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Quotes in 15 seconds, not hours.

Win more jobs and protect your margin. GelatoConnect Estimator is a print estimating software that provides AI-powered quoting that reads any brief, prices any job, and sends a branded customer-ready quote - in under 15 seconds. No spreadsheets. No guesswork.

Trained on millions of real print transactions across six pricing models and 300+ configurable parameters.

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Win the work

The print industry's only AI estimator with a proven win-rate uplift.

Speed is table stakes. Win rate is the unclaimed prize. 50% of B2B deals go to the first vendor to respond. Leads reached within an hour are 7x more likely to convert. GelatoConnect Estimator turns that into a measurable outcome.

BSG team using GelatoConnect Estimator

Customer story · BSG

win rate increase at BSG, securing a £750K contract by responding first.

"It just completely wowed me. I thought, wow, we can now use the 35 years of my experience. It's all now in a software package that I can give to all my salespeople, all my customer service representatives, so they can all give a price, and I know it will be accurate."

BSG Group

Tender size

£750,000

Single contract won by BSG by being first to respond with a credible number.

Margin growth

+11%

Margin growth at BSG since deployment, alongside the higher win rate.

Industry data

Higher conversion when a lead is reached within one hour (HBR).

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The problem

Manual quoting is costing you jobs every day

For decades, quoting has been slow, inconsistent, and manual. Every lost quote risks opportunity loss. Every inaccurate quote cuts into margins.

 
 

Too slow to respond

By the time your estimator produces a quote, the customer has already accepted a competitor's. Speed wins jobs — manual quoting loses them.

30–60 min

average time to produce one manual quote

 
 

Inconsistent pricing erodes margin

Different estimators price the same job differently. One is too generous, one too cautious. Neither is optimal. Inconsistency kills margin at scale.

5–15%

margin leakage from pricing inconsistency

 
 

Knowledge locked in people

Your best estimator takes three weeks off — your quoting pipeline seizes. Expertise should live in a system, not a spreadsheet in someone's head.

1 person

single point of failure in most quoting teams

By the numbers

Real outcomes from print shops using GelatoConnect Estimator.

Every stat below comes from a named customer or a measured product behaviour. No category averages, no claims we cannot evidence.

15 sec

to generate a precise estimate

win rate at BSG (£750K tender won)

200+

estimates per day at ESP Colour

3-4×

quote volume at Inkee

65%

less manual quoting effort

< 0.35%

error rate on AI-generated estimates

< 5 min

to branded, customer-ready quote

14 day

free trial, no credit card

How it works

From customer request to branded quote in 4 steps

The GelatoConnect Estimator takes your full customer requests (structured or unstructured), recognises product needs, and builds quotes — automatically.

01 Receive

Customer sends a request

Email, chat, or directly via your embedded website widget — the GelatoConnect Estimator accepts natural language input from any channel.

Any format
02 Refine

AI extracts structured specs

AI translates free-text requests into structured production requirements — format, substrate, quantity, method, and deadline — with no manual interpretation.

15 seconds
03 Generate

AI calculates margin-protected price

Your cost parameters, shop rules, and preferred margins are applied automatically. AI compares production methods and selects the optimal combination.

AI-optimised
04 Output

Branded quote ready to send

A professional, branded PDF quote is generated instantly — accurate, competitive, and ready to send in under 5 minutes. No back-and-forth needed.

Under 5 minutes

15s

to generate an estimate

<5 min

to a branded, customer-ready quote

65%

less manual quoting effort

How the AI works

How our AI prices your print.

Most quoting tools layer light machine learning on a rules engine and call it AI. GelatoConnect Estimator is built ground-up around the pricing decision itself.

Training data

Trained on millions of real print transactions.

Not synthetic data. Not benchmarks. Real production records of what print shops priced, how they made it, and what won. Every commercial, packaging, label, wide-format and apparel job class is represented.

10 AI models

Specialist models for every step of the quote.

Spec extraction. Method selection. Cost prediction. Margin protection. Anomaly detection. Each model trained for its slice of the decision so the system can reason about every quote, not just look it up in a table.

6 pricing models

Every production method, its own logic.

Offset, digital, large-format, apparel, packaging, and labels. Each pricing model carries the method-specific cost behaviour and make-ready logic that single-engine tools cannot capture.

300+ parameters

Your costs, your rules, your shop.

Machines, substrates, finishing options, ink coverage, logistics, labour rates, your margin floor. Every variable mapped to your shop so the AI prices the way you would, only faster and more consistently.

< 0.35% error rate. Every quote reviewed by a human before send.

The AI proposes. The estimator approves. We remove the arithmetic, not the judgement. Anomalies, outliers, and edge cases are flagged before a number ever reaches your customer.

Quote on your website

Let your customers price their own jobs. Live on your website, 24/7.

Most print buyers want a number, not a sales conversation. Embed GelatoConnect Estimator on your site and let visitors price their own jobs around the clock. The shop wins the work by being first to respond. With a quote, not an email.

Paul Hudson, CEO of Hudson Printing, who deployed GelatoConnect Estimator on his website

Native to your brand and your pricing rules. Buyers see your logo, your colours, your numbers.

Drop-in widget. Works on any website. No engineering project.

Captures the lead with the spec. Every quote turns into a known visitor with a known job.

24/7 availability. No office-hours constraint. No estimator backlog.

"Buying print has always been too hard. With GelatoConnect's AI Estimator, that barrier disappears."

Paul Hudson, CEO, Hudson Printing

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Why switch

Manual quoting vs. GelatoConnect Estimator

See what changes when 10 AI models trained on millions of real print transactions handle your quoting.

