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Manufacturing · Contract manufacturers

How do AI agents help a contract manufacturer diversify its customer base?

Every CM knows the fear: one customer is half the plant. Diversifying takes a BD motion nobody has time to run. Here is exactly what the agents do and what they cost.

The contract manufacturing leak, specifically

Contract manufacturers win work through qualification marathons and then stop selling, because the plant is full and the anchor customer is demanding. The concentration builds quietly until a single program cancellation is an existential event. Every CM owner knows this; the BD motion to fix it always loses to this week's production crisis.

The near-term leak is RFQ discipline: quoting everything that arrives burns estimating hours on work you should not want, while the RFQs that actually fit your capabilities and margins wait in the same queue. Fit-scoring is the difference between growth and churn with extra steps.

What the agents actually do

Pursuit agent

RFQ Fit Scoring

Triages every RFQ against your real capabilities, capacity, and margin floor. The winnable, profitable ones jump the queue; the rest get a fast, polite no that costs you nothing.

Pursuit agent

New-Logo Outreach

Runs the diversification motion continuously: target accounts in adjacent programs and industries worked on a steady cadence, so the pipeline exists before you need it.

Pursuit agent

Quote & Capability Drafting

Assembles quotes and capability presentations from your certifications, equipment list, and program history. Days of preparation become an afternoon of review.

Pursuit agent

Program Renewal & Expansion

Watches every active program's horizon: renewals opened early, next-generation programs pursued while you are still the incumbent, adjacent parts proposed from the relationship you already have.

In productionPursuit agents run in production at GPM today, on the same platform behind deployments at IBM, Tanium, and Cohesity. Read the GPM story →
Example math — run your own numbers

What is one new program worth?

$0
a year in deals you were already quoting, at the settings above.
volume × value × lift, annualized. Illustrative arithmetic, not a promise: your real number is what the $9,500 audit finds.

Questions contract manufacturers ask

How do AI agents reduce customer concentration without hiring a sales team?

By running the BD motion that production always preempts. The outreach agent works a target list of adjacent programs and industries every week, quarter after quarter; the fit-scoring agent makes sure your estimating hours go only to RFQs worth winning; and the renewal agent protects the base while you diversify. Concentration falls because the pipeline never stops, not because anyone found spare time.

What does this cost for a contract manufacturer my size?

Same prices as everyone: the Revenue Leak Audit is $9,500 fixed, guaranteed to find 10× its fee in annual leak or you don’t pay. Agent builds run $25,000 to $75,000 by scope, and the Scoot platform is $100 to $150 per seat per month. Prices are on the pricing page, the same way your price is on every quote you send.

Do I need to replace the software I already run?

No. The agents work alongside the tools you already use. The audit maps how work actually happens in your company before anything gets built.

Who owns the agents when you're done?

You do, for the long term: the agents, your customer conversation history, and the playbook. The monthly platform fee is run-cost, not rent; you own your trucks and still buy fuel. And we train your people to run and extend the system as your AI program grows.

Thirty minutes with Ed. Bring your numbers.

Tell us how you sell today. Leave with where we’d look for the leak in your business and what we’d build first. Prices are posted; no retainers, no surprises.

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