What drives the cost is scope, not the industry. A single workflow, like an RFQ intake that reads incoming drawings and turns around a quote draft, costs less to build than a system that also tracks job status, answers "where's my order" calls, and manages the paperwork trail for material certs and inspection reports. Most machine shops have several of these problems at once, so engagements often end up covering more than one, which changes both the build effort and the ongoing load.
The other driver is whether you want it built, or built and operated. Precipitate starts by mapping the manual work as it actually happens on your floor and in your inbox, and says plainly what a system can own outright (drafting a quote from a drawing, sending a status update, filing a cert against a job number) and what still needs a person (pricing judgment on a tricky part, signing off on a certificate, a difficult customer call). Build-only hands you the system. Build-and-operate means Precipitate keeps running it, watches for failures, and pulls you in only when a decision genuinely needs a human. Operating costs more than a one-time build, but someone stays accountable for the system working, not just for having shipped it.
There's no fixed price list. A system that speeds up RFQ turnaround on six-figure jobs is worth something different from one that just cuts down status-update calls on a smaller shop. Precipitate quotes each engagement on the value it creates, so the honest way to find your number is a short conversation: which of these problems (slow quotes, phone time lost to status calls, paperwork errors that hold up shipment) costs you the most right now, and what taking it off your plate would be worth.