The job traveler
that fills itself in.
Traveler reads the customer's drawing and CAD, briefs every department with a pre-filled template, and keeps one signed record of the job — on a box in your shop. Your people review, decide, and sign.
The shop floor still runs on 30-year-old workflows.
Shops run on whiteboards, email threads, and whoever remembers. Context lives in people's heads, not the company.
Read the drawing, guess the price, chase the right department. Every RFQ is a manual scramble, and turnaround suffers.
Cloud quoting tools hold your data; marketplaces hold your customer. Traveler is for job shops that want the record, the drawings, and the relationship to stay in the building.
Drawing in. Work order out. People in between.
Screens below are illustrative mockups of Traveler output, not customer data.
A drawing comes in. Traveler reads it.
STEP and PDF, from email, your website, or a customer portal. Traveler reads the CAD model — holes, pockets, undercuts, threads — scores how hard the part is to make, and drafts a rough quote before anyone opens the file.
Six departments, already briefed.
Estimating, Programming, Machining, Quality, Purchasing, Shipping — the same standard template in every shop, pre-filled from the drawing. Each lead opens their job and the clerical part is done.
Machining
WO-4471 / MCHYour people decide. The record keeps itself.
Agents draft; only people approve and sign. Every message, analysis, and approval becomes a time-stamped, searchable event in the job's record — the traveler that never gets lost on the floor.
Your team and your agents, in the same room.
Every job gets its own channel. Agents do the upfront work; people make the calls. Step through an example job — scripted, with a fictional shop and people — or watch it play.
Every record, edit, and approval is logged automatically — including actions taken by agents. Time-stamped, tamper-evident, searchable.
Your shop's know-how stays in your shop.
Runs on your hardware
A small appliance in your building runs the whole system. No cloud tenant. Drawings, pricing, and process knowledge never leave.
Every step is on the record
Messages, analyses, approvals — each one time-stamped, tamper-evident, and searchable. Records built to support AS9100 and ISO 13485 audit requests: who, what, when, and what changed.
Agents only touch what they need
Each agent runs under its own service account with limited permissions. Agents draft; only people approve and sign.
No lock-in
You own the box and you own the data. Export everything, any time. If you ever walk away, every job and its history goes with you.
Design-for-manufacturability, on demand.
See the manufacturability report Traveler produces on the appliance: detected features, a DFM score, flagged issues, and a rough estimate. Try the report format below, or get a paid human review from DFM Lab.
- Reads the exact CAD geometry, not a mesh approximation
- Holes, pockets, undercuts, threads, chamfers, thin walls
- DFM score with actionable warnings
- Rough-order quote and lead time
Want a manufacturing engineer to look at it too? DFM Lab offers paid drawing and GD&T reviews →
Try the report format with a sample part.
Upload a STEP file to see the layout of a Traveler DFM report. On this public site the numbers are a simulated preview — the real engine runs on the appliance in your shop.
How this check handles your file: it is sent over HTTPS to Tooling Labs' web server for this response only — not to your browser, not to any shop's appliance — and is discarded afterward. Nothing is stored and no third-party AI service sees it. Do not upload ITAR/EAR-controlled or otherwise restricted technical data through this public form.
Built by manufacturing engineers with 15+ years in precision CNC — taking new products from first article to mass production, and running advanced manufacturing for medical-device robotics.
We have sat on both sides of the print: writing the callouts as the customer, and quoting them as the shop. Every re-typed dimension, every traveler filled in by hand, is time the shop never gets back.
Templates come from real department practice, not a discovery deck. Nothing ships to a shop's floor that we would not sign ourselves as the responsible engineer.
See Traveler running
on a box you'd own.
Traveler is now in pilot with select shops. Request a 30-minute walkthrough on one of your own drawings, or try the instant DFM check to see the report format.