Most B2B quote requests come in as a single sentence: 'How much for 500 units, need by next month, ship to Rotterdam.' Your sales rep then spends two emails extracting the SKU, the exact quantity, the destination port, the INCO term, the tolerance on the lead time, and whether the customer needs CE marking or REACH compliance. By the time the RFQ is complete, three business days have passed, the buyer has talked to two competitors, and the win rate is half what it could have been.

SleekAI runs the intake as a structured conversation. The bot asks one question at a time, validates the answer against your product catalog, and writes each field into a new entry in your RFQ custom post type or a row in wp_postmeta attached to a draft WooCommerce order. By the time the buyer hits send, the RFQ has SKU, quantity, target price, lead time, delivery port, INCO term, and any compliance flags, ready for your rep to act on.

The bot also catches the common gotchas. If a buyer asks for 500 units of a product that ships in cases of 144, it suggests rounding to 576. If they request EXW Rotterdam but list a US billing address, it flags the mismatch. If they ask for delivery in 14 days on a product with a 30-day standard lead time, it offers the standard date and asks if expedited shipping is acceptable. Generic chatbots do none of this because they cannot read the catalog, the lead times, or the INCO term reference table.

Speed to first quote is the single highest-leverage variable in B2B sales. Buyers who get a written quote within 24 hours of their first inquiry win the business 60% more often than those who wait three days, because by day three the buyer has already pinged two competitors and started a mental comparison. The bottleneck is almost never the quote itself, it is the discovery work needed before pricing can happen.

Sales reps spend an average of three emails extracting the destination, lead time, INCO term, and compliance requirements that the buyer assumed they had already mentioned. A structured intake bot collapses those three emails into a single chat session. The buyer answers each question in the moment they are thinking about the order, while context is fresh.

The RFQ lands on the rep's desk complete, validated against the catalog, and ready to quote. The downstream effect compounds across the funnel. Reps quote faster, so they quote more accounts in the same week.

Quotes are more accurate because the intake validated quantities against case sizes and lead times against destinations. Buyers feel competent for once, because they were not asked to know the difference between EXW and DAP up front. They picked the right answer from a short list, in the same chat where they got their indicative price.

Compliance and credit risk get flagged in parallel with quoting, not after, which prevents the deal from stalling at the contract stage. Every won deal shaves days off cash conversion.