A real inquiry, start to finish
This page walks through one real inquiry, using our own production data with customer details removed. It shows four things in order: what arrived, what the automation did with it, where a person stepped in, and what went back out. Nothing here is a mock-up.
Note on anonymization
Every example on this page comes from TechFoor’s own production inquiries and quotes. Customer names, contact details, and any identifying file contents have been removed. Where a figure would identify a specific customer or a sensitive price, it is shown as [PLACEHOLDER].
Step 1 — What arrived
[PLACEHOLDER: 1 sample inbound inquiry email — customer name replaced, real message body, 4–6 sentences. Must include at least one missing detail (e.g. no quantity or no material) so the “flagged” step below is real.]
[PLACEHOLDER: the channel this inquiry came in on — email / web form / WhatsApp — and its arrival timestamp, date-shifted if needed for privacy.]
[PLACEHOLDER: 1–2 sample attachments the inquiry referenced (e.g. “drawing.pdf”). Do not publish the actual file; name it and note it was anonymized.]
Step 2 — What the automation did
[PLACEHOLDER: the structured record extracted from the inquiry above — one field per line: contact, company, item description, quantity, material/spec, deadline, delivery location, attachments.]
[PLACEHOLDER: the exact list of fields the system marked missing or ambiguous for this inquiry, as the system flagged them.]
[PLACEHOLDER: time between the inquiry arriving and the structured record being ready — the real figure from the system log.]
Step 3 — Where a person stepped in
[PLACEHOLDER: the specific correction or decision the human made — what the automation got wrong or left open, and what the person changed. Before/after if possible.]
[PLACEHOLDER: the follow-up message sent to the customer asking for the missing details — real wording, customer name removed.]
Step 4 — What went back out
[PLACEHOLDER: the quote draft produced — line items, quantities, unit prices (anonymized or shown as [PLACEHOLDER] if sensitive), lead time, and the flagged items the estimator reviewed.]
[PLACEHOLDER: the final quote as sent to the customer — or, if it is still commercially sensitive, a description of it plus the number of human edits between draft and send.]
[PLACEHOLDER: outcome for this inquiry — won / lost / no reply — if the shop is willing to publish it. If not, write “outcome not published”.]
What this demo is not
One walkthrough is one walkthrough. It shows the shape of the process, not a performance guarantee. What it does show is that the system ran on a real, messy inquiry — not a clean example written to make the demo look good.