Industries — Producers 01
You don't lose money at the press. You lose it in the hours before a job reaches it, in the work you never went out and won, and in the weeks after it ships. InkIQ takes that work.
Where the money goes
Every one is skilled, repetitive and invisible on a P&L. Each has an agent.
Vague emails and phone calls that take three days to become a quote.
02 / Work coming inDocuments retyped line by line at the busiest hour of the day.
03 / Work you're missingReorders never prompted, upsells never offered, campaigns blasted to everyone.
04 / Work you're missingWaiting for the phone to ring is not a sales strategy.
05 / Work you're missingQuotes, approvals and dormant accounts all chased on a timer.
06 / Work going outMockups built by hand, then chased for a decision.
07 / Work going outSix vendor tabs, stock checks, and numbers typed twice.
08 / Work going outA schedule that lives on a whiteboard and in one person's head.
09 / Work going outRunning a business on gut feel and last year's memory.
10 / Every dayThe agent you talk to — about your data, your setup, or a job you need done.
01 — Retail enquiries
"Can you do 250 hoodies, logo on the front, need them for the 22nd." No sizes, no colourway, no usable artwork. Someone reads it, works out what's missing, writes back, waits, gets half an answer, writes again. Meanwhile the shop down the road quoted on Tuesday and won it.
This is the part that usually only one or two people in the building can do. It stops being a bottleneck, and it stops leaving with them.
“Happy to get this priced today — could you confirm the size breakdown and the delivery address? The artwork you sent is print ready.”
02 — Contract purchase orders
Contract work doesn't come as a conversation. It comes as a twelve-page PDF, a spreadsheet, a portal export or a scan — and somebody keys it in line by line, interpreting the size matrix as they go. One mistyped cell ships the wrong colour to a customer you can't afford to annoy.
Order entry becomes a review step: nine lines confirmed, one flagged, thirty seconds of attention instead of twenty minutes of typing.
03 — The customers you have
The team that ordered every April hasn't been prompted. The customer who bought tees never got asked about hoodies for winter. And the one campaign you did send went to everybody at once, which is why almost nobody opened it.
Four campaigns to four audiences, instead of one email to everybody.
04 — The customers you don't
Most shops have no outbound at all. Hiring a salesperson is a real salary before a single order lands, so growth stays tied to referrals and whoever happens to find you.
The point isn't volume. It's that prospecting happens every week without anyone having to be the person who does it.
Sequence stops automatically on reply. Every reply becomes a request in the same queue as inbound.
05 — Nothing goes quiet
The quote went out Thursday. Nobody replied, three more came in, and two weeks later somebody asks whatever happened with the brewery. Following up is nobody's job specifically, which means it's nobody's job at all.
06 — Art & approvals
Find a template, place the logo, guess whether 3.5 inches looks right on a youth small, export, email, wait. Then "can we see it in navy?" and you start again. And somewhere there's a folder called ART_FINAL_v3 that nobody trusts.
Reminder was scheduled for +48 h and cancelled on approval.
07 — Procurement
Check stock at one supplier, then a second because the first is short in XL, then compare landed cost and type the same numbers into your own system. A colour goes on backorder and nobody finds out until the box arrives light.
08 — Production
A seven-colour job can't run on the six-colour manual. The auto has a hundred-piece minimum. Screens have to be burned before anything prints. Somebody knows all of it, and when they're away the shop guesses.
09 — Data & analytics
Ask an owner which decoration method makes the most money, which customer is quietly unprofitable, or what share of quotes convert, and you'll get an instinct rather than a number. The data exists — it's spread across six systems and nobody has time to assemble it.
Which method actually makes money. Which customer costs more than they pay. Which stage jobs die at. Most shops have never been able to see any of it.
The manual press earns a third of what the embroidery floor does per hour. Most shops have never had a way to see that.
10 — Ask it anything
The other agents work in the background. Reggie sits in a panel beside whatever you're doing, knows how the software works and can query your live data — so the answer is about your business, not a help article. And it doesn't just answer: it does things.
It also writes the brief that lands in your inbox each morning — in plain English, in the format you asked for.
“How many black tees did we embroider left-chest last quarter, and what was the average margin?”
“Draft a follow-up to the four customers who haven’t replied to a quote this week.”
Nothing reaches a customer without a click. Every action it takes is written to the audit log.
The roster
Each owns a job that currently eats somebody's afternoon — and hands back finished work, not a summary of it.
Reads contract purchase orders in any format and turns them into confirmed orders, flagging what it can't resolve.
Works retail enquiries into complete requests, chases quotes, prompts reorders and runs outbound sequences.
Answers status questions, handles approvals and reminders, and keeps every thread filed against the job.
Sources across your suppliers, applies the preferred vendor, and raises the purchase orders the job needs.
Places each stage on a machine that can actually run it, on a day with capacity. Override it whenever you like.
Opens every file, counts colours, estimates stitches at size, and builds the mockups and proofs.
None of this replaces the people who know your shop. It removes the part of their day that never needed a human in it — and it means the knowledge that currently lives in one or two heads is finally written down somewhere.
Send us one real enquiry — the email, the purchase order, the artwork, the messy bits — and we'll run it through the agents in the first ten minutes of the call. That's a faster argument than anything we could write here.