The AI Estimator
It reads the job specs — even from a customer email — computes the optimal manufacturing strategy on your machines, and drafts the quote with a healthy margin. You review it and decide if it ships.
2.4M+ quotes created in Twist · 15 years of print-manufacturing knowledge
How it works
Specs from a form, a file or the customer's email: quantity, stock, colors, finishing, deadline.
Press selection, plate and ink math, paper optimization, run times and finishing — on your real machine configurations and costs.
Full quote with a healthy margin based on your winning history. Review, adjust, send — or don't.
Why not just ChatGPT?
ChatGPT and Claude connect to Twist via MCP — but no frontier model knows what a sheet costs, how a die-cutter schedules, or what a healthy label margin looks like. That layer is proprietary: trained on 2.4 million real quotes and 15 years of print manufacturing. It lives only inside the printing industry — and only inside Twist.
Yes. Twist is configured with your real presses, plates, inks, papers and cost rates during implementation — quotes are computed from your plant, not industry averages.
Every AI quote is a draft. You review the margin and the strategy, adjust anything, and only then does it go to the customer. The AI does the repetitive math; you keep the decisions.
Yes — process-specific calculators for commercial offset, digital, labels/flexo, packaging and wide format, not one generic form.
It learns your historical winning margin per product from your own quotes, and flags any quote that goes out below it — before you send it, not after.
Yes. Twist ships an MCP server and open APIs, so ChatGPT, Claude or any agent can draft estimates, check schedules and pull KPIs from your live shop data.
Book a demo
30 minutes, on your real estimates — not a canned demo.