Cifral Custom
Handle more RFQs. Keep engineers on engineering.
Cifral Custom turns customer requirements, approved technical data and pricing rules into review-ready technical proposals in your own template. It fits companies with complex proposal processes, and your engineer reviews every proposal before it goes out.
Built on 7+ years of writing industrial technical proposals by hand.
Is this you?
Defined by the shape of your proposals, not your industry
Cifral Custom fits when your proposal process looks like this:
- Proposals are documents of more than ten pages, structured in chapters.
- The scope of supply or work changes with every request.
- The same technical and commercial conditions are reused from one proposal to the next.
- An engineer, proposal specialist or bid manager writes them.
- You send several every month, and earlier Word or PDF proposals act as your templates.
- Requests arrive as RFQs, tenders or customer enquiries.
Where Cifral Custom starts
The founder's experience is in intralogistics, material handling, packaging machinery and system integration, and that is where Cifral Custom is strongest today.
Engineered-to-order companies with the same kind of proposal process can fit too, for example industrial and electromechanical installations, industrial energy, special machinery and retrofits, OT and automation integrators, process equipment and aftermarket, and technical engineering where the variable part is hours and deliverables.
Probably not a fit
- Quotes that are mainly line items and catalogue prices. QuoteGen is built for those.
- Proposals written only occasionally.
- Automating physical machinery. Cifral automates proposals, not machines.
Cifral Custom is a tailored implementation for companies that produce complex technical and commercial proposals. It connects the information and rules a company already uses (RFQs, product data, approved documentation, previous proposals, pricing and commercial rules, templates) to assemble review-ready proposals in the company's own template. An engineer reviews and approves every proposal before it is delivered.
The problem
Your proposal process is the bottleneck.
Specs live in PDFs. Pricing lives in spreadsheets. Key knowledge sits with a few experienced engineers. When RFQs stack up, proposals wait.
The process
How it works
Request received
RFQ and documents enter the workflow
Data and rules applied
Approved data plus your pricing and commercial logic
Proposal assembled
Complete draft in your own template
Engineer approves
Reviewed before it reaches the customer
Request received
RFQ and documents enter the workflow
Data and rules applied
Approved data plus your pricing and commercial logic
Proposal assembled
Complete draft in your own template
Engineer approves
Reviewed before it reaches the customer
Start where it hurts
Automate the complete workflow, or start with one bottleneck
Cifral can automate the full path from RFQ to review-ready proposal, or begin with the single stage that consumes the most time.
Spend less time chasing information
Capture the request, identify key variables, and flag missing information before anyone starts writing.
Stop rewriting the same technical content
Draft scope and technical sections from your approved documentation and previous proposals.
Keep pricing logic consistent
Run your cost, margin and configuration rules automatically, so every quote follows the same logic.
Review the proposal instead of building it
Assemble the complete document in your own template, or automate the full path from RFQ intake to a proposal waiting for your engineer's approval.
Why Cifral
Reduce manual proposal work without removing engineering control.
Mark wrote hundreds of industrial technical proposals as a System Sales Engineer. Cifral automates the repeatable preparation he handled by hand.
Mark · Founder, Cifral
Read the full storyBuilt from the field
Founded on 7+ years of System Sales Engineering experience.
Configured around your process
Your template, your pricing logic, your data sources.
Human review before delivery
Your engineer approves every proposal before it goes out.
Tailored implementation
Built around your workflow, not a generic software setup.
Getting started
How we get you live
Scope the workflow
A 30-minute call to understand your proposal process: what comes in, how pricing works, and what your template contains.
Configure and test
We handle the implementation. Your team provides the process inputs and validates the result.
Review and go live
You review a test run with real data from your process. Once you approve it, the workflow goes live.
Implementation of a defined first workflow typically takes one to two weeks, or the timeline we agree. More complex implementations are scoped separately.
See whether Cifral fits your process
Book a 30-minute scoping call. We'll map your current proposal workflow and show where automation could remove manual work.
Book a scoping call