Engineered parts were procurement's last black box. Now they can be read.
Zentreo makes drawing parts understandable, comparable and negotiable, with real market prices as the yardstick and AI agents that show you where to act. AI Procurement Intelligence, born out of the partnership between Techpilot and mantro and running with its first pilot customers.
01The problem
Catalog parts went digital long ago. Screws, bearings, standard parts: comparable, listed, tendered. Drawing parts are a different story. Every part is one of a kind, defined by a drawing, a STEP model and the experience of a handful of people in procurement.
The ERP knows what was bought. It doesn't know what the part is. So there is no comparison, no benchmark and no defensible target price. Decisions run on gut feel, with the supplier you have always used.
That isn't procurement failing. Software simply couldn't read these parts until now.
02Why now
What didn't work yesterday works today
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Drawings become data
AI now understands what a technical drawing says. What an expert captured part by part in hours now scales across the whole portfolio.
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Market prices, not indices
A raw-material index tells you how costs move. It doesn't tell you whether your price for this part is fair. For that you need realized prices for technically comparable parts, and now you have them.
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Agents, not dashboards
One more report helps nobody. Agents tell you which price is shaky, which supplier fits and where to act next. You make the call.
03The agents
Three agents. You decide.
Not chatbots, but specialised agents for the questions that really matter in engineered-parts procurement.
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Price
Is this price fair and defensible? Zentreo shows you the corridor it should sit in, and the outliers that don't.
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Supplier
Who can actually make the part? Zentreo suggests suitable suppliers, from your own base and from the market.
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Savings
Where do you act next? Zentreo prioritises the potential that is really worth it.
04The edge
25 years of market, impossible to copy
Anyone can buy a language model today. But a language model on top of ERP data doesn't make a drawing part understandable. The edge lies in three things, and no budget in the world can rebuild the first one.
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25 years of realized prices
Techpilot has run the market for drawing parts for a quarter of a century: realized prices for technically comparable parts, manufacturer profiles, request history. This data grows with every transaction. If you don't have it, you can't buy it and you can't shortcut it.
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Manufacturing knowledge built in
Zentreo understands what makes a part in manufacturing terms and what drives its price. Manufacturing knowledge isn't a prompt here, it's part of the product.
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Traceable, not a black box
Every recommendation can be traced. That's exactly what you need when you have to defend a price to a supplier, your CFO or the auditors.
05The ecosystem
Techpilot has been Europe's leading marketplace for drawing parts for 25 years. In 2024 we modernised the platform's 20-year-old core together, backend and database, live, in ten months, as one team. Since then, the data from 25 years of manufacturing market has been accessible in a modern way.
Zentreo grew out of this partnership. We put our heads together: Techpilot brings the market, the data and the manufacturing know-how, mantro brings product and AI engineering and venture building. Something new came out of it that neither of us would have built alone.
That's how an ecosystem works: trust from one project becomes the foundation for the next business.
06mantro's role
What we bring
Zentreo isn't a client project. We developed it together with Techpilot and keep building it as partners.
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Technology
Product and AI engineering from one team. Built by the same people who modernised the platform together with Techpilot.
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Venture building
From the first pilot customer to a scalable business: go-to-market, pricing, team and structure. With the same discipline as every venture we build.
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Partnership at eye level
No client, no vendor. Two partners who decide together what gets built and share the responsibility for it.
Let's talk
Want to know what's hidden in your parts portfolio? Or want to build the next vertical AI product with us? Both start with a conversation.
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81379 München - hello@mantro.net