Every tier build is handed over onto a plan, with Care as the minimum, because a tool nobody looks after stops earning inside a year. Every plan includes development days, not just monitoring, so your tools keep improving while you use them. Every ticket is acknowledged automatically the moment you raise it, and how fast a person picks it up is part of what you buy: two business days on Care, four business hours at the top. You move up a level as more of your business runs on tools we built, not as time passes. Three months to start, then month to month on 30 days' notice. Unused build days roll forward for three months, and you can draw at most one extra month's allowance on top of the current month. Anything outside the plan is scoped and agreed before we start, and AI running costs sit on your own cloud account at cost, so there is no usage risk and no surprise bill.

Each plan is set to the value it returns, and you'll always know the full cost before anything begins, discussed on our first call.

The query register

Every Job Starts With Questions. Here Are Straight Answers.

Run the way a good contract runs its technical queries: numbered, answered, closed out.

What Is TEOX?+
TEOX designs and builds custom business-process apps and AI automation for made-to-order engineering and manufacturing businesses, the estimating, document-control, sales-intelligence and configuration tools you need but can't buy off the shelf. Built by people who have run these processes, on the data you already own.
Who Is It For?+
Made-to-order manufacturers from about £2M to £100M turnover: switchgear, enclosures, acoustics, HVAC, pumps, skids and panel builders, running the same quote → engineer → manufacture → deliver workflow, with the same bottlenecks: estimating, manual document control, re-keyed BOMs and CRM data nobody can query. Smaller firms usually start with a single starter build.
How Is This Different from a Software Agency or a Big Consultancy?+
Agencies quote for months and have never priced a tender or drawn a GA. Big consultancies won't serve a business your size. Off-the-shelf software doesn't fit made-to-order work. TEOX is a team of engineers who have run these processes, building the software themselves. No account managers, and no translation layer between the problem and the solution.
Why Not Just Hire a Data Analyst or an AI Contractor?+
Because you would be paying for time, not results. A hire costs salary, National Insurance, pension and usually a recruitment fee before they have learnt your business, and a contractor invoices for every day whether or not anything works. We quote one fixed price, build in weeks, and half is only paid when the tool passes tests you write. See the full comparison →
Isn't Bespoke Software Really Expensive?+
Cheaper than the problem you're living with. We never price to day rates or build hours. Every project is a fixed price against a written scope, set against what the problem costs you now and what the conventional route would cost. You'll know the full cost before we start, and the arithmetic is built to pay back inside a year.
What If It Doesn't Work Out?+
You see working software throughout the build, not just at the end. It's reviewed as we go, so if something isn't right we catch it early, not after months of development.
I'm Not Technical, Will I Understand the Process?+
We explain everything in plain English. No jargon, no assumptions. You'll always know what's happening, what's next, and why.
Do We Need to Buy New Software or Platforms?+
No. We build on what you already own, Microsoft 365, your existing costing workbooks and your CRM exports. No new platforms, no per-seat licences, no data migration.
How Long Does It Take?+
A starter build takes two to four weeks from a 90-minute process walk. Larger work starts with a Process & Data Assessment of two to three weeks. Either way, builds are delivered in weeks, not months, with working software every week rather than a big-bang reveal at the end.
Where Does Our Data Go? Is It Secure?+
It stays yours. The Microsoft 365 tools run entirely inside your own tenancy, nothing leaves your environment, and the AI runs on your own cloud account wherever possible. The browser-based tools run on your machine, so the data never leaves it.
What If Our Processes and Data Are a Mess?+
That's normal, it's the starting point, not a barrier. For a single tool, the process walk tells us on the day; for bigger work, the assessment establishes your data maturity. Either way we fix the groundwork first: document reality, remove the manual steps, then connect with AI. You get value at every stage and can stop at any of them.
Will We Be Locked in or Dependent on You?+
No. You own the system and the code, with full knowledge transfer to your team. Every tier build includes a support plan, with Care as the minimum, because tools should keep improving as your business changes. On a starter build a plan is optional. After the first three months a plan rolls month to month on 30 days' notice: it exists to keep your tools evolving, not to keep you dependent.
What Can You Actually Build?+
An automated route around the processes that limit your capacity. Working examples in production include a 3D switchboard configurator, AI-routed document control on Microsoft 365, an automated BOM generator with ~90% fewer errors, and a sales-intelligence dashboard, plus smaller single-workflow automations as entry points. See the four case studies above.
How Much Does It Cost?+
We price to the value and to what the conventional route would cost, never to day rates or build time. Every build is a fixed price against a written scope, and you'll know the full cost before we start. A starter build is quoted within 48 hours of a free 90-minute process walk; larger builds are priced after a fixed-fee assessment.
What Is a Starter Build?+
A single tool, such as a quote builder, a document register or a pipeline dashboard, built in two to four weeks for a fixed price, with no assessment needed. We walk one real job with you for 90 minutes, then quote within 48 hours. Half is paid on order and half when the tool passes three tests you write, and a support plan is optional.
Contact

Talk to Us

Tell us where the bottlenecks are: estimating, document control, sales, engineering. For one tool we start with a free 90-minute process walk; for bigger work, a fixed-fee assessment. We reply within one working day.

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