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The quote desk built for electrical distribution.
Goodshed turns contractor emails, spreadsheets, BOMs, PDFs, and material lists into review-ready quote drafts using your catalog, customer history, pricing, and inventory.
01RFQ ingestion
Requests arrive the way contractors already send them.
Goodshed reads the request and its attachments, then structures every requested line into the item, quantity, unit of measure, manufacturer information, and customer context your quote desk needs.
The original customer wording stays attached, so your team can always see exactly what was requested.
- Plain-text requests in the body of an email
- Excel and CSV material lists
- PDF schedules, BOMs, and takeoffs
- Forwarded threads with earlier context
- Quote desk
- Incoming requests
Lakeview Hospital — Phase 2 material list
ABC Electric · XLSX · 240 lines
12 need reviewPricing on attached panel schedule
Northgate Electric · PDF · 38 lines
ReadingNeed 500 ft 3/4 EMT + fittings
Pine Street Electrical · Email · 6 lines
Draft readySame as last order for the Elm St job
Lakeside Builders · Email · 14 lines
Draft ready
As received
- 120 QO 30A 2p
- 22000' #12 thhn blk
- 3500 grn
- 4(40) 3/4 emt ss conn
- 5same 4s covers as hospital
- Lines
- 20EAQO 30A 2-pole breaker
- 2,000FT#12 THHN, black
- 500FT#12 THHN, greenSize carried from line 2
- 40EA3/4″ EMT set-screw connector
- ——4″ square coversProject reference
02Plan-to-Quote · in development
Turn electrical drawings into a review-ready material takeoff.
Goodshed is being built to analyze electrical plan sets, schedules, and project documents and prepare the first pass of the material takeoff: classify the sheets, read the project legend, identify components, and structure quantities and requirements into quoteable material lines.
Those lines then run through the same product resolution, pricing, and exception review as any other request. Quantities that depend on an estimating method, such as conduit routing, are left unresolved rather than guessed.
Your estimator reviews the exceptions before anything becomes a quote.
- PDF electrical plan sets
- Lighting, panel, and equipment schedules
- Project specifications and Division 26
- The project's own symbol legend
- 01Electrical plans
- 02Component detection
- 03Material takeoff
- 04Product resolution
- 05Exceptions
- 06Quote draft
Document set · 24 sheets
Classified on upload
- E0.1Cover and notes
- E1.1First floor lighting
- E1.2Second floor lighting
- E2.1First floor power
- E2.2Second floor power
- E3.1Panel schedules
- E4.1One-line diagram
- Div 26Specifications
Project legend · sheet E0.1
Read from this drawing set
- Duplex receptacle
- GFCI receptacle
- Three-way switch
- Fixture type A
- Projects
- Lakeview Medical Center
- Plan takeoff
Sheets analyzed
24
Detected components
1,284
Material lines
316
MAT-0007Duplex receptacle, 20A 125V, commercial grade
E2.1 — 93 · E2.2 — 89
182 EAResolvedMAT-0012GFCI receptacle, 20A 125V, weather-resistant
E2.1 — 21 · E2.2 — 13
34 EAResolvedMAT-0021Fixture type A — 2×4 LED troffer, 4000K, 0–10V dimming
E1.1, E1.2 · lighting schedule
Emergency battery option not stated on the schedule
71 EAReviewMAT-0034Panelboard P1 — 225A, 480Y/277V, 3-phase, 42 circuit
E3.1 panel schedule · Division 26
Specification calls for NEMA 3R · candidate is NEMA 1
1 EAReviewMAT-00563/4″ EMT
E2.1, E2.2
Routing and estimating method required
4,300 FT est.Unresolved
311 more lines · illustrative · Early Access capability
03Product resolution
From customer shorthand to the right catalog item.
Goodshed resolves each requested line against your catalog using manufacturer numbers, descriptions, product attributes, customer aliases, and purchase history.
When more than one item could fit, Goodshed shows the candidates and the differences instead of guessing.
Goodshed shows why a product was chosen.
- RFQ #1842
- Line 001
- High
Square D QO230Recommended
QO 2-pole 30A plug-on breaker
- QO series
- 2-pole
- 30A
- Plug-on, per account history
- Medium
Square D QOB230
QO 2-pole 30A bolt-on breaker
- QO series
- 2-pole
- 30A
- Bolt-on mounting
- Low
Square D HOM230
Homeline 2-pole 30A plug-on breaker
- Different series
- 2-pole
- 30A
Why QO230?