 

Manual / MIS

GelatoConnect Estimator

Time to estimate
20 min – 4 hours
15 seconds
Branded quote ready
Hours to days
Under 5 minutes
Pricing consistency
Varies by estimator
<0.35% error rate
Margin protection
Manual checks, easy to miss
Enforced automatically
Method comparison
Experience-based guess
AI compares 6 pricing models
Availability
Office hours only
24/7 via website embed
Quote capacity
Limited by headcount
200+ per day
Knowledge retention
Leaves when staff leave
300+ params in one system
Setup required
Months of training
Live in 1 week
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SPEED

Be first to respond. Win the job.

In print, speed is a competitive weapon. The PSP who quotes first wins the most business. GelatoConnect Estimator makes your team the fastest in the room — every time.

Estimate in 15 seconds

Paste a customer email or type a request — the AI generates accurate pricing in 15 seconds. No spreadsheet, no expert required.

Branded quote in under 5 minutes

From raw estimate to a professional, branded PDF quote your customer can act on — in under 5 minutes. No design, no manual formatting.

Embed on your website

Customers get accurate, margin-protected instant quotes directly on your website — no back-and-forth emails, no waiting for business hours.

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MARGIN CONTROL

Quote with confidence. Protect your margins.

The GelatoConnect Estimator isn't just fast — it's deeply configurable to your costs, your logic, and your brand. Every quote is checked for accuracy, competitiveness, and margin compliance before it leaves the system.

Your costs, your rules

Configure your cost parameters, margin floors, and pricing rules once. The AI applies them consistently on every estimate — no variation, no guesswork.

Compare methods automatically

AI compares offset vs digital, different substrates, and production methods — surfacing the most margin-optimal option for each job automatically.

9-week margin upstreak at ESP Colour

Speed, being able to margin correctly, and our estimators being confident it's right the first time — that's what we're seeing.

INTELLIGENT METHOD COMPARISON

Offset or digital? AI decides for you.

For every job, the GelatoConnect Estimator evaluates multiple production methods and recommends the most margin-optimal route — using your historical data and shop-specific rules.

Historical data drives accuracy

The Estimator uses your real production data — not generic industry benchmarks — to price jobs accurately. It learns your shop's true cost structure.

Configurable to your brand

Quotes are produced in your brand, with your logo, your pricing structure, and your preferred method labels. Customers see a professional quote from you — not from Gelato.

Continuous learning

The more you use it, the more accurate it gets. Won and lost jobs feed back into the model to sharpen future estimates automatically.

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See what 15 seconds actually looks like

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Watch a real-world demo

See how PSPs like ESP Colour and Hudson Printing eliminated manual quoting by switching to GelatoConnect Estimator.

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Try it yourself

Explore an interactive product tour or run a demo by production type: packaging, large format, offset, or digital commercial.

Proven results

The PSPs winning more work aren’t working harder.

GelatoConnect Estimator drives measurable outcomes across three dimensions — helping print businesses quote faster, protect margins, and win more jobs.

 
 

Speed

65%

less manual quoting effort

Respond first and win the work while competitors are still calculating

Estimates generated in 15 seconds

Branded quotes in under 5 minutes

200+ estimates per day — ESP Colour

 
 

Margin control

<0.35%

error rate on AI-generated estimates

Consistent, accurate pricing on every quote — no guesswork, no margin leakage

Margin rules enforced automatically

20-week margin upstreak — ESP Colour

AI compares 6 pricing models per job

 
 

Growth

2x

increase in win rates

Win more work by responding faster — without adding headcount

3–4x increase in quote volume — Inkee

24/7 self-serve quoting via website chatbot

£750K contract won by responding first — BSG

Paul Hudson, CEO of Hudson Printing
 

Hudson Printing

United States

65% reduction in human quoting effort

First PSP globally with conversational AI quoting on their website

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Simon Sheraga, CEO of ESP Colour
 

ESP Colour

United Kingdom

200+ estimates per day at 15 seconds each

Quotes sent in under 1 minute

20-week consecutive margin upstreak

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Vincenzo Cirimele, CEO of Inkee
 

Inkee

Italy

50% reduction in manual quoting work

2x increase in win rates

3–4x increase in quote volume

Read the full story

Built for every kind of print shop

One platform, every print method.

Whatever you print, the pricing knowledge is in the system. Six pricing models, four core verticals, one platform that handles them all.

Packaging

Folding cartons, corrugated, rigid boxes, labels, finishing and embellishment.

Explore packaging 

Offset

Brochures, books, catalogues, posters, business stationery. Multi-pass colour and make-ready built in.

Explore offset 

Digital

Short runs, variable data, personalized print, on-demand and web-to-print.

Explore digital 

Large format

Banners, vehicle wraps, signage, exhibition graphics, canvas and fabric.

Explore large format 

CUSTOMERS

Hear from those already achieving great things with GelatoConnect:

At our recent GelatoConnect Summit we sat down with some of our customers. See what they had to say:

GelatoConnect Events

The industry is gathering. Here’s where.

Five programmes. One year. Every conversation that matters in print — from our flagship Summit and Awards to the City Tour, trade shows, and webinars.

Join 200+ production leaders already shaping what comes next.

GelatoConnect Webinars

GelatoConnect Webinars

Real workflows. No fluff.

Every week, our team walks through the workflows, features, and strategies that help print operations run leaner — from AI-powered procurement to automated order intake.

Watch on demand or register for the next live session.

Comparing alternatives

Compared to other print MIS and quoting platforms

Most print shops still quote in spreadsheets or run on legacy MIS systems. Here's how GelatoConnect Estimator compares to the most-evaluated alternatives.

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