Everything you need to know before you decide anything.
Straight answers to the questions contract manufacturers and industrial distributors ask before running the audit or booking a call.
Email Abdul directly. Same-day response for manufacturers evaluating the audit or pilot.
Email AbdulYou enter data from your last 5 to 15 jobs: customer name, job value, the margin you quoted, the margin you actually realized, and the date. Our AI analyzes the gap between what you expected and what you delivered, then produces a one-page report showing your leakage by job, by customer, and by category.
The report includes an estimated annual leakage figure in dollars, a list of flagged jobs with red, amber, or green status, and an estimate of how much of that leakage is recoverable within 60 days.
About 10 minutes for 5 to 10 jobs. You can enter up to 15 jobs for a more comprehensive result. The report is generated immediately and emailed to you as a PDF. There is also a "load sample data" option if you want to see the full experience before entering your own numbers.
Five core columns: customer name, job value in dollars, quoted margin as a percentage, realized margin as a percentage, and date. That is it for the required fields. There are optional advanced columns for labor variance, material variance, and job category, but these are hidden behind a toggle and are not required.
You do not need to connect your ERP for the audit. Just pull the numbers from whatever report you currently use and enter them manually. The audit tells you whether the problem is worth solving before you invest in any integration work.
You receive a PDF report by email immediately. The report includes a summary box with your estimated annual leakage figure, a table of every job you entered with a status flag, a list of customers drifting below target, and a "what is fixable" section with a suggested next step.
The suggested next step is a free 20 to 30 minute diagnostic call to review the results together. You are not obligated to book it, and there is no follow-up sales sequence if you do not.
Yes. The audit tool has a "Load Sample Data" button that populates the job entry table with realistic manufacturing data. You can run the full experience, see the report, and understand exactly what the tool does before entering any of your own numbers.
Abdul Datarwala directly. Not a sales rep, not an account executive, not a business development manager. Abdul is the co-founder and CEO of Quanzar and the person who scaled an industrial distribution business from $7M to $85M. He takes the first call with every manufacturer personally.
Four things. First, a review of your audit results: which jobs were flagged and what the dollar impact looks like. Second, identifying the top two or three root causes of your leakage. Third, estimating how much of that leakage is recoverable within 60 days. Fourth, an honest conversation about whether a paid pilot makes sense for your business right now.
The call is 20 to 30 minutes. You will leave knowing exactly what is broken and whether fixing it is worth the investment.
No. The diagnostic call is designed to give you information, not to close a deal. If at the end of the call a pilot does not make sense for your business, Abdul will tell you that. If the leakage identified is too small to justify the pilot cost, he will say so. The goal is to earn your trust, not to sign a contract on the first call.
We build the fix directly inside your existing systems. This typically means connecting your ERP to a live Margin Intelligence Dashboard, configuring real-time alerts for jobs that drift below your target margin threshold, and setting up the customer-level margin view. If the audit identified quoting as a root cause, we also add the Quote Intelligence layer.
At day 30 and day 60, we run a formal ROI check-in. We measure in actual dollars: how much of the leakage identified in the audit is now showing as recovered margin in your P&L.
Between $15,000 and $25,000 depending on the scope of work, the number of system integrations required, and the size of your operation. Book a diagnostic call to get a specific number for your situation.
Most manufacturers who complete a pilot recover the pilot cost within the first 30 days based on the margin leakage identified in the audit. The audit tells you whether the math works before you commit to anything.
We do not ask you to continue or to scale the engagement. This is not a legal guarantee written into the contract. It is how we operate. If the results are not showing in your numbers at day 60, we have not done our job and we know it.
Everything we build during the pilot stays in your environment regardless. You own it completely.
You do. Completely. Every system, dashboard, integration, and workflow we build during the pilot lives in your environment and belongs to your business. There is no lock-in to Quanzar. You can cancel at any point and keep everything we built.
We do not hold back components to force a continued relationship. The code is yours. The data is yours. The system runs independently of us.
No. We connect to your existing ERP. We work with Prophet 21, NetSuite, SAP, Epicor, and Microsoft Dynamics. Your systems stay exactly as they are. We build on top of them, not instead of them.
The reason most manufacturers have margin leakage is not because their ERP is wrong. It is because the data sits in silos and nobody is connecting it in real time. We do that connection work without touching your core system configuration.
Your ERP tracks what happened. We alert you to what is happening right now. ERP job costing reports are backward-looking: they tell you the margin on a job after it is closed. By the time you see the number, the damage is done.
We connect ERP, CRM, and finance data to surface margin drift while a job is still open. That is the difference between catching a problem at month-end and catching it in time to fix it.
We connect to your ERP via its API or database layer, depending on what your system supports. For most major ERPs like P21 and NetSuite, this is a read-only connection that pulls job cost, customer, and financial data. We never write to your ERP or modify your core configuration.
The connection work typically takes one to two weeks during the pilot. Your IT team is involved to the degree they want to be. We have done this with teams that have dedicated IT departments and with small manufacturers where the owner manages their own systems.
Yes. Houston is our home base and our current priority market, but we work with contract manufacturers and industrial distributors across the US. The work is primarily done remotely through your systems, so geography is rarely a constraint.
Yes. Every Quanzar product is built on our Secure by Design architecture. The data you enter in the audit is encrypted in transit and at rest. It is not shared with any third party. It is not used to train public AI models. It is not sold or disclosed to anyone outside of Quanzar.
The audit data is stored securely and used only to generate your report and to help our team prepare for a diagnostic call if you book one.
Access is role-based and limited to the people working on your pilot. Every action is logged with a full audit trail. You decide who on your team has access to which parts of the dashboard. We configure this during the first week of the pilot based on your preferences.
No. Your job data, customer names, margin figures, and any other business data you share with Quanzar is never used to train public AI models. It stays in your environment and is used only for your analysis.
We show contract manufacturers exactly where they are losing margin by job, by customer, and by rep, and then we fix it in 60 days inside their existing systems.
It starts with a free 10-minute audit that shows you your leakage in real dollars. From there, a free diagnostic call, a paid 60-day pilot where we build the fix, and then an optional scale phase where we connect the rest of the margin intelligence stack.
Neither, exactly. We build software systems inside your environment and we measure the outcome in dollars. We are closer to a specialized engineering team than a consulting firm: we do not deliver strategy documents or slide decks. We deliver working software and a measurable dollar outcome.
The founder, Abdul Datarwala, ran an $85M industrial distribution operation before starting Quanzar. That operational background shapes everything about how we work.
Three reasons. First, the audit is free. You can see exactly what we find in your business before spending anything. Second, our pilot comes with a real commitment: measurable ROI in 60 days or we do not ask you to scale. Third, our founder ran the same type of operation you run. He is not guessing at your problems from the outside.
Larger vendors will typically charge for a discovery phase, take six to 18 months to show results, and retain IP ownership over what they build. We work differently on all three of those dimensions.
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