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AI agents for post-inspection service proposals
Short answer
After a service inspection, an AI agent links the technician's report with the machine in the CRM and the catalogue item, points out data missing for the proposal, such as the quantity of parts, and writes a question for the technician. The salesperson checks the draft line. The agent costs from €3,000 net at Syntalith and, with 300 post-inspection proposals a month at 15 minutes each, pays back in 1.6 months.
How we workDetails ↓
- 01Call30 minutes with an engineer, free
- 02PrototypeA working system on your process and data, free
- 03ImplementationTarget and fixed price in the contract; 50% at signing
- 04Acceptance50% once the agreed target is met
- net per agent for one process, build paid once
- from €3,000
- from signing the contract to acceptance
- 6–16 weeks
- free prototype on your cases
- €0
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Author: Syntalith · 3 min read
Statistics
Service and AI: statistics 2026
1.6 mo.
payback of a €3,000 agent with 300 post-inspection proposals a month: €2,618 of work today, €793 with checking and the model. Scenario.
47%
According to the European Commission (2026), customer service is the most common use of AI among EU SMEs and mid-caps that already use it: 47%.
Source: European Commission, Flash Eurobarometer on AI and algorithmic management (2026) ↗
15%
According to Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond (2025), customer support agents working with AI resolved on average 15% more issues an hour, in a study of 5,172 people.
Source: Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond, The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2025) ↗
17.3%
According to Eurostat (2025), 17.3% of EU manufacturing enterprises with at least 10 employees used AI.
Source: Eurostat, Artificial intelligence by NACE Rev. 2 activity (isoc_eb_ain2) (2025) ↗
90%
According to the European Commission (2026), 90% of companies that use AI say people take the decisions, and 2% of decisions are fully automated.
Source: European Commission, Flash Eurobarometer on AI and algorithmic management (2026) ↗
Figures checked: 22 October 2026
The recommendation is clear, the quantity needs confirming
In the inspection report, the technician recommended replacing the machine's worn outer cover and named the part from the catalogue. They did not record how many covers need replacing. The report goes into the service folder, and the salesperson who has to prepare the proposal looks for it, opens the catalogue and then writes to the technician, who is already at the next client.
The agent finds the report, links it with the machine and the client in the CRM and attaches the catalogue item. The salesperson sees the technician's recommendation and a note that the quantity is missing. The agent proposes a question: „In the report you recommended replacing the outer cover and gave the catalogue part. How many covers should we include in the proposal?”. The technician replies that one, and the agent attaches the answer to the case and prepares the description of the line. The basis is the specialist's explicit recommendation: a note such as „cover worn” alone would not be a recommendation to replace it.
- The technician's recommendation with a link to the report
- The machine and the client from the CRM
- The catalogue item the technician named
- Missing data and the technician's answer beside the draft
The agent assumes nothing about parts availability, labour time or price. That data comes from the catalogue and the price list, or from the people responsible for them.
What it costs and when it pays back
- Today
- 300 post-inspection proposals × 15 min = 75 h (€2,618)
- With the system, a person checks the output in 30% of the time
- €785
- Model, 2 calls per case, Claude Sonnet 5.5
- €8
- Cost of one case
- €8.73 today, €2.64 with the system
- Saving
- €1,824 a month
Payback of €3,000
1.6 months
The volume, the time and the checking share are the scenario's assumptions. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat. Model: 5,000 input and 500 output tokens per call at Anthropic's rates, converted at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026.
The count covers the work around a case: searching, reading, writing and passing things on. What remains is the time to check the output, 30% of today's work in the scenario. Before the quote we measure both times on 20 to 100 cases the team has already handled, in a €0 test that takes 5 working days.
Your CRM may already prepare proposals
Check how much of the work your current system handles: Dynamics 365 Sales prepares draft and revised quotes with product and service lines. If the report always holds the part and the quantity, moving the data into a quote template is enough. When technicians regularly leave out one field, fix the report form. An agent makes sense when reports are free-form and clarifications arrive in separate threads.
The report always holds the part and the quantity
moving the data into a quote template
automation
Technicians leave out one field
a fixed report form
no build
Free-form reports, clarifications by email
an agent that links the report with the catalogue and the CRM
from €3,000
Where to start
The first scope covers post-inspection proposals for one service team. We walk through one finished case with the technician and the salesperson to see where information gets lost today. We build this as part of AI agents. For the free process review, a description of one case from recent weeks and the tools it ran through is enough. You do not need to send confidential documents, and you get a written plan within 2 working days.
Worked example · Scenario
How we count the payback: quote automation
We run the same count for your proposals in the free process review.
€2,094
a month for preparing 120 quotes from customer enquiries by hand
Payback: 1.7 mo.
30 minutes per quote from an enquiry and checking in 15% of the old time are our assumptions. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat, for companies with 10 or more employees. Model cost: Claude Sonnet 5.5, about 4,000 + 1,500 tokens per draft quote, at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026. The extra margin is a scenario: we assume that 1 in 40 enquiries quoted the same day ends in an order that a slow reply loses today, with a margin of €344. In the review we count it on your sales process.
See the full calculation →