# Annora

> Profitable growth for manufacturers of complex machinery and equipment. Faster, more accurate quotes, on top of the systems you already run.

Annora is an AI operating system for manufacturers of complex machinery and equipment, built on the ERP, CRM, legacy CPQ, spreadsheets, file servers, and email you already run. One AI engine in the middle learns from everything your company has already quoted, built, and serviced; each department works through its own workspace on top. You own it entirely; Annora maintains and improves it. Sales, engineering, and service get instant answers with the source attached, without interrupting your busiest expert. Quoting is where it pays off first; everything else in the order flow runs on the same foundation, when you're ready. Nothing removed, nothing switched off. No rip and replace.

## Who It's For

- Mid-market manufacturers of complex machinery and equipment (engineer-to-order, configure-to-order, make-to-order)
- Companies with highly configurable products and deep quote history
- Teams whose answers are scattered across an ERP, drives, spreadsheets, and a few people's heads
- Manufacturers losing deals to slow quotes or margin to quoting errors

## Measured At Our Customers

- Quote turnaround: 3 days to same day. Most quotes go out the same day, and fewer need engineering validation.
- 90% fewer price and configuration errors, caught by the validation engine built on the customer's product constraints.
- Live in 14 days from the day we have your data and access, guaranteed in writing.
- 100% customer retention, with no lock-in holding anyone.

## How It Works

1. Your order flow on top: Sales (start here), Engineering, then Procurement, Scheduling, Manufacturing, Quality, and Service when you're ready. Every workspace is built on one foundation, so each new one deploys fast.
2. The AI engine in the middle: the brain of the operating system. It learns from everything you've already quoted, built, and serviced, and from your team's corrections. Ask it the way you'd ask the estimator who's been here 20 years. Every answer cites its source: your document, your order, your price list.
3. Your systems underneath: ERP, CRM, legacy CPQ, spreadsheets, file servers, email. Nothing removed, nothing switched off.

## The Terms: A Pilot, Not A Project

- Read-only to start. We connect to the systems and files you already have. No data cleanup project, no change-everything rollout.
- Live in 14 days, guaranteed, from the day we have your data and access. Miss our date and it costs us, not you. Plan on about four weeks from signature.
- Your data stays yours. Deployed in your environment, private to your company. Never used to train models. The boundary is agreed in writing before anything is connected.
- No lock-in. You own your data and your engine. If you stop, the knowledge stays yours. No long-term contracts.
- Built around your workflow. Customized to how your company actually quotes, orders, builds, and services. Learns from your team's corrections.
- A team of mechanical and AI engineers who have spent our careers in manufacturing, at companies including Intel, Volkswagen, and TDK InvenSense. We build specifically for manufacturers of complex machinery and equipment.

## Pricing

The pilot is a fixed price, set by size and data volume, credited in full to year one. No long-term contracts. Pricing is given at the roadmap session; it is not published.

## Integrations

Works on top of Epicor, NetSuite, Infor, Fishbowl, or older and in-house systems. Connects ERP, CRM, legacy CPQ, MES, SharePoint, shared network drives, spreadsheets, and email. Your ERP is a data source, not a blocker.

## Pages

- Home: https://annora.ai/ (the promise, the measured numbers, how it works, customer films, the terms, FAQ, and the call CTA)
- Book a 20-minute call: https://annora.ai/call/ (primary CTA: pick a time, or use the form fallback)
- Product: https://annora.ai/product/ (one engine, a workspace per department: what goes in, what happens, what never happens; Search for every workspace, then the Sales, Engineering and Service workspaces, with real screens; the 14-day rollout; technical FAQ)
- Case studies: https://annora.ai/case-studies/ (MPI and Kannegiesser, on camera, in their own words)
- Learn hub: https://annora.ai/learn/ (plain-English guides on AI for ERP and manufacturing)
- FAQ: https://annora.ai/faq/ (direct answers on security, data, cost, deployment, and what the team has to learn)
- Epicor alternative: https://annora.ai/epicor-alternative/ (keep your ERP, add AI instead of replacing it)
- Quoting software for manufacturing: https://annora.ai/quoting-software-for-manufacturers/ (quote accurately in minutes from your real products, history, and pricing, on top of the ERP you already run)
- Tell us about your operation: https://annora.ai/assessment/ (form fallback if you'd rather not pick a time)
- Manifesto: https://annora.ai/manifesto/ (why Annora exists: built for the floor, not the cloud)
- AI Security Checklist: https://annora.ai/ai-security-checklist/ (free one-page field guide for keeping AI data in your building)
- Careers: https://annora.ai/careers/ (open roles and how to apply)
- Mechanical Engineer (CAD): https://annora.ai/careers/mechanical-engineer-cad/ (full-time, San Francisco Bay Area, hybrid; own 2D and 3D product definition for configuration and quoting; apply on the page)
- Privacy: https://annora.ai/privacy/ (privacy policy)

