Proforgent began the way most good ideas do — at a kitchen table, with a friend venting about work. Our founder, Rick, was listening to his friend, a second-generation machine shop owner, describe another late night spent quoting RFQs in Excel. Deals were being lost to shops that replied faster, not shops that priced better.

That conversation stuck. Rick spent the following weekends on the shop floor — timing setups, walking through job travelers, and asking a lot of questions. What started as a favor to a friend turned into a prototype, then a pilot, then a company.

Today, Proforgent helps machine shops quote in minutes what used to take days — without losing the judgment and margin discipline that makes a shop profitable. We build for the people on the floor, because that's where we learned the problem.