RFQ risk review for robotics & automation integrators

Turn messy client requestsinto quote-ready project dossiers.

Botnes reviews incoming RFQs before senior engineers spend hours on them — surfacing missing data, weak assumptions and project risks, then returning a clear quote, clarify, senior review or no-go decision with the questions to send back.

Initial structured review in minutes. No setup. No CRM migration. Start with one anonymized RFQ.

  • Built for robotics & automation integrators
  • Works with PDFs, emails, specs, layouts, site photos and rough briefs
  • Quote-readiness verdict, missing-info checklist, risk review and customer reply draft
  • FR / EN supported
app.botnes.com
WorkspaceAcme Robotics
+ Solution+ Project
Qualification dashboardSample dashboard
Total
11
Quote-ready
4
Clarify
2
No-go
5
ReferenceProjectVerdictScore
PRJ-001Workshop transfer cellQUOTE82%
PRJ-003Cold-room WMS integrationQUOTE88%
PRJ-007Multi-zone warehouse shuttlesCLARIFY72%
PRJ-012Chassis welding cellNO-GO38%
PRJ-014Collaborative cobot integrationREVIEW64%
Calibrated to your standardsUpdated 14:08 CET
01 · The problemUpstream risk

Most project risk enters
before the quote.

Robotics and automation requests rarely arrive as clean specifications. They arrive as:

  • incomplete PDFs
  • vague automation ideas
  • unclear payloads and cycle targets
  • missing site and safety constraints
  • unrealistic budgets
  • customers who do not yet understand what implementation requires

Before your team can quote, someone senior has to reconstruct the project, find what is missing, challenge the assumptions and decide if it is worth engineering time. When that first pass is weak, the risk moves downstream: underprotected quotes, rework, margin erosion and painful customer conversations.

Botnes helps your team separate:

QUOTE-READYready to move into quoting
CLARIFYmissing information before quote
REVIEWtechnical, site or commercial risk for senior review
NO-GOnot ready for engineering time yet
02 · What Botnes doesFive questions · one dossier

From messy RFQ to quote-ready decision.

Botnes gives your pre-sales and application engineering teams a structured answer to five questions:

01What is the customer actually asking for?
02What information is missing before a reliable quote?
03What assumptions are weak, implicit or risky?
04What technical, site or commercial risks need review?
05Should the team quote, clarify, send to senior review, or no-go?

The output is not a generic AI summary.

It is a structured qualification dossier built around payload, reach, cycle time, product variability, environment, safety, integration constraints, site conditions, commercial context, budget risk and deployment complexity.

03 · RFQ assistantBefore senior review

Prepare the first pass before senior review.

Botnes does not replace your application engineers. It prepares the first structured pass before senior review.

You can ask:

  • What is missing before we can quote this?
  • Which assumptions are risky?
  • What should go to senior review?
  • What questions should we send back to the customer?
  • Is this ready to quote, or not ready yet?
  • Draft a customer reply asking for the missing information.

The assistant stays grounded in the project dossier, your qualification logic and your delivery constraints.

Botnes · PRJ-007

What is missing before we can quote this?

Three blockers before a reliable quote:

Payload distribution unclearFloor flatness zone B unverifiedCycle target peak vs steady-state

Draft a customer reply asking for the missing information.

Draft ready. Professional tone, three priority questions, no heavy questionnaire. Review before sending.

NEED_INFO · draft attached

Start with one anonymized RFQ.

Send one past or active client request. Botnes returns a structured before-quote review: quote-readiness verdict, missing-information checklist, risk flags, weak assumptions, customer questions and a reply draft. No setup. No CRM migration. No long onboarding.

04 · How it worksFrom request to decision

Four steps.
One before-quote decision.

From a raw client request to a decision your team can act on, with the evidence trail attached.

01
Ingest

Upload the client request: PDF, email thread, URS, site photos, layout, notes, or any rough brief.

02
Extract

Botnes extracts the key project dimensions: application, payload, reach, cycle time, product variability, environment, safety, site constraints, integration dependencies and commercial context.

03
Risk Review

Botnes identifies missing information, weak assumptions, budget red flags, feasibility risks and quote-readiness blockers.

04
Respond

Botnes generates a structured verdict, internal handoff and customer reply draft with the exact questions needed to move forward.

Ingest
PDFClient RFQ32 p
URSSpecificationsv1.2
@Email thread14
IMGSite photos6
DWGFloor plan1
Extract
Payload30 kg
Reach1,200 mm
Cycle time45 s
EnvironmentIP67
ApplicationAMR / AGV
Risk Review
Budget signalHigh
Metal-chip toleranceMed
Bin layoutMed
Site photo scaleLow
Cycle target peakLow
05 · OutputSix deliverables

What Botnes produces.

Every request becomes a structured qualification dossier your sales, application engineering and project teams can all work from.

botnes.app · PRJ-001 · Workshop transfer cell
ShareExport dossier
Project · Confidential
Inter-station workshop transfer
PRJ-001 · 14:08 CET
QUOTE-READYCompleteness 82% · Ready with conditions
Payload
28 kg
Reach
1,150 mm
Cycle
42 s
Ingress
IP54
Open gapSeverityAction
Confirm IP67 vs IP54 in wash-down zoneHighSend Q
Bin layout scale missingMedSite visit
Cycle peak vs steady-stateMedEmail
Saw-cut clearance to wallLow
4 open gaps · 29 fields completeEngineering handoff →
01
Quote-readiness verdict

Know whether the request is ready to quote, needs clarification, requires senior review, or is not ready for engineering time yet.

02
Missing-information checklist

See exactly what blocks the quote: payload, layout, cycle time, product variability, environment, safety, budget, acceptance criteria and site constraints.

03
Risk and assumption review

Flag weak assumptions before they become delivery problems: unclear process, unstable inputs, safety ambiguity, site constraints, integration dependencies or unrealistic expectations.

04
Customer reply draft

Generate a professional reply asking for the missing data without overwhelming the customer with a heavy technical questionnaire.

05
Engineering handoff dossier

Export a structured brief your sales, application engineering and project teams can use for senior review and quoting.

06
Qualification logic calibrated to your team

Adapt the review to your standard cells, preferred solution patterns, constraints, exclusions and delivery playbook.

06 · Operational impactWhy it matters

More qualified opportunities.
Less senior engineering drag.

01
Less time on first-pass RFQ review

Application engineers spend less time decoding incomplete requests and more time on the opportunities worth quoting.

02
Higher pre-sales throughput per team

Sales and application engineering teams qualify more opportunities without turning every vague request into a senior engineering exercise.

03
Fewer risky quotes

Missing data, weak assumptions and deployment risks are surfaced before they get buried inside a proposal.

04
Faster clarify and no-go decisions

Not every request deserves a quote. Botnes helps teams respond professionally while protecting engineering capacity.

07 · Field validationBuilt with the field

Built with robotics and automation teams, not in a vacuum.

Botnes is being developed through field conversations with automation integrators, robotics system integrators, warehouse automation teams, mobile robotics companies and industrial operators.

Early-stage, in active conversations with integrators.

The same pattern keeps coming back:
Robotics and automation demand is real, but many opportunities arrive incomplete, risky or not ready for engineering.

Botnes helps teams create a structured quality gate before quoting, so they can protect senior engineering time without lowering technical standards.

Get started

Test Botneson a real RFQ.

Send one anonymized past or active client request. Botnes returns a structured before-quote review with missing information, risk flags, weak assumptions, customer questions and a quote-readiness verdict.