High confidence- Square D requestedCustomer wording
- QO family matchedCatalog attributes
- 2-pole matchedCatalog attributes
- 30A matchedCatalog attributes
- Account historically buys plug-on, not bolt-onOrder history
- Same item quoted on Lakeview Hospital Phase 1Project history
04Customer and project memory
The shorthand your customers use becomes useful context.
Goodshed can use previous quotes, orders, projects, and customer terminology to interpret requests such as “same as last time” or “the covers from the hospital job.”
Requests are linked to the account and project they most likely belong to.
- Accounts
- ABC Electric
Recent projects
Lakeview Hospital · Phase 2
Open RFQ · 240 lines
Lakeview Hospital · Phase 1
11 orders
Elm Street Apartments
6 orders
Riverside Middle School
4 orders
Customer terms
“the hospital job”
Lakeview Hospital
“the usual wire”
#12 THHN stranded, 500 ft spools
“4s covers”
4″ square covers
“ss conn”
Set-screw connectors
05Cross-reference and equivalents
Resolve competitor numbers and equivalents without silent substitutions.
Contractors send competitor part numbers, specify preferred manufacturers, and ask for “or equal” products. Goodshed can surface candidates from your catalog, explain the relationship, and route uncertain substitutions to a rep.
Substitutions you haven’t approved are flagged for a rep, never swapped silently.
- RFQ #1842
- Cross-references
Hubbell HBL5362W
Customer asked for Eaton
Eaton CR20W
20A 125V duplex receptacle, white
On your approved alternates list
Resolved88-10273
Competitor item: 12 THHN BLK STR 500
SKU 118204
#12 THHN/THWN-2 stranded, black
Description and attribute match
ResolvedSiemens Q230
Quoted as “or equal”
No automatic substitute
Breakers must match the panel they install in
Flagged for rep decision
Review
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06Pricing and inventory
Quote with the customer’s price and the stock you actually have.
Where the data is available, Goodshed attaches customer-specific pricing and branch availability to each resolved line.
Your team sees the source of the price and where the requested quantity can be fulfilled.
- RFQ #1842
- Line 001
Square D QO230
QO 2-pole 30A plug-on breaker
Pricing
- Price source
- ABC Electric contract
- Unit price
- $21.40 EA
- Last quoted to account
- Phase 1 order
Availability
- North· home branch140 on hand
- Central60 on hand
- East0 on hand
Available from the customer’s home branch
07Exception-first review
Your team reviews exceptions—not every line.
Goodshed separates routine lines from the ones that need judgment.
Every resolution carries a readable confidence level and the evidence behind it, so reps know where to focus. Lines that need a decision are grouped into one review queue.
- Ambiguous references with several candidates
- Discontinued items and proposed replacements
- Substitutions and cross-references
- Missing quantities or units
- Resolved
Clear product match with strong supporting context.
ConfidenceHighHigh
- Review
Strong candidate, but one or more details need confirmation.
ConfidenceMediumMedium
- Unresolved
Not enough information to responsibly choose an item.
ConfidenceLowLow
- RFQ #1842
- Review
- Line 058
Requested SKU 40-1177 is discontinued
2×4 LED troffer, 4000K · 36 EA
- Size2×42×4
- Color temperature4000K4000K
- Voltage120–277V120–277V
- Lumen package4,000 lm4,400 lm
08Quote approval
Nothing reaches the customer until your team approves it.
Once every exception is cleared, Goodshed assembles the quote for final review. A rep approves it before it enters your normal quoting process.
- Quote desk
- Lakeview Hospital — RFQ #1842
Lines
240
Exceptions reviewed
12 of 12
Substitutions
3 accepted
- All lines resolved to catalog items
- Customer contract pricing applied
- Availability checked for the home branch
Prepared by Goodshed · Awaiting rep approval
09ERP workflow
Start without changing your ERP.
Early access begins with historical RFQs, completed quotes, and existing data exports. No live ERP connection is required to prove whether Goodshed works for your quote desk.
As live pilots progress, Goodshed can move from file-based workflows toward direct catalog, pricing, inventory, and approved-quote integrations.
Historical test
Where early access starts- Historical RFQs
- Completed quotes
- Product or item export
- Pricing and inventory exports (optional)
- Goodshed comparison report
Live deployment
As pilots progress- Quote inbox connection
- Catalog updates
- Pricing and inventory sync
- Quote workflow integration
- ERP writeback where supported
Customers, products, prices, quantities, and photos shown on this page are illustrative.
We’re working with a small group of U.S. and Canadian electrical distributors.
If your team regularly handles contractor RFQs, large material lists, project quotes, or manual product matching, we’d like to learn about your workflow.
