Plyworks turns your pricing history into draft quotes, proves itself on past work, and leaves your estimator in control. Your system stays exactly where it is.
Built inside Puget Bindery (est. 1919)
Your shop’s pricing knowledge
The person who knows your pricing shouldn’t have to rebuild every quote from memory. Plyworks brings past quotes and actual costs into the next request, so that experience is easier to check and pass on.
We’re building it inside Puget Bindery, a trade bindery in Kent, Washington (est. 1919). Our estimator’s judgment stays at the center. Here’s what runs today and what we’re still proving.
How it works
Every request runs the same line: read from your systems, priced from your history, checked against your past jobs, and handed to a person to approve.
Plyworks reads the job system, inbox and accounting you already run. Read-only, always. Nobody changes where they type.
Your quote history, what each customer paid and what the work really cost come across from your systems and stay matched, job by job.
Before it drafts a single live quote for a job code, the agent is backtested on your past requests for that code and scored against your estimator.
Price tiers, assumptions and a draft reply land in front of your estimator. Nothing is sent without a person saying yes.
Quote · Ask · Pass
When a request is missing something that changes the price, the line stops and asks your estimator. When a job is outside what it has proven, it passes. Nothing is sent without a person saying yes.
The agent at work
Read the request, match the customer, ask what’s missing, price from precedent, draft the reply. Your estimator reviews one screen instead of starting from a blank quote.
01 · Request
Dana Reyes · Cascade Print Co.
Could you price binding 10,000 saddle-stitched booklets, 16 pages plus cover, trimmed to 8.5 × 5.5? We’ll supply the printed sheets. We’d need them by the 26th.
02 · Read
03 · Ask
Cover stock isn’t specified, and it changes the price.
Estimator: 100# gloss cover.
04 · Binding price per thousand
Precedent: this customer’s last three booklet orders. Engine check agrees within 4%.
05 · Draft
Hi Dana, binding 10,000 booklets with a 100# gloss cover comes to $520.00, with printed sheets supplied by you. Ready by the 26th. Tiers for 5,000 and 15,000 attached.
Your first backtest
Choose one kind of work and an agreed sample of past requests and quotes. See where the agent matches your estimator, where it asks, and where it passes. We agree scope and cost before starting.
Test the agent against your quote history before deciding where it can draft.
Hands-on help connecting your systems, tuning the engine and reviewing results as you expand.
No. Plyworks reads the job system, inbox and accounting you already run. It never writes back to them, and nobody on your team changes where they type.
No. It drafts the quote and the reply. A person on your team approves every one before anything is sent.
It stops and asks. A missing spec that changes the price becomes a question for your estimator, and the price waits for the answer.
Before it drafts live quotes for a job code, we backtest it on your past requests for that code, seeing only what you knew at the time, and compare it with what you actually quoted.
Your estimator stays in charge. Plyworks brings past quotes, actual costs and a draft together so they can check the work and apply their judgment. It asks when information is missing, and a person approves every quote.
Each shop has its own deployment and database. Your quotes and costs are used to serve your shop. We don’t pool them, sell them or use them to train models.
One job code and an agreed sample of past requests and quotes. We compare what the agent would have done with what your estimator actually quoted, including where it asks or passes. We agree scope and cost before starting.
Binderies and print finishing shops. Our starting point is the work we know at Puget Bindery: saddle stitching, perfect binding and other finishing operations. We’ll confirm whether your work and systems are a fit before setting up a backtest.
Early access
We’re opening early access to a small number of binderies and print finishing shops. Tell us one kind of work you quote and which systems hold its history. We’ll confirm fit, agree a sample of past work, and compare the agent’s drafts, questions and passes with your estimator’s quotes.
We agree scope and cost before starting. Every request is read by a person, usually the one who built it. Prefer email? hello@plyworks.ai
Received
We’ll reply personally, usually within two working days, to confirm fit and discuss a sample of past work.