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Quote creation with AI: drafts from your data, approval in your own system

A new quotation often starts with searching, copying and re-entering. The AI quotation assistant uses your past quotations and invoices as patterns, takes prices from an approved current source and creates a traceable draft that your team reviews in its familiar system.

  • One quotation workflow and one target system
  • Editable draft with approval
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Cloud Wolke HerausforderungServer NachhaltigkeitIT Beratung Service Consulting SoforthilfeTimo Wevelsiep Robin ZinsExperten für Innovation Migration AWSHetzner Hosting zuverlässig

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Starting point

Why a new quotation often begins with the same manual work

The request is new. The steps behind it still repeat for almost every opportunity.

A customer describes a project by email, call notes or a meeting. The knowledge needed for a suitable quotation exists, but it is scattered across folders, previous documents, price lists and the accounting system.

One typical request, five manual loops

  • Transcribe the request

    Services, quantities and constraints are collected again from an email, notes or a meeting transcript.
  • Find a similar quotation

    Someone searches customer folders, mailboxes or the accounting system for a comparable case.
  • Copy line items

    Recurring services are copied even though their descriptions, units and structure often have not changed.
  • Check what is current

    Prices, service boundaries and wording are compared manually with current product data and rules.
  • Enter everything again

    Customer details, positions and notes are finally entered once more into Lexware Office or another target system.

Example journey

From customer request to reviewable quotation draft

This preview uses fictional sample data. It does not process or submit any real information.

Interactive process preview

Input

New request from an email

Please prepare a quotation for the ongoing management of three Linux servers. Updates, monitoring and backup assurance should be included. We would like to start next month.
  • 3 existing Linux servers
  • Ongoing management requested
  • Target start supplied
  • Backup scope still open

System design

Connect historic documents, current rules and the target system cleanly

The system does not treat every document as one unchecked knowledge pool. Each source receives a defined role in the quotation process.

Capture the estate

Folders, PDF, DOCX and XLSX files and available exports are inventoried and assessed technically.

Inventory documents

Quotations and invoices are classified, enriched with metadata and made available for search and analysis.

Define current facts

Product catalogue, prices, service rules and approved wording are maintained separately as authoritative sources.

Create the draft conversationally

The team describes the case. The assistant proposes line items, shows source context and marks missing information.

Review and hand over

After subject-matter approval, an editable draft is transferred through a suitable API or a defined export.

Not a replacement for accounting or archiving

  • Historic documents do not determine current prices
  • Drafts are not sent or finalised automatically
  • Invoice drafts need a confirmed delivery basis
The inventory makes existing documents useful for search and assistance. It does not replace a compliant archive or subject-matter review of prices, tax, contractual terms and evidence of delivery.

Source model

What history may contribute - and what must stay current

A clear separation makes the assistant useful without turning old documents into supposed truth.

From historic quotations and invoices

  • Recurring line items and typical service bundles
  • Established structure and customer-facing wording
  • Relationships between customers, projects and earlier services
  • Exceptions and special cases as findable context

From current, approved sources

  • Valid products, prices, units and service boundaries
  • Tax, legal and contractual rules
  • Delivered quantities, time records and confirmed orders
  • Approvals, responsibilities and target-system rules

Implementation

From document estate to a reliable working process

The first engagement clarifies data quality, authoritative sources and the actual handover path.

  1. 01

    Capture sources and process

    We review sample documents, folder structure, product data, accounting system and the current approval path.

  2. 02

    Design inventory and rules

    Document types, metadata, current fact sources, roles and necessary follow-up questions are defined.

  3. 03

    Model one process as a pilot

    One scoped quotation type is tested with realistic sample data, draft logic and the target system.

  4. 04

    Approve and operate

    After subject-matter acceptance, further quotation types, integrations, permissions and managed operations can follow.

Pilot scope

What the first reliable quotation workflow delivers

The pilot implements one clearly scoped quotation type from its data sources through to an editable draft in the target system.

  • Inventoried document estate

    The agreed collection of quotations and invoices is catalogued by format, document type, metadata and duplicates.
  • Catalogue candidates from historic records

    Recurring line items, descriptions and service combinations are derived as reviewable candidates rather than adopted as current truth.
  • Approved service and pricing catalogue

    Current products, prices, units, service boundaries and wording are defined as the authoritative source.
  • Draft and clarification logic

    New requests are mapped to suitable line items. Missing or contradictory details remain visible as questions.
  • Handover to one target system

    The reviewed case is handed over as an editable draft to Lexware Office or through a previously confirmed API or export path.
  • Testing and documentation

    Representative cases test sources, draft quality and the approval path. Decisions and system boundaries are documented.

A scoped pilot rather than an open-ended implementation. The initial scope covers one quotation type, the sources it requires and one target system. Additional archives, companies, document types or integrations are planned separately after subject-matter acceptance.

