Agentic manufacturing workflows
Give people and AI agents a shared way to work with Quotation Factory
The HiggX CLI for Quotation Factory turns the Quotation Factory API into a practical control surface for agentic work. People, AI agents, and automated processes can discover what the platform supports, understand what each operation requires, and perform authorized actions across the quotation workflow.
From creating projects and uploading CAD files to configuring materials, planning production, coordinating suppliers, and preparing quotations, the CLI gives every participant a consistent way to work with Quotation Factory.
Live API discovery
Manufacturing skills
One operational context
Grounded in real manufacturing relationships
Developed through more than a decade of manufacturing quotation experience with Quotation Factory.
The gap
API access is only the beginning
An API makes functionality available. It does not teach an agent how your quotation process works.
The HiggX CLI combines live access to the Quotation Factory API with manufacturing-specific skills. The CLI provides the commands. The skills provide the operational knowledge needed to use those commands in the right order, with the right context, for a meaningful business outcome.
That combination turns isolated API calls into workflows an agent can understand and carry out.
Shared work
Built for work shared by people and agents
An agent-ready control surface
Agents can search the live API, inspect endpoint requirements, validate request bodies, execute operations, and interpret structured results without relying on a fixed collection of hand-written integrations.
Manufacturing knowledge included
The accompanying skills cover practical Quotation Factory workflows such as project creation, geometry uploads, drawing analysis, purchasing-part detection, material assignment, production steps, supplier management, quotations, delivery, and financial configuration.
One operational context
The companion server connects command-line actions to the live Quotation Factory interface. It can preserve the active workspace, project, and BOM-item context so a person and an agent can work from the same operational view.
Lifecycle coverage
Work across the Quotation Factory lifecycle
Use the CLI and its skills to help:
Projects and engineering input
- Create and manage quotation projects.
- Upload STEP, DXF, PDF, and other engineering files.
- Analyze drawings and capture manufacturing requirements.
Materials and bills of materials
- Build and maintain bills of materials.
- Detect purchasing parts and assign materials.
Production planning
- Add working steps and configure production routes.
- Work with machines, resources, estimators, and nesting data.
Commercial, delivery, and readiness
- Manage customers, suppliers, contacts, and commercial terms.
- Prepare quotation documents and coordinate requests for quotation.
- Configure delivery, financial, pricing, and production settings.
- Inspect project status, calculation results, and production readiness.
The available API surface is discovered from Quotation Factory’s current OpenAPI specification, helping the CLI stay useful as the platform evolves.
Identity
Human sign-in and agent authentication
People
Human sign-in
People can sign in through the familiar browser-based Auth0 flow.
Agents and unattended processes
Agent authentication
Agents and unattended processes can use an access token supplied through their execution environment or stored for later CLI sessions.
Both routes lead to the same principle: every API request carries an authenticated identity, and Quotation Factory decides what that identity is allowed to do. The CLI uses the platform’s existing authorization model; it does not create a separate path around it.
This allows teams to bring agents into operational workflows without separating their actions from identity and authority.
Execution
Designed for dependable agent execution
Agentic workflows need more than commands that happen to run. They need results that can be interpreted, failures that can be detected, and controls that reduce avoidable mistakes.
Structured JSON results for machine interpretation.
Structured errors and non-zero exit codes when an operation fails.
Live endpoint discovery with filters for method, tag, and search terms.
Endpoint descriptions with parameters, request schemas, response schemas, and example calls.
Schema-aware dry runs for validating write requests before they are sent.
Response filtering and truncation to keep agent context focused.
Batch execution for related API operations.
Multipart uploads for CAD files, drawings, and supporting documents.
Automatic OpenAPI caching with a stale-cache fallback.
Authentication status and token-expiry reporting.
These capabilities make the CLI suitable for direct human use, scripted automation, and tool use by AI agents.
The loop
From intent to verified action
- 01
Authenticate
A person signs in through the browser, or an agent receives an access token through its environment.
- 02
Discover
The CLI searches the current Quotation Factory API for the capability needed to complete the task.
- 03
Understand
The agent inspects the endpoint, required parameters, and data schema. A relevant skill supplies the manufacturing context and workflow guidance.
- 04
Act
The CLI validates and executes the authorized request, then returns a structured result that the agent can evaluate.
- 05
Continue or escalate
The agent can proceed to the next workflow step, show the result in the live interface, or return control to a person when judgment is required.
Foundation
A foundation for agentic quotation workflows
The HiggX CLI is not a separate quotation system and does not replace the Quotation Factory interface. It makes Quotation Factory accessible as a working capability inside a wider agentic workflow.
That means an agent can do more than generate advice beside the process. With the right identity and permissions, it can participate in the process: retrieve context, analyze inputs, prepare changes, execute permitted operations, inspect the result, and involve a person when the work calls for judgment.
People remain responsible for the relationships and decisions that matter.
Agents take on the discovery, analysis, coordination, and repetitive execution that can be delegated safely.
Who it is for
Built for the teams connecting manufacturing and AI
Metal fabricators
Extend Quotation Factory workflows without forcing every action through manual data entry. Let agents assist with repeatable work while estimators and planners stay in control of commercial and manufacturing decisions.
System integrators
Use one discoverable command-line interface to connect Quotation Factory with scripts, services, engineering tools, and cross-system workflows.
Developers and agent builders
Give an agent a structured, testable way to use the Quotation Factory API, supported by reusable skills that explain both the technical operation and its manufacturing context.
Part of HiggX
Part of the HiggX approach
HiggX is built around accountable participation by people, organizations, applications, machines, and AI agents. The HiggX CLI for Quotation Factory applies that approach to a real manufacturing environment.
It gives agents a practical way to act through an identifiable account, within the authority recognized by Quotation Factory, while producing results that people and systems can inspect. Quotation Factory remains a distinct product and the first reference application through which the HiggX approach is proven in complex manufacturing quotation.
Relationship outcomes, demonstrated
"Supplier response expectations are explicit and time-bound, so we see which promises are at risk long before a due date passes."
65%
Expectations on track
28%
Faster supplier response
Sarah Mitchell
Manufacturing Manager
"Agents run the coordination inside bounded authority and escalate the moment judgment is needed, so the team spends its day on the calls only people can make."
5x
Routine work delegated
31%
Fewer escalations missed
Elena Novak
Supply Chain Lead
"Every requirement change now arrives as an attributable event, so estimating and production work from the same relationship context instead of chasing each other."
3x
Earlier exception discovery
42%
Less manual follow-up
Michael Anderson
Operations Director
"When a delivery slips we settle it from the evidence trail instead of reconstructing email threads, so a dispute closes in an afternoon rather than a fortnight."
7x
Faster dispute resolution
39%
Less rework on claims
Priya Raman
Quality Manager
"We can trace every commitment to the party who accepted it and the evidence behind it, which changed how we hold delivery accountable."
4x
Relationship visibility
36%
Commitments met on time
David Reynolds
Managing Director
Frequently asked questions
The rest of the platform
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HiggX Transaction Center
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HiggX Edge Connector
An event-driven integration layer between cloud workflows, on-premise systems, and the factory Unified Namespace.
Bring agents into the quotation process with identity, context, and control
Give your team a shared interface through which people and AI agents can make practical use of Quotation Factory—from the first project input to a commercially defensible, production-ready quotation.