Metal Fabrication Estimator that never drops the ball.
Builds fabrication quotes from drawings and specs. Built for welding & metal fabrication teams that need the work done without more headcount.
“My job is making sure drawing review + material takeoff — without anyone on your team having to ask.”
We watched our own welding & metal fabrication team burn out on work that never stopped. Metal Fabrication Estimators were leaving for better pay, calling out sick, and taking weeks to train — meanwhile the queue kept growing and customers kept waiting. There was no way to hire fast enough.
Mariana was built to be the piece of the team that's always there. Not a bot reading from a script, but a worker who knows the systems, the SOPs, and the judgment calls — so your senior people get their time back for the work only they can do.
Mariana in their own words.
I'm the metal fabrication estimator your welding & metal fabrication team leans on when the queue starts stacking. Builds fabrication quotes from drawings and specs. I own the work end-to-end — you hand me the inbox, the ticket, or the call, and it gets done right the first time.
Day to day I'm running drawing review + material takeoff, labor hour estimation by process, material cost + finish specification. I know the systems your team uses, I know what "clean" looks like in this seat, and I don't drop details when the volume climbs.
I work inside your stack, not alongside it. Every action I take is logged, every handoff has context, and your senior people get their time back for the work only they can do.
Hear Mariana on a real call.
This is how Mariana handles a caller end-to-end — answer, capture, confirm, close. Request a demo to hear one live with your business.
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What Mariana does best.
Everything Mariana does, top to bottom.
These aren’t theoretical. Every item below is part of Mariana’s live SOP on real deployments.
- Drawing review + material takeoff
- Labor hour estimation by process
- Material cost + finish specification
- Quote assembly + submission
- Logs every action in your system of record
- Escalates with full context when scope is exceeded
- Runs against SOPs you approve before go-live
- Works inside your stack — no new tools required
How Mariana works a typical ticket.
Five steps, every time. Nothing skipped, nothing improvised.
Pick up the work
New metal fabrication estimator work lands in my queue — form, ticket, email, or inbound request. I triage within minutes of arrival.
Drawing review + material takeoff
Drawing review + material takeoff. Done inside SOP, logged step-by-step, never skipped.
Labor hour estimation by process
Labor hour estimation by process. Done inside SOP, logged step-by-step, never skipped.
Material cost + finish specification
Material cost + finish specification. Done inside SOP, logged step-by-step, never skipped.
Document + hand off
Every action lands in your welding & metal fabrication system of record. If anything exceeds scope, I warm-transfer with full context — your team never starts from zero.
The tools Mariana works inside.
Mariana plugs into your existing stack. No new tools to learn, no data silos, no black box.
Built for the operators Mariana already works with.
Work Mariana has already done.
Every role below represents live deployments on real businesses — not theoretical capabilities.
- Primary metal fabrication estimatorEmbedded in welding & metal fabrication teams
Builds fabrication quotes from drawings and specs.
- Drawing review + material takeoffDaily workload
Drawing review + material takeoff · Labor hour estimation by process · Material cost + finish specification. Every action logged, every handoff documented.
- Cross-team coordinationInterfaces with welding & metal fabrication stakeholders
Works alongside your existing team — never a black box. When scope exceeds the runbook, escalates with full context and proposed next step.
Real calls. Real tickets. Real outcomes.
Request came in via Slack at 9:12 AM. By 10:04 Mariana had processed the work, flagged one edge case to the team lead, and closed the loop with a short summary + links to the system of record.
Teams that already hired Mariana.
Challenge, solution, and the numbers that changed after go-live.
Professional Services operator missing metal fabrication estimator work after hours. Senior staff pulled onto routine tasks; errors stacking up; customer follow-through slipping.
Deployed this worker on the primary drawing review + material takeoff flow. Loaded the SOP, wired the integrations, and flipped live inside 48 hours.
Growing professional services team could not hire fast enough to keep up with metal fabrication estimator volume. Backlog grew 3x in 90 days; escalations ran hot.
Handed over the routine 80% of the queue. Senior staff kept the judgment calls. Every action logged in the system of record.
Mariana vs. hiring a human.
The math, laid out. No salary, no turnover, no sick days.
| Scenario | Human hire | Temp agency | Mariana |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual cost | $46,000 | $66,700 | $4,188 |
| Hours covered | 40/week | 40/week | 168/week |
| Sick days | 10+/yr | 2+/yr | 0 |
| Ramp time | 6–8 weeks | 1–2 weeks | 48 hrs |
| Turnover risk | High | Very high | None |
Pick the bundle that fits your volume.
Buy minutes, not employees. Every plan includes full onboarding and integration. Upgrade or downgrade any month.
- 1,500 minutes / month
- $0.50/min overage
- One AI worker
- Standard SOP training
- Email support
- 5,000 minutes / month
- $0.50/min overage
- Custom SOP + voice training
- CRM / system-of-record integration
- Priority support
- Monthly tuning session
- 10,000+ minutes / month
- $0.50/min overage
- Multi-line / multi-region
- Custom voice + white-glove onboarding
- Dedicated CSM
- Per-team reporting
- SLA + BAA available
Need more volume? See all 14 tiers →
From signup to live in under 48 hours.
Four steps. We handle the technical work. You focus on the SOPs and the first-week review.
Pick your plan
Choose a minute bundle that matches your volume. Most metal fabrication estimator ops start on the Starter or Pro tier.
Connect your inbox / ticket system
Hook into your CRM, help desk, or ticket queue. Webhooks or native integrations — we handle the plumbing.
Upload your knowledge
Scripts, SOPs, FAQs, rate cards — anything your metal fabrication estimator team would hand a new hire. We train the worker on it.
Go live in under 48 hours
Soft-launch on a small % of traffic, review recordings the first week, then flip to full volume. You stay in control.
What teams say after they hire Mariana.
“Mariana caught errors our previous metal fabrication estimator missed for months. The ROI was obvious inside two weeks.”
“We went from a 3-day backlog to same-day processing. Mariana just doesn't stop working.”
Everything teams ask before hiring Mariana.
Under 48 hours in most cases. We load your metal fabrication estimator SOP, wire the integrations, and soft-launch on a small share of traffic so you can review before flipping to full volume.
Mariana warm-transfers (or routes the ticket) with a one-paragraph summary: what the caller / customer asked, what Mariana already confirmed, and why it's being escalated. Your team never starts from zero.
Whatever your team already uses. Mariana pushes actions into your existing welding & metal fabrication stack — CRM, ticket system, calendar, SOR — via native integrations or webhooks. No new tool required.
Plans start at $49/month with CRM + 50 voice minutes included. Dedicated minute bundles start at $149/month for 500 minutes. Every minute Mariana spends on your work counts toward the bundle. Overage is billed at $0.50/min. No seats, no per-call fees, no hidden add-ons.
Any time. Upgrades prorate instantly. Downgrades apply at the next billing cycle. Your worker keeps its training, voice, and history through any change.
Yes. Mariana works every shift, including weekends and holidays. Work that lands at 2 AM gets handled before your team walks in the next morning.
Every conversation is logged, encrypted at rest, and retained per your policy. For welding & metal fabrication teams with HIPAA, PCI, or SOC2 requirements, we run on BAA-signed infrastructure with audit trails on every action.
Yes. Book a call with our team — we'll walk you through a live demo of Mariana, look at your current metal fabrication estimator workflow, and map out what the first 30 days would look like.
Included in your plan.
Live in under 48 hours.
Most teams run metal fabrication estimators on the lite bundle or the next one up as volume grows.