Delivery starts once agreed data, access and stakeholders are available. The binding scope and price are defined in your proposal. A pilot concludes with a quality report and an evidenced recommendation to proceed or stop. A documented no-go is a valid outcome. Production approval and ongoing operations are agreed separately.

Entry and operations

Assessment, pilot and ongoing operations

The data and process assessment, scoped pilot and technical operations can be commissioned separately. The appropriate entry point depends on how clearly the data sources, target system and approval path are already defined.

Optional starting point

Data and process assessment

For projects where the document estate, target system or responsibilities first need to be defined reliably.

from €3,900excluding VAT, one-time
  • Assess sample documents and data sources
  • Verify the target system, interface and approval path
  • Define the pilot scope and technical risks

Implementation

Quotation assistant pilot

One clearly scoped quotation type is implemented from the agreed sources through to an editable draft in the target system.

from €16,900excluding VAT, one-time
  • Structure the document estate and catalogue candidates
  • Connect the current pricing and service source
  • Test draft logic, clarification and handover
Scope details

Included

  • One quotation type and one target system with a confirmed interface
  • Two to three agreed source collections
  • Drafting, mandatory-field and price-source validation and human approval
  • Agreed test cases, technical documentation and handover

Outcome and verification

  • Reviewable drafts with current price sources and documented transfer in the agreed test workflow.

Quoted separately

  • Autonomous price approval or quotation sending
  • Arbitrary ERP/CPQ development and cleansing of all historical records
Delivery timeframe
4–6 weeks
Quotation Assistant Pilot: Create traceable quotation drafts from historical patterns and current approved product and pricing data.

Ongoing operations

Managed quotation assistant

For production workflows whose platform, integrations and data sources require technical monitoring and maintenance.

scoped individuallymonthly managed service
  • Monitoring and technical fault analysis
  • Planned updates for the platform and integration
  • Technical maintenance of agreed data sources and field mappings
Terms and notes

Document volume, additional quotation types, further companies, individual data cleansing, extra integrations and specific operational requirements are itemised separately in the proposal.

Hardware, hosting, model consumption, licences and ongoing operations are quoted separately. Follow-on projects are costed against reusable results. We credit the pilot price when you commission the production rollout; there is no requirement to purchase every stage.

All prices are net and exclude statutory VAT. The offers are addressed to businesses.

Assessment

When a custom integration is appropriate

Not every quotation process requires a custom AI solution. Document volume, variation, approvals and the required system integration determine the appropriate approach.

WZ-IT is a fit when

  • many historic quotations and invoices contain relevant working knowledge
  • prices, wording and service rules are distributed across several sources
  • specific approvals, roles or customer rules apply
  • the existing accounting system should remain and be integrated in a controlled way

A standard catalogue is often sufficient when

  • only a small number of fixed products or services are offered
  • a complete and maintained current catalogue already exists
  • no specific rules, data sources or approval stages are required
  • line items only need to be selected manually and then sent
Not to be confused with the offer finder: it guides visitors on your website to the right offer, while the quotation assistant works internally for your team.

Required for the initial assessment

  • several typical quotations or invoices
  • the named current pricing and service source
  • target system, edition and available API access
  • a subject-matter owner for approvals
No credentials are required for the initial review. Representative and, where necessary, anonymised documents are sufficient to start.

The quotation assistant can be combined with established WZ-IT services. Prepare product data · Respond to RFPs and questionnaires · Managed AI operations

Frequently asked questions about the AI quotation assistant

Document estate, prices, integrations, approval and cost

Reviews & projects

What clients say about working with us

From local AI integration to architecture, data sovereignty and ongoing operations.

WZ-IT moved our studio infrastructure from decentralised individual devices to a central platform: every site is securely connected via VPN, new devices are onboarded automatically and an entire site is provisioned from a template, without manual steps on location. What impressed me most is the breadth and depth of their knowledge: Timo and Robin are not a typical IT provider who sets up a server and leaves. The two of them think their way into highly complex infrastructure and software topics, work through every requirement we put in front of them, and build networking, provisioning and operations so that everything fits together in the end. WZ-IT is an excellent partner for complex software, network and architecture projects.
Steve KirchnerManaging Director, nextGYM GmbH
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Enquiry

Have your quotation process assessed

Tell us the document volume, current data sources and required target system. We do not need confidential documents for the initial assessment.

  • Straight with Timo and Robin - no sales team, no pitch
  • A professional assessment of your situation
  • Concrete next steps for infrastructure, software or AI

The conversation is free and non-binding.

WZ-IT's advice on our Azure migration was technically sound and completely non-binding right from the intro call - we took away a great deal.
Jakob ÖschlbergerInno7 GmbH
Timo and Robin, founders of WZ-IT

Where should we start?

A rough description of the estate and one typical quotation workflow is sufficient.

We usually respond within one business day. Please do not send access credentials yet.

WZ-IT's advice on our Azure migration was technically sound and completely non-binding right from the intro call - we took away a great deal.
Jakob ÖschlbergerInno7 GmbH