Cost recipes
Bill of materials, priced
Materials at your rates, quantities, labor and overhead. A recipe prices any variant in your currency with the markup rule you set. An exporter prices a brass planter from sheet weight and an hourly rate.
Poly9 AI · everything behind the answer · Pricing
Certified pricing from your own rules.
Forty-one thousand recipes and matrices price on Poly9 AI today, and the AI never touches the arithmetic. Your recipes and matrices price every line through one engine. If a rule is missing, the answer is “price on request”, never a guess.
Rules are plain and reviewable · every quote line traces to the rule that made it
A quote built from the grade matrix: three lines, each showing the rule that produced it. Real screen.
What it holds
Your pricing, written down once.
Grade matrices
Frames × graded fabrics
Retail by grade, COM, yardage and option upcharges. A COM quote is one sentence: frame at the COM price plus the yardage the pattern needs.
Minimums and breaks
Rules buyers hit every day
Two-roll minimums, cut yardage, 500-piece breaks, per-square-foot tops. Each is applied and explained on the quote line.
Profiles and currencies
Quote in the buyer’s money
Cost in your currency, quotes in the buyer’s, display currencies on your site, trade pricing only where you allow it.
How it gets filled
Your rules, captured in a session.
Most companies find their pricing is simpler than they thought once it is written down. Two to five days covers most price books.
- Self-serve: write a recipe in plain language; the engine parses it and prices a test product while you watch.
- Workbook: the onboarding workbook rebuilds your known selling prices from your rates and tells you where it disagrees, before anything is imported.
- Price lists: grade books and matrices are loaded from your existing files.
A recipe pricing a rattan chair: materials, labor, markup, total, with the rates it read. Real screen.
Your AI
Your AI at the price book.
It asks for the rule, applies it, and shows its work.
Price the 3585-11 in grade F with box pleat and nailheads.
Three lines from the matrix, a total, a lead time, a quote card.
500 quarter-zips, two-color left chest, by June 12.
Garment, decoration rule, quantity break, ship date.
Quote the Kashan in a custom colorway, 20 pieces.
Per-piece recipe plus the sampling rule, or “price on request” if the colorway rule is missing.
FAQ
What happens when it doesn’t know a price?
It says “price on request”, tells the buyer what it needs, and drafts the quote request for you. It never estimates. The eval suites that guard this behavior pass at 100% on every release.
Who is responsible for a wrong quote?
The same person as today: the quote is yours, built from your rules. The difference is that every line shows the rule that produced it, so a wrong number is a wrong rule you can fix once.
Can buyers see our costs?
No. Buyers see prices. Costs, markups and trade pricing stay inside your company, and a supplier’s cost carried on a white-label line is visible to you alone.
Works with
Better together across the platform.
Start free. It’s your AI from today.
Create your account, add your catalog or start with a sample one, and your pricing is working for your AI before the end of the day. 250 sales actions free, no card, and the account stays yours.