Built for machine shops and manufacturers

Stop Losing Jobs to Slow Quotes.

We build custom AI systems for shops that turn incoming RFQs into ballpark numbers in minutes, flag the jobs that need your estimator, and keep the paperwork moving. Built by an operator with 20 years on the floor, not a software vendor.

  • 20+ years in manufacturing ops
  • Metro Detroit based
  • English & Español
  • No vendor lock-in
Workflow · Quote RequestsLive
Email
Inbound request received
01
AI Processing
Parsed, priced & routed
02
CRM
Record created & updated
03
Proposal
Quote drafted for review
04
Completed
Sent & logged automatically
05
Handling time4 min · down from 45

Free Guided Audit

Get Your AI Workflow Report. Free.

Answer 5 quick questions and get a real report on the spot: what to automate first, your quick wins, a 4-day start plan you can run yourself, and what the time is worth. No email required to read it.

Where is AI worth it for you?

5 questions, about a minute. You'll get a written report with your quick wins, a 4-day start plan, and the honest math on what the time is worth.

Built for shops that make real things

Machine ShopsSheet Metal & FabricationTool & DieInjection MoldingContract ManufacturingJob ShopsIndustrial SuppliersCustom Fabrication

Why Go North

We Don't Sell Chatbots. We Build Systems.

Most AI agencies bolt a chat window onto your website. We automate the actual work, connected to the software you already run, built around how your team already operates.

What our systems do all day

  • Read and answer emails
  • Create quotes and proposals
  • Update your CRM and ERP
  • Process POs, invoices, and documents
  • Qualify and book leads
  • Generate reports and follow-ups

A chat window is sometimes part of it. It's never the point.

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Managed for you

We build it, host it, monitor it, and keep improving it. You simply use it, and see the hours come back.

Or own it outright

Prefer the keys? We deliver source code, documentation, and deployment so your team runs everything in-house.

No vendor lock-in. Ever.

The Process

From First Call to Working System.

A clear, proven path, so you always know what happens next.

  1. 01

    Free Audit

    Five questions on this page. Instant report, no email needed.

  2. 02

    Free Discovery Call

    30 minutes. We look at your setup and tell you if we can help.

  3. 03

    The Blueprint · $499

    We map your real process. Credited back against the build.

  4. 04

    Build & Launch

    Fixed quote off the Blueprint. The number never moves.

  5. 05

    Continuous Improvement

    We monitor, improve and expand your AI over time.

Managed Services

Ongoing AI Management

AI isn't set it and forget it. Models improve. Businesses evolve. Processes change. We continuously optimize your system so it keeps delivering value.

Essential

$199-399/mo

A single AI system, hosted and handled for you.

  • Hosting & infrastructure included
  • Monitoring
  • Security updates
  • Bug fixes
  • AI usage for typical volumes
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Growth

$499-999/mo

Your system gets better every month.

  • Everything in Essential
  • Monthly improvements
  • Workflow optimization
  • Prompt improvements
  • Priority support
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Enterprise

Custom

A dedicated AI partner for your business.

  • Dedicated AI partner
  • Unlimited optimization
  • Strategy sessions
  • New features
  • Custom integrations
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How pricing works. No surprises.

  • It starts with the Blueprint. Every engagement begins with the $499 AI Workflow Blueprint, and that $499 is credited back against your build. Nothing gets quoted until we have mapped the process.
  • Start small. A single managed AI system starts at $199 a month, with hosting, AI usage and support included. Begin with one workflow and expand only when it proves itself.
  • Fixed quotes, no surprises. Custom work gets a fixed quote off the back of your Blueprint, sized to your workflow and budget. The number never changes mid-project.
  • One bill covers everything. Cloud hosting, database, AI usage for typical volumes, and support are all included in the monthly price. No separate infrastructure invoices.
  • Or own it outright. Pay for the build once, run it on your own accounts, and skip the monthly plan. We hand over the code, documentation, and deployment.

Who You're Working With

Built by an Operator, Not a Software Vendor.

Go North Systems was founded by a manufacturing operations leader who spent 20+ years fixing shop workflows the hard way. We diagnose the process first, the way you would, and only then point AI at it. That order is why this works.

20+ years in manufacturing ops

Two decades leading manufacturing operations. We have chased late quotes and bad paperwork from inside the plant, not from a pitch deck.

Metro Detroit based

Local to southeast Michigan. When a walkthrough of your floor or office beats a video call, we show up.

English & Español

Fully bilingual service for your team, your customers, and the AI systems we build for both.

FAQ

Common Questions.

Neither do we, and that is the point. We do not build systems that fire a firm price at your customer behind your back. We build an estimator: it reads the RFQ, gives a ballpark in minutes so the buyer knows if they are in the right zip code, and routes anything unusual straight to you with the drawing attached. You still price the job. What changes is that you stop spending your morning on the RFQs that were never going anywhere.

