Precisionmachining
We are consultants and sales engineers working for precision machining companies. We read your capability page and your quotes the way a sourcing engineer at an aerospace or medical customer reads them when they need a second source, then say what to fix first.
Start with the free Findability Check, which reports within the hour whether the AI tools name you for subcontract turning, milling, grinding and gear cutting, or book the Sales Engine Audit, from £750.
What a sourcing engineer checks before a trial order
Before a trial order, a sourcing engineer checks your machine list with capacities and axes, the tolerances you hold in production rather than on a good day, the materials you run, and your approvals, such as ISO 9001 and AS9100, whether you hold Nadcap for any special process, and whether you can take export-controlled work. The quality engineer who has to approve you then asks what your first article report looks like, what you inspect on and what you record, so the inspection equipment and the reports you issue belong on the capability page beside the machines.
The question a buyer puts to ChatGPT
“Which UK subcontract machinists hold ±0.01 mm in Inconel, ISO 9001, batches of 200?”
That question, typed into ChatGPT, comes back with a shortlist of named firms, and Gemini, Claude and Perplexity answer it the same way. If your capability page carries the machine list, the tolerances and the approvals as text, the assistants can quote them; a page that lists no machines gives them nothing to match the question against.
The free Findability Check builds six questions of that kind from your own site, puts them to the assistants, and reports within the hour whether you are named and who is, with the transcripts.
Which public signals mean a plant is about to buy
The signals that matter for a machinist are new production lines and second-source programmes at aerospace, medical and motorsport plants, tier ones announcing supplier days or opening their approved lists, and the hiring of production and quality engineers. A plant that is hiring a production engineer for a new line is placing subcontract work in the months that follow, and that is when we write.
For a machinist the sources are the trade press and the job boards. We read them every morning, score each item against the materials you run and the tolerances you hold, and write to the production or quality engineer while the work is still being placed. You approve every email before it goes. We do not act for direct competitors of an existing client. If you would rather do the writing, the Signal Feed sends you the items with a contact suggestion on each.
The machine list comes first
We start with the machine list. We put every machine on the capability page in a table that gives its make and model, its axes and capacity, and the tolerance you hold on it in production, with the materials you run and the approvals you hold beneath it, because that table is what a buyer scans and what an AI tool reads back when asked.
| Machine | Axes | Capacity | Tolerance held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doosan Puma 2600SY | X, Z, Y, C and sub-spindle | 340 mm chuck, 760 mm between centres, 65 mm bar feed | ±0.01 mm |
| DMG Mori DMU 50 | Five, simultaneous | 500 x 450 x 400 mm | ±0.01 mm |
| DMG Mori DMU 50 | Five, 3+2 with 0.001° rotary | 500 x 450 x 400 mm | ±0.01 mm |
| Jones & Shipman 1300 | Two, cylindrical grinding | 300 mm diameter, 1,000 mm between centres | ±0.003 mm |
Example rows; the page carries your own machines.
A one-line version goes in the header of every quote, so the buyer who reads the quote before the website sees the same capacities. When the page is live we put the six buyer questions to the AI tools again to see whether you are now named. The people who answer enquiries get a half day on reading a drawing enquiry and turning it round the same week.
The audit, from £750
The Sales Engine Audit reads your capability page and a sample of your quotes, records what the AI tools say when asked for a machinist with your capacities and approvals, and comes back with the fixes in priority order, each with a rough cost and effort. The machine table is usually first on the list. The full description and the three tiers are on the Find out where you stand page.
Other sectors
The audit for amachine shop is £750
Prices exclude VAT. Monthly items stop at any month end.
The audit reads your capability page and a sample of your quotes, and says what a machine shop like yours should fix first and what each fix would cost.
If you would rather talk first, open the booking page.