Case Studies / Precision Components
Aerospace & Defense ~$45M revenue · AS9100 · ITAR · Make-to-order

Precision Components Company

A precision-machining supplier to aerospace and defense primes, in a certified, export-controlled environment.

Lead service: Process & model engineering + agent operating model Engagement: 16 weeks

The situation

  • Quoting was tribal knowledge: every estimator priced differently.
  • A compliance-heavy environment made black-box automation a non-starter.
  • Estimate-to-actual margin swung widely with no traceability.
  • Leadership wanted speed without losing the audit trail.

What Grounds did

  • Re-engineered estimating and job-routing as a mix of agentic and non-agentic steps.
  • Embedded agents into roles as added responsibilities, with a named owner per agent.
  • Monitored and logged all agent activity: every action attributable.
  • Locked the quoting model's logic: estimators use it, can't edit it (use-not-edit).

Capabilities deployed

Process engineering Model engineering Agent operating model Activity logging Skill-locking

Results

6 → <2 days
Quote turnaround
−50%
Estimate-to-actual variance
100%
Agent actions logged
0 / 3
Roles cut / roles upgraded

What stays: An audit-ready agent layer with locked, governed quoting logic.

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The same kind of live model we build inside the engagement. Move the inputs and watch the outcome change.

Interactive model

Quote turnaround → revenue & margin

Re-engineering estimating as agentic and non-agentic steps, without losing the audit trail.

How to use: set monthly quote volume and average job value. Bars are turnaround (days); the line is estimate-to-actual margin variance. Manual scales badly with volume. Slow, inconsistent quotes cost real money, shown below.
70/mo
$28k
At 70/mo, agent-run estimating cuts turnaround from 6.7 to 0.8 days and tightens variance from ±9% to ±2%.
$1.88M
Added won revenue / yr (faster response)
$89k
Margin protected by tighter estimates / yr
$653k
Total annual margin impact vs manual
Agent activity log · every action attributable
09:14quote-builderdrafted RFQ-4471owner: J. Alvarezlocked ✓
09:48routerassigned cell B-3 / lot 220owner: M. Okaforlocked ✓
11:02cost-enginepriced revision 2 (locked model)owner: J. Alvarezlocked ✓

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