Custom work is exactly where the time goes, so that is where we start. We are not trying to price the weird one automatically. We are trying to sort the weird one from the eighty percent that looks like work you have already done, so your estimator spends the day on the jobs that actually need judgment. The rules for what counts as weird are yours, and you can change them any time.

You do, completely. Machine rate, setup fee, material minimums, order minimum, gross margin, quantity breaks, lead times: every number in the estimate comes from settings you own, and none of it is a black box you have to trust. On the live demos you can open the settings tab and change any of it yourself, then watch the quote reprice in front of you. Your real system works the same way, except the numbers start as yours instead of our demo defaults.

Yes, and this is usually the first thing we set up. You decide whether a customer sees a firm price, a range, a lead time only, or nothing at all until you release it. You decide which lines auto-send and which sit in a queue for you. Plenty of shops run it in silent mode at first, where the system prices everything internally and sends nothing, so you can compare its numbers against your own for a few weeks before you let it talk to anybody.

Wherever you draw the line, and you can move it any time. The usual rules are a complexity ceiling, a dollar ceiling, a quantity ceiling, a machine envelope, a tolerance limit, materials you do not stock, and a minimum confidence for anything read off a document. Any line that trips one of those routes to your estimator with the reason attached, so you know why it stopped rather than just that it did. The demos on this site let you drag those thresholds around and watch jobs move between the automatic lane and the human lane.

Every field the AI pulls off a document carries a confidence score, and anything under your threshold stops and waits for a person instead of flowing into your system. The arithmetic is recomputed in code, not guessed by a model, so line-item math errors get flagged rather than passed along. You can watch this work on the live demos on this site, including one that catches a real math error planted in a sample PO.

That's not what we build. Our systems take over the repetitive work nobody was hired to do, retyping data, chasing follow-ups, drafting the same email for the tenth time, so your people can spend those hours on work that actually needs a human. Most clients use the reclaimed time to grow without hiring, not to cut staff.

Most first systems go live in two to four weeks after the Blueprint. We start with one workflow, get it working in production, then expand. You're never waiting six months for a big-bang launch.

Your data stays in your systems, we connect to them, we don't copy them into ours. Integrations use each platform's official APIs with scoped credentials you can revoke at any time, and nothing you share with us is ever used to train public AI models.

The free audit is the tool on this page: five questions, an instant report, and a 4-day plan you can run yourself. It's automated and directional. The AI Workflow Blueprint is the paid version: a 45-minute working session on your actual process with a human, followed by a written map of what to automate, what to fix before automating, the real ROI math, and the build plan. Free audit finds it. The Blueprint maps it.

A 45-minute working session on your real workflow, followed by a written map: your biggest time drains ranked by impact against effort, what to automate first, what to fix before you automate it, and a 4-day start plan you can run yourself. It's $499, credited back in full against your build if you move forward. If we can't find at least 5 hours a week worth reclaiming, you pay nothing.

Because it's real work, and because it's the part that determines whether AI will help you at all. Free assessments tend to be sales pitches in disguise. Paying for it means you get an honest answer, including when the answer is that your process needs fixing before any AI touches it. Start with a free 30-minute call first, and we'll only suggest the Blueprint if it's the right next step.

Every engagement starts with the $499 AI Workflow Blueprint, which is credited back against your build. From there, a single managed AI system starts at $199/month with hosting, AI usage and support included. Custom automations are quoted fixed after the Blueprint, sized to your workflow and budget, and the number never changes mid-project. Most customers start with one workflow and expand.

Yes. We'll deliver the source code, documentation and deployment so your team owns the system outright, with no vendor lock-in.

Usually, yes. We connect to what you already run rather than replacing it: E2, JobBOSS, Global Shop, Epicor, Fishbowl, QuickBooks, plus Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. Where a system has no clean API, we work through exports, email and the file formats your team already moves around. Nobody is ripping out your shop software.

Yes. Our managed plans cover hosting, monitoring, improvements and priority support so your system keeps getting better.

Absolutely. Most customers begin with one workflow and expand over time.

Let's Find Your Biggest Time Waster.

Book a free discovery call. 30 minutes on your workflows, and a straight answer on whether AI is worth it for you. Plenty of these end with us saying you do not need us.

1

You talk. We listen.

Thirty minutes on how your week actually runs. No slides, no deck, no pitch.

2

We tell you straight.

Where AI genuinely helps, where it does not, and what to fix before you automate anything.

3

You decide. Or you don't.

If you are better off buying a $20 tool and doing it yourself, we will say so.

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30 minutes, free, no obligation.

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