TradeFlo
AI automation for manufacturing and fabrication
Orders, drawings and changes, checked before production.
For joinery, steel, windows and doors, and precast businesses. The AI reads orders, revised drawings and supplier quotes, drafts the change list and leaves approval with your team.
Where changes slip between the contract and the shop floor
A main contractor sends a revised drawing. A material quote arrives from the supplier. An order confirmation goes out with last week's sizes.
Someone in the office compares each revision by eye and updates the order, the cutting list and the price.
When a change is missed, it shows up in production, where it costs the most to put right.
Checking each revision by eye ties up the people who should be planning the next order.
Where AI helps in manufacturing and fabrication
Three places we start. Each links to the page that sets out who signs off.
Material quotes
The AI lines up quotes for steel, timber, glass or concrete, so your buyer sees what each supplier leaves out.
Variations (change orders)
A revised drawing becomes a draft change notice, with each change listed for your contracts manager to price.
Custom builds
Where no system covers a step, such as checking a revision against the order, we build it and test it on your own jobs.
If another step keeps getting retyped, we map it in the free review.
See all workflow automationOne workflow, start to finish
A sample revision, from the contractor's email to your contracts manager's desk.
- Reads
- The revised drawing schedule and the order it changes.
- Extracts
- Each changed item, with its size and quantity.
- Drafts
- A change list and a draft variation notice, linked to both revisions.
- Flags
- Any change that touches work already in production, for a person to check first.
Nothing goes to the shop floor or the contractor until your contracts manager approves it.
Run record: a drawing revision
- A revised drawing schedule from the main contractor
- The new schedule and the original order
- A change list and a variation notice
- Items already in production
- The contracts manager, to price and approve
Waiting for the contracts manager's approval
Works with the systems you already use
We build around the systems you already use, such as Procore, Autodesk and Microsoft 365.
For a fabricator that usually means the inbox where orders and revisions arrive, the drawing folders and the costing spreadsheet.
Your systems lead agrees which folders the AI can read, and we test each connection before your team relies on it.
How to start
Three steps, with your team's sign-off at the end of each.
Map
We follow one order from the first drawing to the delivery note.
You receive: A written workflow map
See how Map worksConnect
We link the AI to the inbox and drawing folders your systems lead approves.
You receive: An access list and systems diagram
See how Connect worksBuild
We test it on past orders, and your process owner accepts it before it goes live.
You receive: A working workflow and handover notes
See how Build works
Questions from manufacturers and fabricators
Is this steel fabrication software?
It does not replace your production system. The AI reads the orders, revised drawings and supplier quotes that arrive, drafts the change list, and your contracts manager or production lead approves each change.
Can the AI read our drawings?
It reads the drawing schedule and the revision notes. It does not replace the person who checks the drawing itself.
Who approves a change?
Your contracts manager or production lead, as now. The AI lists the changes, and they decide what happens.
Does it link to our production software?
Only where your systems lead allows it, and only after we test the connection. If it cannot be connected reliably, we tell you before any quote.
What does the review cost?
Nothing. Any build after it is quoted in writing first.
Contact us to map one order workflow.
Bring a revision that reached the shop floor late. You keep the workflow map from the review.
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