Design, prototype, tooling, validation and transfer, quoted by phase and by role. The engine adds the scope the standards require for the device, each item with its reason (design history file, risk file, biocompatibility, sterilization validation, process validation, electrical safety), and prices payment by milestone or recovered over volume, side by side, with the true-up written in.
NRE for contract manufacturers: hours by phase and role, the scope the standards add, and recovery over volume. Every figure is an estimate until your own rates load.
Find Nteli Quoting in ChatGPT and click Install plugin (or connect it in Claude), then paste any of these. Every figure is an estimate until your own hours, rates and lab costs load.
What you’ll get: $474,536 of NRE, phase by phase, as hours × rate per role: design $101,521, prototype $25,770, tooling $28,443, validation $104,843, transfer $25,060, program setup $4,900, plus $184,000 passed through at cost (the mold, outside labs and prototype circuit assemblies). Recovered at $7.09 a unit on 75,000 units, break-even at month 36. At 70% of forecast, $159,256 is left, and the true-up clause invoices it.
What you’ll get: The same scope paid 30/20/20/20/10: kickoff, design review, prototypes delivered, validation reports, first production lot accepted. The milestones tie to the total to the cent.
What you’ll get: No quote that leaves out what the device needs. “A sterile device needs its sterilization process validated.” The fix comes with it: include the validation (outside lab, at cost), or the device isn’t sterile.
Free to use — Nteli is paid only when an order is won through it.
A customer’s RFQ, a statement of work, a program manager’s notes. Paste it as written; the engine pulls out the device, the phases and how NRE gets paid.
The device class, sterility, patient contact and electronics decide which deliverables the quote must carry. Each one comes with its source, so nothing the customer will need later is left off.
Milestones that tie to the total, or a per-unit charge over the committed volume, with break-even, a stress case and the true-up clause on the quote.
Built for the program manager who signs the NRE. Quotes carry your hours by phase and role, your labour rates and your outside-lab costs once they load, and every figure is labelled an estimate until then. Class III devices, implants and builds over 250 units go to Specials with the reason, not a price. Once the quote is won, the order packet carries the statement of work and the milestone schedule, and a scope change, like a second prototype round, comes back as a change order with its own milestone.
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