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AI for Machinery and Equipment manufacturers. Faster Quotes, Fewer Errors, No ERP Replacement.

Annora is the private AI layer for manufacturers on top of your ERP, CRM, spreadsheets, and tribal knowledge: one secure, searchable workspace.

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Trusted by manufacturers $12M–$120M in revenue
Results from our customers

Faster, more accurate quotes. In weeks.

10x
Faster quotes
90%
Fewer pricing errors
14 days
To first usable system
100%
Of answers cite their source

Your team quotes more without growing headcount.

Visibility equals revenue
It's helping the business, it's helping us reduce cost, increase revenue and profits.
Larry Erickson · CTO, Kannegiesser North America
Estimator reviewing a configurable part and its quote history
Quote history, specs, and pricing rules in one searchable layer
The first quote usually wins

Quote in hours, not weeks

An industrial automation equipment manufacturer was losing deals to slow quotes. Pricing lived in one engineer's spreadsheet. Annora unified their quote history, specs, and pricing rules into one searchable layer, so any rep could quote accurately on day one.

013 days → same dayQuote turnaround
021 year → 3 monthsNew-rep ramp time
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Quoting time reduction
Generating a spare parts package used to take 40 to 60 hours, sometimes longer. Now we generate those quotes the same day.
Larry Erickson · CTO, Kannegiesser North America
Why Annora, not ERP-native AI

One layer. Every system you run.

Your ERP's AI only sees what's inside that ERP.
ERP-native AI

Sees one slice

Epicor Prism, SAP Joule, and the rest only see what lives inside that one ERP. The knowledge a good quote needs is spread across your CRM, email, spreadsheets, and people's heads too.

Annora

Reads across everything

Annora runs on top of your ERP, CRM, shared drives, spreadsheets, and the knowledge in people's heads, all at once, and answers from your whole operation, not one vendor's slice.

Vendor-independent

Not locked to one roadmap

Because Annora sits above every system rather than inside one, you're not locked to a single ERP vendor's roadmap, and it survives an ERP change.

Operator running production using the equipment and systems already on the floor
Works on the systems you already run, not a replacement for them
No rip-and-replace

Works on top of what you have

Most AI in manufacturing shows up as yet another platform to rip out and replace. Annora is the opposite: it works on top of the ERP you already run, whether that's Epicor, NetSuite, Infor, or something older. Nothing gets ripped out, nothing gets re-implemented.

0114 daysTo first usable system, no migration
020Systems replaced
If you've lived through a failed ERP project, that's exactly the risk this avoids.
Privacy-first AI

Data stays in your building.

Your data never trains a model or reaches a competitor.
Never trained on

Stays out of every model

Annora never trains on your data. Nothing reaches OpenAI, Anthropic, or any outside AI company.

Never shared

Your IP can't leak

Private AI, deployed for your organization.

Secure

Regulated environments

Data storage and access remains secure and compliant.

We needed a black-box AI system that protects our IP and our customers' data from public AI systems.
Aaron Phipps · President & Owner, MPI
Customer case studies

See what our customers say.

Two manufacturers, on camera, in their own words.
4 customers live · 0% churn
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Find the money stuck in your operation. 20 minute call, free report: then, if it's a fit, your prior orders searchable in under 30 days for $25K. We've identified $100M in revenue recapture for manufacturers.

You'll get the most value if:
  • You make a highly configurable product
  • Slow or inaccurate quotes are costing you deals
  • Nobody has a clear, real-time view of order status
  • Your knowledge lives in spreadsheets and a few people's heads
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We surveyed 200+ manufacturers on revenue, capacity, and order speed.
Find what's stuck in your org · 30-second benchmark
Q1 · What's your main bottleneck?
Quoting / estimationQuotes are slow or trapped in one person's head Information in generalThe answer exists somewhere, finding it is the job Build / schedulingOrder errors, parts hold machines hostage Talent and onboardingTakes too long for anyone to get up to speed
Frequently asked questions

Questions manufacturers ask us first.

What Annora is
What is Annora?
Annora is the AI layer on top of your ERP, CRM, spreadsheets, and tribal knowledge: one secure, searchable workspace. Ask your operation anything in plain English and get the answer with its source. It runs on the ERP you already use, so nothing gets replaced. It is, in short, private AI for manufacturing.
How is Annora different from a CPQ tool?
A CPQ tool builds quotes from rules you set up in advance. Annora is broader: it makes your whole operation searchable (quotes, orders, specs, and tribal knowledge) and answers in plain English, then quotes from what you have actually built and sold. It runs on top of the ERP you already use, not as another system to configure and maintain.
How is Annora different from the AI built into our ERP?
Your ERP's built-in AI only sees what lives inside that one ERP, but the knowledge a good quote or answer needs is spread across your CRM, shared drives, spreadsheets, and older or in-house systems too. Annora runs on top of all of them at once and answers from your whole operation, not one vendor's slice. It also stays vendor-independent, so you are not locked to a single ERP's roadmap, and it is self-hosted, so your data never trains an outside model. ERP-native tools like Epicor's Prism or Grow AI can help inside that ERP; Annora is the layer across everything.
Your ERP & data
Do we have to replace our ERP?
No. Most AI in manufacturing shows up as yet another platform to rip-and-replace. Annora is the opposite: it works on top of the ERP you already run, whether that's Epicor, NetSuite, Infor, or something older. Nothing gets ripped out, nothing gets re-implemented. If you've lived through a failed ERP project, that's exactly the risk this avoids.
Which ERPs does Annora work with?
Most of them. Annora works on top of Epicor, NetSuite, Infor, Fishbowl, and older or custom systems. It reads from the ERP you already run, so there is no migration.
What happens if we change our ERP?
Annora stays. It sits on top of your systems, not inside any one of them, so it survives an ERP change. Point it at the new ERP and your quotes, history, and knowledge stay searchable right through the transition.
Our data is a mess. Will this work?
That mess is the use case. Annora was built for companies whose answers are scattered across an ERP, network drives, and spreadsheets. You don't clean up first; Annora makes what you have findable as-is.
Getting started
How fast can we deploy?
First usable system in about 14 days. Annora makes your existing data findable as-is, so you do not clean up or re-implement first.
Is this another system my team has to learn?
No. It's a search bar. If your team can use Google, they can use Annora. Type something close to what you mean and get the answer with the source attached.
Security & terms
Does Annora train AI models on our data?
No. Your data never reaches OpenAI, Anthropic, or any outside AI company. Annora is private AI, deployed for you alone. Your information cannot end up in a model your competitors use.
Where does our data live?
On your own servers or in your private cloud. Your choice. Annora is self-hosted, so your data stays in your building and you can show your management exactly where it lives.
Are we locked into a long-term contract?
No. There are no long-term contracts and no lock-in. And because Annora runs on top of your existing systems rather than replacing them, leaving would never mean rebuilding your operation. You keep what you already run.
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