For Manufacturing & Industrial · Australia-wide

The buyer specified
your competitor
before you were asked.

Industrial buyers do most of the decision before they contact anyone. They shortlist from what they can find, verify, and price quickly. We build the site that gets you onto that shortlist and the quoting workflow that turns an RFQ around in a day rather than a week.

0 More visibility, Frontline Trays found without paying for it
0 Realistic RFQ turnaround, automated instead of the usual week
0 Cost per click on industrial search terms which is what organic ranking saves you
0 Typical build time from kickoff to live

The Real Problem

Your capability is real. It is just not findable or fast.

Manufacturing sales used to run on relationships and a rep in a car. It still partly does, but the first pass now happens before anyone picks up a phone. A procurement officer or design engineer searches, opens six tabs, discards the four that do not clearly do what they need, and requests quotes from two.

Australian manufacturers lose at both ends of that. They lose the shortlist because the site is a 2016 brochure with no specifications on it, and they lose the order because the RFQ that did arrive took six days to price.

  • No specifications published. Capacities, tolerances, materials, certifications and lead times live in a PDF someone emails on request. Buyers who cannot verify capability in thirty seconds move on to someone they can.
  • The RFQ black hole. An enquiry arrives with a drawing attached, gets forwarded to whoever is free, waits for the estimator, and gets quoted next week. The fast quote wins more often than the cheap one.
  • Estimating from scratch every time. Similar jobs get repriced from zero because past quotes are not searchable, so estimating capacity becomes the bottleneck on growth.
  • Invisible to the search that matters. You rank for your company name. You do not rank for the process, material and capability terms buyers actually type.
  • Dealer and distributor enquiries handled by email. No routing by territory, no visibility of what is in play, no follow-up when it goes quiet.

Industrial keywords carry some of the highest click costs in Australian search precisely because the order values are large. Ranking organically for them is worth considerably more here than in most industries.

What We Build For Manufacturers

Get specified, then quote before the competition does.

Two jobs. Be the supplier a buyer can verify without ringing you, and turn the resulting RFQ around fast enough that speed becomes your advantage rather than price.

  • Capability pages built for search. One page per process, material or product line, with the specifications, tolerances and certifications published on the page rather than hidden in a PDF. This is what gets you shortlisted and what AI assistants quote when a buyer asks them for suppliers.
  • Structured RFQ intake. A form that captures quantity, material, tolerance, finish, drawings and required date up front, so the estimator gets a complete brief instead of a three-email conversation to work out what was actually being asked.
  • Quote routing and acknowledgement. The RFQ routes to the right estimator by product line and acknowledges instantly with a realistic turnaround. Buyers will wait if they know how long. They will not wait in silence.
  • Searchable quote history. Past quotes indexed by material, process and quantity, so a similar job starts from a precedent rather than a blank page. This is usually the single biggest reduction in estimating time.
  • Connected to your ERP or MRP. Where your system exposes an API we connect it, so an accepted quote becomes a job without re-entry. Where it does not, we build around it rather than telling you to replace it.
  • Dealer and territory routing. Enquiries routed by postcode to the right distributor or rep, with follow-up that fires whether or not anyone remembers.
  • You own all of it. Domain, hosting, code, data and automations, in your name.
Read the Frontline Trays case study →

The Process

How it runs,
start to finish.

01

Audit the RFQ path

We send a realistic RFQ through your current process and time every stage. Then we check what a buyer can actually verify about you online in thirty seconds. Both findings are usually uncomfortable and both are fixable.

  • RFQ turnaround timed
  • Capability visibility checked
  • Estimating steps counted
02

Fixed quote

One number approved before anything starts. It covers the site, the RFQ workflow and the integrations, with any third-party licences listed separately in your name at cost.

  • One price, no hourly billing
  • Licences separate, never marked up
  • Timeline you can plan around
03

Build and connect

We build the capability pages and RFQ workflow, then connect to your ERP or MRP where it will talk to us. We work with your engineers on the specification content because getting it wrong is worse than not publishing it.

  • Capability pages published
  • RFQ intake and routing live
  • ERP connected where possible
04

Hand over and support

Logins, a walkthrough for sales and estimating, and a 30 day defect period. Support optional and quoted first.

