FAQ
The five objections a shop owner raises in week one — answered.
Switching quoting tools is a real cost. Below are the five questions we hear most often from welding and fabrication owners evaluating Arcvigil — answered against our positioning as one unified agent that replaces a stand-alone quoting tool, a stand-alone scheduling tool, and a margin spreadsheet, sold in three paid tiers (Shop, Fabricator, Multi-Shop) with no free tier.
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Why Arcvigil
One agent replaces three stand-alone tools — across every tier.
The same Arcvigil agent ships on Shop, Fabricator, and Multi-Shop. The three paid tiers differ by shop size, not by feature gating — RFQ triage, live commodity pricing, credential-aware scheduling and the daily margin snapshot are on every tier. The differentiator on Multi-Shop is the multi-shop admin console: composite margin rolled up across every location with variance flagged per shop, so a ten- to two-hundred-person fabricator running several floors in parallel has one place to see which floor is winning the week, instead of rebuilding the rollup in a spreadsheet every Sunday night.
Next step
Walk a real RFQ through the agent before you decide.
Talk is cheap on switching costs. Run the demo loop on a job like yours — the same RFQ your estimator would have priced by hand last month — and see the read, the pre-fill, and the schedule your floor would actually run.