JAWS is the operating system for trade binderies and print finishers. AI drafts the estimate, your estimator approves it, the floor runs it — and every finished job makes the next quote smarter. Built and run daily inside a working bindery.
| Qty | Setup | Run | Material | Price / M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,500 | $480.00 | $780.00 | $180.00 | $790.00 |
| 5,000 | $480.00 | $1,430.00 | $340.00 | $640.00 |
| 10,000 | $480.00 | $2,640.00 | $650.00 | $540.00 |
| Extended — 5,000 books | $3,200.00 | |||
A legacy MIS from the ’90s, spreadsheets with hidden logic, and pricing that lives in one person. What worked at 20 jobs a week breaks at 50.
Quotes get slower. Margins drift. The vanilla-looking job that eats a week of hand work gets quoted vanilla again. The bottleneck stops being the machines — it becomes the estimator.
From the RFQ hitting your inbox to actuals flowing back off the floor. Each part maps to something your shop already does — captured, connected, and learning.
Cut, fold, stitch, gather, bind, coat, drill, pack. Every quote is a sequence of real work centers with cost logic tied to your machines — setup separated from run, priced per M, with furnished stock handled the way the trade actually works.
Perfect bind PUR where you fold versus furnished folded. Saddle stitch with or without folding. Hand feed, case work, UV. Job codes carry the routing and the pricing posture, so a quote starts 80 percent done — the 20 that’s left is where judgment matters.
Paste the customer’s email. The parser extracts pages, sizes, signatures, stocks, and quantities — then a deterministic engine prices it from rate tables calibrated against your own quoted history. Anything ambiguous is flagged as a question, never silently guessed.
| Qty | Setup | Run hrs | Material | Cost | Price | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,500 | $310 | 2.8 | $96.25 | $726.25 | $1,040.00 | 30.2% |
| 5,000 | $310 | 4.9 | $192.50 | $1,116.50 | $1,625.00 | 31.3% |
| 10,000 | $310 | 9.1 | $385.00 | $1,910.00 | $2,830.00 | 32.5% |
| 25,000 | $310 | 21.4 | $962.50 | $4,222.50 | 31.7% | |
| Recalc on change | Every field live — no macros, no hidden cells | OK | ||||
Floor time and materials flow back against every job. Contribution versus quote, side by side. The vanilla-looking notebook that eats sixty hours of hand assembly gets remembered — and the next quote knows.
Promote a quote and the ticket, run list, and department boards fill themselves. The floor clocks time by PIN. Customers check job status on their own link instead of calling. And the exception board catches what every shop loses — the printed ticket that never got scheduled.
JAWS grew up inside a working trade bindery, not a demo environment. Signatures, furnished stock, per-M pricing, trade turnaround — the workflows are native. The same kernel is headed for laser and fab shops next.
Perfect bind, saddle stitch, mechanical bind, case work — with furnished-folded and furnished-collated flows priced correctly, not shoehorned into someone else's model.
Flood and spot UV, lamination, and sheet work priced as press-sheet operations — coverage, sides, and films — the way the work actually runs.
Printers with in-house finishing: quote the whole job — press through bind — and hand the floor one ticket instead of three systems.
An engineer loads your shop into the system and calibrates it against your own history. No big-bang cutover — the old system just stops being opened. Days and weeks, not quarters.
Your quote and job history, customers, and rate structure — loaded and indexed. The reference shop runs on 100,000+ historical quotes.
The pricing engine is fit to your market position, product family by product family, from jobs you already quoted and won.
AI drafts, your estimator approves. Side-by-side with the old system until the numbers earn trust — not a day sooner.
Tickets, run list, floor boards, time clock. Actuals flow back into pricing. The old system goes quiet on its own.
Bring one job you already quoted. We’ll parse the email, price it live, and show you the ticket it becomes — next to your number. You’ll know in 30 minutes.