Engineering review, DFM analysis, and routing detail — tailored to your shop's machines, rates, and vendor network. Typically delivered in 24-48 hours.
Three files for every quoted part. Not just a price — the full reasoning, the engineering flags, and the routing your shop can run from on day one.
Internal corner radii, drilling depth ratios, workholding survivability, part rigidity — every feature classified before routing is written.
Programming, setup, and run time for each operation. Workholding strategy named. Tool count, special tooling, programmer notes — written for your machinist to follow.
Drawing/model conflicts, undimensioned features, distortion risk, GD&T ambiguities — flagged before you commit. Each with a recommended resolution.
A hydraulic manifold block quoted for a fictional fluid power customer. What we deliver to you (the shop), and what your customer sees after you rebrand it. Same part, two very different documents.
What we send you: full DFM analysis, three-tier pricing, six operations of routing detail, risk assessment, four engineering flags with recommendations. Everything you need to confidently price the job — but not what you send to your customer.
Download analyst report
What your shop would send downstream — under your branding, with your pricing, your terms, your lead time. Clean, professional, no internal analysis exposed. This is the example we built showing what the shop did with our analyst report.
Download customer quote
Estimate, Routing Details, Notes & Risk, Package Strategy tabs. Master margin cell drives all pricing. Adjust quantity or margin and the entire quote reprices live. Zero hardcoded calculated values.
Download sample workbookMost quoting services run generic. The same RFQ that's a slam-dunk at one shop loses money at another — different machines, different rates, different vendor relationships, different risk appetite. Before we touch your first RFQ, we capture how your shop actually runs. Then every quote we write is built for the way you actually make money.
Every machine on your floor — make, travels, axes, spindle specs. Inspection equipment. In-house grinding, EDM, welding. We route to what you own, not to what we assume you own.
Hourly rates by process, margin targets by tier, material markup, lot minimums, rush charge schedule. Every dollar on every quote reflects how you price work, not generic shop-rate averages.
Your heat treaters, coaters, waterjet vendors — with the actual rates and lead times you pay. Outside processing is where 30% of quote variance lives. We use your numbers, not industry averages.
Your ideal customer, sweet-spot work, walk-away triggers. We quote toward the tier that wins the right jobs for you and flag the wrong ones before they cost you a quote turnaround.
Eleven sections covering capabilities, pricing structure, vendor relationships, materials, certifications, operational profile, and risk preferences. Progress auto-saves to your browser so you can step away and pick up later. Submits a clean CSV to Daniel that drops straight into the quoting system for your shop. Mutual NDA available on the welcome page before you commit.
No commitment required to review. NDA is mutual and covers everything you share.
Email STEP files, PDFs, drawings, customer specifications — whatever you have. Include quantity, due date, and any context on stock or outside processing. NDA available if needed.
Full eight-stage pipeline: intake, DFM screening, feature extraction, time and cost estimation, routing, risk assessment, workbook population, package strategy. You get the three files plus a one-paragraph summary of any flagged issues.
Quote is rebrandable under your shop's name and identity. Edit pricing, add your terms, attach your cover. Your customer sees a quote from your shop — not from us.
Pay per quote when you need overflow capacity. Switch to a retainer when quoting becomes a recurring need. Either way, no hidden fees and no guessing what "complex" means.
A monthly flat fee that covers a defined quote volume for your shop, sized to your actual RFQ traffic. You get the same eight-stage pipeline and three-file deliverable on every part — just billed predictably instead of per-RFQ. When work surges, you don't get hit with a surprise invoice. When work is slow, you're not paying for capacity you don't use.
Stintera is operated by Dan Pichla, an applications engineer and estimator at a precision CNC job shop. Every quote is reviewed against the same eight-stage pipeline that's been validated on production work for aerospace, medical device, and fluid power customers. Midwest-based — embedded in America's manufacturing heartland. Serves shops anywhere in North America.