## Learn Articles

- What AI and ERP actually do together, day to day: https://annora.ai/learn/ai-and-erp/ (how an AI layer reads your systems and answers in plain English, and why generic tools struggle in manufacturing)
- Add AI to your manufacturing ERP software instead of replacing it: https://annora.ai/learn/manufacturing-erp-software/ (replacing ERP takes years and six figures; an AI layer on top is the lower-risk path)
- AI for ERP that keeps your data in your building and stays yours: https://annora.ai/learn/ai-for-erp/ (self-hosted AI that never trains outside models and never sends proprietary data to someone's cloud)
- Get fifty years of manufacturing data AI-ready: https://annora.ai/learn/ai-data-readiness/ (why data readiness, not the AI, is the hard part, and the process that fixes it)
- Use ERP automation to quote spare-parts packages in a fraction of the time: https://annora.ai/learn/erp-automation/ (how one manufacturer stopped spending 40 to 60 hours per spare-parts quote and added $1M+ in parts revenue)
- Get real-time production visibility without replacing your ERP: https://annora.ai/learn/real-time-production-visibility/ (visibility built on the data you already have, and why the floor self-corrects once work is visible)
- AI in manufacturing: capture what your veterans know before they retire: https://annora.ai/learn/ai-in-manufacturing/ (how knowledge capture works when your source of truth is a person)
- Onboard new manufacturing hires in weeks, not six months: https://annora.ai/learn/manufacturing-onboarding/ (compress onboarding by making your company's answers findable)
- How to get an AI ERP project approved by a skeptical board: https://annora.ai/learn/ai-erp/ (framing the project as revenue, month-to-month, and low risk)
- Turn one AI for manufacturing win into a pipeline your own people build: https://annora.ai/learn/ai-for-manufacturing/ (after the first project the idea backlog grows, and your own domain experts work it down)

## Case Studies

- MPI, the AI foundation on top of ERP: https://annora.ai/case-studies/mpi/ (54-year investment-casting equipment manufacturer, about 80 employees, put 400+ combined years of know-how into one queryable place with zero formal training, quotes and spec answers without hunting people down)
- Kannegiesser, quote times from 50 hours to 30 minutes: https://annora.ai/case-studies/kannegiesser/ (Kannegiesser North America, the North American arm of Kannegiesser, building industrial laundry automation since 1947; Annora built their AI strategy and an AI foundation on top of the existing ERP and tools; first system live in three months; spare-parts quotes cut from 40-50+ hours to under 30 minutes; purchasing, inventory management, field service reporting and service contract systems followed within nine months; their own team now builds securely on the same foundation)

## Lead Magnets

- 30-second manufacturing benchmark (the free report): https://annora.ai/benchmark/ (four questions; see where your operation falls against manufacturers we've studied and what the gap is worth in a year)
- AI Security Checklist for Manufacturers: https://annora.ai/ai-security-checklist/ (one-page field guide: keep your quotes, pricing, and customers' drawings in your building)
- Free consultation for manufacturers: https://annora.ai/learn/#consult (Annora publishes everything it knows free and consults free for companies whose business it understands and knows it can help; short qualification form, then book a call with an engineer)

## Legacy Resources (still live)

- Resources hub: https://annora.ai/resources/
- Quoting cost calculator: https://annora.ai/resources/quoting-cost-calculator/
- AI search cost calculator: https://annora.ai/resources/search-cost-calculator/
- Search-readiness audit: https://annora.ai/resources/audit/
- Bottleneck diagnostic: https://annora.ai/bottleneck/
- Report: https://annora.ai/report/

## Primary Call To Action

Book a 20-minute call: https://annora.ai/call/. Bring three numbers if you have them: quotes per year, win rate, average order value. If it fits, we book your roadmap session on the call: a couple of hours, free, where we find your highest-ROI workflows and calculate ROI on your numbers. The roadmap is yours with or without us. Not ready to talk? Get the free report: https://annora.ai/benchmark/.

## Founders

- Patrick Byrne, CEO. Mechanical engineer, machine learning at Intel.
- Dr. Wes Teskey, CTO. PhD engineering, twelve years of manufacturing AI at companies including TDK InvenSense and Volkswagen.
- Founded 2025.

## Contact

- Website: https://annora.ai
- Book a call: https://annora.ai/call/
- Email: patrick@annora.ai
- Careers: https://annora.ai/careers/ or careers@annora.ai

## Machine-Readable Data

- Company info JSON: https://annora.ai/api/company.json
- Products and services JSON: https://annora.ai/api/products.json
- Content index JSON: https://annora.ai/api/content.json