  • Everything in your name
  • 30 day defect period
  • No lock-in

What It Costs

Compare it against one order, not against a website.

The variables are how many capability or product lines need their own page, whether specifications and drawings already exist in a usable form, which ERP we are connecting, and how much of the RFQ workflow gets automated.

Then do the arithmetic that actually matters. Take your average order value and estimate how many RFQs a year you lose to turnaround rather than price. In manufacturing, a single recovered order frequently covers the whole build, which is not something we can say about most industries.

  • Fixed quote before we start. You approve a number and that is the number.
  • Drawings and specifications handled properly. Signed expiring links rather than public URLs, and commercially sensitive material never goes into an AI tool without no-training commercial terms.
  • 30 day defect period. If something does not work as specified, we fix it at no charge.
  • We work around your ERP. We will not open with a recommendation to replace a system your business runs on.
  • No lock-in. Everything in your name from day one.

Proof

Frontline Trays: found without paying for it.

An Australian manufacturer of ute trays and trailers with genuine capability and almost no organic visibility. Every enquiry was bought. We rebuilt the site around what buyers actually search, published the specifications properly, and made the range verifiable without a phone call.

The visibility moved by a factor most paid campaigns cannot buy, and the enquiries that arrive now arrive already qualified because the buyer has read the specifications before they made contact.

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96xVisibility increase
99%Of new visibility, unpaid
150+Ranking search terms
100%Owned by them

Free · 3 minutes

Can a buyer verify you in thirty seconds?

Six questions about how an industrial buyer experiences your business before they ever speak to you. Three minutes.

  • How long does a typical RFQ take to come back with a price?
  • Can a buyer find your tolerances and certifications without emailing you?
  • Which process or material terms does your site rank for?
  • How does an estimator find what a similar job was quoted at last year?
  • What happens to an RFQ that arrives while your estimator is on leave?
  • If a buyer asks an AI assistant for suppliers in your category, are you named?

You get the findings in writing whether or not you engage us, including the fixes that cost nothing to make.

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Questions

What manufacturers ask us
before they start.

We sell through reps and distributors. Does a website matter?

More than it used to, because the specification decision now happens before your rep is involved. A design engineer shortlists suppliers from what they can verify online, then the rep gets called in to a decision that is already half made. A capability site does not replace your channel, it stops you being eliminated before your channel gets a chance to sell.

Do we have to publish specifications competitors can see?

Your competitors already know your capability. They have your catalogue, they have been to the same trade shows, and in a market this size they probably know your estimator. The people your hidden PDF actually stops are buyers who wanted to verify you at 9pm and gave up. Publish the capability, keep the pricing and the process detail private, and you lose nothing you were really protecting.

Can you connect to our ERP or MRP?

Where it exposes an API, yes. That covers most modern systems and a surprising number of older ones. Where it genuinely will not talk to anything, we build the workflow around it rather than through it, using structured intake and exports instead. We will not open a manufacturing engagement by telling you to replace the system your production runs on.

How does quoting faster actually help if we are at capacity?

Then it helps differently, and this is worth being straight about. At capacity, the value is not more RFQs, it is quoting the right ones faster and declining the rest sooner. Searchable quote history and structured intake let you triage by margin instead of by arrival order, which usually improves the mix rather than the volume. If you are turning work away, we would build for selection, not for lead generation.

What about our drawings and commercially sensitive files?

Drawings move through signed expiring links rather than public URLs or email attachments, access is limited to the people working on your build, and nothing commercially sensitive goes into an AI tool that does not carry no-training commercial terms. Our privacy policy lists every provider we use and where each processes data, so you can assess us properly.

How much does it cost?

It depends on how many capability or product lines need their own page, whether your specifications and drawings already exist in a usable form, which ERP we are connecting, and how much of the RFQ workflow gets automated. We quote a fixed price before starting, and third-party licences stay in your name at cost.

Do you work with manufacturers outside Albury Wodonga?

Yes. We are based in Albury, which sits in a genuine manufacturing corridor, and we work with manufacturers across Australia. Most of the build runs over video calls, though for capability content we will sometimes want time with your engineers.

Find out where your RFQs are stalling.

Apply for a free manufacturing audit. We push a realistic RFQ through your process, time every stage, and check what a buyer can verify about you online. Findings in writing, no obligation.

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