North Labs builds intelligence infrastructure for manufacturers — turning the flow from customer quote requests through supplier sourcing to production delivery into a compounding asset you own.
Every customer quote you produce, every supplier you evaluate, every order you fulfill — that's your data, your patterns, your hard-won knowledge. It should compound for you, not train someone else's platform.
Manufacturers generate enormous amounts of data across the sales-to-delivery cycle, but it all flows into generic ERP systems and spreadsheets. Your quoting history, supplier performance, production timelines, and material costs — it's your data, but it's not working for you.
We believe manufacturers should own their intelligence the same way they own their equipment. Not as a subscription that disappears when you stop paying. As an asset that appreciates with every quote, every order, every delivery.
That's what we're building. Intelligence that compounds for the people who generate it. Every RFQ that runs through SpecLogic makes the system smarter — specifically for your operation, your suppliers, your standards.
Generic AI doesn't know your tolerance standards or that a particular alloy supplier consistently ships 3 days late when orders exceed 10 tons. SpecLogic encodes manufacturing knowledge — material specifications, supplier behavior, quoting patterns, production realities — not just language patterns.
Dashboards don't change behavior. Tools people have to remember to check don't get checked. SpecLogic shows up where decisions happen — in quoting workflows, in supplier communications, in production handoffs. We fit into your workflow, not the other way around.
Your ERP has cost data. Your MRP has production schedules. Your inbox has supplier communications. Intelligence that only sees one silo is half-blind. SpecLogic connects everything — not to replace your tools, but to make them smarter together.
Our model is designed to deliver value. We align our success with yours: investment tied to throughput, not headcount. When you reduce material costs, we win. When you accelerate your quote-to-order cycle, that's real money for both sides.
When a customer requests a quote, SpecLogic pulls from your historical pricing, material costs, and production capacity to generate accurate quotes fast — cutting your quote-to-order cycle and helping you win more business.
Builds a living scorecard for every supplier based on pricing accuracy, delivery performance, quality history, and responsiveness. Institutional knowledge that stays when people leave.
Automatically validates supplier quotes against your material specifications, tolerance requirements, and certification standards. Catches substitutions and non-conformances before they reach the floor.
Tracks material pricing trends across suppliers and commodity indices. Flags anomalies, identifies negotiation opportunities, and benchmarks every quote against your historical data.
Connects the customer quote through supplier sourcing to production delivery in real-time. Track margin drift, lead-time slippage, and fulfillment risk before they become problems.
The Partner: A Midwest precision parts manufacturer.
Slow quote turnaround costing them deals, high manual overhead in supplier evaluation, and no visibility connecting customer orders back through sourcing to delivery.
Phase 1: North Labs integrated SpecLogic with their ERP and supplier communication channels, training the intelligence layer on three years of historical quoting, sourcing, and fulfillment data.
Phase 2: Deployed the RFQ and Supplier Intelligence modules to accelerate customer quoting, auto-level supplier quotes, and identify pricing outliers and spec non-conformances.
SpecLogic flagged a material substitution buried in a 40-page supplier quote that would have failed tolerance requirements during machining — caught in the first 3 minutes of analysis, saving a $180K production run.
"The industries that build our world deserve useful data programs that work like they do. North Labs embeds invaluable data solutions, and along the way, we help people own their data program—not rent it from software vendors."
Whether you're looking to accelerate your quote-to-order cycle, get smarter about suppliers, or stop losing margin between the sale and the shipment — we'd like to hear from you.
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