Steady Work Without Selling
Fill downtime with vetted RFQs that match your machines and skills so you spend time cutting parts, not chasing leads.
Why Getting Good Work In the Door Is So Hard
Digital sourcing networks already help CNC and job shops find matched work, but they are rarely built specifically for the jobs you handle.
Most shops depend on word of mouth, inconsistent marketing, or expensive agencies to bring in RFQs, which makes the work pipeline unpredictable.
Pipeline stays feast or famine.
Generic lead gen sends low quality or off-spec work that does not fit your machines, materials, or tolerances, which wastes quoting time.
Bad leads burn hours.
Building a steady lead engine is a full-time job, and every hour spent on sales is an hour not spent running the shop.
Sales steals shop time.
"We tried a lead service and spent three weeks quoting jobs we couldn't even run on our machines. Complete waste of time."— Shop owner, 7-person CNC shop
Marketplace in 30 Seconds
From capability profile to matched RFQs, the marketplace does the sourcing for you.
Define your machines, materials, volumes, industries, and schedule so the marketplace knows what work fits your shop.
OpenSpindle aggregates project requests from buyers and filters out jobs that do not match your capabilities or quality standards.
Get a queue of RFQs that match your profile, with drawings, timelines, and budget ready for you to quote.
Use the marketplace to top off your schedule when you have idle capacity, instead of spinning up marketing campaigns.
What This Will Get You
More of the right RFQs
Leads are filtered by capability so you do not waste time quoting misfit work.
Use downtime profitably
Turn idle machines and gaps between big projects into revenue without hiring sales staff.
No marketing overhead
OpenSpindle does the sourcing so you can focus on quoting and production instead of SEO, ads, or cold outreach.
Everything Planned
Core functions and shop workflows designed to bring you matched work.
Shop capability profile
Machines, materials, tolerances, industries, and preferred job sizes.
RFQ feed
List of matching jobs with specs, files, due dates, and buyer info.
Quoting workflow
Send quotes using your existing OpenSpindle cost library and templates.
Scheduling hints
See how a potential job fits into your current load before you accept.
Shop Workflows Covered
Works With
Marketplace connects seamlessly to the rest of your OpenSpindle workflow.
Frequently Asked Questions
You will define a capability profile that includes your machines, materials, industries, and preferred job sizes. The marketplace will only route RFQs that match those capabilities so you see relevant work.
No. The marketplace is designed to bring qualified RFQs directly into your OpenSpindle account so you can fill downtime without running separate marketing campaigns or hiring sales staff.
Yes. You will be able to see a queue of matched RFQs and decide which ones to quote based on your current capacity and schedule so marketplace work complements your core customers instead of overwhelming your shop.
Want First Access to Marketplace RFQs?
Book a demo to get on the early access list when Marketplace launches.