Steady Work Without Selling

The OpenSpindle Marketplace is a capability-matched RFQ network that routes vetted job requests directly to shops whose machines, materials, and skills match the buyer's requirements. It is designed to help shops fill downtime and build a more predictable work pipeline without running paid advertising, hiring sales staff, or spending time on low-quality leads that do not fit their operation.

You define a capability profile that includes your machines, materials, tolerances, industries, and preferred job sizes. The marketplace routes only RFQs that match those capabilities so you see relevant work. A shop with a 5-axis CNC and experience in aluminum aerospace parts will see different work than a millwork shop with a flatbed router running sheet goods.

No. The marketplace is designed to bring qualified RFQs directly into your OpenSpindle account without requiring you to run separate marketing campaigns, pay for leads, or maintain a sales funnel. The sourcing happens on the OpenSpindle side. Your job is to review the matched RFQs, decide which ones to quote, and respond using the tools already in your account.

Yes. You see a queue of matched RFQs and decide which ones to quote based on your current capacity, schedule, and interest. There is no obligation to quote every RFQ that appears. The marketplace is built to complement your core customer base rather than overwhelm your shop, so you quote what fits and pass on what does not.

Marketplace RFQs arrive with drawings, specifications, required timelines, and buyer information. You quote them using your existing OpenSpindle cost library and templates, the same tools you use for your core customers. There is no separate quoting system to learn and no manual re-entry of your rates. A marketplace job quotes the same way as any other job in your account.

Accepted marketplace jobs flow into the CRM as a new customer record and can be converted into a project in the project management module. The shop's full production workflow, scheduling, time tracking, and invoicing applies to marketplace jobs the same way it applies to jobs from core customers. There is no separate process for marketplace work.

When your schedule has open machine time or a large project ends and the next one has not started, the marketplace gives you a queue of vetted work to quote rather than requiring you to scramble for new customers on short notice. The goal is to turn idle capacity into revenue without the lag time that comes from traditional sales and marketing cycles.

The capability matching is designed to prevent misfit work from reaching your queue. You define what your shop can and wants to produce, and the marketplace filters against those parameters before routing an RFQ. The goal is to eliminate the time wasted quoting jobs that are wrong for your operation from the start.

Yes. If you want to explore whether your equipment and skills translate to a new market segment, you can update your capability profile to include that category and see what kinds of RFQs match. Quoting a few jobs before committing to marketing in that space is a lower-risk way to learn whether the work is profitable and repeatable for your shop.

The OpenSpindle Marketplace is live. List your shop and set up your capability profile now to start receiving matched RFQs. Submit your project at openspindle.com/quote to get matched with vetted local shops. Book a demo to learn about the current timeline and how to position your shop to take advantage of it from day one.